are you familiar with the grabby aliens model?
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Rain World is survival-platformer whose protagonist is a nimble omnivore tool-user (similar niche to an ancestral human’s). The prospect if exploration is enticing, but you are in the middle of the food chain, and so must balance the need to survive with the your own drive to explore. Your creature must:
evade predators,
find and sufficient food/prey to hibernate,
Take shelter before a lethal rainstorm arrives.
Exploring means doing the above in less time. Regions are gated based on minimum survival streak so each sortie is like a bet on your ability. There are carnivorous plants. It is difficult and stressful. I highly highly recommend it.
“but it is good that impermanence is uncomfortable! you should be afraid of death and fill the void of existential dread with an ambition to end death forever.”
Are pain and fear the reasons you want an end to death? If not, their absence shouldn’t hinder you?
interested in your progress here. Have you considered using text embeddings to compare across less structured self-reports? If it’s the proforma quality of 8 numbers that feels unnatural.
This does not seem “battle-tested”. The explanations in comments haven’t bridged the gap, I would probably fail your ITT.
I read it as
“the USA is good*”, and “atrocities were necessary to achieve this” ⇒ “these atrocities are justified”.
I believe (based on your comments) you wouldn’t endorse that, but I can’t see this interpretation in your post or other comments of yours. Others have already begun discussing the object-level, but I’ve nothing to add there.
*In the sense and to the extent that OP meant to convey.
I like this format. What prompted you to do this? Did you find it useful?
Without this, using the mouse is faster at moving the text cursor than using arrow keys. Editing code feels either frustratingly sensitive or like dragging finger through honey
Might there be a way to use Claude to train your own executive function, rather than replace it?
Which rationalists?
Is Socrates implying Euthyphro must be wrong because he can’t respond adequately? Or is Socrates pushing Euthyphro to develop further clarity of thought?
When people understand how actions arise from values, they’ll be able to explain their decisions to others, and others will be able to verify their integrity.
And when people start getting sneaky, they’ll know what’s missing from the speech of “shamed”/”depraved” people.
Do you think there’s an answer Socrates would have accepted, had Euthyphro given it? Is that a crux?
What would AI labs do differently if this were made law? Couldn’t they build datacenters outside the US?
Have you assessed your predictions? What have you learned?
But if you aren’t religious, what even are morals if not feelings?
There may be some writing, on LW and elsewhere that could help you with this question.
“We, of course, never target civilian targets.”
I’m mostly being silly, but one might claim this is a Freudian slip: Hegseth referred to “civilian targets”, as of this is one of kinds of targets in discussion. Like that is a phrase he’s been using. He could have referred to them as civilians, but he referred to them as targets. Source
Lol I assumed it was Claude’s mischaraterisation !
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Enjoyed, thankyou!
“I was as clever as you, once. Cleverer, perhaps. I looked at the wizarding world and I saw everything you see — the inefficiency, the waste, the tradition without reason, the power unused.
This seems like a mischaracterisation. From what I remember, Dumbledore in HPMOR seemed to have a perspective different enough from Harry’s such that he didn’t really understand him at times. Harry’s optimisation-lust was foreign to him, not a familiar feeling from his youth he’d grown out of.
Requesting advice:
I’m writing a piece on rationalism*/ postrationalism/transhumanism, and some primary sources I’d use would be @SquirrelInHell’s “Tuning your cognitive strategies” and some earlier writings.
Are there any who see ethical issues with this, or anyone who knew this person who’d be uncomfortable with me doing this? A comment on the linked post reads
I do think there’s something to say, quite distinct from any speculation about the cause of a tragedy. I have three primary sources currently. It is downstream of my experience but won’t necessarily feature that.