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Valentine

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I’m Michael “Valentine” Smith. Cofounder & senior instructor at CFAR back in the day. I’ve been in the rationalist scene since 2011 but mostly left in late 2018. To the extent that “post-rationalist” means anything, the term should probably apply to me.

You can find my non-LW writing on my Substack. You can also find my social media profiles via my Linktree.

Con­sider chilling out in 2028

Valentine21 Jun 2025 17:07 UTC
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The hos­tile telepaths problem

Valentine27 Oct 2024 15:26 UTC
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“Dark Con­sti­tu­tion” for con­strain­ing some superintelligences

Valentine10 Jan 2024 16:02 UTC
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(www.anarchonomicon.com)

Is be­ing sexy for your homies?

Valentine13 Dec 2023 20:37 UTC
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100 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Sapi­ent Algorithms

Valentine17 Jul 2023 16:30 UTC
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[Question] What are brains?

Valentine10 Jun 2023 14:46 UTC
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Slack mat­ters more than any outcome

Valentine31 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
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57 comments19 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Where’s the eco­nomic in­cen­tive for wok­ism com­ing from?

Valentine8 Dec 2022 23:28 UTC
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Here’s the exit.

Valentine21 Nov 2022 18:07 UTC
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184 comments10 min readLW link5 reviews

[Question] What is an agent in re­duc­tion­ist ma­te­ri­al­ism?

Valentine13 Aug 2022 15:39 UTC
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We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
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Sig­nal­ing isn’t about sig­nal­ing, it’s about Goodhart

Valentine6 Jan 2022 18:49 UTC
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[Question] What are sane rea­sons that Covid data is treated as re­li­able?

Valentine1 Jan 2022 18:47 UTC
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[Question] Where can one learn deep in­tu­itions about in­for­ma­tion the­ory?

Valentine16 Dec 2021 15:47 UTC
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Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
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59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
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Notic­ing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
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81 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Mythic Mode

Valentine23 Feb 2018 22:45 UTC
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The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
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112 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Kenshō

Valentine20 Jan 2018 0:12 UTC
75 points
299 comments6 min readLW link