Yitz

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I’m an artist, writer, and human being.

To be a little more precise: I make video games, edit Wikipedia, and write here on LessWrong!

Take Precautionary Measures Against Superhuman AI Persuasion

Yitz12 Jul 2025 5:34 UTC

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On May 1, 2033, humanity discovered that AI was fairly easy to align.

Yitz18 Jun 2025 19:57 UTC

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An “Optimistic” 2027 Timeline

Yitz6 Apr 2025 16:39 UTC

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[Question] What if Ethics is Provably Self-Contradictory?

Yitz18 Apr 2024 5:12 UTC

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An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn’t Mention Complex Numbers

Yitz17 Jan 2024 9:48 UTC

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[Question] Literature On Existential Risk From Atmospheric Contamination?

Yitz13 Oct 2023 22:27 UTC

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Evil autocomplete: Existential Risk and Next-Token Predictors

Yitz28 Feb 2023 8:47 UTC

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I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing’s AI

Yitz17 Feb 2023 20:50 UTC

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Self-Awareness (and possible mode collapse around it) in ChatGPT

Yitz8 Feb 2023 9:57 UTC

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Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)

Yitz26 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC

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The Fear [Fiction]

Yitz23 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC

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Norfolk Social—VA Rationalists

Yitz7 Dec 2022 21:16 UTC

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A Tentative Timeline of The Near Future (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

Yitz5 Dec 2022 5:33 UTC

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Noting an unsubstantiated belief about the FTX disaster

Yitz13 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC

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Public-facing Censorship Is Safety Theater, Causing Reputational Damage

Yitz23 Sep 2022 5:08 UTC

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Short story speculating on possible ramifications of AI on the art world

Yitz1 Sep 2022 21:15 UTC

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Double-Crux Workshop (Pilot program)

Yitz26 Aug 2022 22:50 UTC

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What’s up with the bad Meta projects?

Yitz18 Aug 2022 5:34 UTC

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[Question] “Fanatical” Longtermists: Why is Pascal’s Wager wrong?

Yitz27 Jul 2022 4:16 UTC

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Forecasting Through Fiction

Yitz6 Jul 2022 5:03 UTC

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