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Overview of my Shortforms -- and why — LessWrong
Links to all my Shortforms: personality( ground_truth ) --> stated_truth Feature-level thinking is natural, yet deeply wrong Cognitive workspaces, not end-to-end algorithms When is philosophy useful?
Memetics and iteration of ideas -- (exploratory writing) — LessWrong
Bifurcation of communities 1) increases total energy, because some people will enjoy talking more in the niche community extreme case: imagine a party of only introverts where everyone is in 1 big group, versus everyone talking exclusively in pairs <-- massive difference in total conversation-energy expended (leading to more "idea-evolution/memetics/coordination/whatever tf im supposed to call it") 2) fewer agents == individual outputs reach more of the community with less loss of resolution,...
Exploring memetics -- hub — LessWrong
This post (AI alignment via civilizational cognitive updates) is sort of the precursor to this one, but not in terms of the a thread of reasoning, but more for me personally: I posted it, received comments, someone DMed me and we talked a bit, I started thinking more about it and writing down my thoughts, and here I am.
AI alignment via civilizational cognitive updates — LessWrong
(This started as a reply to @Tamsin Leake 's reply in my post about why cyborgism maybe should be open.
(draft) Cyborg software should be open (?) — LessWrong
TLDR: - Building powerful human-AI collaboration tools in the open removes capabilities overhang, which reduces discourse lag, which reduces x-risk. - Alignment work is philosophy/writing/thinking-heavy, capabilities work is coding-heavy. Cyborg tools are more for the former than the latter, and great coding tools already exist. Given this, "safety concerns" like "but what if someone uses your app and discovers jailbreaks or hacks somebody" are not actually a problem.
The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism — LessWrong
Cross-posted from substack. "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clonal interference." – Oscar Wilde (kind of) As we all know, sexual reproduction is not about reproduction. Reproduction is easy. If your goal is to fill the world with copies of your genes, all you need is a good DNA-polymerase to duplicate your genome, and then to divide into two copies of yourself.
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