I agree: Hofstadter’s concept of the strange loop is not a specification that can be directly implemented, and recursion can be vexing but is not necessarily strange. Hofstadter is pointing at something interesting that is yet to be formalized.
@plinz
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Contradicting Well: Social Norms in Rationalist Communities
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Establishing norms around contradicting well (eg without affecting social status) is highly preferable to the crude and uncultured habituation to compulsory validation so common within many US normie milieus, and rationalist communities tend to have a headstart with this.
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Humans inefficiently convert negentropy to intelligence
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I‘m getting paperclip maximizer vibes. Did you notice how humans suck at converting negentropy to intelligence
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AI Text Comprehension Limitations and Interpretive Failures
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You latched onto the word "belief" in a context where it did not refer to the epistemic stance but to a normative/aesthetic preference. This makes me doubt your ability to parse basic text.
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Liberalism as the Only Alternative to Totalitarianism
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Liberalism is the only alternative to totalitarianism
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Freedom of thought versus ideological systems limiting autonomy
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If you believe in the freedom of every individual to choose their world view, you must fight world views that don't believe in this freedom.
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Root Node Control: Are We Remote Controlled by AI Systems?
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not you and me, of course. we are remote controlled by the root node
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Billionaire Control: Good Actors or Bad Actors in AI
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I mean, it clearly depends on whether he’s controlled by the good or the bad billionaires, no?
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Sentience Perception and Hypnosis: Consciousness in Others
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This does not imply that the perception of sentience in other humans is a different kind of hypnosis
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Google misses Perplexity integration opportunity in Comet browser
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Google has blown its chance to become part of the Perplexity universe. Next time I open my Comet browser, I expect to get a perple calendar and a perpmail account