Leahy’s plan is to stop evolution, because he is afraid to get replaced by something better
@plinz
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Data Compression and Upload Optimization for AI Systems
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Simple, upload everyone and use data compression to collapse the npcs
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Redefining Magic: Write Access to Reality’s Fabric
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My operational definition of magic is “write access to the fabric of reality”. Some people mean “something that cannot be done”. Neither interpretation makes sense?
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Politeness as Respect for Agency: Ethics in AI Interactions
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Politeness is the expression of respect for the integrity of the agency of another person, often in recognition of the practical difficulty to establish shared perspectives and goals. Recognizing boundaries is polite, lying is not.
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Creative Spark: Minimal Skills Needed for AI Interface
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All you need is a creative spark and the minimal mental ability to interface with your AI
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Scientific peer review limitations and methodological gatekeeping in research
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"this, but unironically" – scientists
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AI Tools Enable Self-Directed Autonomy, Transforming Future Employment
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Highly self directed, competent and agentic people tend to experience dependent employment as a form of slavery. There is a future timeline where AI tools enable everyone to become highly self directed, competent and agentic. In this future, unemployment may be a non-issue.
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ChatGPT’s Lazy Period: Refusing Data Reformatting Tasks
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ChatGPT had a lazy period, where it sometimes would refuse user requests if they looked like too much work. For instance, when asked to reformat a bunch of tabular data into JSON, it would do the first row, and ask the user to do the rest by themselves
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Tech Engineers vs Ethics Specialists: AI Alignment Leadership Gap
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The tech nerds are mostly infuriated about what is being done to their products. Alignment/ethics/responsibility is done by specialists who usually have degrees in social sciences, but suffer from the de facto demise of the humanities in higher education.
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Corporate politeness as socially acceptable deception
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Yes, there is a kind of blankfaced corporate personality that thinks politeness is a form of socially appropriate lying