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Transcendental Collective Agency and Rational Self-Instantiation

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12 April 2024 5h46

An aspect that Aquinas seems to see but which I missed him arguing well is that if a possible and desirable transcendental collective agency is likely to become rationally apparent to collectives of agents that can enact it, it will probably instantiate itself.

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Greatest Value Built Through Difficult Underappreciated Work

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12 April 2024 5h33

the greatest value is built through the most difficult — and often underappreciated — work

Multiverse Evolution Paths Mirror Our Own Universe Development

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12 April 2024 5h26

Exactly as we would expect if the evolution of most of the multiverse paths looks pretty uniform to ours

Smolin Alexander Animism Foundations AI Philosophy

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12 April 2024 5h24

Smolin and Alexander, and historically, a bunch of animists

Multiverse Stability and Acausal Nihilism in Constructive Mathematics

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12 April 2024 5h17

If we find ourselves in a boundlessly branching constructive mathematics universe, it’s scary to think that ours could be the only multiverse path in which our particles are stable and our universe is observable. Acausal nihilism is the path of an eternal cosmic Boltzman brain.

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Balancing Optimism with Objectivity in AI Development

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12 April 2024 4h38

Maintaining a positive outlook is important, but it's just as important to recognize when your positivity may be obscuring your objectivity.

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OpenAI Safety Team Members Behind Altman’s 2023 Ouster

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12 April 2024 3h52

More info: Leopold Aschenbrenner was part of OpenAI's "superalignment" team and an ally of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Pavel Izmailov also spent time on the AI safety team. In case you didn't know, Sutskever was one of the primary figures in the 2023 ousting of Sam Altman

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OpenAI Fires Researchers for Alleged Information Leak

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12 April 2024 3h52

Just in from a new report from The Information, @steph_palazzolo
, and @erinkwoo
: OpenAI has terminated researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaking information outside of the company. The actual information leaked is currently unknown.

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AI Influencers Exaggerating Minor Language Model Issues

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12 April 2024 3h42

tbf i was only joking about it but theres a very real set of ai influencoooors who build their identity around making mountains out of language model esoterica molehills