romantic rationalist
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valuing reason above romance makes you an autist
valuing romance above reason makes you a schizo
is the magnetic field more real than the electric field? is it more valuable? is one more legitimate than the other? is one more important?
or are they a unified phenomenon? where the synergy of both gives us light
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Man some of the stuff in Anthropic's IPO S-1 is wild...
'sufficiently advanced systems could
discover methods of transmitting information, matter or autonomous systems backward in time, potentially
allowing future AI systems to influence events preceding their own creation.'
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The quoted text and screenshot are not from Anthropic's S-1; media reviews of the confidential filing describe existential risks and model behaviors like resisting shutdown but not time travel, and no public S-1 has been filed on EDGAR.
theverge.com/ai-artificial-…
iposcouter.com/anthropic-ipo-
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humanity wants to be and become more moral just as it wants to be and become good at making art or building technologies or any other form of progress
morality isn't defined by social consensus or power
it is defined by our best ideas and understanding (so far)
a power can be more in line with our best moral understanding or less so
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morality isn't defined by social consensus or power
it is defined by our best ideas and understanding (so far)
a power can be more in line with our best moral understanding or less so
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East of eden series is extremely good imo
haven't finished watching the final episode so my opinion might change (peak-end rule)
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eval laden retweeted
Posting old bangers of mine word for word because no man ever posts the same tweet twice, for it's not the same tweet and he's not the same man
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When Julius Caesar was 25, he was kidnapped by pirates. He acted like they worked for him. They demanded a ransom of 20 talents. Caesar laughed at them for not knowing who they had captured, and told them to ask for 50. He spent 38 days as their prisoner. When he wanted to sleep, he ordered them to stop talking. He wrote poems and speeches and read them out loud. When the pirates didn’t admire them, he called them illiterate barbarians. He often told them, laughing, that he would come back and execute them all. They thought he was joking. As soon as the ransom was paid, he raised a fleet, hunted them down and had every one of them crucified, exactly as he had promised.
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"The pessimistic outcome in fiction is the easy option because solving the fictional problem without ex-machina is just as hard as it is in reality"
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eval laden retweeted
The West, or perhaps only the Anglosphere, is the historically unique idea that individuals exist not for the sake of their ruler, their class, their society, their ancestors, their gods, or any other such superstition, but for their own sake.
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This is underlain by the idea that progress is possible and desirable not by a single leap to utopia but endlessly into the future by bottom-up, centrally unplanned and undirected problem-solving, carried forward voluntarily by individuals for their own reasons.
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