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I’m not merely weirder than you think… I’m (far) weirder… than you »can think. Think about that.

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Nov 2012 – When Everything Changed Forever ∞ “I was driving, she was sitting next to me and the kids were in the back seat. Everything was regular; you know, we were on the way to the store. Suddenly, there was this incredible -thickness- in the air, the...

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“Incisions are better than decisions…” — a surgeon I was drinking with this evening

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“In this paper, we examine whether a “society” of LLM agents can learn mutually beneficial social norms in the face of incentives to defect, a distinctive feature of human sociality that is arguably crucial to the success of civilization.”...

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“It’s a form of intellectual arrogance practiced by people whose actual ability to vet claims in language is exceptionally weak. Like ‘giant truck/tiny p*nis’ syndrome, except the truck is truth claims and the p*nis is personal...

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My peripheral vision thinks that any phone-sized object in my field of vision ‘might be my phone’, so it constantly monitors them for light/color changes…