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What we are referring to as AI is, in part, a system of technologies that will absolutely put an end to the possibilities of coherent vigilance and prediction. Those are over with. And those are foundations of human personal, social, historical and futurial...

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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.”...