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Someone at MIRI must know how to solve this. Good luck getting them to tell you how!

Robin Hanson on the first, incentivized with the ability to sell shares in your child.

What? Have you been replaced with a whole-sentence markov chain? https://x.com/FeepingCreature please look at your X account.

Is there something up with your Twitter account?

There are no humans in the culture. AIs run everything and control thoughts. The humanoid aliens of the culture all commit suicide.

No the cartoon character. It's part of an awful series of AI jokes, maybe don't look it up. There's a (2011? "new") show for 9 year old girls that has most of the characters female…

> kinda how I feel about god tbh That's Celestia, we're talking about Luna here.

Robin Hanson thinks they should. He makes a comparison to the (public company) Morton-Thiokol trading minutes after the shuttle explosion. Insider trading (allowed on future market…

The Hello page is very wrong. Rice's is irrelevant because halting is decidable for all Turing machines of program length l or less when run for a maximum of n steps (enough for yo…

Everything needs to be on paper.

Why is it FUD? It's a real thing any competent programming team could implement.

> something about HOW it talked felt inherently smart The thing was huge. They were training the thing to be GPT5, before they figured out their userbase to too large to be served …

Principles of Vitrification (Fahy PDF linked) p. 48 many practitioners think they have vitrified when they have not p. 45 volume changes of vitrifying agents, possibly in a way tha…

This is optimistic, I see "The cryonics people make a mistake in freezing you (how do we know they don't make lots of mistakes?)"[0] and "The current cryonics process is insufficie…

All you would get is even more insurance overhead and even higher nominal prices. People who pay cover people who don't, and doctors will get insurance to pay for all their failure…

The coolers get so heavy that they don't make good contact if your motherboard is not horizontal. For mainstream CPUs that's why a cheap closed loop cooler is better.

Propaganda is often not false, or at least not fully false.

Yes. Don't branch on key or in-clear data. Otherwise, ok. If a user is doing onion wrapping, they don't want you to branch on the code data either.

How long are the public keys? >160 bits and that's futile.

You can run a software TPM if you browse within a VM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere There you still have booleans, just two of them instead of one.

Did an LLM convince you to put in the anthropic argument entry in the galaxy brained section? Claude Opus? https://gwern.net/blog/2025/conference-size

If it had a finite size it would be computable.

There's nothing on here, not even pre-registration of studies, let alone what J. D. Vance brought up about the replication crisis. https://archive.is/meJC7

The author says he has an about average IQ, but that's impressive considering he apparently almost entirely failed several component tests.