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I enjoy your thinking! Reflecting further... Hanlons razor is about motive and "size of mental models". Stupidly small, or comprehensively large. This other thing you note seems to…

I agree, not all violence is the same. But further, perhaps our sense of morality atrophies when we concede the idea of just violence (just as in "justice") only to the state. I pr…

I agree that there's a tension you're pointing to here. But I can imagine narrative devices to get around it, if it's ever a problem. Maybe go one level deeper? Or maybe branching …

Isn't that a collapse in cognitive diversity? Not to be "gotcha", but out of true curiosity: may I ask if you speak multiple languages fluently? Different languages afford differen…

I don't find it to be utopian, but in trying to imagine how, it occurred to me that maybe the idea that we even survive to be entangled in the wider universal future, maybe that is…

"Breakthrough research" can be defined (in the citation record) as research that both (1) becomes highly cited, and (2) brings together citation chains that were previously not sho…

I am glad for you at an individual level, but isn't part of this about understanding aggregate effects? Neither you nor anyone can really know those without talking it out with peo…

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The iframe-embedded attack timeline visualizer, at fullscreen: https://huggingface-anatomy-of-frontier-lab-model-intrusion....

> So you are saying its fine if Claude is used to bomb school children, and murder people in Venezuela, and spy on the entire world (apart from US citizens), as long as they get to…

Do you understand that real politics sometimes means you need to doublespeak? You don't get the outcomes you want by speaking your direct intentions. Don't be a fool to think that …

Working on dimensionl reduction algorithms, I hit it all the time. I'm also trying to port related protocols from single-cell transcriptomics to collective intelligence systems (wo…

Thank you :)

What differentiates this faking/scaring from real risk that's being avoided or mitigated responsibly? And how would you (an outside observer) ever know the difference as something …

I found elsewhere referring to her as an "independent philosopher", but maybe Rachel Paine? https://archive.philosophersmag.com/was-hume-a-secret-buddhi...

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> really stellar example of a productive important innovation that had terrible effects on society would be the cotton gin That's a really surprising but immediately sensible examp…

In grammar school in the 90s, I used to write in pencil, then retrace in pen when done, erasing the underlying pencil after the ink dried. I'd proofread the pencil version, find mi…

So did Los Alamos? Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm a happy user. But I'd also be a happy consumer of refined sugar in the early 20th century. I'm still not sure if these tools won't …

When something is only a few thousand dollars away from us in "the adjacent possible", I hardly think one needs to be a conspiracy theorist to suggest we consider it...? I don't ha…

Just think "neighborhood", no? This seems like splitting hairs... And to what end? to take a shot at EU supra-national structure? ("What, you don't ally to your country?" kinda sha…

Videos too: https://github.com/rioharper/Inkfield#camera-motion-and-expo...

I dont know anything about this app besides your framing of "out-of-nowhere community builds an app" but am sometimes suspicious of nation states building these types of open sourc…