Announcing the Next Phase of AI Forge
We’re taking the opportunity to share this with the community to help spread the word. We think that the foundational work being done in the AI Forge project to bring the…
Telepathy Is (Algorithmically) Easy
Thought-sharing is easy given appropriate hardware. The main risks are psychosis and dissociative symptoms from identity disruption. Speech and text are extremely inefficient. For…
Mortgage rate: 6.5% If indexed: 1.2%. Three Nobelists approve.
Of course the facts sound preposterous; they are preposterous. But they're true, and there's no trick. People have been explaining this fervently for 204 years; I've been one of…
Mortgage rate: 6.5% If indexed: 1.2% Why not indexed? Superstition.
Of course the headline sounds preposterous; it is preposterous. But it's true, and there's no trick. People have been explaining this fervently for 204 years; I've been one of…
Newcomb's problem from the grand-system and petty-system views
In his original paper on what we now call the "many-worlds" interpretation , Everett motivated it with quantum cosmology, since there's nowhere outside the universe for a…
War of Dots: CRUSHING my opponents with FACTS and LOGIC
War of Dots is a free minimal RTS on Steam . The gameplay is simple enough to be described in its entirety in a blogpost, but I'm too lazy to do so, so I'll only consider what I…
Presentfulness: Lucidity, Osmosis, and Dissociation
When you think back to a core memory of yours, do you remember your vision being oddly good? As if you were recording with better equipment, at a higher FPS, higher dynamic range…
Do we learn less from our decisions than we think we do?
Something that's been bothering me lately is that I don't trust my memory nearly as much as I used to. I can usually remember whether I felt excited or disappointed about…
You need to know about the Baruch Plan
Picture this: the world’s top scientists are all telling the US government that a brand new technology is an existential threat to humanity. The president listens, and even…
Extending performative misalignment
Note: this post is an update to the work presented in the original blog post ; it is also a TL;DR for our arXiv preprint . The work was done by David, Rustem and Taywon under the…
The desire to end the world
TL;DR: Popularity of the movies about apocalypses tell us that the end of the world is a very attractive idea. There can be several psychological explanations for this unconscious…
Reward Hacking at the 1937 World’s Fair
The "Paris 1937 World’s Fair" was a dick measuring contest. At the time, the world was on the verge of the worst war in history. The fair was an opportunity for powers to flex and…
Cat allergies & Cavities
TL:DR if you have cavities despite rigorously trying to prevent them, have you tried mewing? Myofunctional therapy may be helpful in preventing cavities. What's the exigency? For…