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I have an internet friend in Ukraine. My love is in Belarus. I have a non-binary friend in Russia who is a former conscript. I’m a young male in Russia. I’m at risk, but might be relatively safe.
Writing this post to highlight my main ideas (I would like to discuss them while I have the time). The ideas are about Alignment, subjective experience, and informal semantics.
About Alignemt: LW draft, google doc (A single principle related to many Alignment subproblems?).
Ideas which got popular on Reddit: a holistic way to analyze fictional characters, chess positions and synesthesia, very short and weird music loops which evoke contradictory emotions (version 1, version 2), analyzing language with “possibilities”.
If the opportunity cost is not too high for you, please help me to explain some of those concepts to you and other people.
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Since 24.02.22 I desperately tried to share my ideas on Reddit (and later here) while simultaneously trying to advance them in case my posts won’t be successful.
I can’t imagine what other people feel in this tragedy. I have a goal and it fills my mind and lets me remember the good things. I can’t imagine how others live.
Edited, shortened this post. If this date is not changed after 27.04.25, then something happened to me.
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Whatever I’m writing about now, here’s my main latest draft: here on LW (A single principle related to many Alignment subproblems?). A secondary draft: properties of reasoning (LW draft). Third: Substack (using a weird informal concept to explore semantics).
Sorry about your situation. Please prioritize staying safe.
Not sure if any of these links is available to you; you might want to read them (1, 2, 3). It might be useful to memorize the phone numbers +38 066 580 34 98 and +38 093 119 29 84.
Thank you! But, judging by the first link, there’s not much I can do at the moment. Nothing I didn’t do/hear already. Does the third link contain any special advice? (Probably not… if it did, it would circulate somewhere.)
Only the first is the important one. The third one is a Telegram channel, would make sense only if you use Telegram. The actionable parts are to check the list of diseases and injuries that may apply to you and would make you exempt from mobilization, and to memorize the phone number in case you might need it and not have an internet at your disposal. (I have heard that they take the phones away from conscripts. In which case, the number is also useless, but perhaps you might find another phone.)
At this point, discussing my ideas or ways to share them would be more useful for me.
I would like to have a chance to explain/defend them. To defend what I thought and cared about.
“Staying safe” haven’t worked that well so far. The list of diseases is a very tiny hope (even though I may’ve underestimated it).