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Kaj_Sotala

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Things I have been us­ing LLMs for

Kaj_SotalaJan 20, 2025, 2:20 PM
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Don’t ig­nore bad vibes you get from people

Kaj_SotalaJan 18, 2025, 9:20 AM
146 points
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[Question] What are the strongest ar­gu­ments for very short timelines?

Kaj_SotalaDec 23, 2024, 9:38 AM
101 points
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You can val­idly be seen and val­i­dated by a chatbot

Kaj_SotalaDec 20, 2024, 12:00 PM
29 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
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Try­ing to trans­late when peo­ple talk past each other

Kaj_SotalaDec 17, 2024, 9:40 AM
41 points
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Cir­cling as prac­tice for “just be your­self”

Kaj_SotalaDec 16, 2024, 7:40 AM
86 points
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My 10-year ret­ro­spec­tive on try­ing SSRIs

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2024, 8:30 PM
77 points
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Games of My Child­hood: The Troops

Kaj_SotalaJul 8, 2024, 11:20 AM
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0 comments5 min readLW link
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Links and brief mus­ings for June

Kaj_SotalaJul 6, 2024, 10:10 AM
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0 comments10 min readLW link
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In­de­ci­sion and in­ter­nal­ized au­thor­ity figures

Kaj_SotalaJul 6, 2024, 10:10 AM
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Links for May

Kaj_SotalaJun 1, 2024, 10:20 AM
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Should ra­tio­nal­ists be spiritual /​ Spiritu­al­ity as over­com­ing delusion

Mar 25, 2024, 4:48 PM
49 points
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Ver­nor Vinge, who coined the term “Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”, dies at 79

Kaj_SotalaMar 21, 2024, 10:14 PM
149 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(arstechnica.com)

Why I no longer iden­tify as transhumanist

Kaj_SotalaFeb 3, 2024, 12:00 PM
55 points
33 comments3 min readLW link
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Loneli­ness and suicide miti­ga­tion for stu­dents us­ing GPT3-en­abled chat­bots (sur­vey of Replika users in Na­ture)

Kaj_SotalaJan 23, 2024, 2:05 PM
45 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
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Quick thoughts on the im­pli­ca­tions of multi-agent views of mind on AI takeover

Kaj_SotalaDec 11, 2023, 6:34 AM
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Ge­netic fit­ness is a mea­sure of se­lec­tion strength, not the se­lec­tion target

Kaj_SotalaNov 4, 2023, 7:02 PM
58 points
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My idea of sa­cred­ness, di­v­inity, and religion

Kaj_SotalaOct 29, 2023, 12:50 PM
40 points
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The 99% prin­ci­ple for per­sonal problems

Kaj_SotalaOct 2, 2023, 8:20 AM
139 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
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[Question] How to talk about rea­sons why AGI might not be near?

Kaj_SotalaSep 17, 2023, 8:18 AM
73 points
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