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Lorec

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My government name is Mack Gallagher. Crocker’s Rules. I am an “underfunded” “alignment” “researcher”. DM me if you’d like to fund my posts, or my project.

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[Question] Galaxy-Brain Hobo An­tibiotics?

LorecJun 16, 2025, 12:43 PM
3 points
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The Boat Theft The­ory of Consciousness

LorecJun 13, 2025, 4:38 PM
41 points
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A Re­vi­sion to Mar­ket Mone­tarism: In­di­vi­d­ual Hoard­ing as Ra­tional, Com­pe­ti­tion for Dol­lars as Zero-Sum?

LorecJun 11, 2025, 8:13 PM
3 points
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Di­a­betes is Caused by Ox­ida­tive Stress

LorecMay 30, 2025, 9:03 PM
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[Question] What should I read to un­der­stand an­ces­tral hu­man so­ciety?

LorecMay 28, 2025, 11:36 PM
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You are too dumb to un­der­stand insurance

LorecJan 9, 2025, 11:33 PM
1 point
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Don’t fall for on­tol­ogy pyra­mid schemes

LorecJan 7, 2025, 11:29 PM
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Al­gorith­mic Asub­jec­tive An­throp­ics, Carte­sian Sub­jec­tive Anthropics

LorecDec 27, 2024, 1:58 AM
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Re Han­son’s Grabby Aliens: Hu­man­ity is not a nat­u­ral an­thropic sam­ple space

LorecDec 9, 2024, 6:07 PM
14 points
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[Question] Who are the worth­while non-Euro­pean pre-In­dus­trial thinkers?

LorecDec 3, 2024, 1:45 AM
12 points
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Sex­ual Selec­tion as a Mesa-Optimizer

LorecNov 29, 2024, 11:34 PM
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Valence Need Not Be Bounded; Utility Need Not Synthesize

LorecNov 20, 2024, 1:37 AM
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Value/​Utility: A History

LorecNov 19, 2024, 11:01 PM
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Pro­ject Ad­e­quate: Seek­ing Cofounders/​Funders

LorecNov 17, 2024, 3:12 AM
5 points
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The­o­ries With Men­tal­is­tic Atoms Are As Val­idly Called The­o­ries As The­o­ries With Only Non-Men­tal­is­tic Atoms

LorecNov 12, 2024, 6:45 AM
5 points
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Lorec’s Shortform

LorecNov 1, 2024, 3:40 PM
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‘Meta’, ‘mesa’, and mountains

LorecOct 31, 2024, 5:25 PM
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A su­perfi­cially plau­si­ble promis­ing al­ter­nate Earth with­out lockstep

LorecOct 26, 2024, 4:04 PM
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A metaphor: what “green lights” for AGI would look like

LorecOct 23, 2024, 11:24 PM
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Motte-and-Bailey: a Short Explanation

LorecOct 23, 2024, 10:29 PM
12 points
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