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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.

I post some of my less-varnished opinions on my personal blog. In the past they went on my Substack.

If you like arguing with me on LessWrong, at present I’m basically free round the clock to continue interesting arguments in my Discord.

You are too dumb to un­der­stand insurance

LorecJan 9, 2025, 11:33 PM
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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
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[Question] Who are the worth­while non-Euro­pean pre-In­dus­trial thinkers?

LorecDec 3, 2024, 1:45 AM
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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
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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
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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
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Thoughts on Evo-Bio Math and Mesa-Op­ti­miza­tion: Maybe We Need To Think Harder About “Rel­a­tive” Fit­ness?

LorecSep 28, 2024, 2:07 PM
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For Limited Su­per­in­tel­li­gences, Epistemic Ex­clu­sion is Harder than Ro­bust­ness to Log­i­cal Exploitation

LorecSep 15, 2024, 8:49 PM
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One per­son’s worth of men­tal en­ergy for AI doom aver­sion jobs. What should I do?

LorecAug 26, 2024, 1:29 AM
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Un­curs­ing Civilization

LorecJul 1, 2024, 6:44 PM
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