metachirality

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metachirality May 2, 2025, 7:04 AM
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in reply to: JBlack’s comment on: metachirality’s Shortform
Am I correct in assuming you don’t think one should give the money in the counterfactual mugging?

metachirality May 2, 2025, 2:49 AM
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in reply to: JBlack’s comment on: metachirality’s Shortform
I don’t know what the first part of your comment is trying to say. I agree that counterfactual mugging isn’t a thing that happens. That’s why it’s called a thought experiment.
I’m not quite sure what the last paragraph is trying to say either. It sounds somewhat similar to an counter-argument I came up with (which I think is pretty decisive), but I can’t be certain what you actually meant. In any case, there is the obvious counter-counter-argument that in the counterfactual mugging, the agent in the heads branch and the tails branch are not quite identical either, one has seen the coin land on heads and the other has seen the coin land on tails.

metachirality May 1, 2025, 11:34 PM
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on: metachirality’s Shortform
I came up with an argument for alignment by default.
In the counterfactual mugging scenario, a rational agent gives the money, even though they never see themselves benefitting from it. Before the coin flip, the agent would want to self-modify to give the money to maximize the expected value, therefore the only reflectively stable option is to give the money.
Now imagine instead of a coin flip, it’s being born as one of two people: Alice, who wants to not be murdered for 100 utils, and Bob, who wants to murder Alice for 1 utils. As with the counterfactual mugging, before you’re born, you’d rationally want to self-modify to not murder Alice to maximize the expected value.
What you end up with is basically morality (or at least it is the only rational choice regardless of your morality), so we should expect sufficiently intelligent agents to act morally.

metachirality Mar 15, 2025, 7:51 PM
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: bgold’s Shortform
Sounds like synesthesia

metachirality Jan 27, 2025, 9:49 AM
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in reply to: lc’s comment on: [Link] A community alert about Ziz
I fear that, while it might be a good idea to discourage LSD, it would make things even worse to discourage transitioning.

metachirality Jan 3, 2025, 7:54 AM
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in reply to: keltan’s comment on: keltan’s Shortform
Highly Advanced Epistemology 101?

metachirality Jan 2, 2025, 7:46 PM
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in reply to: gwern’s comment on: Deontic Explorations In “Paying To Talk To Slaves”
probably doesn’t change much, but janus’ claude generated comment was the first mention of claude acting like a base model on LW

metachirality Dec 8, 2024, 6:56 PM
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in reply to: Guive’s comment on: Habryka’s Shortform Feed
It ought to be a top-level post on the EA forum as well.

metachirality Dec 8, 2024, 6:53 PM
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in reply to: cubefox’s comment on: Algebraic Linguistics
Well that’s because it’s meant to be quantifying over linear equations. $x$ and $y$ are not meant to be replaced but $a$ and $b$ are.

metachirality Dec 7, 2024, 10:04 PM
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on: Algebraic Linguistics
i is often used as an index in math, similar to how it is used as an index in for loops.

metachirality Nov 27, 2024, 9:07 AM
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in reply to: leogao’s comment on: leogao’s Shortform
What would an event optimized for this sort of thing look like?

metachirality Nov 1, 2024, 6:16 PM
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in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: JargonBot Beta Test
Why not generate it after it’s posted publically?

metachirality Oct 30, 2024, 3:34 AM
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: Habryka’s Shortform Feed
Aaaa! I’m used to Arial or whatever Windows’ default display font is. The larger stroke weight is rather uncomfortable to me.

metachirality Oct 18, 2024, 4:22 PM
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in reply to: yams’s comment on: yams’s Shortform
Yarvin was not part of the CCRU. I think Land and Yarvin only became associates post-CCRU.

metachirality Oct 2, 2024, 6:40 AM
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in reply to: MichaelDickens’s comment on: MichaelDickens’s Shortform
Maybe make a post on the EA forum?

metachirality 21 Sep 2024 21:45 UTC
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on: Glitch Token Catalog - (Almost) a Full Clear
It seems like if the SCP hypothesis is true, block characters should cause it to act strangely.

metachirality 14 Sep 2024 16:06 UTC
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in reply to: Lao Mein’s comment on: Lao Mein’s Shortform
Does it not have any sort of metadata telling you where it comes from?

My only guess is that some of it is probably metal lyrics.

metachirality 14 Sep 2024 4:38 UTC
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in reply to: Lao Mein’s comment on: Lao Mein’s Shortform
Is this an LLM generation or part of the training data?

metachirality 8 Aug 2024 6:40 UTC
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on: Meno’s Paradox
I don’t see how 3 follows.

metachirality 7 Aug 2024 18:28 UTC
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in reply to: p4rziv4l’s comment on: Is an AI religion justified?
That’s because we don’t have the intelligence to exterminate ants (without causing more problems.)

On another note, if an artificial superintelligence needed a human for something, it would probably be able to find someone it could convince on the spot, no pre-built religion needed.