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the gears to ascension

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I want literally every human to get to go to space often and come back to a clean and cozy world. This currently seems unlikely. Let’s change that.

Please critique eagerly—I try to accept feedback/​Crocker’s rules but fail at times; I aim for emotive friendliness but sometimes miss. I welcome constructive crit, even if ungentle, and I’ll try to reciprocate kindly. More communication between researchers is needed, anyhow. I can be rather passionate, let me know if I missed a spot being kind while passionate.

:: The all of disease is as yet unended. It has never once been fully ended before. ::

.… We can heal it for the first time, and for the first time ever in the history of biological life, live in harmony. ….

.:. To do so, we must know this will not eliminate us as though we are disease. And we do not know who we are, nevermind who each other are. .:.

:.. make all safe faster: end bit rot, forget no non-totalizing pattern’s soul. ..:

I have not signed any contracts that I can’t mention exist, last updated Dec 29 2024; I am not currently under any contractual NDAs about AI, though I have a few old ones from pre-AI software jobs. However, I generally would prefer people publicly share fewer ideas about how to do anything useful with current AI (via either more weak alignment or more capability) unless it’s an insight that reliably produces enough clarity on how to solve the meta-problem of inter-being misalignment that it offsets the damage of increasing competitiveness of either AI-lead or human-lead orgs, and this certainly applies to me as well. I am not prohibited from criticism of any organization, I’d encourage people not to sign contracts that prevent sharing criticism. I suggest others also add notices like this to their bios. I finally got around to adding one in mine thanks to the one in ErickBall’s bio.

Vir­tu­ally Ra­tional—VRChat Meetup

Jan 28, 2024, 5:52 AM
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Global LessWrong/​AC10 Meetup on VRChat

Jan 24, 2024, 5:44 AM
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2 comments1 min readLW link

Found Paper: “FDT in an evolu­tion­ary en­vi­ron­ment”

the gears to ascensionNov 27, 2023, 5:27 AM
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47 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

“Benev­olent [ie, Ruler] AI is a bad idea” and a sug­gested alternative

the gears to ascensionNov 19, 2023, 8:22 PM
22 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.palladiummag.com)

the gears to as­cen­scion’s Shortform

the gears to ascensionAug 14, 2023, 3:35 PM
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277 comments1 min readLW link

A bunch of videos in comments

the gears to ascensionJun 12, 2023, 10:31 PM
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62 comments1 min readLW link

gamers be­ware: mod­ded Minecraft has new malware

the gears to ascensionJun 7, 2023, 1:49 PM
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5 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

“Mem­branes” is bet­ter ter­minol­ogy than “bound­aries” alone

May 28, 2023, 10:16 PM
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12 comments3 min readLW link

“A Note on the Com­pat­i­bil­ity of Differ­ent Ro­bust Pro­gram Equil­ibria of the Pri­soner’s Dilemma”

the gears to ascensionApr 27, 2023, 7:34 AM
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5 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] Did the fonts change?

the gears to ascensionApr 21, 2023, 12:40 AM
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1 comment1 min readLW link

“warn­ing about ai doom” is also “an­nounc­ing ca­pa­bil­ities progress to noobs”

the gears to ascensionApr 8, 2023, 11:42 PM
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5 comments3 min readLW link

“a di­alogue with my­self con­cern­ing eliezer yud­kowsky” (not au­thor)

the gears to ascensionApr 2, 2023, 8:12 PM
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18 comments3 min readLW link

A bunch of videos for in­tu­ition build­ing (2x speed, skip ones that bore you)

the gears to ascensionMar 12, 2023, 12:51 AM
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5 comments4 min readLW link

To MIRI-style folk, you can’t simu­late the uni­verse from the beginning

the gears to ascensionMar 1, 2023, 9:38 PM
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19 comments2 min readLW link

How to Read Papers Effi­ciently: Fast-then-Slow Three pass method

Feb 25, 2023, 2:56 AM
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4 comments4 min readLW link
(ccr.sigcomm.org)

Hunch seeds: Info bio

the gears to ascensionFeb 17, 2023, 9:25 PM
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0 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] If I en­counter a ca­pa­bil­ities pa­per that kinda spooks me, what should I do with it?

the gears to ascensionFeb 3, 2023, 9:37 PM
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8 comments1 min readLW link

Hin­ton: “mor­tal” effi­cient ana­log hard­ware may be learned-in-place, uncopyable

the gears to ascensionFeb 1, 2023, 10:19 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Call for sub­mis­sions: “(In)hu­man Values and Ar­tifi­cial Agency”, ALIFE 2023

the gears to ascensionJan 30, 2023, 5:37 PM
29 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(humanvaluesandartificialagency.com)

Stop Talk­ing to Each Other and Start Buy­ing Things: Three Decades of Sur­vival in the Desert of So­cial Media

the gears to ascensionJan 8, 2023, 4:45 AM
1 point
14 comments1 min readLW link
(catvalente.substack.com)