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Why I Don’t Believe The Law of the Excluded Middle
Thoth Hermes
Sep 18, 2023, 6:53 PM
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“Throwing Exceptions” Is A Strange Programming Pattern
Thoth Hermes
Aug 21, 2023, 6:50 PM
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Optimizing For Approval And Disapproval
Thoth Hermes
Jul 24, 2023, 6:46 PM
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Thoth Hermes’s Shortform
Thoth Hermes
Jul 13, 2023, 3:50 PM
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The “Loss Function of Reality” Is Not So Spiky and Unpredictable
Thoth Hermes
Jun 17, 2023, 9:43 PM
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LW
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[Question]
What would a post that argues against the Orthogonality Thesis that LessWrong users approve of look like?
Thoth Hermes
Jun 3, 2023, 9:21 PM
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Colors Appear To Have Almost-Universal Symbolic Associations
Thoth Hermes
May 20, 2023, 6:40 PM
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[Question]
Why doesn’t the presence of log-loss for probabilistic models (e.g. sequence prediction) imply that any utility function capable of producing a “fairly capable” agent will have at least some non-negligible fraction of overlap with human values?
Thoth Hermes
May 16, 2023, 6:02 PM
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Ontologies Should Be Backwards-Compatible
Thoth Hermes
May 14, 2023, 5:21 PM
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Where “the Sequences” Are Wrong
Thoth Hermes
May 7, 2023, 8:21 PM
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The Great Ideological Conflict: Intuitionists vs. Establishmentarians
Thoth Hermes
Apr 27, 2023, 1:49 AM
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LW
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Deception Strategies
Thoth Hermes
Apr 20, 2023, 3:59 PM
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The Truth About False
Thoth Hermes
Apr 15, 2023, 1:01 AM
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Binaristic Bifurcation: How Reality Splits Into Two Separate Binaries
Thoth Hermes
Apr 11, 2023, 9:19 PM
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[Question]
Is there a fundamental distinction between simulating a mind and simulating *being* a mind? Is this a useful and important distinction?
Thoth Hermes
Apr 8, 2023, 11:44 PM
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[Question]
Why do the Sequences say that “Löb’s Theorem shows that a mathematical system cannot assert its own soundness without becoming inconsistent.”?
Thoth Hermes
Mar 28, 2023, 5:19 PM
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