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Thoth Hermes

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Why I Don’t Believe The Law of the Ex­cluded Middle

Thoth HermesSep 18, 2023, 6:53 PM
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“Throw­ing Ex­cep­tions” Is A Strange Pro­gram­ming Pattern

Thoth HermesAug 21, 2023, 6:50 PM
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Op­ti­miz­ing For Ap­proval And Disapproval

Thoth HermesJul 24, 2023, 6:46 PM
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Thoth Her­mes’s Shortform

Thoth HermesJul 13, 2023, 3:50 PM
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The “Loss Func­tion of Real­ity” Is Not So Spiky and Unpredictable

Thoth HermesJun 17, 2023, 9:43 PM
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[Question] What would a post that ar­gues against the Orthog­o­nal­ity Th­e­sis that LessWrong users ap­prove of look like?

Thoth HermesJun 3, 2023, 9:21 PM
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Colors Ap­pear To Have Al­most-Univer­sal Sym­bolic Associations

Thoth HermesMay 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 HermesMay 16, 2023, 6:02 PM
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On­tolo­gies Should Be Back­wards-Compatible

Thoth HermesMay 14, 2023, 5:21 PM
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Where “the Se­quences” Are Wrong

Thoth HermesMay 7, 2023, 8:21 PM
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The Great Ide­olog­i­cal Con­flict: In­tu­ition­ists vs. Establishmentarians

Thoth HermesApr 27, 2023, 1:49 AM
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De­cep­tion Strategies

Thoth HermesApr 20, 2023, 3:59 PM
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The Truth About False

Thoth HermesApr 15, 2023, 1:01 AM
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Bi­nar­is­tic Bifur­ca­tion: How Real­ity Splits Into Two Separate Binaries

Thoth HermesApr 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 HermesApr 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 HermesMar 28, 2023, 5:19 PM
12 points
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