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Valentine

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I was a co-founder of CFAR in 2012. I’d been actively trying to save the world for about a decade at that point. I left in 2018 to seriously purify my mind & being. I realized in 2020 that I’d been using the fear of the end of the world like an addictive drug and did my damnedest to quit cold-turkey. I’m now doing my best to embody an answer to the global flurry in a way that’s something like a fusion of game theory and Buddhist Tantra.

Find my non-rationalist writing, social media, and projects at my Linktree.

The hos­tile telepaths problem

Valentine27 Oct 2024 15:26 UTC
347 points
79 comments15 min readLW link

“Dark Con­sti­tu­tion” for con­strain­ing some superintelligences

Valentine10 Jan 2024 16:02 UTC
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.anarchonomicon.com)

Is be­ing sexy for your homies?

Valentine13 Dec 2023 20:37 UTC
163 points
92 comments14 min readLW link

Sapi­ent Algorithms

Valentine17 Jul 2023 16:30 UTC
80 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are brains?

Valentine10 Jun 2023 14:46 UTC
10 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Slack mat­ters more than any outcome

Valentine31 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
155 points
56 comments19 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Where’s the eco­nomic in­cen­tive for wok­ism com­ing from?

Valentine8 Dec 2022 23:28 UTC
12 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Here’s the exit.

Valentine21 Nov 2022 18:07 UTC
97 points
178 comments10 min readLW link5 reviews

[Question] What is an agent in re­duc­tion­ist ma­te­ri­al­ism?

Valentine13 Aug 2022 15:39 UTC
7 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
144 points
118 comments7 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing isn’t about sig­nal­ing, it’s about Goodhart

Valentine6 Jan 2022 18:49 UTC
59 points
31 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What are sane rea­sons that Covid data is treated as re­li­able?

Valentine1 Jan 2022 18:47 UTC
41 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Where can one learn deep in­tu­itions about in­for­ma­tion the­ory?

Valentine16 Dec 2021 15:47 UTC
70 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
131 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
94 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Notic­ing the Taste of Lotus

Valentine27 Apr 2018 20:05 UTC
211 points
81 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Mythic Mode

Valentine23 Feb 2018 22:45 UTC
68 points
82 comments9 min readLW link

The In­tel­li­gent So­cial Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC
229 points
112 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Kenshō

Valentine20 Jan 2018 0:12 UTC
73 points
296 comments6 min readLW link

CFAR 2017 Retrospective

Valentine19 Dec 2017 19:38 UTC
26 points
5 comments5 min readLW link