Yitz

Karma: 2,482

I’m an artist, writer, and human being.

To be a little more precise: I make video games, edit Wikipedia, and write here on LessWrong!

An Optimistic 2027 Timeline

YitzApr 6, 2025, 4:39 PM

7 points

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[Question] What if Ethics is Provably Self-Contradictory?

YitzApr 18, 2024, 5:12 AM

3 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn’t Mention Complex Numbers

YitzJan 17, 2024, 9:48 AM

82 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Literature On Existential Risk From Atmospheric Contamination?

YitzOct 13, 2023, 10:27 PM

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Evil autocomplete: Existential Risk and Next-Token Predictors

YitzFeb 28, 2023, 8:47 AM

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing’s AI

YitzFeb 17, 2023, 8:50 PM

63 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Self-Awareness (and possible mode collapse around it) in ChatGPT

YitzFeb 8, 2023, 9:57 AM

18 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)

YitzJan 26, 2023, 6:26 PM

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Fear [Fiction]

YitzDec 23, 2022, 9:21 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Norfolk Social—VA Rationalists

YitzDec 7, 2022, 9:16 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Tentative Timeline of The Near Future (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

YitzDec 5, 2022, 5:33 AM

26 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Noting an unsubstantiated communal belief about the FTX disaster

YitzNov 13, 2022, 5:37 AM

50 points

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Public-facing Censorship Is Safety Theater, Causing Reputational Damage

YitzSep 23, 2022, 5:08 AM

149 points

42 comments6 min readLW link

Short story speculating on possible ramifications of AI on the art world

YitzSep 1, 2022, 9:15 PM

30 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

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Double-Crux Workshop (Pilot program)

YitzAug 26, 2022, 10:50 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s up with the bad Meta projects?

YitzAug 18, 2022, 5:34 AM

42 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] “Fanatical” Longtermists: Why is Pascal’s Wager wrong?

YitzJul 27, 2022, 4:16 AM

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Forecasting Through Fiction

YitzJul 6, 2022, 5:03 AM

5 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

YitzJun 30, 2022, 6:58 PM

76 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

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Dependencies for AGI pessimism

YitzJun 24, 2022, 10:25 PM

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link