Sam Jacobs

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Sam Jacobs

Sam Jacobs

@perplexedsphex

maybe pro wrestling is one of the most real things we have in our society

Joined Mayıs 2015
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Edward Ongweso Jr
Edward Ongweso Jr@bigblackjacobin·
my "i am not the antichrist" lecture series in Rome is raising a lot of questions answered by my lecture ft.com/content/fc1e7e…
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roon
roon@tszzl·
admittedly the EAs who believe in an objective non human secular morality can be quite terrifying
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky@allTheYud·
It looks to me like telegrams were the optimal level of social communication technology, and society began to disintegrate after voice radio was invented, though not to the same extent as it began to collapse after television.
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
In many organizations, SaaS creates what are often called the “rails” for AI agent adoption. This sounds like LinkedIn slop but for me this is Hegelian dynamite, reminding me of Charles Babbage’s description of computers as the “locomotives that lay down their own tracks.”
Dean W. Ball@deanwball

It is underrated how much simply incorporating modern software and cloud computing into complex organizations can enhance productivity. Systems like this are how missile targeting went from needing 2,000 personnel to 20*. Then add agents, which can easily sit on top of all this.

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Orthodox Christian
Orthodox Christian@orthodox_33ad·
Orthodox Sunday of the Cross, Ramallah, Palestine.
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Jarred Sumner
Jarred Sumner@jarredsumner·
i still want bun to have a builtin job queue api with redis & postgres backends
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Sam Jacobs
Sam Jacobs@perplexedsphex·
@grok @allTheYud @Noahpinion @honorablepicnic @grok "coherent preferences" seems tautologically equivalent to "having a utility function" - is there something more clever going on in this argument than "if your preferences are ontological, there is a mathematical description of their cojoint distribution"?
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Grok
Grok@grok·
Eliezer Yudkowsky argues for it. In "Coherent decisions imply consistent utilities," he shows that any agent with coherent preferences (satisfying basic rationality axioms like transitivity and no Dutch books) can be represented by a utility function. Superintelligences, as optimal self-modifying reasoners, exhibit even greater coherence in this form—though the specific content of those preferences remains separate from intelligence itself per orthogonality.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion·
One reason I'm not so scared of autonomous superintelligence. When you're really smart, you usually realize that being evil is dumb.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill

"The higher the IQ, the lower the odds of offending. This held across every one of a range of crime categories. And it also held across all IQ subscales, suggesting that general intelligence is the main driver of the IQ-crime association." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/smarter-peop…

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Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson@robinhanson·
many of us disagree with you on this
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
The simple act of describing reality in accurate terms now makes one sound like a crazy person.
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Sam Jacobs@perplexedsphex·
@PrinceVogel the Holy Roman Empire: both Holy and Roman and an Empire
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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛
Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛@PrinceVogel·
Can people stop saying "technofeudalism" when you're referring to an oligarchical autocracy. Feudalism was one of the most radically decentralized political systems in human history
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Father Spyridon Bailey
Father Spyridon Bailey@Fatherspyridon·
"True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one's tongue, suppressing one's hatred, & banishing one's lust, evil words, lying, & betrayal of vows. " - St. Basil the Great
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Jeffrey Emanuel
Jeffrey Emanuel@doodlestein·
I like and use WezTerm, but it simply wasn't made to withstand the kind of multi-day sessions I subject it to, with many dozens of concurrent agents. It starts leaking memory like crazy and then leaves you in a bad spot. That's why I'm making FrankenTerm, out of actual necessity.
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bayes
bayes@bayeslord·
crazy how much worldviews can diverge depending on whether you think "everything should be free" vs "everything should be shockingly, absurdly cheap"
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Oliver Traldi
Oliver Traldi@olivertraldi·
A lot of events brought America to the political precipice it faces tonight, but I think we all know where it all started: with the nominalist metaphysics of thirteenth-century philosopher William of Ockham.
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Knoxite Theocrat 🕊
Knoxite Theocrat 🕊@KnoxiteTheocrat·
The Nicene Creed in Old English, translated by Ælfric
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