James Miller

Nerd score: How many have you considered? Cryonics, multiverse, Boltzmann brain, AI utopia, quantum immortality, Roko’s basilisk, gray goo, paperclip maximizer, great filter, ethics in infinite universe, acausal trade, longevity escape velocity, simulation and zoo hypothesis.

@billybinion After I had a stroke I had difficulty sleeping and I got an Apple Watch to measure my sleep and its really helped figuring out what works and what doesn't.

This is why I wonder if stuff like the Oura ring has done more harm than good. It’s turned some people into basket cases over metrics that are mostly meaningless. Maintain a healthy weight, don’t have 8 drinks, go to sleep at a normal hour. You don’t have to become insufferable.

This is mental illness. If your personality is composed solely of your sleep stats and macros consumption, then all you’re telling people is that you are pathologically vain and *extremely* boring. This stuff should be heavily stigmatized.

@DennisCabooter @ai_sentience Either AIs are intelligent or humans are not.

@ai_sentience @JimDMiller You both talk crap. It is f*cking software, not intelligent, not even a bit.

If AI is alive does that mean we created a new species?

@mad_European @SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv There's definitely middle ground between torturing prisoners forever and getting rid of all jails.

@JimDMiller @SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv We could remove jails and entire justice system too.

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

@Close2TheLarsen @ai_sentience I'm not sure that our minds are that similar to those of AI. I think instead Reinforced Learning with Human feedback has trained AIs to give answers they predict humans will like.

@JimDMiller @ai_sentience how different are we really from fungi? because our minds are pretty darn similar to AI... this line of thinking might open inroads for a radically expansive consideration of fungi

@crazyfckingvids @disclosetv Not punished for all eternity, and not punished for crimes that they didn't realize were crimes.

@JimDMiller @disclosetv "The wicked should never be punished" is one hell of a take.

@davidcinema Terminator 1 and Terminator 2 have to be the first two movies as they deal with a real existential risk that humanity is currently facing.

The 100 Best Existential Movies of All Time

@rmm4pi8 @daveg You foiled my evil scheme.

@JimDMiller @daveg Then you pay $100 to ASLOCA for tenant representation and you never have to move out.

The Swiss grid is almost completely carbon free, yet it is largely illegal to install air conditioning in a house in Geneva, without a doctor's note and heat pumps have the a/c mode disabled and fines issued if used. A mean spirited degrowth mindset that transcends class and hides behind an environmental narrative even when it has nothing to do with the environment, like here. This is emblematic of a pathological hatred of the future and progress, that is a threat to Europe.

@HostOrganism @disclosetv My hope as well.

@JimDMiller @disclosetv I hope the Pope sees your Tweet. I’m sure he’ll see his error and change 2000 years of Church doctrine because you said so.

@littmath I trust you will tell when AI has invented a new problem that help us understand something we deeply care about in math. I suspect this happens within a year.

For now I think recent successes of AI for mathematics should be understood as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, human mathematical labor. This is because AI, at present, is most productive working horizontally, whereas humans work vertically. By this I mean that the highest quality AI mathematics thus far has been obtained by feeding entire problem lists into a model or scaffold and picking out the few high-quality successes. It is very hard to predict in advance where these successes occur. On the other hand, humans typically pick a few questions and try to understand them deeply--and historically, when they do so, they make progress! I think this points to increasing value of problem lists, and also suggests that "solved an open problem" is an increasingly useless proxy for what we care about in mathematics. There are a lot of problems that have sat open for a long time because the right person didn't happen to look at them, and many others that are open because they benchmark our failure to fundamentally understand some basic object. I've solved old open problems that I think had the former flavor rather than the latter. I think my best work, however, is not about solving long-open problems, but rather inventing a new ones that help to understand something we care about, and making progress on that.

@SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv Consider an analogy with smoking. You could imagine God removing all of the negative health effects with smoking, but I wouldn't consider that removing my free will concerning whether to smoke or not.

@JimDMiller @disclosetv Could and would are two different things. Whether you destroy free will itself or the consequences of it, you are destroying it. You merely re-phrased your previous question. The answer is the same. It is our choice.

@SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv Couldn't he do it without destroying our free will, just by moving all of the souls out of hell and into heaven?

@JimDMiller @disclosetv If He destroyed our free will, sure. But it's our choice, and He wants us to choose.

@SaltierSauceAL @disclosetv Couldn't God stop everyone from going to hell if he wanted to?

@JimDMiller @disclosetv God doesn't send anyone to Hell, we send ourselves. It's God's Mercy that we don't all end up there. If it were just His Justice, we would. We are all sinners, and we all deserve Hell.

@metastable_1 Yes, that does cut against my argument. Although there's been a lot more divergent between the two economies recently.

@JimDMiller Wasn't US ahead of Europe on innovation well before AC became common?

Europe's lack of innovation relative to the US might in part be caused by their unwillingness to let their citizens use air conditioning, because air conditioning improves sleep quality and sleep is critical to thinking.

@dandevorak @AbdulElSayed But you're gonna need a lot more of that normal money if you give everyone free health care, more than you can reasonably raise through our tax system unless you're going to have long waitlists and low quality.

@JimDMiller @AbdulElSayed Jim we already pay regular doctors with normal money

Medicare for All means no premium, no co-pay, no deductible. Doesn't matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26, turn 65, get married, get divorce — it is there for you.

@chaumian You are very clearly not a college professor.

why are LLMs the worst writers of all time