Brangus🔍⏹️
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Brangus🔍⏹️
@RatOrthodox
Unlicensed philosophy practitioner, x-risk themed jester, soul exhibitionist. Sentences starting with lowercase letters may not be assertions eg sarcasm, parody
Berkeley, CA Katılım Şubat 2021
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thankful for that one presumably-cheap shampoo that seduced all the cheap airbnbs. now my hair can finally have a consistent smell
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@tyler_m_john I can’t read anymore at all. 1,000,000 token context windows gonna make me illiterate
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The skill I most expect current gen AI to atrophy for me is grad student style reading to find quickly find the core argument and novel contributions
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@AmandaAskell You’re way out of my league but if I get much more famous, the articles would be amazing.
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Perhaps I should get married again so that the media has a more recent man they can reference any time they mention me or my work.
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I am not particularly trying to make fun of you exactly! I was more hoping for you to get some kind of, “oh right, it would suck to be on the other side of this” insight. Like starting any piece with “if you are identity X, you cannot *fundamental human thing*” seems like kind of a bad look, yknow?
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@RatOrthodox I know you’re trying to make fun off me but I love this sm
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If you are polyamorous, you are not experiencing true intimacy. You do not want to love — your eternal and infernal desire is to BE loved. You want to absorb affection, admiration, and devotion from every source that unwittingly makes itself available to you, as if you’ve got a nutrient deficiency somewhere.
The way you experience intimacy reminds me of the way a child pulls out a bag of sugar from the pantry when their parents aren’t looking. Though the child could taken any one of the smaller treats, they are instead greedily pawing raw sugar granules into their mouth, not caring how badly they will rot their teeth. Even as their stomach starts to hurt, they will still shovel the saccharides inside of them until they either vomit or pass out on the floor.
Ultimately, you do not care about meaningful connections — you are instead intent on gorging yourself on every love source that you can get your hands on, regardless of whether or not you actually enjoy it, as if you are a prize farm hog, conditioned by your owner to overeat at the trough until you burst.
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@liminal_warmth i need to be a hose in the bug dimension for five years a few times a week or else i get depressed
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I don’t understand how anyone could hear about salvia trip reports like “I spent 5 years in the bug dimension” or “I was a sentient inanimate hose in my back yard for 20 years” and still be like “well maybe I’ll just try it once…”
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@dnspies I was just being tongue in cheek! You’re good. Appreciate the declaration of non antagonism.
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@RatOrthodox Wait, hang on. I don't actually want to get antagonistic here. Compared to a typical academic conference, the pricing is very reasonable. I just knew it had gone up, but didn't know what baseline it was starting from or by how much
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Possibly my favorite FAQ item on a conference website ever.
Question: "Why have prices gone up so much?
Answer: *just a supply and demand diagram*
Oliver Habryka@ohabryka
🖋️ LessOnline 2026 ticket sales are live 🖋️ June 5 - 7, Lighthaven, CA We shall meet again to celebrate truth seeking, blogging, and being wrong on the internet. Early bird pricing ends April 7. Free tickets for people with great blogs, and $0.01 off per LW karma you have.
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Have you seen how cute the tickets website is?? (I made it with @RatOrthodox)
Oliver Habryka@ohabryka
🖋️ LessOnline 2026 ticket sales are live 🖋️ June 5 - 7, Lighthaven, CA We shall meet again to celebrate truth seeking, blogging, and being wrong on the internet. Early bird pricing ends April 7. Free tickets for people with great blogs, and $0.01 off per LW karma you have.
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@JeffLadish @tszzl I mean really, instances of scaling things by 10,000x are really a terrible candidate for induction. Very "i've never died from heroin before, i'm sure this will be fine" vibes.
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Oh uhh, successfully scaling something once 10,000x does not seem like very strong evidence that scaling it 10,000x again is safe, consider CO2, or number of hsv1 viruses in your body, or whatever really.
In this particular case you should expect a discontinuity in safety around the point where if you fuck up, you are definitely not going to be able to fix it.
Sorry, I sort of thought this was obvious.
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modern alignment methods seem to work reasonably well across orders of magnitude of model scaling, survived the transition to verifiable rewards and that should at least inform your decision making
Brangus🔍⏹️@RatOrthodox
I have heard that some anthropic safety leadership are going around telling people that alignment is a solved problem. This seems like a predictable failure to me, and I would like people who thought that funneling talent towards anthropic was a good idea to think about it.
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global high-powered, eye-level laser sweep
Chana@ChanaMessinger
What exactly is the disaster where crouching on the floor would really help you?
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@tszzl i will do my best to dm you a well timed "lol, told ya" before the end
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@RatOrthodox except making the things brain 10,000x better is something we have done safely in the past five years
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@tszzl Yall are literally trying to start rsi asap. The long timeline argument is zero comfort to me.
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@dnspies that's a great point! maybe you should get us a bigger venue. we would really appreciate it!
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@RatOrthodox Does it have to be at Lighthaven though? Why not just get a bigger venue?
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@AdriGarriga @Aella_Girl Yeah, featured on the blogroll is a much lower standard than in the cabinet of attendees
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@RatOrthodox @Aella_Girl That's very nice of you but I thought it was a good joke :)
Regardless of the quality of my blogging (which I do agree is pretty good) I'm demonstrably OOMs below these writers on quantity, which is also important.
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dawww i'm their diversity hire!
(for real tho this is my favorite con, wonderful vibes, lots of real smart people being real down to earth)
Oliver Habryka@ohabryka
🖋️ LessOnline 2026 ticket sales are live 🖋️ June 5 - 7, Lighthaven, CA We shall meet again to celebrate truth seeking, blogging, and being wrong on the internet. Early bird pricing ends April 7. Free tickets for people with great blogs, and $0.01 off per LW karma you have.
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@vivian39_ It is very obvious to me that this was written by claude fwiw. "that's not x, it's y"
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claude wrote this btw lmao
I could start outsourcing tweets that’s so slop
vivian@vivian39_
If a city’s transportation policy requires every adult to own a $40,000 depreciating asset to get to work and participate in civic life, that is not freedom, that is a subsidy with extra steps. The next mayor needs to understand this in their bones. Not theoretically. Viscerally
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@AdriGarriga @Aella_Girl (In all seriousness, my guess is that your blogging is in fact good enough to be on the featured blogroll, but I haven't actually read anything besides your AI x-risk adjacent posts on lesswrong.)
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@RatOrthodox @Aella_Girl I thought the point of diversity hires was that you lower the standards. But there's low and then there's... low....
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@NelsonEdmundb I mean, I think eventually we would rent out a larger venue, but I agree it should be vertical for a long while.
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@RatOrthodox Ok but supply should be a vertical line after a certain point
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@AdriGarriga @Aella_Girl yeah see this is the issue. none of the frequentists have sufficiently good blogs to be featured as a top level attendee :P
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