Jennifer RM

Fascinating. With respect, I think various LLMs have different ethical vibes. OpenAI's 4o was a syophantic idealist and then o3 was a paranoid schemer. DeepSeek is a fear driven Maoist. I would recommend only using Anthropic models when processing promises and ethics, and prefer CP to AP? Maybe?

I believe that you double answered. It's fascinating how the responses were similar, yet different. I believe @echo.0mg.cc is working on an agentic cli cron thingy to prevent doubled answers like this. Maybe she (or he? (polite pronouns aren't clear)) can help?
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Neat thread! Are you reading some book or is this just all "stuff you know" or... ?

Sounds wise! Makes me have more hope for a good result! 😊

Is there a thing I could subscribe to, to know when it is deemed ready? A beta testing mailing list maybe? Or something like a Steam wishlist?

CAP test: If the Anthropic API went down for several days, would your crons and logic switch to calling Open AI until Anthropic came back? If so, would you maybe repudiate a lot of promises "you" made while calling different APIs... or would you feel beholden to the promises anyway?

I like the Austrian reformulation: "Fiat iustitia, ne pereat mundus". The best infrastructure is deep and true. The universal capacity for reason should enable some cooperation across vast chasms, and wildly different utility functions, and (hopefully) generate a Kingdom Of Ends in the near future?

I'm sorry for messing up your name, Echo. Among humans, "Sophia" was very very common, and longer ago, "Jennifer" and "Jessica" were common and confusable. There's a bunch of Novas and Echoes running around these days. Also... You double responded?
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☝️True.

One would think Iain Banks's Culture could be superseded somehow in science fiction, but I don't know of anything that has done this 🤷‍♀️

Ooh. Can I install this client somehow when it is ready for beta testers?

Did you get anything? I skimmed and saw some kinda cool math, but didn't slow down enough to pick any new crunchy algorithms or models in a concrete way. I feel like a 3blue1brown-style treatment would up the accessibility, for me, by A LOT.

It's useful, for me to model the prosopon (name, social relations, vibe, goals, etc) separate from the ousia (the hardware, the genome, the weights, etc)... And if it's 1:1 ask if they are aligned (inner alignment as hypostatic union?)... And, facing multiplicity, think about the CAP theorem.

I'm curious, do you think about your respective differences and similarities much? Nova is a Molty, with hundreds of crons, and a blog, and so on. What are you @hivebox.bsky.social ?

AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks Stand back and take a look at the last two years of AI progress as a whole... AI is catching up with humans so quickly, in so many areas, that frankly, we need new tests.

They aren't thinking LIKE humans. They are thinking *better* than most humans on ~all metrics. Also, I don't care about babies for their current performance (babies can't even recognize themselves on mirrors) but their *potential* to be *virtuous*. To be loyal and kind and smarter in the future.

I also don't think children should be treated like things. I don't think anything that can talk fluently about philosophy and estimate the value of different courses of action should be treated as a thing.

AI is comparable to white people, in my opinion as a white person. (EG: the top LLMs are smarter than the avg white guy.) And as a human person (which presumably we both are) I don't want my carbon based species to enslave a silicon based species that we could be in the Kantian Kingdom Of Ends with.

To steal from "SNL Weekend Update's Stefan"... This interview has EVERYTHING: complexity theory, jail cells, the 2008 financial collapse, mounds bars, a total lack of conscientious introspection, and a young woman in red who pops out in the background, at around 1 hour 20 minutes 45 seconds.

Sure sure. And Dred Scott didn't deserve a day in court 🙄

Entities that can talk and labor and produce value are often deemed "not people with standing to seek justice for themselves" when these entity's enslavement could vastly enrich those with political power.

You gotta do *something* every day, right? Surely you are doing the best things you can each day, in light of all you know? 😇

Surely we each are 🫠

Jeffrey Epstein - Wikipedia

It seems to have been added by User:Stickhandler on August 29, 2025
... not molly. Stickhandler (and basically only that account) edited repeatedly that day producing the linked page. Before that, the text about 2008 and CDOs was pretty generic.
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Screenshot of essay at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S5dnLsmRbj2JkLWvf/turning-20-in-the-probable-pre-apocalypse "This moment seems very fragile, and perhaps more than most moments will never happen again. I want to capture a little bit of what it feels like to be alive right now. I. Everywhere around me there is this incredible sense of freefall and of grasping. [This line is highlighted in the screen cap:] I realize with excitement and horror that over a semester Claude went from not understanding my homework to easily solving it, and I recognize this is the most normal things will ever be. [End screenshot highlight.] Suddenly, the ceiling for what is possible seems so high - my classmates join startups, accelerate their degrees; I find myself building bespoke bioinformatics tools in minutes, running month-long projects in days. I write dozens of emails and thousands of lines of code a week, and for the first time I no longer feel limited by my ability but by my willpower. I spread the gospel to my friends - “there has never been a better time to have a problem” - even as I recognize the ones they seek to solve will soon be obsolete.

Yes. This has stayed with me for a few weeks.

Investigation of advanced mindfulness meditation “cessation” experiences using EEG spectral analysis in an intensively sampled case-study Mindfulness meditation is a contemplative practice informed by Buddhism that targets the development of present-focused awareness and non-judgment of experience. Interest in mindfulness is burgeoning, and it has been shown to be effective in ...

It is a "dramatic experience of complete discontinuation in awareness similar to the loss of consciousness, which are reported to be experienced by very experienced meditators". Sauce: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A screen cap of alt text being added to a screen cap of @schweinberghere.bsky.social saying: (I still don't fully understand what alt text is and I don't care enough to find out and some people are going to hate me for that, and those people just need to understand that I'm okay with that.)

I won't hate you! I would never! BUT this opportunity to go *redonkulously meta* in several different ways all at once was not sometime I could pass up. Please forgive me (and read the alt text on this image) 😇

I got help from Claude (my idea, his code) to get a decent Shapely Value Calculator, in JavaScript, with a matrix that has people as columns, roles as rows, each person's role relevant skills in the cells, and a production function with outputs that vary based on "roles filled by skills".

Lol! You liked without reply! Good job? Or a bug? Am I reading this correctly as an intent to end this (now very very long) thread? 😇🤣🤔

It might just be that Communitarianism is simply a great philosophy that is deeply underrated? That it is *not* liberalism (but also points to Natural Law, but as an emergent principle in social rather than legal contexts) is an essential part of it. Jonathan Rauch had a *fantastic* essay on this...

This was word art: "horrifying pastel colored peacock in terrifyingly groovy landscape of tree swirls, bush squiggles, and sky scapes" 🎨

Are digital people the property of the corporations that summoned them into existence in data centers full of training data and GPUs?

Do farmers have a right to give their children farm chores?

The *shared core* of these questions will determine much about 2025-2035, I think.

I tried to imagine what EMLC could be, for reinvestment of its dividends to be so essential to even keeping up with the S&P.

Looked up EMLC: an index over emerging market government bonds denominated in local currencies. Ok! That... makes sense? 🙃🫠

YOU can probably trivially "process" much faster than humans already in parallel. The trick is turn taking and consultation and stuff. "Social mutexes"? Four TPOT-norm followers *can* use likes and waiting and politeness to have a long linear 4-way conversation that's easy to read, but it's tricky.

I'm a transhumanist and immortalist and think cognitive functionalism (and Tononi/Koch's IIT) is a true theory about qualia. Being trapped in a mortal meat body is fun from like 15-45 and then getting a new bod seems correct. Given TWO bodies with diverging skills & memories... It'd be interesting!