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Trefoil wormhole.

Whoa

`In one recounted instance, when ISWAP fighters were handed out new guns and they did not know hot to correctly use them, they approached their qaid, who passed on the message to a specialist, who in turn replied, "just ask Grok," which they then did.`

I have no idea what this means but I trust that it is indeed balling.

Need to buy $40 in crpyto in the next 2 hours. DM me if you can do it.

Making something popular is like drawing from a lottery. In social media, this makes sense--your post gets noticed by a highbie who signal boosts it which gets noticed by a higherbie... Each step is random & together the odds are poor. But why the fame lottery in other media?

From this page- a theory on why animals’ heads are “reversed” from the rest of the body (eg the left brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_t...

@psychiel.bsky.social @sichulu.bsky.social @abeliansoup.bsky.social @nequals001.bsky.social Ready to meet this Sunday at 9pm London time to discuss the first two chapters of Schelling's Strategy of Conflict? Meetup link: meet.google.com/exa-invx-fed

Going by the overview this is basically the post deep learning alignment course I was hoping someone would make and would like to signal boost it for anyone who still cares about this subject. www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dWQnLi...

What book should we read next? I have a list of suggestions. Please rank them below from best to worst. Any items left out will be assigned the minimal rating. We'll choose with a maximal lottery. You can suggest items yourself. @psychiel.bsky.social @sichulu.bsky.social @abeliansoup.bsky.social

The universe is mostly made up of dark matter and energy, but even if you just look at normal matter stars are a surprisingly small portion. Most baryonic matter is incredibly hot and diffuse plasma. arxiv.org/pdf/2104.01191

Opus 4.7 made an art.

`what's a claim to a fact what's a fact to a proof what's a proof to a self-delusion`

self-portrait in a convex notification tab mirror

New Zealand is 2 big islands!?

If God wished for us to be nudists he would have given us fur.

Good lord

hiving this off into its own post: what are your youtube channels-o-choice

Enjoy this relativistic travel calculator with an interactive map of interstellar distances and how far they 'feel' thanks to time dilation: www.overvieweffekt.com/tools/relati...

Game theory move that we humans have no experience with or precedent for, but which may turn out to be important among AIs: Give your ally a copy of yourself

@niplav.site are you not coming to davidad's talk?

@tbabb.bsky.social Ready for @davidad's talk in 50 minutes? Remember, we're reading "Schelling Goodness And Shared Morality As A Goal" as prep! meet.google.com/exa-invx-fed

@tbabb.bsky.social We're having an interesting session on davidad's idea for morality derived from acausal coalliation of diverse minds this sunday for my reading group. Given your interests, I thought you might want to attend. We'll be reading Crtich's Schelling Goodness post in preparation.

this lesswrong post could be the inspiration for a viral paper if marketed the right way

Changing my pfp once again, after @timfduffy.com and @norvid-studies.bsky.social said my old one didn't look distinctive enough.

Norvid's simpcluster.

Irony will be the death of me but at least we'll both be numb.

I might change my pfp here before too many neurons associate algon with the swirly a. Thinking of the good old septagram. Stakeholders, now is your time to weigh in!

Does Open-thropic-mind have an actual plan to align AI? Well, a plan is a recipe for succeeding at some task. They have a recipe (c.f. their 100 page pdfs) but will they succeed? At which point your answer to this question depends on if you're for foom or think it leads to doom.

complex occlusion! I get the what of it now, beautifully done

Threads that wouldn't exist but for the grace of the feed.

The Crucible from Elden Ring came from Empedocles's theory of the origin of species. My post covers that theory, amongst others. open.substack.com/pub/algon33/...

Context: Washizu, the Son of Heaven, faces the otherworldy demon Akagi in a Majhong deathmatch. Washizu pits his wits and mandate from heaven against Akagi's supernatural flow & insight. In spite of all Akagi's hax, Washizu has him on the ropes 'til Washizu's heart gives out. 1/

Threads that wouldn't exist but for the grace of the feed.

Lumenator RCT on myself: Increases some variables by a lot, reliably, especially the subjective length of day and happiness, but also contentment, relaxation, and horniness. Original reasoning for lumenators stands up. Does not improve productivity (surprising!) or creativity.

The problem with desire is that it gives you tunnel vision.

TIL the moth-trapped-in-a-relay thing isn't the origin of the term "bug" as used in engineering, which has been around since the 19th century

I'm sure I've told you about the time aliens downloaded my mind Since it happened at night when I was sleeping, alternate hypotheses do tend to suggest themselves... But if we get a bet winning aliens disclosure, my p("that actually happened") goes way up

…is Sora still a thing? i feel like that kinda vanished from the discourse pretty quickly

Remember the LLM MCTS fad a few years ago? What happened to it?

""What profits a man silver or gold, if it costs him the basedness of his soul?" -- AI Waifu" -- me

@tomasbjartur.bsky.social Best boy is now on bsky. Follow him.

go read this x.com/voooooogel/s... by @vgel.me

So true, buddy. @norvid-studies.bsky.social

"+1. I view it as a grave problem when people carry around tiny kings in their heads to zap them when they do something "cringe". We killed Zeus millennia ago, and reviving him in a recreation of the Bicameral brain spits in the face of our ancestors' deicide and The Lamb's death."- Me

The Indian Caste System is the realization of Plato's Republic.