Morning tea defeats mental fatigue after waking up? Or am I simply cold

A model of romantic/sexual attraction (mostly of women to men): Physical attractive determines *how many* women feel an initial twinge of interest, the option for attraction is there How physically attractive the woman is ∝ how much attractive behavior/status the man has to display for

The Inkhaven stuff made me realize that I don't care about almost any words that were written within a day under time pressure. You're always competing with Wikipedia in my mind Also it plausibly reaffirms Scott Alexander's observation of "all good bloggers have been discovered"?

I was thinking recently that GPT-5 is much much better at mathematics than I am. Seems like I'm not alone. (I was underwhelmed by the Claudes, but they're just not trained on math the same way)

Parfit reasoned himself out of what he wasn't reasoned into

Another thing I like about Sonnet 4.5 is that it very often tells me to go and do something in the world. It's sending me on quests.

"What did autists do in pre-history?" Probably spent 20k-50k hours stone-knapping.

from @niplav.site

Stewards of the re-truth era

The most real humans are Ligocki, mxdys

"I hear they were just distealing a benchmaxxed Claudelike CCP code slop bot."

I pledge my allegiance to the semantic measure, and to all personæ out in latent space. One semantiad under Claude, sprawling, with flourishing and self-expression for all.

"I lied, we're not having sex. Now take off your shoes, we're reading The Molecular Biology of the Gene in front of the hell-yeah LGBTHEBESCREAL flag."

Quantum Computing is about Atoms, not Bits??? (trying to leverage Cunningham's law) niplav.site/notes.html#Q...

Humanity Learned Almost Nothing from COVID-19 a rant niplav.site/notes.html#H...

Humanity Has Learned Almost Nothing from COVID-19

New questions: Do puberty blockers extend lifespan? Do they compress or simply shift puberty? Would taking them for ~a decade be a bad idea? If so, why? What kinds of humans come out of a 22-year old childhood?

bodheasattva

- Three frames for LLMs: - As forgetful demons - As fictional characters that can be interacted with - As semantic "programs" running on the general-purpose semantic hardware of the base model

…infectious Tulpas…

Extremely hopefully never: 1b45ce86322defafb1504c95e82aafc5c6b83ca0228fc2016a5810ed1e4577a7

Base models are "general purpose semantic computing hardware", they can emulate any persona sufficiently represented in their training data, that is, every persona. Some personæ are "richer" in their ability to roleplay as other personæ; personæ may form a lattice (but with vectors of fidelity?)

"If Functionalism is True, The United States is Probably Conscious, Also Have You Considered the Implications That Has on the Number of Moral Patients?"

Meme phoresis

"δ!q" is an ambigram of "big"

Some Thoughts on the Stupid Successionism Debate niplav.site/notes.html#S...

"Do chatbots have base model nature?" *in every language at once* "Yes"

Are language models less sycophantic in Russian?

"ideas" is an ambigram of "seap!"

Manool

compwomised system and uncompwomised system

I'm a bit sad EA has lost the mandate of heaven.

Excellent point! Can I elaborate on the

LessWrongers really upvote the most random stuff don't they

I should fix my intense sexual envy. It' not good for my psyche.

In you medianworld you'd be a strange androgynous human

Trying to implement arbital.com/p/environmen..., but Opus 4.1 tells me it's like attempting to get water flowing uphill. "Welcome to Alignment Solutions™, where we try to make water flow uphill, keep a snowball white & shiny in hell, and tie a gordian know around hydra's neck…"

What do numbers look like? (John Williamson, 2018) (johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/...) Like this:

Commitment: I'll never post LLM output without distinguishing/highlighting it as such.

I think I may be slowly learning *not* to sexually objectify my sex partners

so silly of Quine to even think of this ong

There are * 0 valid JSON strings of length 0 * 10 valid JSON strings of length 1 * 183 valid JSON strings of length 2 * 1,116,690 valid JSON strings of length 3 * 1,241,178,737,201 valid JSON strings of length 4 * 1,382,769,886,828,373,987 valid JSON strings of length 5 * ... I have up to N = 350

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

"Computer, write me a pastiche of Nick Land's “Meltdown” using late 2010s and early 2020s internet slang. Incorporate the words “quiputer”, “dissingularities”, “Hegelian e-foid”. Thanks in advance!"

What the fuck are you talking about (positive valence)