if we find the "invariants of experience" (QRI style) then his arguments will be trivially false, in the ways that arguments in the wrong ontologies are. I suspect the claims are largely structurally recoverable, but perhaps not

Nevermind. I had been optimistic that the President’s tweet signaled an off-ramp, but it doesn’t. Shame on the Department of War, shame on Pete Hegseth. A dark day in our country’s history.

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Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Dario Amodei Anthropic So, if I assume all previously unknown details are true, let's do this in the normal order with some context. Previously: DoW says it sends its 'best and final' offer, in public, saying that it cannot let private companies refuse requests. Previously: Emil threatens that at

Are you interested in discussing or debating the future of reprogenetics and intelligence amplification? Reply / DM and maybe we can record a podcast episode :)

reminder that up to 40% of India's population likely has latent tuberculosis

Very excited to be joined by dan mackinlay , Daniel Murfet , Edmund Lau, & Jan Kulveit in announcing a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. Geoffrey Irving , Marcus Hutter , Scott Aaronson, & Victoria Krakovna have graciously agreed to form the initial advisory board

for the first time in the past few months, non-human beings have made consumption decisions ie there is spending that counts towards GDP, that is neither investment nor human consumption nor government expenditure

Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 Stuff like Jewel House (Harkness), The Spread of Improvement (Dr Anton Howes essay), or Mokyr’s book paints a different texture for progress that what people who believe in fast RSI or within-data-center loops seem to believe. I think there’s a lot of detail and sequencing of steps

tablekat We are increasingly suspecting that everyone except us is conscious.