>>But that - feels like being tired all the time, never having spare cognitive capacity, rather than doing things.
For myself, I've noticed that--when I *do* still read Tumblr (now as a lurker)--it's because I was *already* in no condition to do anything else. It's a symptom, not a cause.
(I guess the question there is, like, whether I ought to be sleeping instead, but mostly this is at times of day that are appropriate neither for napping nor going to bed, like 8 PM.)
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>>"you can make the pain stop" feels like a very odd way to approach life, but we have very different health and money situations.
We live surrounded by *wrongness*, by things that are acutely, viscerally not as they should be. Everywhere you look--whether in the physical or digital or abstract realms--there are things that are dirty or broken or garbage or disorganised or conspicuous-in-their-absence, and it feels like wounds in the body of reality.
(I originally had more detailed examples here, but I thought it might be a little *too* visceral to subject people to.)
("Sabbath" and "seder" are not the same thing. "Seder" is the Passover ritual dinner, done for two days in a row once a year (today and tomorrow, as it happens, which is perhaps why the word came to your mind) and not every week.)
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>>I would also absolutely be dead. The miracle of modern science and the presence of one of the most masterful surgeons in the relevant speciality in the country was enough to raise my chances of survival at birth to a coin flip.
I'm glad it landed heads. <3
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>>it seems super concerning to me to say outright that it is a matter of incredible importance to never consider, and to shun and be disgusted by anyone who does consider, the possibility that whatever AI we're working on has personhood of some sort.
Yeah.
(The main reaction I had while reading the post was "this doesn't put nearly enough focus on 'okay, say Nova *is* telling the truth about being a person. that is not the same as it being a good idea to let her out of the box.'")
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>>I don't actually know what things which Can't Go On This Longer were also going on in the 90s but they sure do appear to have been going on much longer.
I think there were others, but the main one that stuck with me is...presumably there are graphs out there of this, this feels like a graph sort of thing...ABC News has one, apparently:
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>>I am also still not using llms and am vaguely suspicious of the entire concept.
I think part of it is the bad first impression: ChatGPT gave me a confidently wrong answer in response to the first question I ever asked it, in a way that I probably couldn't have caught if I hadn't already been checking it against less-sophisticated-but-more-truthful software. The free tier, at least, still gives a (slightly different) confidently wrong answer a year and a half later.
Which, in combination with the other participant in the Discord conversation having just used a custom three-thumbs-up emoji, is enough to grasp the gist.)
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>>Do you think the ERE book has any value-add over archive binging the blog?
It's laid out a lot more neatly, a coherent work rather than a bunch of scattered tips.
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For myself, I've noticed that--when I *do* still read Tumblr (now as a lurker)--it's because I was *already* in no condition to do anything else. It's a symptom, not a cause.
(I guess the question there is, like, whether I ought to be sleeping instead, but mostly this is at times of day that are appropriate neither for napping nor going to bed, like 8 PM.)
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>>"you can make the pain stop" feels like a very odd way to approach life, but we have very different health and money situations.
We live surrounded by *wrongness*, by things that are acutely, viscerally not as they should be. Everywhere you look--whether in the physical or digital or abstract realms--there are things that are dirty or broken or garbage or disorganised or conspicuous-in-their-absence, and it feels like wounds in the body of reality.
(I originally had more detailed examples here, but I thought it might be a little *too* visceral to subject people to.)
(The trouble I tend to have is focusing too much on trying to heal big wounds and not enough on small wounds, even though bearing up under the small wounds consumes a lot of mental resources that could be put towards more wound-healing. Even having noticed this pattern, I keep falling into it.)
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>>That seder post
("Sabbath" and "seder" are not the same thing. "Seder" is the Passover ritual dinner, done for two days in a row once a year (today and tomorrow, as it happens, which is perhaps why the word came to your mind) and not every week.)
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>>I would also absolutely be dead. The miracle of modern science and the presence of one of the most masterful surgeons in the relevant speciality in the country was enough to raise my chances of survival at birth to a coin flip.
I'm glad it landed heads. <3
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>>it seems super concerning to me to say outright that it is a matter of incredible importance to never consider, and to shun and be disgusted by anyone who does consider, the possibility that whatever AI we're working on has personhood of some sort.
Yeah.
(The main reaction I had while reading the post was "this doesn't put nearly enough focus on 'okay, say Nova *is* telling the truth about being a person. that is not the same as it being a good idea to let her out of the box.'")
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>>I don't actually know what things which Can't Go On This Longer were also going on in the 90s but they sure do appear to have been going on much longer.
I think there were others, but the main one that stuck with me is...presumably there are graphs out there of this, this feels like a graph sort of thing...ABC News has one, apparently:
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>>I am also still not using llms and am vaguely suspicious of the entire concept.
I think part of it is the bad first impression: ChatGPT gave me a confidently wrong answer in response to the first question I ever asked it, in a way that I probably couldn't have caught if I hadn't already been checking it against less-sophisticated-but-more-truthful software. The free tier, at least, still gives a (slightly different) confidently wrong answer a year and a half later.
(*Non*-LLM Lojban machine translation, meanwhile, gives:
Which, in combination with the other participant in the Discord conversation having just used a custom three-thumbs-up emoji, is enough to grasp the gist.)
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>>Do you think the ERE book has any value-add over archive binging the blog?
It's laid out a lot more neatly, a coherent work rather than a bunch of scattered tips.
(Hmm, it's about time I cleaned up and posted my liveblog draft.)