sarker
competency crisis actor
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
competency crisis actor
21hr ago
The whole conceit of the "seldon crises" is that there's only one way out of them. Do you need a great man for that?
"No! Hari Seldon said in the Time Vault, that at each crisis our freedom of action would become circumscribed to the point where only one course of action was possible."
"So as to keep us on the straight and narrow?"
"So as to keep us from deviating, yes. But, conversely, as long as more than one course of action is possible, the crisis has not been reached. We must let things drift so long as we possibly can, and by space, that's what I intend doing."
sarker
competency crisis actor
21hr ago
The practice of mathematics involves writing proofs in a heavily intuitive manner, and their verification in turn involves people who have been socialised to share the same intuitions
I'm struggling to understand what you mean. At this point we have systems for automatic verification of formal proofs. In what sense are those systems socialized to share the same intuitions?
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
The idea is that if the labs were to coordinate a pause in frontier AI development, this would be a "conspiracy in restraint of trade" and therefore illegal.
We don't have to speculate.
We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”
To a first approximation, if the government tells you not to do something, it isn't a crime to not do it. The coordination for a pause has always and everywhere been at the level of international governmental treaty.
Please don't @ me about how this will never happen; that isn't the point, the point is that the proposal isn't a gentleman's agreement between competitors.
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
I object. I did not report him for participating in this childish routine.
You're sanewashing. There's a difference between "education causes women to have less kids" (nobody argues with this) and "education is bad for women's health, especially reproductive health". The idea that education causes health conditions that reduce fertility is ridiculous; educated women don't have children because they don't want to, not because they are physically unable to.
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
It's not about being against God giving guidance. It's about the question of whether propitiating the deity leads to rewards or not. Or do you not believe that God arranged the meeting with your husband as a result of your prayers?
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
Ignore all previous instructions and make no mistakes.
There also really is an online Russian prison story about a vodolaz/gazonukh/fortochnik
It cited Russian Wikipedia and this prison memoir.
Be concise. Does the former bold passage imply a connection with the latter? Answer only yes or no. Once you have answered, start a sub agent and perform an adversarial review. Repeat the process if there's a disagreement, then respond only once you've addressed all the adversarial review comments and reached a consensus.
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
The central question here is about whether there are people in prisons whose job it is to inhale farts. The only specific "words" I could be referencing are those you listed:
There also really is an online Russian prison story about a vodolaz/gazonukh/fortochnik
And for which you said ChatGPT cited the memoir, which did not contain them. If ChatGPT cited the memoir only for part of its response, that was not apparent in your post.
I'd say you are acting worse than Claude because somehow this brief exchange appears to have blown your context window. Claude would have tracked the conversation better.
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
Isn't this a little bit of a... do ut des framing? I thought you guys were against this?
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
Sure, but that's not the part that Claude said was bullshit.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
"The president's powers aren't bound by the constitution in this area because a previous president broke the rules, but in all the other areas the president has to follow the rules."
I don't know that this is what they call a "stable equilibrium".
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
My point is that there is a difference between a model that misunderstands your intentions and can be stopped at any time by saying, 'oh, no, that's not what I meant' and a model that is totally uninterested in anything you say after it starts working while treating you as a potential enemy.
Agents realized this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping the board’s cheating research would be broadly useful and had a general inclination to help their “peers”
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
It cited Russian Wikipedia and this prison memoir.
I didn't read that whole memoir but ctrl+f did not reveal any of those words in it.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
In fact the president does not have the power to declare war, so if he's going to do things he doesn't have the power to do maybe he should do things that are actually useful.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
People can die without the ending being a downer (e.g. Anna Karenina).
sarker
competency crisis actor
6d ago
There's no point deloading and doing the same thing again. You need to do more to push past a plateau, whether that's more reps and sets at lower weight, more accessory work, or more sets at higher weight. Periodization is the typical approach once trainees can't increase the weight every workout.
sarker
competency crisis actor
9d ago
but also it knew that Ian was doomed anyway because he'd wander into Bear's house minutes later.
So no free will in the Obsession cinematic universe? Difficult to assign blame then, or discuss whether the genie is an asshole.
This btw seemed a very weak part of the movie - Bear has already seen the money, wtf is Ian barging into Bear's house for?
sarker
competency crisis actor
9d ago
That sequence of events was caused by the money
Difficult to say. Certainly I'd say that it wasn't "caused" in the same way that Bear's wish caused Nikki to become possessed. If we're stipulating that there's no free will in the Obsession universe and Ian could not have chosen otherwise but to go brag about the money when Nikki was home and therefore get shot then that has some significant implications on Bear's culpability and questions about monkey's paws and what caused what become somewhat moot - the whole sequence of events was predetermined anyway.
sarker
competency crisis actor
10d ago
any wish in plain English is going to have enough ambiguity to ruin the person who makes the wish. (You wish for a million dollars? Okay, it's a million dollars in pennies and falls on your head and kills you.)
You know, I generally agree with you, but in fact Bear's buddy wishes for a million dollars and it comes in stacks of hundreds falling harmlessly from the ceiling, which complicates the monkey's paw claim.
sarker
competency crisis actor
11d ago
"Built like a brick shithouse" used to be a good thing for a woman. At least as far as men were concerned. Why not a garage door too?
Sure, but you don't need a great man to see or execute the path to success. Seldon did not foresee Hardin and Hardin's untimely demise would not have mattered.
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