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Suggestion: end sicknesses with an official end-of-sickness ritual

There are lots of ways humans benefit from being limited, many connected to being trustworthy.
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Katja Grace
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What does the trajectory look like toward AI surpassing us at these 'capabilities' that involve a lack of capability?

I’ve really wanted more good short accounts of why AI poses an existential risk. Working on one myself has been one of those incredibly high priorities I keep putting off. Meanwhile Ben Bradford of NPR, has just made a podcast version of my case for AI x-risk that I am thrilled with!
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Katja Grace
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Bonus within the 39 minutes: what Hamza Chaudhry of FLI thinks we should do about it (who I was delighted to later meet as a consequence!)

Does anyone have a really satisfying way to store clothes? An account of my present objections to approximately all of the ones I know of, which I'm not recommending you read unless you are curious or want a break from talking about AI: worldspiritsockpuppet.substack…

I hate the way ads add a bunch of fake commercially incentivized voices to the conversation. AI is taking it further, which I dislike for these reasons and more!

I generally enjoy talking to journalists and am not very stressed or strategic about it. Am I doing it wrong? worldspiritsockpuppet.substack…

I've lately come to think of multi-person organizations as an overpowered negotiating tool

We should be talking seriously about coordination around not building dangerous AI.

Common wisdom says that it is incredibly hard to coordinate to not build more dangerous AI...but is that just naive?

AI as a Trojan Horse Race
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Katja Grace
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I think people struggle to differentiate between a situation that legitimately incentivizes racing and on the other hand people moving fast

"IdK, ClAuDe SeEmS ALiGneD to mE!"

(intended in a spirit of fun; my actual take is like, "I think we are missing the concepts we need in order to talk usefully about this")

I got my first DEXA scan in January of 2020. Between then and March 2020, I lost 2.5 bodyfat percentage points, but then I moved to the middle of nowhere with MIRI for COVID, and gained 12 percentage points between then and February 2023, which was my next scan date. My DEXA scan from today finally again shows a net decrease in body fat percentage compared with 2020! I'm still 25lbs heavier than I was then, but 20 of those are lean mass!

Freaked out a little bit today during my workout: I've been doing progressive overload on various dumbbell lifts for a couple months, and today one of my lifts was way harder than I expected. I hit failure ~ 4 reps earlier than Thursday. Only after failing even earlier on the second set did I realize that I had set the weight 20% too high. I felt dumb but also it's cool to get a little confirmation that I'm not just hitting "failure" via confirmation bias!

Has Scott Alexander already done a kabbalah-style bit about how MAGA is a multilingual recursive acronym? I.e. it's obviously cognate with PIE *meg- (meaning "great"; root of magnificence, magnitude, maharishi, major) and also the G stands for "great"

TIL: the thrift store near my house sells paperbacks for $1 and hard covers for $2. And if you don't mind the fact that they've organized the books by spine color, you can find excellent books. In fact I found one paperback that I ordered on Amazon yesterday for 10x the price.
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