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Oulipian pataphysicist

Joined December 2012
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To avoid being automated away by AI, pursue research that can’t be reduced to a reward signal.
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The interconcept space What lies between two concepts (according to an LLM)? What lies between moral persuasion and James Bond's Ford GT?
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8/n Here, the interconcept space reads like supercars battery engineering
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“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”
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Effective egoism
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Brandolini law
The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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As always, an ironic turn of events. The tech guy who likes things that fit neatly into binary classifiers is now being automated by the same technology that they contributed to building, while the girl into open-ended disciplines such as medievalism is left untouched.
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Here are interactions with Emma-6, the "Italian" LLM, that make me think there might be a market for dumb LLMs
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Robo-Schadenfreude: pleasure at watching a robot fail.
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The affordances of model steering via Mech Interpretability techniques
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Thanks to Elisabetta Rocchetti and Carlo Martinucci (@melkon88) from AI Safety Italia for feedback and discussion
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