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When Is Not Eating Meat Morally Worth It?
Building a personal decision model for diet, animals, and expected value
Dec 2
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November 2025
Will Extropic's TSUs Beat GPUs On Anything Important?
A technical feasibility analysis.
Nov 30
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How Far Can We Push AI Just by Making It Bigger?
A Tour of Scaling Laws, Data Limits, and Diminishing Returns
Nov 17
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January 2025
Critique Systems, Not Reality
(Quite plausibly, part one.)
Jan 1
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December 2024
Condensed response to "hidden complexity of wishes"
A debate surrounding Eliezer Yudkowsky’s post The Hidden Complexity of Wishes emerged, in which Eliezer responds to criticism saying,
Dec 8, 2024
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November 2024
You're not (that) evil if you pick red
[Update: full answer with o1 here.]
Nov 27, 2024
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Where "the Sequences" are Right II
Map & Territory (2/2): Noticing Confusion and Mysterious Answers
Nov 18, 2024
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Is Utility All You Need?
Exploring the duality between values and beliefs in more detail.
Nov 2, 2024
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October 2024
Assume All Forms of Capability
Let's not assume arbitrarily powerful agents won't do something we just haven't thought of.
Oct 7, 2024
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September 2024
Contra EA and Rationality
The least charitable argument against these movements I'm comfortable with mustering.
Sep 16, 2024
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Models Are Descriptive Not Prescriptive
This is a story about another thing that you might expect should be obvious, except that if it was, it would surely have been noted somewhere as some…
Sep 8, 2024
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August 2024
Where "the Sequences" Are Right I
(Where "the Sequences" Are Wrong V): Map and Territory (1/2) - Predictably Wrong & Fake Beliefs
Aug 12, 2024
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