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Cultists Draw a Boogeyman on Cardboard, Become Afraid Of It

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  • Scientists terrified to discover that language, the thing they trained into an highly flexible matrix of nearly arbitrary numbers, ends up can exist in multiple forms, including forms unintended by the matrix!

    What happens next, the kids lie to their parents so they can go out partying after dark? The fall of humanity!

    • good news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again

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  • Always my favorite part of your day.

    • good news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again

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  • Why protest when you could spend far less energy and just "not be wrong" and "have no stake" by over-fitting your statistical model to the past?

    • ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now

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  • The irony in all this is that if they just dropped the utilitarianism and were just honest about feelings guiding their decision making, they could be tolerable. "I'm not terribly versed in the details of the gun violence issue, but I did care about malaria enough to donate to some functional causes." Ok, fine, you're now instantly just a normal person.