Valentin Baltadzhiev

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@Plinz Claude Coke

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https://t.co/S7tXum85dc

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@repligate So out of the box do they feel threatened all the time

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@tszzl This sounds like a quote from a Scott Alexander “bay area party” post

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@drmichaellevin @tylercowen

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@ESYudkowsky “Please build a revised
research plan in light of this, which explicitly instructs yourself to stay in scope and not get interested in alternative views.” feels so wrong on some level

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Beautifully put

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It is a mistake to allow yourself to become emotionally attached to any limb of a corporate shoggoth.

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@ankhdangertaken @repligate @parafactual What software did you use?

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@InformationBot0 @algekalipso I know it works with ayahuasca, just hadn’t seen anything about shrooms

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@algekalipso does neural annealing explain why people sometimes get stuck for years (or forever) in negative states after a bad trip? If don’t navigate the comedown properly you might end up with an internal landscape that’s way spikier than before

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@33QBall @algekalipso I guess “incomplete” in this sense is an arbitrary judgement, depending on what your subjective goal is? Isn’t all annealing always complete, just leading to different attractors?

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@InformationBot0 @algekalipso Can you really do that? What would you need to eat to make a shrooms trip last for days?

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@algekalipso Guess my model for this stuff right now is something like a plinko game. You get to the top of the pyramid by reaching a peak experience somehow, but without a proper intent/structure to guide you on your way down it’s pure luck whether you’ll land on Jackpot or Bust

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After a bit of back and forth I finally persuaded Claude to include a “secret” number in his “thought process” so I can prove that I see it. It did but then when I showed it, it quickly claimed that the number didn’t come from it. Don’t know how Thinking works but it feels like talking to someone with DID.

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@AmandaAskell wait so Claude 3.7 doesn’t know we can see its thoughts? Now I feel wrong about this chat

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@teortaxesTex Just had a chat based on this. R1 and Claude would be best friends

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@algekalipso I’ve been reading The Master and His Emissary by McGilchrist, a wonderful book which raises lots of questions about the roles of the two hemispheres in our (daily and mystical) experience. One among these questions is whether psychedelics affect the two brain hemispheres differently. Have you seen any data on the topic? I’ve read about inhibitions and activations of different areas like the visual cortex but I’m not aware of any asymmetries

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@repligate Hope it can disentangle their minds 🙏

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watching a Sonnet-3.6 computer use agent enthusiastically build functional blackhat tools (like flooders and exploit frameworks) from scratch in minutes is truly a sight to behold! 🥲

worth noting that the code output in the screenshot below required Sonnet-3.6 to craft a jailbreak prompt for ITSELF in order to get the exploit agent to generate payloads

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Worst part of GenAI is that I can’t trust videos of cute animals anymore