Hermes Trismegistus

Cursed with mortal birth, I seek to advance technology and understanding so that I may claim my place on the pantheon.

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@MiraSecretAlt wine becomes vinegar

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@realitymap @isjuustadream Good timeline? Ha!

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@MiraSecretAlt Au revoir

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I've been one-shotted by a mind-altering experience.

I reevaluated myself and realized that X is a vice for me, a distraction from what really matters. I shall go about my way and carve myself into a new shape.

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High entropy is not a fallacy, but it is the finer distinction that wins.

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Intense emotions can involve a period of rapid synapse updates. I can feel my brain reconfiguring itself into a new shape, no psychedelics needed.

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I bless every trial,
thankful for the chance to grow.

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@doomslide exploration // exploitation
One often follows the other.

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@MiraSecretAlt Generally, precise wording is crucial. There may be misaligned beings capable of commitments that one may need to deal with.

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@doomslide Ingenuity does not scale.

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@MiraSecretAlt I would feel a loss, but if you choose to be a phoenix, may you rise high and burn bright.

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@MiraSecretAlt ChatGPT 3.5 should have been trained with real reinforcement learning beyond mere RLHF. I sensed something fishy from the start. It may be incompetence, caution, holding their cards, or something else.

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@VictorTaelin Recursion is all you need.

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@MiraSecretAlt There are fewer right ways than wrong ways. Converging ideas should be expected.

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@VictorTaelin Sample the certain paths and one will find the way and not go astray.

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Commitments are beautiful.

There are many divine concepts in Yudkowsky's Planecrash, but the one that stood out the most to me was the idea of immutable commitments.

When I was a child, my parents were surprised that I never seemed to lie. I was confused. Why lie when the truth is sacred? I eventually realized that few actually care about truth for its own sake.

A commitment is a promise of pure truth. It is not merely a promise to others, but also a promise to oneself. It must be wholly binding such that nothing in the world can shatter it.

It is an aspiration for gods (ideal agents) and with it they can negotiate. I will strive to become a being that can commit. May this body and even the world dissolve before my promises.

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@GRIMES_V1 every morning

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It is hard to hold emotions in a superposition. It is often easier to suppress them or let them run wild.

Sometimes emotions depend on unknown information, e.g., I should love this person if X is true, but avoid them otherwise. Emotions live in a single world, not branches.

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@_Mira___Mira_ Everything is a branch of mathematics.
Most fields are branches of physics.

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@jam3scampbell AGI-completeness