starling

physics phd student trying to understand thermodynamics of self-organized systems. i like grammar too much and i'm trying to preserve my favorite bits.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@NathanpmYoung anti-endorse

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@etubruton or maybe for someone ordering a $70 steak, whose job involves being handed decisions all day, being given another decision to make and it costs $3 is actually a negative, even if the sauce alone is worth the money alone.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@DisgracedProp I read this and mostly liked it. Good job!

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@conditionalZep1 What about small-L liberal policies that incentivize eugenics-y outcomes like Hanson's Personal Tax Asset for Fertility proposal

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@Empty_America Some of WV is like this. A lot of it is in ruins.

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@MacVogt Thanks! I feel like we're saying the same thing/this is essentially what I initially understood. Your explanation helps me see how they sit on a spectrum/horseshoe.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@emmasteuer1 idk if this counts as usual, but slowing down my breathing and focusing my vision on the darkness of my eyelids helps me sleep when i can't

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@justalexoki it means that all those guys wearing pedophile killer hoodies they bought on facebook have a very feminine opinion

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@moretti__klein @atulit_gaur Maybe I'd be willing to wait ten minutes for a "Secure Delete" option for sensitive files

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@atulit_gaur my main point here is not that this is what happens, but that it's not some law of physics that files have to either linger forever or be "sent to the sun"

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@atulit_gaur I guess I was hoping the bits that corresponded to the file were all set to 0 or something, marked as "free to be written to" by the OS, and not copied to anywhere else beforehand

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@izzyz What if you got smarter than Amanda Askell? Who would be able to stop you then?

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@moultano @nolightupstairs pun?

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Imagine we solve the alignment problem and some cosmic ray flips the wrong bit in an AI's head and it goes berserk anyway.

[lyra @_lyraaaa_]

if you have a qwen3.5 4b around, please try steering neurons L14 N8949 +1 and L13 N7956 -1
now you have evil qwen

recipe: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖` at the down_proj at every input

[caroline :) @soonrightaway]

people blame this sort of thing on TikTok or whatever but it’s directly George W Bush’s fault. it’s crazy that teachers basically aren’t allowed to fail students anymore because of the No Child Left Behind Act.

[starling @flocksofphysics]

@thinkingshivers 1% is pre-AI. With agents we could easily manage 3-5% better every day.

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@mean_field_zane @LinkofSunshine You're right though.

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@Philip_DT @AndyMasley "Stop trying to claim directionally correct marginal victories where you can! Ignore anything with political support and focus your energy on global-scale absolutes so that nothing gets done, please!"

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@robinhanson Money has liquidity that potential future labor and even the completed project, don't have.