Dan

nothing is cold enough for some people. edited for a while, back to writing now

[Dan @kagankans]

I have a new piece in @nytopinion that takes the AI phenomenon known as emergent misalignment to be suggestive evidence in a debate going back thousands of years about whether character is unified or modular.

[Dan @kagankans]

And what would they think of us, who willingly gave up control over our future, and made ourselves into helpless children?

https://t.co/bNLor1XXzU

[Dan @kagankans]

https://t.co/4e2kzN6F3O

[Dan @kagankans]

conspiracy physics

[Geoff Penington @quantum_geoff]

Deleted a couple of tweets that were unnecessarily personal and harsh. Instead I will just make the general comment that there are powerful dynamics driving science popularisers to engage in conspiratorial rhetoric…and that it is vitally important to resist them

[Dan @kagankans]

@DAMendelsohnNYC @JoshPhillipsPhD @Columbia no way

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"Happy Bloomsday" Uhhh this is incredibly insensitive towards people who lack interiority. Maybe consider who your celebration of stream of consciousness narration is excluding

[Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh]

Seems like a moment to bump this excellent article by Dan Kagan-Kans:
https://t.co/tiTu30MWvM

[Dan @kagankans]

@chi_t_williams @NatPurser @nitashatiku @kevinroose @calder_mchugh @haydenfield @ZeffMax @inafried yep

[Dan @kagankans]

@MattZeitlin at one point Hans Moravec was so annoyed by Searle he fantasized about a robot strangling him

[Dan @kagankans]

@KelseyTuoc wow

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

As @kagankans wrote:

[Dan @kagankans]

@ShakeelHashim congrats!

[Dan @kagankans]

"What’s left is a view of capitalism not as a system that can unfairly externalize harm, or as a negative system altogether, but as essentially a fake one." https://t.co/9gejyENNJQ

[spor @sporadica]

Okay, this is ridiculous. It is crazy to see people straight up saying Anthropic is lying about Mythos. Because that directly implies there's an industry-wide conspiracy going on and ALL of these companies are also lying on Anthropic's behalf?

Why on Earth would their competitors - Google and Microsoft in particular - lie about this and not call them out? Instead, they happily join Project Glasswing and go on record, practically, that Mythos is this good and that they're working with Anthropic to put it to use.

You people baffle me sometimes lmao.

[Dan @kagankans]

one of the most entertaining papers ever written https://t.co/I3qEVuNQG0

[Dan @kagankans]

"Apart from the fact that it leaves ambiguous the scientific status of virtually every singular existential statement, however well supported . . . it has the untoward consequence of countenancing as 'scientific' every crank claim which makes ascertain ably false assertions."

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

very good clip — lots of well informed people, and even some scientists, think falsificationism describes how science works, but it doesn't

[Dan @kagankans]

@MattZeitlin wrote a piece about this recently but it got killed :(

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

@binarybits or, at the very very very very least, an end to the sour-grapes left's insistence that AI is still kind of fake!

[Dan @kagankans]

well, that's it for "guide for the perplexed." it had a good run

[Dan @kagankans]

@binarybits there's an interesting gap between the emotion and the (lack of) language available to describe it

[Dan @kagankans]

amazingly, this was published in a journal published by "The Palantir Foundation for Defense Policy & International Affairs"

[Dan @kagankans]

some sentences should get you immediately barred from ever writing another