Levi Finkelstein

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Evil on the outside, good on the inside.

Interests are math, AI, philosophy, meditation, arguing, ...

[Levi Finkelstein @LeviFinkelstein]

" On any task more complicated than sheer physical strength, there is no such thing as inborn talent or practice effects. Any non-retarded human could easily do as well as the top performers in every field, from golf to violin to theoretical physics. All supposed "talent differential" is unconscious social signaling of one's proper social status, linked to self-esteem.

A young child sees how much respect a great violinist gets, knows she's not entitled to as much respect as that violinist, and so does badly at violin to signal cooperation with the social structure. After practicing for many years, she thinks she's signaled enough dedication to earn some more respect, and so plays the violin better.

"Child prodigies" are autistic types who don't understand the unspoken rules of society and so naively use their full powers right away. They end out as social outcasts not by coincidence but as unconscious social punishment for this defection. "
- Sigmund Freud

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@thoth_iv What do you mean which was which? Figure out which symbol corresponds to 1 and which to 0? Is there some meaningful difference between the two in general?

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@realtimeai @CineraVerinia @tenobrus Yeah that's good advice

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@arenaceous_ @IsaacKing314 They're also used for many others things, in this case to illustrate how hilarious it would be if people said out loud the logical conclusions of the way they thought. It's a common way of using quotes.

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@_Mira___Mira_ Why would that be more g-loaded than normal tests?

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@nickcammarata I know you're probably saying you don't understand it rhetorically, but I'll answer it anyways: it's because people care about being high status.

But obviously if you care about improving you should constantly try to select into groups that are above your skill level.

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@Catnee_ you can write me a slur 😘

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@__HMYS__ LANGUAGE MODELS ALREADY ARE GROUNDED!!!!!!!!!

They are literally multi modal and have improved performance on text tasks from training on additional modalities. They have been observed to contain features that fire for the same concept presented in both text and image.

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@nickcammarata It sucks that our brains are so hard-wired towards status games, which are largely zero-sum 😭

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@s8mb Do you know anyone working on lab-grown human meat? I've always wanted to try, but haven't been able to find it ethically sourced.

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@jessi_cata @LordDreadwar not if interplanetary civilazations are somewhat sparse and there's a large first-mover advantage, then we could have weird moral systems that are not maximizer-y

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bryan is my hero 😻

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Eating Blueprint makes your semen taste good.

[Levi Finkelstein @LeviFinkelstein]

Sure! Negative IQ just corresponds to a certain percentile, easy! As for your second point, the human brain is not a Newtonian system. It exists in superposition and contains microtubules that sustain quantum coherent states influencing the information processing in the brain. I think you're making a few modelling assumptions which is why you think there's an intelligence bound on the human brain when there's not. If the brain is entangled across multiverses we can have an infinity of quantum branches computing information in Hillbert space. There's a much empirical support for this, like phosphorus nuclei in neural membranes becoming entangled affecting neural signalling + quantized vibrations in microtubules + ultraweak phton emissions in neural tissue.

Happy to clarify on any points as needed.

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@jessi_cata Well it happened in star trek, I don't see why not.

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@jessi_cata They're not trying to enter into trade because they consider us to be unpotentiated agents so they have to wait until we develop properly develop so we have the prerequisite abilities to partake in their inter-planetary arbitration system.

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@jessi_cata not if they're optimizing quite a bit (like humans) and they were the first movers, and they also stop civilizations from reaching a point where they would be able to overpower them even if they cared more about optimizing

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@jessi_cata that depends on which NAP, if they consider humans to be one tribe then they would handle arbitration within their own tribe, not enforcing arbitration inter-tribe

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@jessi_cata no but they're not optimizing, they have like normie virtue ethics, like "don't interfere with nature"