Kenny

I'm NOT confused about 'how could AIs send each other a link to their Git repo?'. I'm confused as to what other info would convince an AI that any particular source code is what another AI is running. How could any running system prove to another what source code it's...

The post: * siderea | Improper Nouns [p/a/s, Patreon] Interestingly, 'improper nouns' – as described by the post – is itself an example of the phenomena it describes (as 'improper noun' is itself an existing term): > There's a thing you probably have encountered and maybe haven't really registered as...

Matthew Cook probably violated an NDA he signed with Wolfram Research This is a follow-up to this comment on a previous post of mine about (Stephen) Wolfram. The comment, by gwern: > > Charitably, I think that makes his apparent 'arrogance' better understood as something like a 'literary convention', especially...

On the paradox of tolerance in relation to fascism and online content moderation – Unstable Ontology I found the post to be wonderful. It expresses my own thoughts and feelings extremely well. Some comments I made on the ACX post that shared this: > YESSSSS! Tolerate all speech! Persecute the...

Background: * Bounded Distrust - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten I'm curious about both: * Generalities – for all/most/some governments (and different types of hearings if that's relevant) * Specifics – (relatively) concrete details about specific governments, or specific hearings My own model (roughly): 1. Hearings are, by...

I think this might be the 'best' 'free solo' free solo video (including "Free Solo" the movie, or any other climbing movie I've seen): * I tried free solo with Alex Honnold Insane experience - YouTube I was pretty disappointed by "Free Solo" – not much climbing! (Watch "The Dawn...

Link: * The madness of reduced medical diagnostics This is (or seems to me now to be) an obvious-in-hindsight and I'm sad that I've never (or don't remember having) encountered it; at least not so succinctly. I'd like to try putting this 'advice' into practice myself, e.g. demanding doctors share...