Epistemic status: some errors pointed out and since disentangled in the comments. LLM-use for much of the research. I regret having published this without going through academics online first, and will do so now, and edit the post accordingly. There is surprisingly little research on solar storms' effects on electric...
Everyone around me has a notable lack of system prompt. And when they do have a system prompt, it’s either the eigenprompt or some half-assed 3-paragraph attempt at telling the AI to “include less bullshit”. I see no systematic attempts at making a good one anywhere.[1] (For clarity, a system...
tl;dr: "Gell-Mann amnesia" is a cognitive bias—an observation of human failure. The mechanism behind it can be instrumentalized. Call it "Gell-Mann checks". Importantly, Gell-Mann checks are only valid insofar as the truth-finding mechanism being judged is good at generalizing. That is, you can only judge a whole mind by its...