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Cambridge ACX/SSC monthly meetup
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REMINDER! Saturday, 2pm, Bath House, LessWrong/AstralCodexTen/SlateStarCodex! Looking forward to seeing y'all!

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The ‘ petertodd’ phenomenon
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So, my name is Hamish Peter Todd. My facebook handle was hamishpetertodd for a while, and my twitter used to be hamishpetertodd. There are one or two connections to my person here:

 - I created a documentary called "Virus, the Beauty of the Beast" in 2016. Seems connected to this "Beast" thing? It's about biological viruses though, not computer viruses
 - I spent some time in the video games industry and I notice video games are somewhat a part of that word cloud? I've written a large amount about video games online.
 - In particular I was very... (read more)

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I just checked the Open AI tokeniser, and 'hamishpetertodd' tokenises as 'ham' + 'ish' + 'pet' + 'ertodd', so it seems unlikely that your online presence fed into GPT-3's conception of ' petertodd'.  The 'ertodd' token is also glitchy, but doesn't seem to have the same kinds of associations as ' petertodd' (although I've not devoted much time to exploring it yet).  
What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?
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Hey folks, just to say I gave this talk on Intelligence Signalling :) inspired by Hanson

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