I feel a deep love and appreciation for this place, and the people who inhabit it.

1. I've been trying to reduce my writing and note taking into shorthand. Haven't taken good time out of my schedule to practice this yet though.
2. I think chunking probably has large effects on how quickly you can think things. Purposely trying to chunk concepts for an hour a day may lead to something interesting.
3. Also relates to Chain of Symbol (CoS) in LLMs.

Sorry for commenting on so many of your comments, but they're very interesting to me.

The reason I can think this would work, is because maybe there are a lot of floating Neurotransmitters that enzymes can't catch in time that are binding to random synapses. Then, if you decrease the density of the brain, a floating neurotransmitter has further to travel before starting a random reaction. Totally possible I'm missing something.

This is a very interesting question. I have not interacted with anything Tuplamancy since I was a teen. But I imagine it's mostly doing something in language centers. But then... Idk. I need to think about this more.

If you'd like an explanation from Claude that starts quite basic and builds up, I have had great success with the following phrase as a "Style" in app, no changes necessary.

"Wait, start from the baseline and work your way up to the explanation"

Perhaps a silly question, but does the recent "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs" paper, imply that people calling a model good or bad online results in a self fulfilling prophecy?

e.g.

1. Bob Says "Alice.ai is bad"
2. Alice.ai is trained on this data
3. The next iteration of Alice.ai will think of itself as worse than if Bob had never made that comment. This results in Alice.ai creating bad outputs
4. Those bad outputs push Charlie over a threshold and Charlie says "Alice.ai is bad"
5. Loop

Edit: Oops, I didn't realize Alice.a... (read more)

Feels weird to be linking to a video on LW. But you’ve just gotta watch this It’s brilliant.

• Create educational content to sway opinions of large voting demographics. Especially when you can successfully signal that you are a part of that demographic.
• Do what Zvi is doing but for a lower IQ audience
• Form organisations in your local area
• Try your best to avoid making AI a culture war
• Stay grounded

I think this post points at something quite important. I might suggest adding a TLDR at the top, because the implication section is most valuable, but gets buried.

Anyhow, strong upvote from me.

Not sure yet. I haven't had the opportunity to try it out. I expect it'll be cut down as I use it, for friction avoiding purposes. I'll update in a week if I've found anything interesting.

Haha! I did the exact same thing. I have a Claude project that makes templates for me draft one up. It's a much longer version of yours. I think I'll probably steal the one you made instead. But, I'll post this here in case anyone wants a longer version.

type: think-faster created: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %> tags: [think-faster, reflection] aliases: ["TF-<% tp.date.now("YYYYMMDD-HHmm") %>"] situation: "" duration: 5 # minutes spent on reflection difficulty: 3 # 1-5 scale

Think it Faster - Quick Reflection

[!info] Situation What hap

I just finished up a semester of head and neck anatomy. I went into it for the neuroscience, not expecting much from the other topics. I had a similar experience to you, finding many interesting things that are helpful in my day to day.

I found the Hyoid bone especially interesting. I remember my first time seeing it on a model skeleton and thinking “hu, someone attached an extra mandible to this guy… and it’s just floating. That’s weird.”

I then had my mind blown seeing it in a cadaver.

Side bar: If you ever get the chance to go into an anatomy lab and explo... (read more)

Sex is fun and awesome. Though it doesn’t feel fun and awesome to have sex all day everyday. You could probably do transhuman meth and make sex fun all the time. But a Pleasure Cube/Super Happy scenario makes me sad.

I’m also wondering who you’re talking about when you say “most people” here? I have the opposite model of most people.

//This Comment contains references to self harm.

This idea is a little crazy, but... You could use a TAP that punishes you every time you open the app.

Trigger: I just clicked the Twitter Icon

Action: Bite my arm until it hurts

Biting is an example, But you could also:

• Have your phone auto-play fingernails on a chalkboard sound
• Slap yourself
• Punch your knee
• Just have the action be closing the app immediately
• Flick yourself in the nose

I'd recommend reading the Hammer Time Sequence post on TAPS. Specifically, the part about setting a Yoda Timer and practicing it for 5 minutes.

For those who live alone, one option for the phone password is to make it an Antimeme.

1. Randomly generate a long random string
2. Mix in some novel Unicode characters that you’ll have to remember the names of so that you can google

Write it down somewhere inconvenient

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It seems to link to many things. And might be a bit too much for just a comment. But here are some key concepts from mostly psych that I think link to why sleeping on a problem makes it easier.

• Hebb's Law
• Learning is assumed to take place over a 24hr span
• Chunking
• The Multi-component Model of Working Memory
• Mice developing 'Maze Neurons' when learning a maze
• People who are woken mid-sleep and self report dreaming about a problem they've tried to solve, do better the next day than people who are woken and don't report d

Hard agree. I think sleeping on a problem is underrated. But even though I think that, I still fall into the failure of "I don't get it. I must be dumb or something".

While many of the review requirements aren’t applicable to this writing. It doesn’t lessen the impact it has.

This is a horror I would like to avoid. I think Sci-fi of this sort helps to prevent that future. This is something my non-technical Mother could understand. Something I could show people to explain the worst.

I will think of this post as the future goes on. I am desperately trying to make this story one that we look back on and laugh at. “What silly worries” we’ll say. “How naive.”

A LW LLM I would like is a "What post was the one where Eliezer talks about logic or maybe algebra or something? I think it might have been in Plane Crash but idk?"

Sometime I hit a roadblock in my thinking because I'm trying to remember a specific LW post that talks about a skill I'm currently trying to practice. It's quite flow breaking to try and search the normal way. Current LLMs aren't up to the task and Hallucinate LW posts every time I do it.

Closer to the first one. I find when writing to think my mind has two modes. Very system 1 and system 2. If I’ve been going for a while on a side branch system 1 takes over. The writing becomes less about thinking and more about the act of writing. This leads to me making a hypothesis and saying “idk why that is”. That triggers the alias, which points out to me that I’m not really ‘thinking’. I then switch to “How could I test if this is true?”

I appreciate the 25% reframing. That’s something I wish I’d thought faster.

Trigger: I see a %# Action: Switch it in my head

This isn’t an extremely useful technique. What it really does for me is break me out of undirected thinking with my writing and get me to actively start thinking things like “ok, but why would this be happening?”

I think 75% of the time it’s not helpful. Sometimes unhelpful when breaking a flow.

I’m working on thinking things faster. Though, it’s not a skill I’d say I have yet.

However, it’s pretty low cost for any payoff at all.

In my Obsidian.md vault I use the note aliases to point out to myself when I've said something that indicates that I Am Confused. I've progressively added and pruned this over a year. Here are the "Confusion Phrases" that I currently use.

aliases: I am confused, I don't understand, This is confusing, This is very confusing, I am quite confused, Wait what, I don't know where I fucked up, I Feel Confused, I notice I am Confused, I'm confused, I don't get it, I just don't get it, How am I meant to, How do I understand this, That's surprising, I'm not sure I un... (read more)

Much appreciated!

I'll:

• Correct that typo
• Add a section back in to hopefully make it less confusing

I decided to create this tag for two reasons:

1. The concept of LLM Psychology is interesting and exciting to me
2. I have progressively seen more people referring to a type of research as LLM Psychology. I think having a place specifically for it on LW is useful.

If you reply to this comment with posts you think fit under this tag, I'll read them and decide if they seem like they should be here. I'm currently quite fuzzy on what really belongs in this tag. Clarification on what you think LLM Psych is would be much appreciated.

My timelines have now updated to something closer to fast takeoff. In a world like this, how valuable is educating the general public? Claude claims science started worrying about the climate in the 50s/60s. It wasn't until 2010s that we saw meaningful action beginning to take place. Do we have the time to educate?

To be clear, this is more of a question than an opinion that I hold. I am working to form an opinion.

In reference to o3 right? Comparing it to just before the 2020 pandemic started?

As in “Something large is about to happen and we are unprepared”?

I really loved Dr Stone. Excited to read this review and hear what other Rationalists think of it. I was kinda desperate for more Anime/Manga that teaches or inspires a love of science. Here are my recommendations:

• Science Fell in Love so I tried to Prove it (Anime, Focuses on a computer science lab, a whole bunch of statistics)
• Cells at work (Anime, more for kids, but tried to teach you about cells in the human body.)
• The Manga Guide to _____ Series (Manga, I've read most of the statistics book. Though it's from 2004 and about frequentest stats. I have l

Still working my way through this post. But this section gets me excited!

If the Receiver or Giver has high enough skills in one area, they can probably compensate for the other having lower skills, although there's probably some minimum threshold needed for each.

It conjures the image of a future occupation. A conduit. Someone skilled at giving and receiving. Brought in specifically to speed up this type of knowledge pass over between two people.

I may be an outlier here. But if I thought I was going to be assassinated, I would think of:

• JFK -MLK
• James A. Garfield
• Lincoln
• Franz Ferdinand 

And from these I'd think "Hu, better buy a bullet proof vest".

I would unfortunately not think about 'Being Suicided', unless I had an expectation that it would occur in this way.

I liked this post and will find use for it in the work I do.

In my experience, repeating a name out loud, or doing some other visible memory trick. Is a good way to signal trying to remember names. Then, if later you forget you are more easily forgiven.

Thank you for your help and excellent comment!

Omg. Oops! I completely forgot about custom instructions and memory! I’ll run some more trials with those off. Thank you very much for pointing this out.

Hu. That is extremely useful. Thank you. 

I've got a lot of singing out of AVM. While my current method works well for this, I find it more challenging than eliciting harmful outputs.

I’m not entirely sure why, but I find it trivial to get GPT-4o to output harmful content in advanced voice mode (AVM), given that it doesn’t have a direct content filter on it e.g. NSFW.

In the span of 30 minutes it gave me 1) instructions to make a pipe bomb to attach to a car. And 2) Instructions on how to leak a virus into the public without detection (avoiding saying more on this).

I have a theory as to why it might be easy for me specifically. But I would like to know if this is the experience that others have with AVM?

Thought: Confidently saying “(X) has no Manhattan Project”. Is forgetting how secret the Manhattan Project was.

I asked for further details on the 10th point and Claude listed a bunch of stuff I’ve absolutely never heard of. I’d say it’s probably related to meditation if I had to guess. Here’s that.

—

Claude Let me break down Time Perception Management into its deeper components, as this is one of the most subtle yet powerful micro-skills...

1. Understanding Psychological Time vs Clock Time

• How different mental states alter time perception
  • Flow states can make hours feel like minutes
  • Anxiety can make minutes feel like hours
• Learning to intentionally shift betwee

I recently saw a tweet that asked GPT, what micro skills a person should master. I asked Claude a similar question, though had preloaded the conversation with “things a modern day Aristotle would teach a 24yo student”.

I think this is probably a valuable exercise to undertake yourself. I’m providing my prompt, and Claude’s response as an ‘appetiser’ to get you interested in this task.

—

Prompt Wonderful. Now Let's think less utilized by society. What are some more niche micro skills that you would want a person who you are tutoring to have. And this is give

Professional filmmaker and animator here. I’m willing to donate some of my time (~10-20h) to help create visuals for this project (Should you be in need of that). Happy to send through examples of work if DMed.

Also, what did you shoot on? Netflix used to have a list of camera requirements. I’m not sure if they still hold to them.

I took a university class that based the names of the Veritasium video. Drew and Gun. They rhyme with system 1&2.

I really loved Dr Stone. It gave me the feeling that the science as magic sequences gave me. A deep appreciation for reality and the power it brings an individual to understand it deeply. I really hope to have more rationalists watch it in future.

I also recommend “Science fell in love, so I tried to prove it” for stats nerds. And “My Hero Academia” as the main character embodies “Tsuyoku Naritai!”

If I had sufficient funds. I would consider if it would be beneficial to invade a few subreddits, and offer $1000 to whoever can make the most viral meme that subtly teaches basic concepts of AI Doom.

This thought stems from a comment on “The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay”. I have more thoughts, but not much time. If my reasoning is unclear I apologise.

Yep! If I think about those 10 people, 5 are having, or I expect to have large impact on the future. As for ages, all the people I thought of except one were over 20. There was one 14yo who is just naturally super high G.

I like what you’re doing trying to do here. I think this is important work.

I’m a bit confused at what you mean by Layperson though? These are good for the ‘every day’ above average intelligence ‘switched on’ type of individual.

But that is not what I image a Layperson as. I interact regularly with ~100 people. (For context, I am a Drama Teacher and Trivia Host)

I thought about how many I predict could understand these examples, given 20 seconds of their attention. I thought of 10 people. The other 90% would fall into a few other categories that all end with them not being more knowledgeable after coming across the text.

But am I confused? Was that 90% not the target audience?

I was recently ease-dropping on a loud phone conversation. A man, maybe late 40s? Had been cheated on. He was angry. He was arguing with his girlfriend.

I noticed that all he argued the way people argue in movies. “Put yourself in my shoes”, “No, you listen to me!”, “I thought you would be the one!”. It hurt to listen to someone in pain.

A few weeks later, I was in a heated discussion with some Non-Rationalist friends. Long story short, I failed to output correct emotional signals, which was making them upset. I noticed the same thing in them. Copying the wa... (read more)

Took Metamucil in water in glass form for about a year. Lost a lot of weight. Was great 98% of the time. However, sometimes I wouldn’t drink enough water. Would absolutely not recommend that experience.

Recipe Recommendation: I freeze these in small containers. When done right, it’s breakfast for an entire month. Just take one out of the freezer and put in the fridge every morning. That way you’ll always have an unfrozen one.

• Rolled oats (bulk) Some come with fruit chunks
• Clusters of crunchy whatever
• Blue Berries
• Raspberries
• Banana
• Coca powder (a little)
• Peanut Butter (a lot)
• Apple juice (maybe 1inch max)
• cover with soy milk (Oestrogen thing isn’t true. It’s plant oestrogen. Cows milk has animal oestrogen)
• Sprinkle cinnamon

Freeze Highly recommended. Takes a while to prep 30 of them. But makes life pretty damn good.

That matches with what my psychiatrist told me. I find it surprising how large the variation between individuals can be with these meds.

I have met people who can drink an espresso before bed and it actually helps their sleep. But I find those people to be rare. I see much more variance in amphetamines. My mental data set isn’t large enough to make any sold predictions. But I am unable to point to a clear “most people's sleep is (X)ed by amphetamines”.

This seems like it will be useful for me in the future.

I’ve been wondering for a while how the long half life of ADHD meds impact sleep. Any data on that?