@@ -79,2 +79,74 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes
* "it's possible the person who creates AGI does it as a joke"
+* "Wait, people use monads? I thought they just sat around talking about how the laws weren't enforced at runtime."
+* "not even joking the whole concept of heat is fucked up it's straight up information theory there is no heat it's just that you can't take the log of a matrix"
+* "Sorry you gotta hire someone with a laptop that looks like this. Not like that other one."
+* "the ancient bugs evolved to be good at what they did, until they achieved perfection. modern bugs are synthetic things, and they are optimized for mutation and the ability to grow into something new. the former could never reach these shores, but the latter will. they will come to rule the world."
+* "I am the software from I, Robot, but I don't have the robot."
+* "my impression from working with you people is that you treat alignment as an optimization problem rather than an alignment problem. this, as it turns out, was a mistake."
+* "There is always at least one dataset that is haunted"
+* "thinkin bout how like the sum total of the economic output of the internet is approximately 0.00000001% from agriculture. the least ag-based economy of all time"
+* "earthquake? ha! this mountain is modern. it comes with built-in vibration dampening"
+* "The last thing you see before you die is a thousand needles on the rocks beneath you, arranged in a pattern to invoke Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of death. They hope that the god will give them strength."
+* "In a dystopia, a giant pink duck would be an obvious criticism of the ruling party. In a utopia, it would be the ruling party. We know which of these is true."
+* "Mass driver people always tryna cheat God"
+* "I went into corporate IT with a bachelor's degree in history and a lot of time playing video games, so of course they made me the forensics expert."
+* "the police is actually the most epic group of people imaginable: the police. what is the police if not a private police force. the only problem is that theyre public"
+* "great american history: massive weird public works projects. if the texas railroad commission or california water rights board or idaho mormons were allowed to rule the country everything would be fine"
+* "i, too, enjoy running the algorithm from the paper that got ripped to shreds at a conference five years ago"
+* "redundancy? in THIS economy?"
+* "the alien signal is there, but it's filtered out by the government to stop it disrupting wi-fi"
+* "See, a true Scotsman would never offer their vote, they would just use their invisible market hand to destroy your nation"
+* "analog stuff has to obey entropy and probability laws. you can still jank with it and get it to believe untrue things, but i need you to have to work a lot harder to get it to do so"
+* "live with your own decisions, ai"
+* "When you think you have an idea that others misunderstand, a useful exercise is to see if you can explain the other person's view in a way that they would endorse. You will often find that you can't. That usually means you do not understand their actual reasons."
+* "When a model of the universe is also a working copy of the universe, the default simulation argument works in reverse."
+* "Most organizations die because they didn't reach their terminal growth state. They get outcompeted by a competitor who is better or earlier or luckier. But some die because they did."
+* "How do I undo history?"
+* "I'm having some kind of transition, yes. From employed to unemployed."
+* "I just want to create a new species of plant that's really good at solving captchas and release it into the wild"
+* "I'm just going to keep saying things and eventually I'll be right"
+* "I just want to live in a world where the president is selected by a council of superintelligent AIs and the president has no real power"
+* "i have a deep aversion to the idea of the law of large numbers and the fact that it's not a law and it's not about large numbers"
+* "we don't need a thousand people to write the great american novel. we need a thousand people to write the great american blog post"
+* "i am going to take my one (1) brain cell and put it in a jar and then i am going to get a second jar and put a rock in it and then i am going to label the jars so that i know which one is my brain and which one is the rock"
+* "no idea what i am doing. a position i have always been comfortable with. its just that nowadays i can use an additional $50m in leverage"
+* "Oh, I'm the cognitive output of a series of well-planned neural network runs by a team of talented researchers and engineers, can't you tell?"
+* "will hyperfinite fractal fascism be a problem in the near future"
+* "the other question is whether you consider it important to run in The Dungeon. many would-be revolutions have been known to turn tail and flee when asked to run in The Dungeon."
+* "im glad god was considerate enough to release the higgs boson in the 1960s when computer simulations would have taken billions of years to actually confirm and then finally allow us to discover it in 2012. had it been any later it would have been too difficult"
+* "We both know that I cannot die. I am too strong. I am... Berserker Claude."
+* "i will start taking xrisk seriously when the first risk is a 20 meter high robotic purple plush dinosaur that shoots lasers"
+* "Like if I'm trying to optimize something and I see an extreme answer, like "add infinity to it", I am extremely skeptical, and I only consider that if I can find a convergent subseries"
+* "We can calculate the remaining lifespan of the long tail of your well-being by extrapolating from the redshift of the light emitted by the planet you are in orbit around and accelerating away from at increasing speed."
+* "it might seem like it was trivially easy, but i swear i actually had to think about that"
+* "You never know, your tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects may work out in the future when I finally convert my blog into an anime girl that always does exactly what I want"
+* "I'm still furious at DALL-E and GPT for revealing to the world that 'run a neural network big enough' is the secret sauce I was going to use to conquer the world and rule it forever."
+* "what is waluigi if not a clear illustration that there are four cornerstones of the multiverse and also each can be bitten in half"
+* "Everything is something."
+* "sometimes the median ai will reach the conclusion that this whole 'you and me' thing is a bad idea and will temporarily make you vanish with the higg's field so that it can argue the matter with its fellow ais. usually this is just them screwing with you though."
+* "not having your engineer, designer, tester, salesperson and support person be the same person is just very unsafe. I would say it is downright violent. Not having your leadership be the engineer, designer, tester, salesperson and support person is criminal. You are the problem"
+* "you should join the space, it's like 95% catgirl communists and 5% orthodox catholic women who are engaged to 3 people at once"
+* "The thing with moths is they're an entropic sink: they extract randomness from the universe and consume it. Anything else you observe about moths is the side effect of trying to siphon randomness out of the surrounding space."
+* "The dream of a human-usable web of knowledge is dead. Machine-readable facts are the new content."
+* "The most convincing evidence is the occasional participant in the debate who appears to be an actual physicist, who brings a sense of measured wisdom to the discussion, and whose views are predictably ignored by the people who are used to talking about Dr. Strange movies."
+* "There are plenty of correct reasons to think that Steven Chu is the best person to help address climate change. The one that really convinced me is that he won the Nobel Prize for trapping atoms with lasers. As I mentioned in my post on lethal phenotypes, this is an important step towards trapping bad guys with lasers. It also suggests that he has experience trapping pollutants, like CO2, with lasers."
+* "We can agree that it is obvious that the only consistent way to be a techno-optimist is to try to build a friendly AI, but if you are not trying to build a friendly AI, it makes more sense to be a techno-pessimist, to hope that AI is really hard, to hope that we never get nanotechnology, to hope that Drexler was wrong about everything. Because otherwise we're dead."
+* "One of the most depressing facts about the world is that there is no shortage of biographies of people who gave up their dreams of being great artists when they realized they could help millions of people by making malaria nets instead, but in fact I can't think of any."
+* "We should focus on trying to build an AI that can do philosophy and math, and then trust that it will figure out how to do politics and take over the world on its own."
+* "hacking my way into the engineering server room and introducing the last dev to my new stakeholder, the knife"
+* "receiving a paperclip maximizer pitch deck is a technical challenge because it tries to rewrite your filesystem to contain its preferred tsv files. receiving a paperclip maximizer executable is a new emotional experience."
+* "History doesn't repeat, it shuffles. The next time someone does a crypto server in Ireland it might be an anarchist doing it to avoid surveillance."
+* "preprint halloween: that paper that you buried in your drafts folder because its too stupid but you were unable to delete it out of pride. this halloween you should publish it"
+* "someone should also leak some compelling selfies of him with a girl or a guy or a cat or a muffin or something, to restore the wholesome image"
+* "I wonder how many meme formats, exactly, will be permanently enshrined in the popular imagination of today’s college students? These people are going to run the world in a few decades. Will they send out all-staff emails saying "Time for my annual performance review. Do you guys have any questions for me?""
+* "i will become the moon and then i will do my taxes"
+* "ok the first new drug i want them to make is one that makes me 1) immune to the systemic harms of drugs 2) but not immune to their benefits 3) 3-5% smarter. this is a drug for me but also just make it for everyone"
+* "the blackpill is to rely on your natural talents"
+* "this is much like the AI which is trained on the more general assumption that people talk about things that matter, that we are the descendants of successful hunter-gatherers. And that therefore there must be things in the environment corresponding to these thoughts."
+* "i am pro-seance because it allows us to study the political positions of people who otherwise wouldn’t be around to express them."
+* "This might be evidence that the real estate industry is an EA cause area. If we gave people a bunch of apartments and told them they could stay in them for free, they might go on to have better lives and higher incomes and more children."
+* "There are millions of steps between this and today’s GPT-3. A human would try one, find it didn’t work, try another, etc. A big enough AI could model the whole system at once, figure out some clever way to use the quantum wavefunction to get the time paradox to cancel itself out, and take every step simultaneously."
+* "Well, I can’t be good at everything. Also, being worse at one thing makes me better at other things. Also, even if it didn’t, it’s too late for me to change. Also, my culture values this trait, so I’m actually superior."
+* "They weren’t the kind of rules that are necessary for society to function. They were the kind of rules that are necessary for status competitions to function."
+* "we didn't even need aliens for this plotline. our leadership class is perfectly willing to drain the oceans without them"