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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"mainstream textbooks, for instance, mine that I just wrote,"

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this episode in particular made my skin crawl, tho happy she left ofc

"My rationalist ex (Ronny Fernandez) once told a friend of ours that the meaning of her marriage was 'Holly can't leave me' and the meaning of [points to other friends]'s marriage was 'Holly can't leave me' and the point of marriage itself was 'Holly can't leave me'.

Well I could and I did."

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this episode in particular made my skin crawl, tho happy she left ofc

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It kind of reminds me of this story by Daniel Ellsberg www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2... except he is, like, deliberately dedicated to moronmaxxing in a self-reinforcing process that continuously generates new bogus esoteric knowledge

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the last of a lost culture that left artifacts like:

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yudkowsky specifically doesn't think superintelligent AI would have any form of consciousness/sentience, though (pic is from the online supplement to their recent book)

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In fact Parfit was part of his committee for this dissertation

I am also grateful to my excellent committee. I’m especially indebted to Ruth Chang, who helped
me decide to write a dissertation in ethics. Derek Par t and Je McMahan gave me very helpful
feedback and brought some important considerations to my attention which would have been missed
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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Doomers (or at least Yudkowsky/Soares) think superintelligent AI will probably not be sentient (below is from the online supplement to their recent book)

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the last of a lost culture that left artifacts like:

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah this is a point I keep harping on - Yudkowsky/Soares in fact specifically think the superintelligent genocidal AI would probably *not* be conscious at all

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

re Evan Hubinger specifically, he actually posted on lesswrong at the time about why he was leaving miri and joining anthropic www.lesswrong.com/posts/7jn5aD...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

re: sentience, I don't know about Jacob Coxon but the og lesswrong "doomers", Yudkowsky/Soares, specifically say that the superintelligent AI they're worried about would probably *not* be sentient at all from the online supplement to their recent book:

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My fave fun fact (that people/articles get wrong a lot): Yudkowsky/Soares/etc think the godlike superintelligent AI they expect to kill off humanity will probably *not* be sentient

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Vinacafe Vietnamese instant coffee is my favorite instant coffee BTW, was buying giant bags of packets from Asian grocery for a while

Bag + packets of Vinacafe instant coffee

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

in the episode you seem to conflate x-risk/doomerism with AI sentience but some prominent doomers, e.g., Yudkowsky+Soares think a superintelligent AI would probably not be sentient though? e.g., Y+S in the online supplement to their recent book: "anticipate AIs that lack any form of sentience ..."

"The tragic and likely future isn't one where our successors simply have different tastes or values than us. The problem is not that our mechanical children will listen to music that is too fast and loud for our taste. No, we anticipate AIs that lack any form of sentience; that they'll be mighty but hollow systems that transform everything they touch into a lifeless wasteland, eventually consuming themselves to add one last point to their tally. They would leave behind a dead world with no one left to appreciate it."

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

otoh it's always talking about how it shouldn't paper things over with a too-clean story, I think this is like the seventh time it's used that exact phrase at me

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Chapman gives an account of his part of this in the 1980s on this page -> metarationality.com/ken-wilber-b... , weirdly embedded in a review of a novel by Ken Wilber

(screenshot from David Chapman's web page)

This was a jarring result. Rational action requires a solution to the frame problem; but rationality (a mathematical proof) appeared to show that no solution was possible.9

Orange had turned against itself, and cut off the tree-limb it was standing on. Still, as we hurtled to the ground, we figured that we’d somehow find a way out. There had to be a solution, because of course we do all act rationally.

At this point, Phil Agre came back from a gig in California with a shocking announcement:

Dreyfus was right.

What?? Had Phil gone over to the Dark Side?

But with the announcement, he brought the secret key: a pre-publication draft of Dreyfus’ next book, Being-in-the-World, which for the first time made Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, comprehensible.

Being and Time demolishes the whole orange framework. Human being is not a matter of calculation. People are not isolated individuals, living in a world of dead material objects, strategizing to manipulate them to achieve utilitarian goals. We are always already embedded in a web of connections with living nature and with other

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

From a 1995 paper by Stuart Russell "What counts in the first instance is what the agent does, not necessarily what it thinks, or even whether it thinks at all."

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yeah I did run it by claude in case there was some existing thing that everyone but me knew about and you'd all point and laugh at me for not knowing, it had many cheerful facts about the tactile resolution of my back

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

wow the heike crest is cool as fuck "if you don't have a crest this cool are you even a person???" like unto a spring night's dream ...

the heike/taira crest, which is very cool and is a Swallowtail butterfly upside down

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

? She's been scathing about xAI and its safety team also? x.com/ilex_ulmus/s...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Like the "oh-so-very utilitarian" bit here,p less an argument or construction and more a gesture towards a vibe about utilitarianism Also notice here the actual point of the post - it's really about the *unfairness* of the basilisk (really really about the unfairness the world to him personally)

Excerpt from original Roko's Basilisk post by Roko. From https://basilisk.neocities.org/

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It does make me think of the Marx "all that is solid melts into air" passage, except Marx thought it was good/necessary

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

To us the sky appears foggy because we don't have a license to view the fireworks

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If you weren't really thinking "MAGIC" while you walked around the room three times like Spekkio said, everything you did from then on is invalid and you didn't actually beat the game

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I knew about Ezra Pound working as a propagandist for Mussolini but hadn't yet been conscious of this as a whole genre of thing (Wikipedia excerpt about "Quo Vadis")

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I though the Greek connection was regarded as dubious, and must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :) But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

uhh sorry, it doesn't say that, I guess I must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :) But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

did some enjoyable LLMing on this ... it kindly took time from its busy schedule to make up a bunch of completely fake Old English poetry quotes

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

working on a (for now at least) LLM wrapper thingy for a use case I often have. at the stage of "the basics sort of work but it's hideous"

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

the man in the street is strangely averse to using quaternions ...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Also the co-inventor of quaternions was a lover and successor of Saint-Simon??????

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

e.g. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... via bsky.app/profile/edzi...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Apparently lesswrong are LLM skeptics now? www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

They seem to use their decision theory stuff* as a way to recreate something like Kantian deontology within a utilitarian/econbrain framework? *(I do not understand their decision theory stuff at all, but this is how I've observed it seems to get used at least rhetorically)

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Wild pentachoron correspondent @crossslide.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I like how Kafka's The Metamorphosis does the Title Drop at the end of the first sentence

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