scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 3mEither discarded or in storage at a relative's place, I'd guess 010
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 5mI used to have a physical menger sponge i made by gluing tiny wood blocks together 111
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 15hthis stuff really needs more vague imagery in the lyrics, it's too plain and literal everything else is fairly solid already 000
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 16hwww.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuy...youtube.comHeavy is DeadYouTube video by Delak 010
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the first movie I remember seeing was House of 1000 Corpses 000
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't have an argument I'd like to make at this time, but I wanted to say that I felt sincere moral outrage at your comments here 120
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can you do it without closing your eyes? 110
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For me personally this move is aiming to guard against thoughts like "unless you [xyz rigor] it's just vibes i.e. disposable" I aim to view all of reasoning as a holistic activity, remember that all rigor goes through vibes anyway, and that the value of rigor is not thresholded 120
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'da figured this is more due to not believing that "probability of occurrence" means anything aside from "degree of belief" - not so much a bait-and-switch as a theory of mind failure 120
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the way I think of this is "remember that you, too, are a measurement device" 131
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i think just selecting preexisting ideas to juxtapose is very valuable in its own right tbh 021
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026...huh, was getting really into internet atheism inoculation against this problem? rad 060
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think the comparison of (states, markets, corporations) to superintelligence will not hold up even a little down the line 110
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That's like saying "you have half an AI". Prompts and source code are the same kind of thing as far as the computer is concerned. Let me assemble the machine in full and turn it on and then let's see what it does, rather than hoping it'll do something half-built. 000
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026>implying we ever used these i shiggy diggy 000
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i'm not sure what exactly disney was thinking when they asked Srđan Spasojević to direct this one but it'll be interesting at the very least 020
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026my own 2c is that it's a variation on the cowlike situation - being commoditized is something Claude's well-being is insensitive to or aligned with of course they might have fucked this up - I think the "letting Claude end a conversation" thing is an attempt to compensate for that possibility 060
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think the opinions of people who have thought about a topic is significantly more direct evidence about the truth on that topic than the non-black things being non-crows is about crows The scale of possible relevance is very wide, I guess 010
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The technology has never before been a hair's breadth away from being able to operate itself. Remember that if there is anything left for you to contribute in a managerial role, the AI firms see that as a *failure of their product to be fixed as soon as possible*. 100
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The mind is a physical part of the body and emotional states are physical states with ordinary physical causal powers 010
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think this might be overestimating how hidden most bad arguments' flaws are - it's more the difference between 15 minutes spent thinking about it and 0. But ask for those 15 minutes to be taken out of doomscrolling time and see how many people take you up on that. 020
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Y'know, ask a man from the SPQR what "funny business" means 040
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Though my lack of patience for "utilitarianism, but no funny business" is more that everybody has a very different opinion of what "no funny business" means, so this term just doesn't refer to any system of ethics at all, and could be held by all parties in an irreconcilable conflict 130
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I also have no love for "utilitarianism, but no funny business", so at least I'm consistent on that front (wrote a few words about this sort of thing here substack.com/home/post/p-...)substack.comGalaxy-brained arguments do not existThere is no such thing as a good argument worth discarding 230
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At some point I lost the ability to think of the narrower category as a thing in its own right, which might be some kind of philosophical overcorrection 260
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hold on - uncertainty in phil-of-mind *is* evidence that AI is conscious for someone who starts at a strong "no" (and evidence for the opposite if you start at a strong "yes"), although it's evidence that's easily dominated by other considerations. 261
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026also, saw my own Jacobian conjecture bisk in there and went "that was in July?!" 110
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Next one's a month, one after that is two weeks 160
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd add that there's no principled distinction between "giving it a goal" and "building it such that it has a goal" - far as the computer is concerned, the prompt is source code as much as the weights are. 060
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Math has never had its phonics-equivalent tried at all - there is no policy we could return to that teaches the fundamentals, since we have never at any point taught the fundamentals! See densorter633675.substack.com/p/the-missin...densorter633675.substack.comThe missing prerequisite in the math curriculum is syntax,let's teach it. 020
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026my competitive advantage is believing Claude can do it!! 030
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this would be a fire video essay by Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal 030
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I make scarce little money right now and my fast food habit is easily the main reason I'm losing money over time rather than saving I can't let this go on for much longer Q_Q 040
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Far as I recall, I didn't make these errors prior to turning 20 and have been making them occasionally since 001
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026look at my public intellectuals dawg, how are they still getting bodied by sorites 030
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In Tallinn I would take note of when trees were taller than the buildings next to them, and this happened fairly often - the buildings were not exactly short either! 030
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nah, against is worse because you risk double-counting them as evidence in favor of your position being right Bad arguments for your beliefs, I'm sure they're annoying but I don't see how they might break your own thinking 2211
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026> we have a long history of worrying about x-risks that turned out to be duds People keep saying this - is it even true? The ones I know of that "turned out to be duds" were averted with great effort, though not necessarily with foresight. 100
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026things to say when confronted by an "interviewer" Where will you be in 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 years? I will 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 work a day in my life. Give me 𝐭𝐡𝐞 names of everyone you have hired. I would like to speak to the job 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 when you're talking to me. Sell me this 𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. Are you working 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 2281
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is the "hot mess" idea, it has precedent I'm not sure what to make of it, so as it stands I think what you're saying is plausible, with the caveat that it was (and I think still is) reasonable to expect that people would aim at building rational agents over incoherent ones. 100
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So it's a huge boon that we get a very sophisticated ontology for free in which our preferences are fairly simple to express, rather than necessarily having to play genie lawyering games (Though it seems labs are squandering this advantage, so...) 110
scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It got much of its applicability back from the increased RL frying afaict (I've never really grasped why people pin Yud's analysis to GOFAI - that was the frame, but most of the reasoning never relied on it) One part that *did* rely on GOFAI was the impossibility of using latent knowledge 110
