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Notes on some interesting factoids I learnt from Anders Sandberg's draft book, Grand Futures. "Starlight is heavier than worlds" - Anders Sandberg Looking at the energy density of stuff in the universe, we find a few surprising, and not so surprising, facts. First, the obvious: baryonic matter itself is a rounding error, contributing 4.5% of the energy of the universe. Nine tenths of those sweet, sweet baryonic numéraire are stuck in the warm plasma floating between galaxies. About half the

The world in certain of its aspects resembles the workings of a computer: input-process-output. Computer Programmers and the "Zombie-experience" (Weizenbaum). The new men and techné: the reduction of experience and understanding to something that is only technically intelligent Support the show http://michaelrdjames.org

Audio note: this article contains 102 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. I tried training Qwen2.5-1.5B with RL on math to both get correct answers and have a CoT that doesn’t look like human-understandable math reasoning. RL sometimes succeeds at hacking my monitor, and when I strengthen my monitor, it fails at finding CoT that are both illegible and helpful, even after training for roughly 4000

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In this episode of Big Philosophy in Bite Sizes, I'm introducing the big question, 'Is their anybody out there' that we'll be exploring from a number of different angles in the coming few episodes.

The Imputable Cause Theory refines how law determines responsibility beyond mere causation. Unlike adequate causation, it asks whether someone created a legally prohibited risk and whether that risk actually caused the harm. Through examples like childbirth and traffic accidents, we know that the law focuses not just on causal links but on the social and legal purpose behind responsibility — distinguishing natural causation from moral and legal judgment. ✉️ Collaboration inquiries:

The following is a quick collection of forecasting markets and opinions from experts which give some sense of how well-informed people are thinking about the state of US democracy. This isn't meant to be a rigorous proof that this is the case (DM me for that), just a collection which I hope will get people thinking about what's happening in the US now. Before looking at the forecasts you might first ask yourself: What probability would I put on authoritarian capture?, and At what probability of

It is a truism known to online moderators[1] that when two commenters are going back and forth in heated exchange, and one lays out rejoinders in paragraph after paragraph of dense text, then two things will have happened: Our careful communicator may or may not have succeeded at conveying well-reasoned insights hitherto unknown by his interlocutor that will change her mind. He will have communicated my hatred for you is at least this long. In all seriousness, words require effort and effort

Feast Day of St. Francis; World Animal Day; Birthday of Alicia Silverstone; Publication of For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action, by Charles Camosy; Publication of Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations, by Tabitha Brown; Portion of a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi.

Send us a message Summary In the season finale of the Resolution Room, Dr. Nashay Lowe reflects on the key themes explored throughout the season, emphasizing the importance of resolution in leadership, the role of humor in healing, the necessity of cultural humility, and the emotional costs associated with progress. Each segment highlights the insights gained from various guests, illustrating that resolution is a continuous practice rather than a one-time event. The conversation encourages ...

Click here to reply to @Astroality "And so the way they express their emotion might throw you off a little bit. For some people, it's going to be anger, like outbursts of anger. For some people, it's going to be very nervous energy. So people will have panic attacks or anxiety attacks. It will look like some people doing a complete, total withdrawal. If you don't hear from people for the next couple of days, it's because they're overwhelmed with emotion."

Intro LLMs being trained with RLVR (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards) start off with a 'chain-of-thought' (CoT) in whatever language the LLM was originally trained on. But after a long period of training, the CoT sometimes starts to look very weird; to resemble no human language; or even to grow completely unintelligible. Why might this happen? I've seen a lot of speculation about why. But a lot of this speculation narrows too quickly, to just one or two hypotheses. My intent is

It's amazing how much smarter everyone else gets when I take antidepressants. It makes sense that the drugs work on other people, because there's nothing in me to fix. I am a perfect and wise arbiter of not only my own behavior but everyone else's, which is a heavy burden because some of ya’ll are terrible at life. You date the wrong people. You take several seconds longer than necessary to order at the bagel place. And you continue to have terrible opinions even after I explain the

Pastor Joshua talked about the Universalist Heritage of Unitarian Universalism and how it connects through social justice work into the 21st Century.

The provided text, an article from Medium by Greg Twemlow titled "How to Re-Establish Your Value When Expertise Isn’t Enough," argues that the traditional compact between education and employment has been permanently broken due to the accelerating pace of AI automation, leading to a pervasive "Age of Feeling Powerless." Twemlow asserts that professional transformation is mandatory because expertise and university degrees no longer guarantee stability, as complex jobs are being fragmented into small,

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So I talked about Namibia and Iceland still having sexism and misogyny. It's because the changing of thinking for men in particular or culture more generally takes time, right. If stereotypes have long life span, if our fiction and the messaging takes time to change, then it's going to take a while before what shapes that state of sensitivity in men really changes. Right."

Send us a text Grief for the Living There is a kind of grief that has no funeral. When someone you love drifts away, yet still breathes beside you. When memory outlives the person who gave it shape. To love through that — quietly, faithfully, without promise of return — is the hardest form of endurance. A new episode from The Copinghagen Podcast. Stories about what endures when the light fades. 🎧 Listen wherever you find your stillness. #DeepThoughts #Storytime #PhilosophyTok

Last week, Thinking Machines announced Tinker. It's an API for running fine-tuning and inference on open-source LLMs that works in a unique way. I think it has some immediate practical implications for AI safety research: I suspect that it will make RL experiments substantially easier, and increase the number of safety papers that involve RL on big models. But it's also interesting to me for another reason: the design of this API makes it possible to do many types of ML research without direct

In this episode of Tell The World Podcast, Otha Lee dives deep into the illusion of perfection that social media creates. We scroll through highlight reels, but rarely see the behind-the-scenes — the pain, the process, the patience it takes to truly grow. This episode asks the real question: Are we chasing likes or chasing life? Otha explores how comparison drains creativity, how validation culture impacts mental health, and how to reclaim your peace in a world that rewards performance over