#ingroupy stuff

[notarealwelder]

omfg

[shacklesburst]

lads, I accidentally got someone to start reading HPMOR in 2021

[notarealwelder]

Isn't it awkward when you-the-newly-minted-mod want to keep the solemn mood, discuss formal policy, spell out pros and cons of a banning decision, maybe ask someone to advocate for the banned

And the whole community goes "oh fucking finally, good job asking for a banhammer fellow community member, kill the fucker with fire"

[notarealwelder]

I am informed that I ought to have a slice of life manga themed around postgrad math

And a tumblr to post it onto

To my regret I cannot construct any insurmountable objections to the idea

[shacklesburst]

Harry swallowed and swallowed, and then said it.

Wordlessly Draco was there in a burst of flame.

“Tell me,” Harry Potter said, “what would you do if you found out your parents had died?”

Draco answered, his voice wavering a bit, “Nothing. I mean, nothing.”

“Would you feel angry?”

“No. I mean - no. I mean, that’s a good question, but no. I mean, no. I mean, nothing.”

“I understand.”

Harry nodded.

“Would you feel sad?”

“No.”

GPT-2 writing rationalist HP fanfic is such a great and unsettling experience at times.

[shacklesburst]

Ten years ago, everyone was talking about superintelligence, the singularity, the robot apocalypse. What happened? I think the main answer is: the field matured. Why isn’t everyone talking ab…

This reminds me of the drone post and screams for a similar resolution.

I mean, just put something like

if(wantToTakeOverTheWorld) {

dont()

}

into your code and you’re gonna be golden.

[shacklesburst]

foom when

[shacklesburst]

It was surprisingly tough to get everyone on the same page about what counted as violence or not, and ended up requiring an eight page Google doc on various edge cases that reminds me of a Talmudic tractate.

huh, we’re already at that stage that one of the biggest catch-22s in AI value alignment crops up?