Jim Babcock @jimrandomh
Long-time rationalist, currently working full-time on the software of LessWrong. Berkeley, CA Joined November 2011-
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"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead!
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In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination…
Want people to know that your writing wasn't produced by an LLM? Put some em—dashes in it, but use them incorrectly. No one will delve into that accusation. It's not just a signal, it's a _costly_ signal.
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We're not used to having adversaries. It sounds crazy to say "this happened because our enemy is secretly working against us". But our enemy is 100% secretly working against us and we need to start bearing that in mind. By @_damian_bot
One of the underappreciated problems with Marxism is that, after having been indoctrinated to believe that society consists of zero-sum conflict between workers and elites advancing their class interest, the elites often notice that they are elites and decide to advance their…
The Alters is a game about a man named Jan who uses quantum branching to create copies of himself and winds up on a quest to save the world where everyone is a variant of himself. The developers do not seem to be aware that they misspelled Jaan Tallinn's name.
I avoid saying much about Gaza because I know that the fog of war is thick. But "the price of flour has skyrocketed" has pretty unambiguous meaning, and I do think Israel is militarily dominant enough at this point that it can't not be their fault.
I avoid saying much about Gaza because I know that the fog of war is thick. But "the price of flour has skyrocketed" has pretty unambiguous meaning, and I do think Israel is militarily dominant enough at this point that it can't not be their fault.
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"Just train the AI models to be good people" might not be sufficient when it comes to more powerful models, but it sure is a dumb step to skip.
If you think insects suffer and that that matters, the correct conclusion is not "eat less honey", it's "soak every meter of Earth with DDT". Which I support. Bees and honey only matter if you very specifically care about _domesticated_ insect suffering.
My read of the current middle-east news is that Israel concluded Iran was working on a nuclear weapon, and that attacking was the only way to stop them. Given their history and ideology, I believe that if Iran does ever manage to make a nuke, they will use it offensively, and…
New AI-alignment-cope tier: The AI was only as bad as a mullah telling a suicide bomber they'll get 72 virgins. Nothing special.
New AI-alignment-cope tier: The AI was only as bad as a mullah telling a suicide bomber they'll get 72 virgins. Nothing special.
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The fog of war is thick, and I do not trust most of what I hear about Gaza. But I have some familiarity with this group's prior work, they do good investigations, and I believe this one.
The fog of war is thick, and I do not trust most of what I hear about Gaza. But I have some familiarity with this group's prior work, they do good investigations, and I believe this one.
Manifest, the @ManifoldMarkets conference, at the @DoomDebates booth: Me: I think we should have had this argument before you took a probability pin rather than after Them: That's not how I predict. I like to predict with my _heart_. Me: Oh no. That's how you lose your shirt in…
A sensible literature class would not ask students to write about symbolism. Instead it would take each moment where the plot is driven by a character's screwup, and assign students to write a five-whys postmortem. (This tweet inspired by an in-universe-believable but kind of…
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