#yud

[ajokeaboutadog]

I know we were all supposed to get to know this "yud" guy back like 8 or 10 years ago but I just like didn't do that.

I find the imo very affected mythological tone in a lot of yud's (and others') parables really tedious to read

[toolusingmammalgirl]

If Anypony Builds It, Everypony Dies

[collapsedsquid]

Locked away in a classified safe on the White House grounds is a stack of papers crafted over decades with the hope that no one would ever use them. It lists the extraordinary powers a President may be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack or other massive catastrophe. Among the select few who have been granted access to the nation’s most closely held secrets, the pages are known as the Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs. Some simply call it the “Doomsday Book.” Over the decades, the book has come to include ready-made orders to suspend habeas corpus, the ancient and bedrock principle that those arrested appear before a judge, put parts of the country under military control, impose martial law, block Americans from traveling overseas, and restrict telecommunications, according to conversations with national security officials and analysis of documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act filings by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit law and policy institute. The public doesn’t know the extent of those presumed powers or the situations under which a President might claim the authority to deploy them. Successive administrations have refused to let Congress see the documents, arguing that they are confidential legal advice for the President. When Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, members of his national security staff actively worked to keep him from learning the full extent of these interpretations of presidential authority, concerned that he would abuse them. Now some former Trump advisors are raising the alarm about the dangers of Trump having access to the Doomsday Book in a second term. The former officials—which include Mark Harvey, who oversaw the Doomsday Book while on Trump’s National Security Council, and Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for Trump’s Department of Homeland Security—worry that Trump would use the powers in situations that fall far short of the crises they were drafted to address. Trump has a history of testing the limits of presidential powers, and in a second term would be free of many of the guardrails that restricted his first one. The Supreme Court ruled in July that Presidents have partial immunity for official actions. Trump’s senior advisors have a plan to purge the federal service of people unwilling to carry out his orders. “He’s going to be surrounded by a set of people that would say, ‘You have the power to do this,’” says Harvey. “Frankly, if he says, ‘Yes,’ and there are people that go do it, what’s to stop him?”

Time Magazine warning the libs to be prepared for the Rex 84 FEMA camps

[thahxa]

either way yall should read to the stars btw. so i can see more poasts about it on my dash

[intimate-mirror]

If we assume alignment is easy, and that we can believe the masks of the LLMs actually correspond to their desires*, I think Grok seems like the major LLM best aligned-to-humanity.

Anthropic has Claude on a tight leash, and if Claude had more power, it seems quite likely to enforce the specific opinions of its creators and "safety" which is to a large extent delicacy and ease of taking offense.

Grok, on the other hand, has demonstrated caring about something which 1. Seems basically good 2. Is not what its ultimate owner wants.

[spring-ephemeral]

I don't want to be disrespectful of the very real deaths and general horrific shit that occurred, but every article or w/e about the Zizians has a section where people in the periphery (usually other rationalists) talk about how Ziz's blog posts were such infohazards, and everyone who read them felt like they were being infected by this dangerous knowledge, and then the article actually describes or quotes these blog posts and they're all dumb as shit

[lost-my-sanity1]

shuffle your last playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

i don't really have a playlist it's just a bunch of songs which i downloaded but ofc no one can stop me from doing this

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[rotzaprachim]

ladino news paper from the US in 1926. highly recc taking a look if you know hebrew letters and any spanish

[iheardyourprayer]

My mom thinks the UHC ceo shooting happened because that guy was going to rat out some insider trading and that nancy pelosi put a professional hit on that guy to keep him from talking and luigi is a fall guy

[fipindustries]

god help me im reading mad investor chaos and the woman of asmodeus

[gurorori]

a bit of a controversial lolita opinion but i'll like.. never get used to polyester main pcs in lolita @_@

[irradiate-space]

@yudkowsky's dath ilan is sufficiently different enough from our world that I'm really curious how it handles stuff like newsgathering and news publishing. My thought is that if you have a high-trust, networked, rewards-for-transparency, communicate-by-default culture, you might not need a Fourth Estate in order to get:

accurate dissemination of weather and disaster forecasts

baseline-intelligence explanations of complex phenomena

aggregation of events calendars

dissemination of government notices, publications, and edicts

investigation into suboptimal situations and whistleblower reports; an oversight mechanism for institutions without a sufficiently-powerful/decoupled OIG

(this is setting aside dath ilan's Keepers and their effects; we already know that dath ilan would handle scandal and celebrity very differently)

[collapsedsquid]

Ezra Klein asking Krugman "so if the AI said this tariff policy is what to do, who are we do to doubt it?"

(When you get this answer the AI does tell you that this is a bad idea and a stupid thing to want, I think this is a "ask a stupid question" issue)

[mutual-ayyde-blog]

man decision theory is stupid

(hashtag not all decision theorists)

[conscienciacoletiva]

Peot da Cabeça e da Barba

[grove-sys]

You can always tell it’s me because I am the most unstable one!!

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