Emmett Shear

You have a powerful but limited telekinesis, which allows you to control some tens of kilograms of matter directly with your will. This power can be temporarily extended into other matter via contact, but not persistently.

Optionality is capital, choice is labor.

Complete certainty is impossible. So for any belief it’s always possible to be wrong. The Sun might not rise tomorrow. Yet at some point, in order to function we must round the chance of error to zero on many beliefs. On what principled basis might we decide to do this?

The problem with Dutch Book Arguments is that they price risk but not ambiguity. Many a pilot of a perfectly calibrated ship has wrecked themselves on the Undefined Reef, despite the perfect accuracy of their maps as drawn.

Seizing the moral high ground by maximizing the number of moral patients implicated in my work to get the largest multiplier: have you considered the scale of electron suffering?

you wont believe how smart our new frontier llm is. it repeatedly samples from the data manifold just like our last one. but this time we gave it new data to cover a past blindspot. watch in awe as we now sample from a slightly different area of the data manifold

Today is Lunefall, the day where we celebrate humanity’s first steps on the moon.

“What’s the most distant or well-protects target that we won’t be able to hit with the next versions of this railgun in 2 years?” “Any target we don’t yet know the location of”

Overfit! Overfit! You cannot make your model robust by adding more parameters, only more accurate in the moment!

SCP foundation indirectly causing psychosis in people because an AI ate it up and mindlessly regurgitated it back as fact is one of the most SCP foundation things that can happen

You will grow the snout. You will eat the bugs.

“Cute” more or less means “baby-like”