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The real alignment problem they are trying to solve is: how can I make this super smart AI follow my orders.

The "nested reality" twist was already used by the "13th floor" movie so perhaps they intentionally choose a different direction.


Many companies put LLM chatbots on their websites and let them hallucinate at will. General recklessness is very much in spirit of this tech.


Many Humans have platforms reaching hundreds of millions of people, from which they broadcast whatever batshit insane nonsense a 3 inch chimp brain can come up with. Why isnt that considered reckless?

Whether its a politician, a general, religious leader, judge, ceo, stand up comic etc there are hardly any consequences if enough people believe whatever crap they are spouting. Human intelligence is highly over rated. History books are fully of evidence that human rationality is bounded. And the only way we overcome those limitations, blindspots, biases etc is by watching others faceplant in bloody painful ways that it leaves a permanent mark on that little chimp brain we have been given to process the universe.


Those crazy humans don't have simultaneous parallel conversations with a zillion people at once though.

They also don't get a presumption of objectivity.

> A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

-- Mitch Ratcliffe


Interesting, if ultrasound effects the brain, then maybe specific pattern could be used to non-destructively stimulate it?


There's Ultrasound DBS Deep Brain Stimulation.

/? ultrasound brain stimulation: https://www.google.com/search?q=ultrasound+brain+stimulation

There's ultrasound for Alzheimer's, which may not be about Amyloid Tau;

"Improving Cognition Without Clearing Amyloid: Effects of Tau and Ultrasound Neuromodulation" (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/JAD-240616 ... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1746486614029868186...

Also, Beta-Cyclodextrin apparently reverses atherosclerosis in the body and brain - by "absorbing" sugar-alcohol FWIU - and it's already approved but we don't know what dose is low enough to be safe.


Oh, the irony of writing an angry post about benefits of anger.


You must have accomplished a lot since you seem to focus on anger rather than substance. Did I disturb your calm.


Many open source efforts seem to belong to this category as well.


Some time ago I stumbled onto a bizzare "Peter Thiel on Political Theology" Tyler Cowen episode. Of Course Cowen is on this list.


If this argument was as solid as you say, then all routine checks would be pointless.

I don't know about traditional blood testing, but a permanent implant which checks HR, pressure, glucose, temperature & oxidation would be pretty useful, not necessarily to diagnose anything, but to provide data for doctor when patient has actual symptomps.


They kind of are. Spain doesn't have yearly physicals, and during a GP visit, they don't even take your blood pressure. Blood tests are extremely uncommon, unlike in British medicine, where they take your blood pressure every time and blood tests are so prevalent people usually request one from time to time despite having no symptoms. Spain's example showed the above (or the lack of) doesn't increase all-cause mortality and even excelling in longevity statistics.

https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/columns/a01_0455.html This japanese article found "No clear-cut evidence exists to determine whether undergoing health checks leads to greater longevity and/or lower medical expenditures."


Several published papers agree. There is in fact little evidence to support regular checkups if you’re asymptomatic.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31642821/

And blood pressure is especially pernicious, basically every doctors office measures it wrong so the results aren’t particularly useful. Many use the wrong size cuff for example, or don’t give people time to relax before a reading. A ton of people have white coat hypertension, high BP only because they’re in a doctors office.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1120072/

I saw a paper that showed only 36% of cardiologists did it right.


Math does indeed make for solid arguments. If you want to make a counterargument then you have to address their math, which you didn't.


Coal margarine, this protein powder and some vitamins, I wonder how long human could survive on such "diet".


Our cats and dogs live on such a diet (until you learn what the supermarket cat/dogfood really is and take them off it). Vets have been saying about all those health problems resulting from that diet.


60kg of coal per 1kg of butter. You need about 3kg of meal for 1kg of chicken. 1.7kf of feed per 1kg of edible crickets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...


I believe that they made the "butter" out of the leftovers (paraffin) from making liquid fuel out of the coal. So, its not a straight 60:1 ratio, you'd need to add some more products to the equation.


I just think it's pretty amazing.


Not to mention that you can also ask LLM to summarize any of his books, and get the gist.

Reading an entire book may be more beneficient for habit forming, but most readers probably don't care about this.


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