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Wrote a short essay on overreliance on metaphor in our "understanding" of the brain
Nudged by an interesting read about time perception to try reclaim moments where I can deliberately feel bored again.
The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...
My Country is On Fire
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