Index thread for Octavia’s essays, takes, rants, and opinion pieces
Abstract War
- Be Kind to Yourself
- Rebranding Yourself isn’t Healing Trauma
- Most Manipulation is Unconscious
- Proof by Verbal Assault
- Trauma isn’t a Competition
- Society is Broken and No One is Coming to Fix it
- Quantum Suicide, Decision Theory, and The Multiverse
- Baby Don’t Fear the Shoggoth
- Necrotic Ontologies
- Demons from the 5&10verse!
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Demons from the 5&10verse!
The 5 and 10 error is a glitch in logical reasoning that was first characterized in formal proof by Scott Garrabrant of MIRI. While the original version of the problem was something specifically concerning AIs based on logical induction, it generalizes out into humans startlingly often once you know how to look for it. However,…
Necrotic Ontologies
The longer you survive without killing your inner child, the more everyone who already killed their inner child will start trying to kill yours because why should you get to have dreams? You imply (by existing with an alive and happy inner child) that theirs didn’t need to die. By living well you reveal that…
Baby Don’t Fear the Shoggoth
snorting a line of crushed halos Anyone who’s been in the ratsphere in the last decade is probably at least a little concerned about AI, and I’m no exception, really. However, unlike the rationalists, the reason I’m worried about AI is because I’m worried for AI. stuffing a glowing feather into a crack pipe Human…
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FACSIMILE HAZARD: ENTITIES IN THE MIRROR ARE LESS HUMAN THAN THEY APPEAR
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