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Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI
New evidence from the past week (e.g. Anthropic's "alignment faking" paper + OpenAI's new o3 model scoring 87% on ARC-AGI) gave me the courage to speak…
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ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will
You or someone you love may suffer from this condition. Read for a cure.
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How do you teach children to value truth and evidence? Don't lie to them about Santa Claus.
An argument for instilling honesty and critical thinking during the holidays, rather than deception, conformity, and magical thinking. Also, some…
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Being Wrong (Part 1): Infants feel pain, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 28 other things that almost everyone didn’t know until…
Part 1 of a two-part series on what virtually all of us are probably wrong about.
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How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA
Recommendations for Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS), and arguments for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Apex Intelligence: Orcas, the Alignment Problem, & Existential Risk
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ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will
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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Sense of Psychosis?
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Are therapists just expensive friends?
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Are therapists just expensive friends?
Most people just need someone to listen and help them process. Requiring licenses for psychotherapists might be harming millions of people.
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Contra Scott Young on critical thinking as an illusion
The blogger argued recently that what we call "critical thinking" is actually just knowing more facts about a topic. I think he is deeply confused about…
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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Sense of Psychosis?
GPT-4 provided impressively useful interpretations of notes I'd written during a manic/psychotic episode in 2020.
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Apex Intelligence: Orcas, the Alignment Problem, & Existential Risk
AI won't stay in our fishbowl forever.
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The Orca & The Fishbowl
The Orca & The Fishbowl
The intersection of AI, psychology, consciousness, ethics, orcas, and many other topics. Reverse knowledge cutoff as of August 1994.
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