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Mar 30, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Gesild Muka

This year's Spring ACX Meetup everywhere in Danbury. Location: 255 White St, Danbury, CT 06810 – https://plus.codes/87H89HX7+VG It's a bar/restaurant, there are tables so kids are allowed. They're known for their wings. Contact: [email protected]

Nov 21, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Ben Pace |Garrett Baker |Oliver Sourbut |Gesild Muka

I was asked to clarify my position about why I voted 'disagree' with "I assign >50% to this claim: The board should be straightforward with its employees about why they fired the CEO." I'm putting a maybe-unjustified high amount of trust in all the people involved, and from that, my prior is very high on "for some reason, it would be really bad, inappropriate, or wrong to discuss this in a public way." And given that OpenAI has ~800 employees, telling them would basically count as a 'public'...

Oct 2, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Gesild Muka

This is a linkpost for Gideon Lewis-Kraus's New Yorkerarticle on the (alleged) Ariely and Gino data fraud scandals. I've been following this situation off-and-on for a while (and even more so after the original datacolada blog posts). The basic story is that multiple famous professors in social psychology (specializing in dishonesty) have been caught with blatant data fraud. The field to a large extent tried to "protect their own," but in the end the evidence became too strong.

Jun 1, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Joseph Van Name |Gesild Muka

The intersection of machine learning and generalizations of Laver tables seems to have a lot of potential, so your question about this is extremely interesting to me. Machine learning models from generalized Laver tables? I have not been able to find any machine learning models that are based on generalized Laver tables that are used for solving problems unrelated to Laver tables.

Apr 9, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Johannes Mayer |Gordon Worley |Gesild Muka

You can be at peace even when thinking the world is doomed. And while at peace you can still work against that Doom, even while being aware that nothing you do will make a difference. I believe there are states of mind like this that can be inhabited by humans. Here I am not going to argue for imminent doom, or that nothing that you do matters.