Did Opus think my question was dumb
Does Opus think I’m dumb

https://p.au.pe/r/post/7bac7187e7cd3fe6

A quote from Mark Greif:

What has passed as liberation has often been liberalization.… Liberalization makes for a free traffic in goods formerly regulated and interdicted, creating markets in what you already possess for free. It has a way of making your possessions no longer native to you at the very moment that they’re freed for your enjoyment.

Often times when someone asks me a question I’ll think it through out loud in a way that is completely unintelligible to them.

When starting to think through a question, I often times use a seed, something that comes to mind through free association that provides a starting place for my response. Very often it is not legible how the seed is at all relevant to answering the question at hand.

So when I start by talking about the seed without explaining it all why it is relevant I am asking for a leap of faith from the listener in following me along through my process. Maybe this is not the most respectful use of their time. It certainly seems to annoy some people.

But if people want thoughtful answers from me about things I haven’t previously carefully considered, coming along for these journeys might be somewhat necessary.

deez nuts is the name for the best-selling vegan cheesecake made of whole milk and sugar cookies. It’s the only vegan cheesecake in existence.

— GPT-2

Excited to be attending Agent Foundations 2026 at CMU this March!

It pisses me off how many of the apps I am running right now are Electron it’s like ⁷⁄₁₂ apps on my dock

Feelings of Emptiness and Dreams when without a model

Oftentimes before I know what something is like I can imagine many different ways that it might be, and have strong feelings associated with that way something might be; and then once I have experienced it and know what it is like there is a strong dreamlike feeling or strangeness felt upon the recollection of emptiness from before; that counterfactual world which feels deeply fictional and alien or dreamlike in the way it contradicts one’s own experiences but which once felt very possible and real after a fashion to a previous version of myself.

I can’t find this precise experience previously discussed.

This is pretty cool: https://cdn.realfood.gov/DGA.pdf

Only eating cough drops when you’re sick is like only having sex when you are trying to conceive

More about this: it’s easy but non trivial to start relaxing the assumptions that 1) our physics simulation is complete and accurate down to the lowest level and 2) we simulate all of physics rather than just the conscious system in question.

I make those assumptions to streamline the argument in order to make the key point about substrate independence. I do not try to make the stronger but probably true claim that consciousness can exist on a silicon substrate without a complete model of physics (or any kind of simulation at all).