Yeah. I think you can post anything as a personal post, and the gods of LW may take a fancy to them, as is their preview, and put them on the front page. 

Thanks you so much!

I had a very wrong model of what quick takes are. I was thinking like, not good enough for a post, put it in a quick take. 

Thanks so much. I am trying to get one out per week, but I might be late again this week. 

Interesting; from my perspective, I got really lazy in the end. And another fellow told me yesterday the ending was awful. I do think it is the weakest thing I have posted recently, but people seem to really like it, so what do I know?

I am pretty happy with the last two: https://substack.com/@tomasbjartur

And I do plan to keep writing. I am having fun.

I am a strong believer that nanotechnology is possible, which seems to be a sort of antimeme. And tons of people who should really know better seem to consider the acknowledgement of the physical possibility of Drexlerish nanotech as evidence someone is crazy - it is amusing to look at the AGI takes of these same people five years ago. They are mostly using the exact same idiotic intuitions in exactly the same way for the exact same reasons. 

But maybe this being an antimeme is good? Perhaps its best people are holding the idiot ball on the topic? On one hand, I don't think lying is good, even by omission. And to the extent denying nanotech is load-bearing in their claims that takeoff will be slow (by the Christiano definition) then getting them to see through the antimeme is useful - as an aside I think people do forget that we have seen little evidence so far, at least in terms of economic growth, that we are living in Christiano's predicted world. I get the impression, sometimes, some people think we have. 

But also, we are getting very powerful tools that makes a Drexlarian project more and more plausible, which has its own risks and even indirect risks of increasing available compute. So perhaps we are fortunate nanotechnology is so incredibly low status? As Sama would probably just try to do it if it were not.

I am pretty proud of this one. I think it's much better than my AI girlfriend story. 

I have had the experience of having what felt to me like very good conceptual ideas and then just forgetting them and mourning the loss. Assuming they were actually good, why are insights into the self so impossible to forget? Could one not gain access to the part of the brain that associates and do some violence to those parts of yourself that bring particular pathological truths to mind? 

mind using my substack link on the page? just in case anyone wants to sub: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176231351

If they're just TTS and nothing is changed, I don't mind. Maybe post a link here if they let you.