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Boris Kashirin's Shortform
Boris Kashirin3d30

I see some discussion about worth of bee vs human, and I feel there is big piece missing there. Why do we think that we are the only consciousness inhabiting our body? If bees are expected to be conscious why not subsystems of human brain? Possible a lot of them?

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Tormenting Gemini 2.5 with the [[[]]][][[]] Puzzle
Boris Kashirin3mo2-2

When I see the question, I know I am on LW. It allows me to deduce that "arcane runes" part is not important, but LLM don't have this context. Maybe it sounds like crackpot/astrology question to it?

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"It's a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%"
Boris Kashirin8mo8717

e^3 is ~20, so for large n you get 95% of success by doing 3n attempts.

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The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed
Boris Kashirin8mo50

Thinking about responsible gambling, something like up-front long-term commitment should solve a lot of problems? You have to decide right away and lock up money you going to spend this month and that will separate decision from impulse to spend.

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Momentum of Light in Glass
Boris Kashirin9mo21

I tried to derive it, turned out to be easy: BC is wheel pair, CD is surface, slow medium above. AC/Vfast=AB/Vslow and for critical angle D touches small circle (inner wheel is on the verge of getting out of medium) so ACD is right triangle, so AC*sin (ACD)= AD (and AD same as AB) so sin(ACD) = AB/AC= Vslow/Vfast. Checking wiki it is the same angle (BC here is wavefront so velocity vector is normal to it). Honestly I am a bit surprised this analogy works so well.

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Momentum of Light in Glass
Boris Kashirin9mo60

I read about better analogy long time ago: use two wheels on an axle instead of single ball, then refraction come out naturally. Also I think instead of difference in friction it is better to use difference in elevation, so things slow down when they go to an area of higher elevation and speed back up going down.

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The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight
Boris Kashirin10mo312

It is defecting against cooperate-bot.

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The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight
Boris Kashirin10mo211

From ASI standpoint humans are type of rocks. Not capable of negotiating.

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"Which Future Mind is Me?" Is a Question of Values
Boris Kashirin11mo23

This experience-based primitivity also means inter-temporal self identification only goes one way. Since there is no access to subjective experience from the future, I cannot directly identify which/who would be my future self. I can only say which person is me in the past, as I have the memory of experiencing from its perspective. 

While there is large difference in practice between recalling past event and anticipating future event, on conceptual level there is no meaningful difference. You don't have direct access to past events, memory is just an especially simple and reliable case of inference.

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How tokenization influences prompting?
Boris Kashirin1y10

Would be funny if hurdle presented by tokenization is somehow responsible for LLM being smarter than expected :) Sounds exactly like kind of curveball reality likes to throw at us from time to time :)

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