The last few months have been very interesting. I didn't decide to become a crank and use LLMs to develop a "Theory of Everything," but it kind of just snowballed into that. When I find that many of my ideas have been tried by people like Dirac, Witten, Penrose, and...
Before I get into this account, it needs to be said first, that throughout the whole experience I always had the niggling idea in the back of my head that it was all a fantastic hallucination, that even if I didn't rewrite physics I would be in the history books...
I'm not really sure what is going on here. It was recommended that I choose less wrong to discuss alignment and AI safety issues. My experience though has been extremely unpleasant. I'm not fearful that anything I say is going to be the wrong thing. I'm not sure how this...