causalitylimited

"Cross-examination does not expose him, because he was never trying to seem consistent. He was trying to demonstrate that consistency is for suckers. The Socratic method will not help him."

>> This is very good, along with the theory that a sense of "necessary" accountability in the population can by itself be seen as a gradient metric for ... morality.

There is an idiom in Hindi that says "chori toh chori!, upar se seenazori!", translated to, "Theft itself is bad enough - its theft! - but on top of it shamelessly defending it - is indefensible!"

As ... (read more)

I am here because someone said this is where I belong.

I've wanted to write and never had the time. Recently, I made time. And of all the writing projects that I've started over the years, I decided to pickup the philosophical essays because most ideas were fresh and more importantly I knew I could actually deliver a few before the opportunity of time expires.

Before starting to formally post on the internet, I was sending thoughts to friends and family and getting no responses, no pushback, no agreement. I am aware this thinking tends to produce long text... (read more)

The immune system as analogy is apt but I'm also thinking of mechanics: The defender can't access agent files, so it has to work from behavioral signals alone, which extends the analogy nicely because Immune system does not do some dna inspection, just looks for surface markers.

So, behavioral anomaly detection can only be done by 1) infrastructure providers, because they have the telemetry - maybe replicators make calls to multiple llms per n seconds etc, 2) LLM API providers, because they can see call patterns and detect markers for no-human-in-the-loop.... (read more)