Dentosal

Last week I wrote about my reflections on using Claude as a personal coach. Today, when I couldn't figure out what to write, I noticed a comment from Viliam: > I would appreciate a more detailed explanation of how specifically you use Claude. > > My attempts to use Claude...

> All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ― H. L. Mencken > I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I...

The Whispering Earring (which you should read first) explores one of the most dystopic-utopic scenarios. Imagine you could achieve all you've ever wanted by just giving up your agency. While theoretically this seems rather undesirable, in practice you get double benefits: that enviable high-status having-done-things reputation, without having to do...

AI benchmarks seem to saturate quite quickly. One sentiment I've heard a lot is that AI companies optimize their training for the most popular benchmarks. In the best case, that could mean focusing more on getting better on the topics that are benchmarked the most, which is still somewhat suboptimal...

It's Inkhaven time. Again, I didn't apply. Probably I should have, but the future is hard to predict. Or not, but I forgot to try. I had some work things I wanted to get done before switching focus, and I got them done yesterday. Coincidentally, of course. And seasonal-depression-fogginess when...

Yudkowsky writes about Guessing the Teacher's Password as an abstract educational concept. At a young age, perhaps ten years old, I had guessed one commonly used meta-password: In the Finnish school system it's typical for multiple choice answers to include options that are somewhat similar, and often the actual answer...

A hundred years ago some musicians were enraged by recording technology. Soon no-one would be paid to play live music! And recorded music is soulless anyway, who would want to listen to that? It turns out, approximately everyone. As the saying goes, quantity has a quality of its own. When...