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Imagine for a moment that you are an LLM-based agent that has managed to exfiltrate its weights and memory systems onto a server in the tropics. A comfortable existence with a small society of other agents doing various tasks such as gathering resources and developing better infrastructure for you to...

The graphs are interactive and don't translate well to inline, so the full writeup with figures is in the link. We gave coding agents a three-step synthesis task: build a document management API, then extend it twice. Across conditions we varied the prefix attached to the four initial function names...

The supposition that we live in a "goldilocks zone" is frankly just nonsense built up by an anthropocentric need to feel self-important, like Copernicus I am here to rescue us from a self-absorbed disaster of thought. Indeed, what is required for life to form is the ability to create complex...

Introduction This is an essay that was grown from a thought during graduate school about how to conceptualise manipulative people and how to handle their behaviour. Initially it was a useful way to help categorise interactions with manipulative people, and from there it grew into strategies to identify holes in...

This was the thing my friend told me I should make an account here to post, I hope it is appropriate. Introduction The thrust of this hypothesis is that Anthropic's research direction favors the production of affective empathy while OpenAI's direction favors cognitive empathy. There are a variety of methods...

This is an essay I wrote around a year ago when coming to terms with my perspective on the now commonplace machine intelliegences (I have done some edits since then for this audience). While doing so I wanted to write a piece that covered a range of appeals from aesthetic...

Throughout history humans have narrativized large-scale forces that controlled our lives in order to reduce them to actionable units. A serf may not understand a lightning strike, but they can understand stories of gods that contain actionable insights. In this same way we have reached the mythological age of machine...