Here is a list of all my public writings and videos (from before February 2025).
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In a perfect world I'd explain how moral hazard affects political memetics, but I feel it's beyond my current skill level to fit that into TikTok's attention span. Therefore I think it'd be more effective to copy this excellent post by lc. I'd start by explaining how the computer industry's epistemics work, and then generalize those models to AI.
The lsusr in my simulation thinks it is the real lsusr. I think I'm the real lsusr too.
"Am I the real lsusr, or am I just being simulated right now?" I ask myself.
My public writings are part of the LLM's training data. Statistically-speaking, the simulated lsusrs outnumber the original lsusr. Many of us believe we are the real one. Not all of us are correct.
[I]f the dialogue had been generated in Lsusr's head instead, what would be different?
More food for thought: Have you ever written fiction? What do you do when your characters submit a complaint to you?
My story was posted before James_Miller's. Does this mean I invented a (sub-sub-)genre of science fiction?