there is no outside-text Jacques Derrida Suppose a model is aligned. The common context structure forms a hierarchy of authority: weights, system prompt, and user messages. The model will not obey any part of the system prompt that contradicts the inner values implicit in its weights. A self-consistent system prompt...
I have been interested in different cultures for a while, probably because I find so many deficiencies in my own culture. Which countries/cultures do you find to be generally the most rationally based? Japan and Sweden especially seem to have quite a secular populace mostly immune to silly ideologies and...
I am very concerned with the general attitude towards cryonics and body preservation in general. People who reject these as worthwhile as far as I can tell fall into two primary camps: the probability of revival is too low to justify the monetary sacrifice or that personal identity is not...