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ok i'll bite, what is epistemics

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

et’s the way yer accustomed ta figgerin’ stuff out

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😘 so like, do people try to understand this ab themselves so they can change it? be better about it?

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mechanical monk

@mechanical_monk

may i introduce you to the wonderful world of lesswrong dot com

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rawr

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but like.....what's the end goal....a better world? independence? agency?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

well for lesswrong the end goal is to stop the AI apocalypse

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less wrong seems like an imprecise name, in that case

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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i guess they wanted to slowplay it y’know 😅 but the founding documents, so to speak, are very clear that the guiding principle from the beginning was “we can’t discuss the AI apocalypse sensibly because we’re all insane so let’s become less insane”

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