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Coming from Nothing: A Thought Experiment Novella
Coming from Nothing: A Thought Experiment Novella

A thought experiment novella about identity on the internet and long-distance relationships.

2018

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Matthew McKeever
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Don’t talk to people like yourself

(I was lesswrong-lurking recently and came across this which puts the point below concisely and thought I’d reup and rename a non-concise version of the argument. 25/07/23.) What’s the point of conversation? I don’t pose this in a misanthropic, #introvertproblems sort of way, but as a question that’s been of…

Philosophy

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Don’t talk to people like yourself
Don’t talk to people like yourself
Philosophy

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“Scum”, “Clown”, “Hitler”: Russian media on Zelensky

Political propaganda surely plays an important causal role in the world as we find it. But propaganda is often unfortunately akin to pornography as being something we know when we see it, but something that kind of resists theorizing. It would be nice to make discoveries about propaganda, to predict…

Propaganda

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“Scum”, “Clown”, “Hitler”: Russian media on Zelensky
“Scum”, “Clown”, “Hitler”: Russian media on Zelensky
Propaganda

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Jul 15

What China’s ‘interim measures’ can teach us about the future of AI

(I’m periodically editing this stylistically as a sort of informal A/B test to see if any style works better. At the bottom, if you make it that far, you’ll see the former intro paragraph; I changed the title too, which was formerly China’s ‘interim measures’ and the future of AI…

Artificial Intelligence

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What China’s ‘interim measures’ can teach us about the future of AI
What China’s ‘interim measures’ can teach us about the future of AI
Artificial Intelligence

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Jul 5

A searchable, bilingual archive of news about Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

I made this znpp.glitch.me For people who want to see how the story has unfolded over the past year or so. It’s a record of hopefully all the stories from the Ukrainian language Ukrinform about the plant, with English translations, searchable pretty nicely. If people find it useful I’ll add some more features. Feel free to ‘remix’ it and apologies for the woeful coding.

Russia Ukraine War

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A searchable, bilingual archive of news about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
A searchable, bilingual archive of news about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Russia Ukraine War

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Jul 4

Linguistic Hegemony and Large Language Models

Some large language models like GPT-4 do best in English. Others, like Baidu’s Ernie Bot or SenseTime’s SenseChat 2.0 do best in Chinese. What follows from these facts? The topic reveals interesting and surprising interconnections between recent history, fine details of technology, and more speculative questions about intelligence and language. …

AI

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Linguistic Hegemony and Large Language Models
Linguistic Hegemony and Large Language Models
AI

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Jun 5

Can LLMs help with OSINT or dis|misinformation research?

It’s natural to wonder for pretty much any task whether current generation LLMs or other ‘AI’ systems can perform it. …

Large Language Models

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Can LLMs help with OSINT or dis|misinformation research?
Can LLMs help with OSINT or dis|misinformation research?
Large Language Models

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May 27

AI Doom and the nature of prediction

Some predict that superintelligent AI will command all the world’s resources, including us, and will use those resources — including, unfortunately for us, our atoms — to further its goals. This atom-borrowing will lead to the death of everyone, these people think. Call this prediction doom. What I want to…

Artificial Intelligence

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AI Doom and the nature of prediction
AI Doom and the nature of prediction
Artificial Intelligence

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May 21

More from Ireland’s extremist fringes

Last week I took a look into what Irish far-right had to say about the anti-refugee protest and violence in Sandwith street in the centre of Dublin. I noted a couple of things: first, how it was odd that, among people concerned with this issue in Dublin domestic affairs, it…

Ireland

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More from Ireland’s extremist fringes
More from Ireland’s extremist fringes
Ireland

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May 13

Tracing the Irish far-right on Telegram

(edited with a couple of additions 15/05) On 12 May, in the centre of Dublin, there was a protest against an area where refugees had been sleeping rough. It ended: With the area the people had occupied burned and with protesters and their supporters self-congratulating: Take a moment to admire…

Far Right

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Tracing the Irish far right on Telegram
Tracing the Irish far right on Telegram
Far Right

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May 6

Global culture wars?

For the past couple of months I’ve been reading the news in Chinese. …

Chinese

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Global culture wars?
Global culture wars?
Chinese

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