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CC #1: Heroes That Exist
What Realism Means
Crispy Chicken
Apr 2
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Attack on Vagueness
Coalition Companion #0
Crispy Chicken
Apr 2
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Mycelium Mage: From the Castle to the Meadow
Listen now | Words with the Bird #1
Crispy Chicken
Mar 20
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The Lipstick Economy of Ideas is Robust
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Crispy Chicken
Mar 13
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Back to Poetry
Speaking publicly in the new internet of tunnels
Crispy Chicken
Mar 9
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Probability as a Mental Model is Bullshit
The idea is simple: probabilities don't make any sense as tools for explaining the brain, they make sense as tools for describing what is literally pos…
Crispy Chicken
Feb 12
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Concepts Are Tools, Not Artifacts
The delightful John Nerst points out that we have more of a problem organizing and moving around knowledge than we do creating it. I think we need a Co…
Crispy Chicken
Feb 12
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Other Kinds of Inference
In 1822 some people in what is now Germany were like: "Yo, isn't that an African arrow in that stork's neck?" Sure enough it was, and this lead to a lo…
Crispy Chicken
Feb 9
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Wireheading is a Teleological Misnomer
As the mistaken belief that AGI is "coming up" on our horizon increases, the discussion around "wireheading" has increased in fervor. The idea is very …
Crispy Chicken
Jan 26
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Functionally Pragmatic Salesmanship
Crispy Chicken isn’t my real name, though CC are my initials. Perhaps keeping my initials in my pseudonym was foolish, and perhaps I’m foolish for reve…
Crispy Chicken
Nov 21, 2020
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The Queen's Gambit is a 9/10
If you want to understand me, watch The Queen’s Gambit and watch Elizabeth Harmon’s face. I want you to understand Elizabeth Harmon because so far she …
Crispy Chicken
Nov 9, 2020
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Rare and Well-Known Objects
If something is rare to possess and well-known, it is being coordinated around. If it did not acquire both of these properties at once, it was either r…
Crispy Chicken
Nov 4, 2020
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