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  The smell of firing up a brand new toaster. It's a very particular smell and an extremely rare one. I think I've only smelled it 3 times in my entire life. That's less than once a decade.

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  It's my emotional comfort buffer. Leave it alone.

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  I’d say LLMs are not necessarily an indicator that we’re close to AGI, but they’re also not a non-indicator. Certaintly more of an indicator of it than the invention of the steam engine was. For narrowly intelligent systems, they’re getting quite advanced. We’re not there yet, but I worry that the moment we actually step into the zone of general intelligence might not be as obvious as one would think. However, I also don’t think there’s any basis to make the absolute claim that LLMs will never...

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  The way I see it: AGI is inevitable given enough time, assuming we don’t destroy ourselves some other way first. It has the capacity to solve literally all our problems and make life on Earth as close to utopia as possible. That same capacity, however, also enables it to end the human race - either intentionally or as a byproduct of misalignment. If the “West” doesn’t build it first, then China will. There’s no second place in this race. Even if all nation-states somehow agreed to stop its dev...

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  Mine has my name engraved on it permanently as is the case with most of my possessions. I love the horror on people's face when they hear you've intentionally "damaged" something valuable. Stock items have no character. Customize everything.

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  That's one way do deal with the traffic: just make your state so shitty place to live that everyone moves elsewhere.