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Analects
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Thought Architecture
stuff On making chaos into meaning
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Without time-travel, evolutionary narratives can only identify theories that
<em>don’t</em> make sense (like death drives). It can’t tell you what theories <em>do</em>
make sense, because you can make many to explain the same thing. All they do
is let you see what people wish the world was like.
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AI has human-like output, but a very different environment and different
<em>values</em> for than environment, and until all three align, they will never
<em>actually</em> be human-like.
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Cultural and aesthetic ‘facts’ are as real as any ‘objective’ truths.
They’re just centred on different kinds of meaning. Trivialising them
because they ‘go against’ the evidence is failing to recognise what
evidence they care about.
article
BDSM is an ideology stack—a collection of behaviours borne of a culture
that surrounds some core set of human needs. But is it lazy? Hard to tell. It
seems easy to explain away parts of it as hormone hijacking and
socialisation, but there is something deeper there.
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Bias reduces noise—if you know <em>roughly</em> what to expect, then being biased
by those expectations means you won’t get distracted by less relevant data
points.