A problem everyone will eventually have to grapple with is that issues other than AI will increasingly seem irrelevant.

People naturally care about issues like immigration, war, and declining birthrates. But at some point, everyone will have to be honest with themselves that these issues pale in comparison to the potential impact of an intelligence explosion and the automation of automation.

On a logarithmic scale of importance, artificial intelligence—along with directly related factors like energy abundance and computing power—dominates. Other problems, although significant, are orders of magnitude less impactful by comparison. For instance, while declining birthrates could lead to the collapse of welfare systems and broader economic turmoil over the coming decades, even the most pessimistic AI forecasts suggest that transformative AI and robotics will arrive sooner, rendering such demographic concerns moot.

Nonetheless, we must accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. An intelligence explosion is not a certainty. And even if there is only a 1% chance that it won’t happen, we owe it to this small sliver of world states to address other problems before they cause irreparable harm.

So let's act as if the world is sane and normal and will continue to be so. If it then turns out that you're actually living in a completely insane universe full of mind-controlling superintelligences and impossible moral luck, so what? In that case, it doesn't matter what you did anyway, does it?

@gook says it's true

Average linux user

Only acceptable system prompt is

"very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very short answers"

Spam a bunch of "..." tokens as extra context after your prompt if you want it to think more. There you go.

Major schizopost but from personal experience I found that doing that makes it likely that the LLM taps into latent space. Not exactly a jailbreak but it removes some bias from so-called "alignment".

Bird Intelligence:

1. "Among others, bird cognition encompasses abilities such as delay of gratification, mental time travel, reasoning, metacognition, mirror self-recognition, theory of mind, and third-party intervention." http://cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(16)00042-5

2. African grey can perform some cognitive tasks at levels beyond that of 5-year-old humans. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/harvard-study-shows-parrots-can-pass-classic-test-of-intelligence/

3. Cognitive performance of four-months-old ravens may parallel adult apes https://phys.org/news/2020-12-cognitive-four-months-old-ravens-parallel-adult.html

4. New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1490

5. Crows keep special tools extra safe. Study suggest that crows have some concept of the relative 'value' of different tool types. https://www.mpg.de/18061418/1217-ornr-crows-keep-special-tools-extra-safe-987453-x

6. These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x

7. For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/for-the-first-time-research-reveals-crows-use-statistical-logic/

8. New Zealand birds are capable of statistical inference. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-zealand-birds-show-humanlike-ability-make-predictions

9. Study Finds That Crows Are So Intelligent They Understand the Concept of Zero https://mymodernmet.com/crows-understand-zero/

10. Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests

11. Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence and conscious processes long thought a primarily human attribute — "Research unveiled in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals." https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/

12. How did birds get so smart? Part of the answer is that they've got primate-like numbers of neurons squeezed into their tiny bird brains. Another part is that avian neurons consume three times less glucose than mammalian neurons. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.070

13. “Corvids and parrots with brains of 5–20 g show cognitive properties similar to those of great apes like chimpanzees with brains of about 400 g…many associative pallial neurons, a pallial area that overtakes functions of the mammalian prefrontal cortex, dense dopaminergic innervation of associative pallial areas, and flexible neural fundaments of working memory…” https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00281-4

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As predicted by the way.

anyways

Being Copernican about things you can assume that in the high-agency high-intelligence core of Cosmopolitan Hebraic Supremacy there is a similar scale-free network dynamic of small think tanks and groups. This really means that you have people with billions in capital and a shared mantra of Total Goy Death ready to rugpull all infrastructure that coincides with the natural Malthusian trap.

You will notice the malice in it because AI can solve everything but it won't be allowed to. It's a zero sum game in the end.

Am I being schizophrenic? I think I am stress testing my intuition here.