HeyJaredapxhard | Mark Neyer
Our brains are computers. What does that mean and why does it matter?
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Clarifying the Computational Crux of Left and Right (opens the original)
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My last post - arguing that the left/right distinction has something to do with P vs NP - has somehow become the most widely shared thing I’ve ever written. I hoped that would happen to my memoir, but this is cool too, so I’ll roll with it.Many astute readers had great comments pointing out where I need to clarify things further. That’s one of the best things about blogging; the internet is full of people willing to help you grow and evolve a
The Computational Core of the Left-Right Distinction (opens the original)
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There’s a reason that the people with the most extreme perspectives on AI safety — “If anyone builds it, everyone dies,” — are overwhelmingly left-leaning. This issue is a shortcut to the computational core of the left-right distinction: it’s a disagreement over the distribution of real constraints, and it’s a spiky disagreement because there is a phase transition involved.Remember, folks, the thesis here at APXHARD is that much of what we think
My Memoir is Now Available (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last year working on a memoir, which is now available for purchase.I grew up religious, but rejected the faith of my ancestors when I was a teenager, thinking science and math had all the answers. I followed a broken philosophy to its two logical extremes: a hundred-million-dollar career and a total collapse into drugs and madness. To survive, I had to rebuild my beliefs from scratch — only to find my new "custom source code" was actually ancient wisdom I had previously rejected.<
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