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** Epistemic status: poetry**
Epistemic status: I think this is right, but I’d like people to read it carefully anyway. Epistemic status: mainstream, normal, totally boring science. If you disagree with any of it, take that up with the Science Czar. Epistemic status: the sort of post that shouldn’t need an epistemic status tag because it's so obviously satire.
Epistemic status: I’ve spent around 100 hours thinking about this argument, and now feel like I have a solid understanding of it. Epistemic status: satisfied. Epistemic status: a little speculative, a little liberated. A little alive in its own way.
Epistemic status: I spent several weeks in a monastery in Wisconsin with my thoughts as my only companions. Between meditations, I ruminated obsessively on a single idea. The fruits of my cognitive labors are laid out below. Epistemic status: this post would’ve been a peer-reviewed paper if [...]
Outline:
(00:09) Epistemic status: poetry
(02:52) For Boltzmann
(03:41) Fire and AIs
(04:08) The GPT
(04:42) Daffodils and the Dead
First published:
November 21st, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ivp9wEu5zfryyHuwm/epistemic-status-poetry-and-other-poems)
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