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LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (www.lesswrong.com)
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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

feel free!

edit: I read through the sequences three times: once on the site, once as an epub and once reading every post on LW main from 2007-2011 in order of posting. I can state that I have Done The Fucking Reading. The sequences finished in 2009, then you can see the site get weirder as people riff off them, up to the basilisk post in mid-2010. At that point everyone noticeably cools it on the weirdness and the site's haunted by a post nobody will talk out loud about. Then HPMOR takes off and the site has a new recruiting point.

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

read through the sequences three times

Why would you do this

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

do you think i'd be here if i had good judgement

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