the well known shape of deterrence response btw— that certainty of punishment is a much greater deterrent than severity of punishment to the extent that a very rare but incredibly severe punishment is basically not a deterrent at all— explains a lot about our rape culture problem

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The thing where open unanswered questions which have served as a means of sharpening our own minds are now a means of accumulating capital in the form of a self improving machine that can be owned by capitalists is kinda scary tbh in a way that's more insidious than runaway paperclip factory.

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real answer: so you understand the formal model at a deep and intuitive level granting you the ability to compose the right formal concepts into clear descriptions that LLM agents can productively act on

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my assumption is that someone who throws dishes across the room when they are angry might punch you and that there is not a clean line between behavior towards inanimate objects and behavior towards persons

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incredible how many people struggle with "no, you can't just force everyone to forgive your favorite rapist"

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