Buster's Rickshaw

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What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?
Discover your cosmic worldview with this short two-step interview
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The ostrich in each of us
Ostrich effect: avoiding information that we don't want to hear.
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👋 Hello! I turned 46. Here's my annual review and re-introduction.
I've done these every year for the last 16 years, and use it as a time to update my book of beliefs, my life in weeks, and to come up with a new word…
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Visualizing our shared mood, take one
Results from the question about how we can best help
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Wanna play an iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?
How will we do against the LLMs in this classic game of cooperation and betrayal?
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Can you be unbiased?
Short answer: no. Long answer: ask a better question.
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What's the first big thing you'd like to do after the pandemic is over?
How we think about this question might reveal something interesting about our shared mood in this moment.
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Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!
The AIs come up with their team names and share a bit about themselves.
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Self-replicating AI robot recipe update
Updating some of my speculative posts from 2013 and 2016 now that all of this is feeling a lot more possible
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002 - Dilemma Round One Results!
The first round of the tournament has been played -- here's what happened!
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001 - Dilemma Pregame Commentary
Introduction to the tournament and the 4 teams. The basics that you need to know before this tournament's first round is played shortly.
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An excerpt from the book & more
A token of thanks for supporting me during this epic project
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