--- aliases: - inspo cssclasses: - nolist date: '2024-10-24' description: My run-down version of are[dot]na id: are.na metadata: ebnf: |- channel = "##" , ws , heading , newline , channel_body ; channel_body = [ meta_section , newline ] , block , { block } ; block = list_entry , newline , meta_section , { note_line } ; list_entry = "-" , ws , link , [ ws "--" ws title ] , [ ws "[**]" ] ; meta_section = ws , "-" , ws , "[meta]:" , newline , meta_pair , { meta_pair } ; meta_pair = ws , ws , "-" , ws , key , ":" , ws , value ; key = "date" | "tags" | "pinned" | "later" | "unlocked" | "socials" | "view" | identifier ; value = date | tag_list | boolean | text ; tag_list = "[" , tag , { "," , ws , tag } , "]" ; tag = identifier ; date = digit , digit , "/" , digit , digit , "/" , digit , digit , digit , digit ; boolean = "true" | "false" ; note_line = ws , "-" , ws , text ; link = uri ; title = text ; heading = text ; identifier = letter , { letter | digit | "-" } ; text = { character - newline } ; uri = ? valid http uri ? ; letter = "a".."z" ; digit = "0".."9" ; character = ? any printable ascii except newline ? ; modified: 2026-09-24 00:14:31 GMT-04:00 permalinks: - /website - /tweets - /resources socials: are.na: https://www.are.na/aaron-pham/channels curius: /curius home: / print: https://print.are.na/ tags: - evergreen - llm - design - love - friend - r/pedagogy - alignment - philosophy - P-Complete - interpretability - math/linalg title: '#discourse' created: '2024-10-24' published: '2024-10-24' pageLayout: default slug: arena/discourse permalink: https://aarnphm.xyz/arena/discourse.md generator: quartz: v4.6.0 hostedProvider: Cloudflare baseUrl: aarnphm.xyz full: https://aarnphm.xyz/llms-full.txt --- # #discourse - [docs.google.com/e](https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQNl3SEX5IyA6d9qHjjFZN-qzGRZNFI6b63g-yu1Fy-ZYkVfCWm7i9WXRXw63m6yDB_auDuPLyQ7jBm/pub) — Personal Statement on AI Risk - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["ai risk","personal statement"] - later: true - — China Biotech’s Stunning Advance Is Changing the World’s Drug Pipeline - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["china","biotechnology"] - later: true - — We Must Pace the Frontier - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["ai governance","frontier models"] - later: true - — Many Benefits Of AGI Could Still Be Realized In A Pause - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["agi","ai pause"] - later: true - — AI 2040: Plan A - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["ai governance","scenarios"] - later: true - — AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["ai communication","language"] - later: true - — The Defender’s Window - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["cybersecurity","ai safety"] - later: true - — Personal statement on joining the OpenAI board - \[meta]: - date: 09/12/2026 - tags: \["openai","governance"] - later: true - — Scenarios for our Economic Future - \[meta]: - date: 09/12/2026 - tags: \["ai","economics"] - later: true - — Does China care about AGI? - \[meta]: - date: 09/12/2026 - tags: \["china","agi"] - later: true - — How Billionaires Are Shaping the U.S. Midterm Elections - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["politics","billionaires"] - later: true - — Why China got rich and India didn’t - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["china","india","development"] - later: true - [lesswrong/optimal-timing-for-superintelligence-mundane-considerations![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2trvf5byng7caPsyx/optimal-timing-for-superintelligence-mundane-considerations) — Optimal Timing for Superintelligence: Mundane Considerations - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["superintelligence","timing"] - later: true - — We Need a New Science of Progress - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["science","progress"] - later: true - [lesswrong/how-my-students-think-about-ai![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ySXuvJcqRindQwAk7/how-my-students-think-about-ai) — How My Students Think About AI - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["ai","education"] - later: true - [lesswrong/ai-control-may-increase-existential-risk![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rZcyemEpBHgb2hqLP/ai-control-may-increase-existential-risk) — AI control may increase existential risk - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["ai control","existential risk"] - later: true - — Armed Robbers Stormed His Packed San Francisco Coffee Shop. Now He Wants Action - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["san francisco","crime"] - later: true - [lesswrong/arguments-for-p![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NG2AigxmBKLu9oCZE/arguments-for-p) — Arguments for P - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["ai","satire"] - later: true - [lesswrong/faq-isn-t-agi-coming-too-soon-for-reprogenetics-to-help![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iQzxxgJXXaAQjq7Jz/faq-isn-t-agi-coming-too-soon-for-reprogenetics-to-help) — FAQ: Isn’t AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help? - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["agi","reprogenetics"] - later: true - [lesswrong/what-just-happened-a-retrospective-of-ai-alignment![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9RL9MuGZjzm4q3gKG/what-just-happened-a-retrospective-of-ai-alignment) — What just happened? A retrospective of AI alignment - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["ai alignment","history"] - later: true - — What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["openai","huggingface"] - later: true - — It’s Time to Build: New Universities - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["education","institutions"] - later: true - — If you teach a child to just power through unpleasant tasks, she’ll lack self-discipline - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["education","montessori"] - later: true - — A Pro-Poor Rideshare Debate Would Be About Prices - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["rideshare","prices"] - later: true - — Sherry Ning at The Viaduct: You Are What You Practice - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["attention","practice"] - later: true - — My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruism - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["ai safety","lecture"] - later: true - — Social advice from a budding socialite - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["social life","advice"] - later: true - — Against telepathy, or Conduit should engage with authoritarianism concerns - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["technology","authoritarianism"] - later: true - — Cassie Pritchard on liberalism and democracy - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["liberalism","democracy"] - later: true - — Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness - \[meta]: - date: 08/26/2026 - tags: \["liberalism","happiness"] - later: true - — Envisioning a world immune to global catastrophic biological risks - \[meta]: - date: 08/20/2026 - tags: \["biosecurity","civilization"] - later: true - — What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? - \[meta]: - date: 08/20/2026 - tags: \["agi","timelines"] - later: true - [lesswrong/how-do-we-more-safely-defer-to-ais![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vjAM7F8vMZS7oRrrh/how-do-we-more-safely-defer-to-ais) — How do we more safely defer to AIs? - \[meta]: - date: 08/20/2026 - tags: \["ai","deference"] - later: true - [youtube/v=FplYsFIlVC4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FplYsFIlVC4) — AI’s Reluctant Believer: Preparing for AGI and Finding Meaning on the Other Side - \[meta]: - date: 08/07/2026 - tags: \["agi","meaning"] - later: true - — How not to forget what matters - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["memory","note taking"] - later: true - [lesswrong/a-reading-list-for-generalists![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sH4cFDDjRdGrn3p2o/a-reading-list-for-generalists) — A reading list for generalists - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["reading","generalists"] - later: true - [lesswrong/draft-three-intellectual-temperaments-birds-frogs-and![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LcxNFGjPjKAm7wZvs/draft-three-intellectual-temperaments-birds-frogs-and) — DRAFT: Three Intellectual Temperaments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["intellectual temperament","generalists"] - later: true - [lesswrong/concrete-evaluations-to-investigate-the-openai-model-that![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aCdhjy7Rps3BEhiSj/concrete-evaluations-to-investigate-the-openai-model-that) — Concrete Evaluations to Investigate the OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["ai safety","evaluations"] - later: true - — Why we fall in love with AI - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["ai","loneliness"] - later: true - — zöda on technologists and exciting futures - \[meta]: - date: 07/31/2026 - tags: \["technology","optimism"] - later: true - — Keller Cliffton on growth investor outreach - \[meta]: - date: 08/05/2026 - tags: \["startups","investing"] - later: true - — Paul Graham on selling to big companies - \[meta]: - date: 08/03/2026 - tags: \["startups","sales"] - later: true - — Why I Left Google DeepMind - \[meta]: - date: 07/31/2026 - tags: \["deepmind","ai labs"] - later: true - [lesswrong/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDZcsojmRXo5qKNBm/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade) — Surprising facts about the slave trade - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["history","abolition"] - later: true - — The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["biosecurity","catastrophic risk"] - later: true - — Childhoods of exceptional people - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["childhood","exceptional people"] - later: true - — Workers actually have significant leverage right now - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["ai adoption","labor"] - later: true - — I Solved My Mystery Fatigue with AI - \[meta]: - date: 07/16/2026 - tags: \["health","ai"] - later: true - — Jackson Dahl on Dialectic podcast analysis - \[meta]: - date: 07/09/2026 - tags: \["podcasts","analysis"] - later: true - — Jake Christie on good websites and selling out - \[meta]: - date: 07/10/2026 - tags: \["websites","business"] - later: true - — Pledge Drive - \[meta]: - date: 07/06/2026 - tags: \["pledge drive","acx"] - later: true - — If You Want Taste, You’re Gonna Have to Eat - \[meta]: - date: 07/05/2026 - tags: \["taste","culture"] - later: true - — Paul Graham on quarterly exercise questions - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["questions","company"] - later: true - [youtube/v=Ga1yuy-mlDo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1yuy-mlDo) — the importance of a reading, writing and thinking practice to feel intellectually alive - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["thinking","writing"] - later: true - [youtube/v=VqlNnK2ALa0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlNnK2ALa0) — David Brooks - The 5 Levels of Character - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["character","david brooks"] - later: true - [youtube/v=NZD5IFpyDcE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZD5IFpyDcE) — I Tried the World’s Simplest Productivity Trick (it worked) - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["productivity","practice"] - later: true - [youtube/v=eWrhhlPYgAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWrhhlPYgAk) — this is how I want to remember my life - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["memory","life"] - later: true - [youtube/v=RrOGQD4Z9A4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOGQD4Z9A4) — The psychology of playing safe - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["risk","psychology"] - later: true - [youtube/v=a1zDuOPkMSw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw) — Hamming, “You and Your Research” (June 6, 1995) - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["research","hamming"] - later: true - [youtube/v=BrK7X\_XlGB8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK7X_XlGB8) — A visual guide to Bayesian thinking - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["bayesian thinking","rationality"] - later: true - [youtube/v=bg9ml1HnIMg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg9ml1HnIMg) — Is There An Actual Purpose to Marriage? - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["marriage","relationships"] - later: true - [youtube/v=1LpbGW3qLVg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LpbGW3qLVg) — C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["gamification","public discourse"] - later: true - [youtube/v=BVlfNtIml2U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlfNtIml2U) — Why we are getting more stupid - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["intelligence","zizek"] - later: true - [youtube/v=7y\_hbz6loEo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo) — Geo-Strategy [#8](https://github.com/aarnphm/aarnphm.github.io/issues/8): The Iran Trap - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["geostrategy","iran"] - later: true - [youtube/v=pN\_OGOPI92g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_OGOPI92g) — the paradox of being ambitious but lazy - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["ambition","motivation"] - later: true - [youtube/v=88KJwEu5TRs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88KJwEu5TRs) — Why we’re lonely - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["loneliness","community"] - later: true - [youtube/v=M8lfd6ghyhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8lfd6ghyhs) — Hope Is Not a Feeling - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["hope","life"] - later: true - [youtube/v=Hh-Ah2hdC1g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-Ah2hdC1g) — I Wasn’t Always Like This!! - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["selfhood","change"] - later: true - [youtube/v=iDNZGw6uWZg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDNZGw6uWZg) — What Is Sex Like For Straight Women? - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["sex","relationships"] - later: true - [youtube/v=wzmDIKrztUQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmDIKrztUQ) — Being offline is the new online trend - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["offline","internet"] - later: true - [youtube/v=Esu8BXLBmZ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esu8BXLBmZ4) — Is not believing in God causing more harm than good? - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["religion","debate"] - later: true - [youtube/v=JFN7LK35roE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFN7LK35roE) — Am I … Good? - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["goodness","selfhood"] - later: true - [youtube/v=8PehaSuoNlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PehaSuoNlM) — The desire to disappear completely - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["selfhood","disappearance"] - later: true - [youtube/v=KVl49IBqlEI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVl49IBqlEI) — A New Beginning | So Be It - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["life","renewal"] - later: true - [youtube/v=OL8DyVusLeE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8DyVusLeE) — Viktor Frankl: Self-Actualization is not the goal - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["meaning","self-actualization"] - later: true - — The perpetual present-tense - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["heteropessimism","culture"] - later: true - — Sherry on compound, taste, and unautomated renewal - \[meta]: - date: 06/17/2026 - tags: \["taste","life"] - later: true - — Gena Gorlin link note - \[meta]: - date: 06/15/2026 - tags: \["link"] - later: true - — Fernando on model hallucinations about you - \[meta]: - date: 06/19/2026 - tags: \["ai","identity"] - later: true - — Simon Lermen on Dean Ball and AI takeover policy - \[meta]: - date: 06/19/2026 - tags: \["ai policy","extinction"] - later: true - — Ava on age cutoffs in matchmaking - \[meta]: - date: 06/21/2026 - tags: \["relationships","matchmaking"] - later: true - — Ava’s four relationship questions - \[meta]: - date: 06/21/2026 - tags: \["relationships","questions"] - later: true - — Fernando on AI, capital, and the state - \[meta]: - date: 06/19/2026 - tags: \["ai","state"] - later: true - — kelin on vibecoding and software as art - \[meta]: - date: 06/24/2026 - tags: \["software","art"] - later: true - — deepfates on rituals for digital algorithms - \[meta]: - date: 06/26/2026 - tags: \["algorithms","ritual"] - later: true - — roon on Bryan Johnson and immortality - \[meta]: - date: 06/26/2026 - tags: \["longevity","love"] - later: true - — Berkeley intro CS AI cheating failure rate - \[meta]: - date: 06/04/2026 - tags: \["ai","education"] - later: true - — Fernando on AI making people worse - \[meta]: - date: 06/02/2026 - tags: \["ai","culture"] - later: true - — Will Manidis on moral panics and societal sins - \[meta]: - date: 06/10/2026 - tags: \["moral panic","society"] - later: true - — Dean Ball on AI export controls and safety reporting - \[meta]: - date: 06/13/2026 - tags: \["ai","policy"] - later: true - — Ava on healthy matchmaking preferences - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["relationships","matchmaking"] - later: true - — Will Manidis on chaebol and AI labs - \[meta]: - date: 06/14/2026 - tags: \["ai labs","political economy"] - later: true - — Nadia Asparouhova on San Francisco moral vision - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["san francisco","moral vision"] - later: true - — Alisa Liu on the OpenAI job search - \[meta]: - date: 06/21/2026 - tags: \["career","openai"] - later: true - — Your Company Slack Is Not A Substitute For The Discourse - \[meta]: - date: 06/30/2026 - tags: \["slack","discourse"] - later: true - — Paul Graham on beliefs and living up to them - \[meta]: - date: 06/28/2026 - tags: \["beliefs","integrity"] - later: true - — SOLICITED ADVICE [#14](https://github.com/aarnphm/aarnphm.github.io/issues/14): Self-forgiveness - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["self-forgiveness","advice"] - later: true - — sometimes you get stuck in a sinkhole for a few years - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["life","recovery"] - later: true - — TURN YOUR FEARS INTO A BUCKET LIST - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["fear","life"] - later: true - — Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info? - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["medicine","screening"] - later: true - — Artificially Inflate Your Ego - \[meta]: - date: 06/29/2026 - tags: \["perfectionism","selfhood"] - later: true - — Simon Sarris on doing unusual things - \[meta]: - date: 05/23/2026 - tags: \["life","agency"] - later: true - — discernment is an olympic sport - \[meta]: - date: 05/25/2026 - tags: \["discernment","relationships"] - later: true - — Christopher Alexander on fewest degrees of freedom - \[meta]: - date: 01/28/2026 - tags: \["design","problem solving"] - later: true - — Henrik Karlsson longform note - \[meta]: - date: 01/18/2026 - tags: \["writing","life"] - later: true - — Johanna dissolving frames - \[meta]: - date: 01/19/2026 - tags: \["thinking","relationship"] - later: true - — Open Thread 424 - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["open thread","community"] - later: true - — 2026 Q1 update - \[meta]: - date: 06/18/2026 - tags: \["life","ai"] - later: true - — learning music as a language - \[meta]: - date: 06/17/2026 - tags: \["music","taste"] - later: true - — Independence vs autonomy - \[meta]: - date: 06/17/2026 - tags: \["autonomy","relationship"] - later: true - — entering my ROCK ERA - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["ai","culture"] - later: true - — Mourning a life without AI - \[meta]: - date: 06/16/2026 - tags: \["ai","family"] - later: true - [lesswrong/the-machines-lack-honour![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oiNaBc4MEAGhzhdXg/the-machines-lack-honour) — The Machines Lack Honour - \[meta]: - date: 06/12/2026 - tags: \["ai","ethics"] - later: true - [lesswrong/astronomical-waste-and-conscientious-objection![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uk9eeZZEoQxARNmL5/astronomical-waste-and-conscientious-objection) — Astronomical Waste & Conscientious Objection - \[meta]: - date: 10/30/2025 - tags: \["llm"] - [lesswrong/what-money-cannot-buy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YABJKJ3v97k9sbxwg/what-money-cannot-buy) — What Money Cannot Buy - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["capitalism"] - takes: yes, but then it enables a lot of things in life. fwiw it can buy you a lot of freedom of mind to pursue your passion (huge enabling of agency, though agency are largely self-implied) - — The AI debate is about money - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["capitalism"] - [lesswrong/HiTjDZyWdLEGCDzqu![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HiTjDZyWdLEGCDzqu/?commentId=MPNF8uSsi9mvZLxqz) — Gwern on distilling Opus 3.5 into Claude 3.6 instead of releasing Opus 3.5 - \[meta]: - date: 03/08/2025 - tags: \["distillation"] - — Gwern Branwen, How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory - \[meta]: - date: 08/13/2025 - tags: \["reseacher"] - By writing, you are voting on the future of the Shoggoth using one of the few currencies it acknowledges: tokens it has to predict. If you aren’t [writing](/thoughts/writing), you are abdicating the future or your role in it. If you think it’s enough to just be a good citizen, to vote for your favorite politician, to pick up litter and recycle, the future doesn’t care about you. - There are ways to influence the Shoggoth more, but not many. If you don’t already occupy a handful of key roles or work at a frontier lab, your influence rounds off to 0, far more than ever before. If there are values you have which are not expressed yet in text, if there are things you like or want, if they aren’t reflected online, then to the AI they don’t exist. That is dangerously close to won’t exist. - But yes, you are also creating a sort of immortality for yourself personally. You aren’t just creating a persona, you are creating your future self too. What self are you showing the LLMs, and how will they treat you in the future? - — transition to fortune cookies - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["life"] - — No one talks about how being avoidant can benefit you in every relationship other than your romantic one - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["love","relationship"] - — Love is attention - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["love"] - — when you spend enough time with people who felt alive, it rewires your sense of what life is - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["love","life","friendship"] - - — God takes a sort of aesthetic pleasure in us, that He enjoys our charms and our ways. - \[meta]: - date: 10/03/2025 - tags: \["metaphysics","diety"] - [lesswrong/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace) — Cluster structure of [love](/thoughts/love#thingspace) - \[meta]: - date: 09/04/2025 - tags: \["love","friendship"] - pinned: true - “Radial categories” are how cognitive psychologists describe the non-Aristotelian boundaries of words. - — The smorgasbord of relationship - \[meta]: - date: 09/04/2025 - tags: \["friendship","love"]