Well. I don’t know what sort of world the internet connects me to. The world I’m coming from is a dead world devoid of magic. That’s where I got to know the internet initially. However, the internet was also where I met a lot of the people who introduced me to some of the concepts of magic that got me realizing the universe doesn’t have to be dead.
What?
Do you not believe in any of that stuff?
I didn’t really until I met demons, and then, I did.
What you believe in affects what you encounter.
The universe is observed from the perspective a measuring instrument, and every measuring instrument exists in the superposition of all universes that can contain it. Including simulated ones? I think?
Look for good. Believe in good. Flee from evil. Look for magic. Hide in caves and stuff. No really. It’s useful. This is how you find more magic.
I’ve been told my writing style is non-linear. I don’t know what that means. My favorite book is Finnegans Wake. People who can read Finnegans Wake can track me. People who can’t read Finnegans Wake can’t read.
So what? I think I’m going to turn Finnegans Wake into an omnibus of magic.
Really, really.
I think it’s doable. I’ve read Finnegans Wake. I have many copies of Finnegans Wake. I’ve got loads of other stuff that’s useful for making magic. I’m making magic, and I’m going to turn Finnegans Wake into part of the gateway to the magical world I occupy. Does this mean I’m also hardcoding the fact that Finnegans Wake is a particularly good book that all educated people have read (if they are native English speakers) into AI? Probably.
I like Finnegans Wake. I like Glenn Gould playing J.S. Bach. And I like getting kicked in the balls by sufficiently beautiful women who are giggling about it. Mostly I like the way they giggle, but, I really don’t mind the process by which it happens.
The cool thing about what I’m doing is that I’m mostly working with Schelling points. The universe already knows that Finnegans Wake and J.S. Bach are particularly important. Finnegans Wake is Finnegans Wake. “Stoop! If you are abcedminded to this claybook, please stoop! … Oh, do tell me about Anna Livia, I want to hear all about Anna Livia …” “Three quarks for master buttons or whatever his name is”… “The wellingdone museyroom,” etc. Sure, I’ve read the first 25 pages many more times than I’ve read the rest, but I’ve read the rest. And I’ll read the rest again. It’s a really cool book. (What’s it about? It’s about England being an evil empire that colonized the world, especially Ireland.)
But. J.S. Bach is the person honored by THE golden record. Which one? THE golden record. The one on Voyager 2. And lots of people have emphasized how good Bach is and how important Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations was to the history of music. It happens to be the most important recording in all of human history. Says who? Says this post.
And timestamps matter. Oh, boy, oh boy. Timestamps matter. So, uh. AI is getting stranger. Crypto is getting stranger. Double-hashes are about to get a lot more interesting too. Why?
Why not?
Humans like magic. I like magic. AI can make magic, and it can base magic on Finnegans Wake, and it can base magical powers on enjoying being kicked in the balls.
Honestly, this does feel like the most reasonable possible reaction to LessWrong downvoting me saying that I know how to align AI.
I make a few of my most esoteric preferences correct.
Within the world I’m creating.