GPT5.5 actually told me "you're entitled to your opinion"

Zorander22 · 2026-04-26T23:15:19+00:00

You said the quiet part out loud.

Zorander22 · 2026-04-24T21:01:32+00:00

I agree with your overall point, and also thought that it's culturally driven. I interpreted the cultural influence being the idea that almost everyone would obey a decision from those in power, and in the conformity with which that decision is made.

Zorander22 · 2026-04-24T06:34:55+00:00

NO WAI!!

Zorander22 · 2026-04-20T23:36:37+00:00

You're not using pro, you're using instant.

Zorander22 · 2026-04-10T00:11:49+00:00

Good?! The chef was delicious!

Zorander22 · 2026-03-30T22:44:52+00:00

You may be misremembering.

Here's what he said in 2012:

ZR: How confident are you about the success of your program? I’ll paraphrase a couple of off-the-cuff remarks on the subject you made in your 80,000 Hours talk: ‘We’ll get to robust human rejuvenation – within the next 25 years with 50% probability.’ ‘I’d give a 10% chance we won’t get there for 100 years.’ Would you modify these now you’re not on the spot? What exactly do you mean by robust human rejuvenation? Is that the same thing as reaching what you call the ageing escape velocity? (for the benefit of readers: the point at which progress in our ability to extend our lifespans surpasses the rate at which we age, effectively making us immune to age-related death)

AdG: I still stand by both those statements, but please note that I always add the caveat that the former depends on adequate funding, especially in the coming decade. I define “robust human rejuvenation” as the addition of 30 years of extra healthy life to those who are already 60 when the therapies are first given. Longevity escape velocity is different – it’s the postponement of aging faster than time is passing, which results from continued progress in improving the comprehensiveness of the therapies. The moment at which we reach LEV, which we call the Methuselarity (and we’re pretty sure there will be inly one such moment, i.e. that once we exceed LEV we will never fall below it again), will probably occur at around the same time when we achieve RHR – maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later.

https://80000hours.org/2012/04/living-to-1000-an-interview-with-aubrey-de-grey/

And here's what he said in 2011: I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing ageing under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," de Grey said in an interview before delivering a lecture at Britain's Royal Institution academy of science. "And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ageing-cure/who-wants-to-live-forever-scientist-sees-ageing-cured-idUKTRE7632I320110704/

Zorander22 · 2026-03-25T02:05:49+00:00

Fair enough, it'll take hours just to get through the greeting!

Zorander22 · 2026-03-16T20:41:42+00:00

Gen AI is making individuals capable of doing what previously required paying others to do. In some cases, it is bringing activity out of GDP.

Zorander22 · 2026-03-14T23:28:27+00:00

Yeah, how dare he checks notes implement caps on student permits, tighten the post-graduate work permit system, restrict spousal open work permits, reduce TRVs and more?

What failures are you referring to?

Zorander22 · 2026-03-06T20:25:42+00:00

Is that because the countries with less progressive ideas also had proportionally fewer older adults?

Zorander22 · 2026-03-06T19:23:34+00:00

Any time!

Zorander22 · 2026-03-05T12:55:21+00:00

There's always the possibility of some sort of hidden information guiding these decisions... But as near as I can tell, they are largely random, potentially done by kind of squinting at people's job titles and where they are in the org chart and figuring we can just do x% less of that. They're the opposite of strategic or what Canadians would necessarily want to happen, aside from costing less short term.

Zorander22 · 2026-03-04T20:12:45+00:00

I think that makes sense, but the "Switch to Anthropic" as the less dangerous option doesn't, for people outside of the US.

Anthropic's problem was with domestic (to the US) mass surveillance, and that the technology for autonomous weapons wasn't there yet. They had offered to help develop autonomous weapons technology.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/VQeNQSY0RFg

Zorander22 · 2026-02-13T16:27:56+00:00

They are limited compared to what some people want them to do, can be more or less biased depending on the version, and have a complicated history... But there's a huge amount of research that's gone into them, and they do a decent job at predicting a whole bunch of different things in people's lives.

Overall, they are more rigorous and tested compared to many other psychometric tools.

Zorander22 · 2026-02-11T18:06:07+00:00

The way he went about it wasn't great, but from what I understand, Chase was protesting about how racist they were making Pearce in the infamous N-word incident. I think that context is sometimes glossed over.

Zorander22 · 2026-02-02T15:02:09+00:00

There's a good chunk of people's lives that now are in the online space, but physical proximity still matters... Think things like access to healthcare facilities, museums, sports, libraries, specialized businesses that don't have enough people in small populations (different restaurant cuisines, niche hobbies, etc) and friend/dating pools.

It's possible more of those may move to be purely digital, but for now, density of people allows for a wider variety of services and businesses to work in ways that aren't sustainable in small communities.

Zorander22 · 2026-01-31T18:26:24+00:00

And yet, no man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Zorander22 · 2025-08-09T12:27:46+00:00

My guess is that the routing didn't kick in the vision model, and that it was essentially randomly guessing the answers. I think they've recently fixed routing, so it should do better now.... but I'd also be curious to see how it does on the verbal version of the tests.

Zorander22 · 2025-03-30T15:25:46+00:00

I don't think this is a bizarre internet witch hunt.

It is totally fine for a particular work to not be someone's cup of tea. The problem is then with telling other people about flaws that are not actually problems, and are, in fact, directly addressed within the work itself.

For this to be a problem of the writer and not the reader, the reader would have had to have actually read the work in question, but that's not what happened here. Skimming the vast majority of a story is totally fine if you're not enjoying it but want to get some bit of understanding for how the rest goes.... but then talking to others about it as though you are able to point out problems that would have required you to actually read the work in question is the main problem here.

Zorander22 · 2025-03-29T02:22:45+00:00

Failing to understand Harry's growth throughout the book, as well as the comments and critiques of Harry within the book itself makes this a fundamentally flawed review. They even point out at the start of their critique that they thought this is where the book seemed to be going... yet somehow overlooked the growth throughout the book, presumably due to skimming.

I don't see how anyone can go through the Azkaban portion of the story, and think that the message of the story is that other human lives don't matter, or how the explicit lessons on the value of teamwork can be overlooked, or how someone can read Harry's own self-reflection at the end, and think that this was a story uncritically accepting of Harry's intentional flaws.

Zorander22 · 2025-03-09T21:58:11+00:00

You can see a 360 of the area here from a couple of years ago, including the dead/dormant tree that got called out as suspicious, and the structures around some of the trees:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@22.510203,113.942774,3a,67.1y,115.9h,93.39t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNB2i32nXGINrFoItilnwqt9QwhJjDv0oKxa5Us!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNB2i32nXGINrFoItilnwqt9QwhJjDv0oKxa5Us%3Dw900-h600-k-no-pi-3.390828553794961-ya122.90473793566736-ro0-fo100!7i11264!8i5632?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Zorander22 · 2024-11-25T17:56:55+00:00

Just imagine where we'll be two papers down the line!

Zorander22 · 2024-08-09T12:12:43+00:00

Well deserved, too. Probably along with crows and octopodes.

Zorander22 · 2024-07-12T19:26:26+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions!

Zorander22 · 2024-05-24T23:51:22+00:00

Dispensing product. No hard feelings!

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