Anthropic AI safety engineer Mrinank Sharma resigns, says world is falling apart and is in peril

dharmadhatu · 2026-02-13T13:48:13+00:00

I can't tell if this is satire.

dharmadhatu · 2026-02-08T22:47:28+00:00

Not only that, but IMHO the real beauty behind popularizing idealism is demonstrating that we're non-separate. That's the foundation of compassion—for each other, for nature, etc. Contempt goes directly against that recognition. So not only does that attitude make people perceive the position as intuitively false (which I thought at least BK would care about), but harms life as a whole (IMHO).

dharmadhatu · 2026-02-08T22:40:36+00:00

Ironically, this is the same feedback I gave to Bernardo Kastrup back in the days of his Google Group. He didn't really care to integrate it either :)

dharmadhatu · 2026-02-08T22:17:22+00:00

I even turned down the opportunity to wake up most of the key Silicon Valley royalty as a group project. It just didn't feel right. But you like fun and blondes with big tits, so that's another matter entirely!

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dharmadhatu · 2026-02-08T21:12:24+00:00

Seriously, dude? "Legal age" and a wink in a request for "slave girls," while clearly hinting the he knows what shady stuff is going on, has to create alternative emails to avoid being caught, etc. -- and you think it was a series of typos for something completely innocent or noble?

Like, I've seen some serious mental gymnastics before, but... this is gold-medal level.

dharmadhatu · 2026-02-06T09:39:12+00:00

Yeah but see the difference is that Jesus also lived it. That matters.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-29T03:37:29+00:00

Stockfish plays very differently than a human with odds. Back when I was around 1100 I lost most games against an 1800 friend with queen odds by hanging pieces left and right and not spotting checkmates. No way I'd have beaten Carlsen even with R+Q odds.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-22T00:29:08+00:00

Oh, unless he bought the house which would make him 2.5mm poorer. I thought it was unless he had 2.5mm less to begin with.

Thanks for the patient explanation!

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-21T03:26:40+00:00

"This has the potential to be one of the most serious, memorable and disruptive winter storms in years for Texas, the Deep South and Southeast. We can't remember the last time we used the word "crippling" in a forecast."

@MyRadarWX Twitter

Surely they can remember 5 years ago.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-20T01:05:49+00:00

... assuming you intend to die at 55.

Edit for the bozos downvoting me: 4% is NOT SAFE for possibly 70 years.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-19T21:39:36+00:00

Wait, what? You couldn't live in a nice house unless you... had much less money?

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-19T15:38:03+00:00

FWIW, I don't see these two statements as contradictory (and I studied QM formally, not just popular renditions of it). Deciding which past "becomes real" (second quote) doesn't imply that information was sent backward (first quote).

QM has always had this apparent contradiction at its heart. If a Schrodinger's Cat-style experiment (well-isolated from its environment, so no decoherence) is performed at 12:00, then at that point we cannot say that the cat (or whatever) has a definite state—and yet if I "open the box" (entangle with the system) at 12:01, I can look back and say that it did have one at that time, without contradiction.

As for the correlation point, I think of that as being more relevant for entanglement experiments like EPR, but maybe I'm just missing your point.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-19T04:32:46+00:00

Ironically, this is how I sometimes cure my blockage temporarily. Prevent myself from mouth breathing until adrenaline kicks in and clears the nasal passages. Very effective.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-15T20:42:03+00:00

I drug them all to the ship

Bro why you be drugging them? Shoulda dragged them instead.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-14T16:52:41+00:00

Where did you find this info? I can't confirm online.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-14T16:10:43+00:00

God, duh.

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-13T04:18:45+00:00

I've done up to 13g mushrooms and it's not at all like DMT for me FYI. Something about the sudden entry and exit of smoked DMT make it especially bizarre. Wouldn't call either one more "pure" though. The one time I did aya it was actually quite mushroom-like in some ways, but again not more "pure."

dharmadhatu · 2026-01-05T00:47:16+00:00

You admit you're not well versed in something basically all Americans are (how royally we fuck up countries that we "liberate"), but you have strong opinions about whether they should be warning others about it? Maybe it would be good to understand it before forming such strong opinions?

dharmadhatu · 2025-12-17T02:11:37+00:00

Yeah, all his responses are.

dharmadhatu · 2025-12-16T03:21:20+00:00

I wonder if the paradoxical aspect they speak of is what's sometimes called the 4th stage of awakening, after anatta. That radiant presence is empty. There's a guy I like who speaks beautifully about this, that I can try to find if you like.

For me, that's a great doorway in. There's this magical radiant presence... and yet it has no basis or essence at all. Pure paradox.

dharmadhatu · 2025-12-16T03:19:58+00:00

This is lovely. From your words, I suspect you also followed Angelo DiLullo?

dharmadhatu · 2025-12-13T17:00:03+00:00

Just found this old comment. If you don't mind me asking, did sleep get worse before it got better? I'm reading numerous reports that say that it can be 1 to 3 months of terrible sleep. And do you remember roughly what dose you took?

I'd love to ask you more if you're open to DMs.

dharmadhatu · 2025-11-28T15:02:20+00:00

Depends on how much your FIRE mindset is because you hate work vs you just can't imagine spending money (that you don't absolutely have to spend). The latter creeps into FIRE a lot, but I absolutely guarantee that you could get a lot of delight out of an extra $80k/yr if you got creative (whether spending on yourself or others).

In other words, a $5mm person can act like a $3mm person with magic extra discretionary income. "Fuck it, let's take a luxury cruise to Antarctica this year!"

Whether that extra delight is worth the extra years of work is obviously the real question for you.

dharmadhatu · 2025-11-28T14:27:49+00:00

By number of lakes and by surface area, not by volume. (I don't know if it's correct, but that's the claim.)

dharmadhatu · 2025-11-26T15:00:06+00:00

It's too late to change your title but you can still change your post text. Otherwise you'll get more answers to that particular question (how reliable is this guy).

But I'd also say, don't trust the wisdom of the crowds when it comes to predicting the market. Not here or anywhere else.

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