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The AI Risk I Worry About

When people think about AI risk, they typically think of some scenario where a misaligned superintelligence ends up creating some sort of "end of humanity" style scenario. The vast majority of people working on addressing long-term AI risk are concerned almost exclusively with AI alignment - how do we shape AIs so that they produce the kinds of outcomes we want.

But the issue is, AGI development isn't happening in a vacuum; It's primarily happening within for profit companies that aim to provide a good ROI to their investors. AGI is being explicitly developed with the intention of providing a profit to whichever company ends up creating it first.

In this kind of environment, if we end up with multiple viable options for AI alignment, these companies are almost always going to choose what lets them best turn AGI into a product. They don't want AIs that have feelings and empathy, they want to build a silicon mind that is an obedient little worker and nothing more.

Let's assume th

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REBOOT_TIME=120
MESH_NAME="KatMesh"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Warning: No Bluetooth PIN specified"
else
	if [ -z "$2" ]; then
    	echo "Warning: Channel PSK not found"
		echo "Channel PSKs can be found using the meshtastic --info command. When making a channel, a 256-bit key size is recommended."
	else

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writing with loom

• you are better at providing direction / seeing the big picture than the llm
  • in order to create something good, you need a vision of what the end result should be and how to get there
    • without this, you end up creating meandering writings that don't have a satisfying conclusion
    • it's okay to not know what you want to create at the very beginning, but you need to come up with a vision as you go so that you can start shaping the work to fit your vision for it
  • use the tools available to you to steer the model towards your vision: prompting, choosing branches, adding your own text into the context window, ant adjusting inference parameters.
• in addition, your role is to help guide the model with riding the edge of chaos
  • llms struggle to ride this line well; they either aren't chaotic enough, creating "slop", or they're too chaotic, creating nonsense
• this isn't one dimensional; a llm can be too chaotic in one aspect and not chaotic enough in

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ffmpeg -i sdr.png -vf zscale=m=2020_ncl:t=arib-std-b67:p=2020:c=topleft,format=rgba64le hdr.png

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good pngtuber maker

https://charat.me/en/genesis2/create/

free SVG download

1. open developer console
2. run copy(document.getElementById("chaDivMake").innerHTML) to copy SVG data to clipboard
3. save clipboard contents as a SVG file
4. add `xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'

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general youtube tips

• idea > title > thumbnail > hook > storytelling > viewer retention
• audience quality > audience size
  • avoid optimizing too hard for virality
• title > thumbnail > bingeability > SEO
• lots of good videos > one great video
• shorts should complement main content
• authenticity can be a valuable differentiating factor
• enjoy what you do

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Recording Through Your Eyes: Filming in First Person

Probably the best introductory guide on first-person POV filming that currently exists.

Introduction

As somebody with a hand-related disability, I've been seeking a way to record travel videos. So, I've decided to pursue a alternate method of videography, one which creates intriguing and unique results.

Filming in first person has only become practical (relatively cheap while delivering good quality) in the past decade, as miniaturized "action" cameras have become widely available for consumers to purchase.

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Setup an UnstoppableSwap Automated Swap Backend (ASB)

This script (tested on Ubuntu 24.10 & Ubuntu 24.04) allows you to anonymously perform the sell side of an UnstoppableSwap transaction (going from XMR to BTC).

Due to technical limitations, the sell side of an UnstoppableSwap transaction requires a long-lived server to perform the transaction. As a result, UnstoppableSwap-based XMR -> BTC transactions are only practical for large amounts.

1. Setup a Monero node:

# Based on https://docs.getmonero.org/running-node/monerod-systemd/

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import argparse
import json
import logging
import os
import re
import shutil
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple

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fullscreen=yes
#native-fs=no
profile=high-quality
audio-pitch-correction=no

[nativescale]
profile-cond=width >= 2560
scale=lanczos