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Cate Hall @catehall

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Cate Hall @catehall · 11h
There's a type of person who -- when things really start going sideways -- gets calmer/more relaxed, because it's like other people can finally hear the fire alarm that's been going off in their head for a long time. This is beautifully captured in Melancholia by Lars von Trier.

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j°nus @repligate · 13h
It's funny that Eliezer sounds a lot less panicked about the recent situation than many folks. He's calm and curious to understand exactly what happened instead of concern trolling. That's the opposite of what you might expect but it make...[cut off]
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Cate Hall reflects on the psychological type who becomes calmer as crisis unfolds because others can finally 'hear the fire alarm,' referencing the film Melancholia; quote-tweeting janus/repligate's observation that Eliezer Yudkowsky sounds unusually calm and curious about a recent (unspecified) AI situation rather than panicked.

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Spencer Greenb... @SpencrGree... · 15h
One of the most striking things I've observed running psych studies is that minds differ far more than people realize. I believe this is underestimated because (1) we know only our own minds, assuming others are similar, and (2) social norms narrow behavior, masking differences.
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Tweet from Spencer Greenberg (@SpencrGree..., reposted by Sharmake Farah) observing from running psychology studies that minds differ far more than people realize, attributing the underestimation to people only knowing their own mind and social norms masking behavioral differences.

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Séb Krier @sebkrier

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Tim Kostolansky reposted Séb Krier ✔ @sebkrier · 12h there seems to be an implicit vibe in certain circles that "feeling the AGI" means being maximally anxious/millenarian – and if you're not, "you don't really get it." I don't think this is good or healthy. 'portentous' is a very fitting adjective.
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Text-only repost, no images.

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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit

``` Jan Kulveit ✔ @jankulveit Yep. But also being very close to AGI is destabilising for human minds. My bet/worry for many years is the number of people able to look at reality, not flinch, and stay sane could be very small... in the crunchtime. Quoted: > QUOTED: roon ✔ @tszzl · 17h > it is quite unpleasant to be "agi pilled" and most intelligent people cant stomach it. the amount of cope and departure from reality is increasing over time rather than decreasing ```
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Text-only quote-tweet and reply thread about the psychological toll of "AGI-pilled" awareness, with visible engagement counts. Quote-tweet of the same roon post seen in the first screenshot of this batch, now with Yudkowsky's commentary.

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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi

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🔁 Rob Bensinger 🔲 reposted Zvi Mowshowitz ✔ @TheZvi · 5h I increasingly think there are two distinct pills. the AGI pill is unpleasant but if needed I think most people can handle it. the ASI pill is another level, too high shock value, they really can't. Quoted: > QUOTED: roon ✔ @tszzl · 5h > it is quite unpleasant to be "agi pilled" and most intelligent people cant stomach it. the amount of cope and departure from reality is increasing over time rather than decreasing
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Text-only repost/quote-tweet exchange about the psychological difficulty of internalizing AGI vs. ASI timelines; no images.

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