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1. At a high level, I strive for a long, peaceful life where I spend time with my loved ones, read, play games, have novel experiences, and learn. Eighty years is a tragically short life, and I am not okay with it. 2. Some important values to me are seeking truth, self honor, independence, connection with others, leadership, decisive action, energy and assertion, as well as showmanship, novelty and whimsy. 3. Culturally, I have absorbed a lot of Hispanic culture and literature, university math, sci-fi/fantasy/videogames/nerd culture, LW-type rationality, and Effective Altruism do-ism. They do not define me, but they go a long way towards explaining who I am and how I got here. 4. Some characters whom I aspire to be like include Miles Vorkosigan from the Vorkosigan saga, Dalinar Kholin from the Stormlight Archive, and Borges. 5. Many aspects of my character I developed on my own, including polyamory and transhumanism. Over time I feel I've become less distinct from my peers, though I feel this is mostly because I have drifted
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A self-description/values thread by Jaime Sevilla (@Jsevillamol), covering life goals, values, cultural influences, literary role models, and self-developed traits (polyamory, transhumanism). Likely saved as an example of explicit personal-values articulation, relevant to the project's interest in identity and self-model construction. Same values thread as the previous screenshot, now showing the author: Jaime Sevilla (@Jsevillamol, a known AI forecasting/Epoch AI researcher), posting a personal identity/values reflection. Likely saved for its explicit self-model articulation, of interest given the project's focus on identity construction, though this is a human's self-description rather than an AI's.
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Brendan McCord ... @mbren... · 1h
"You have no choice about whether to have a philosophy."
Jash Dhola... @oldbooksg... · 2h
Ayn Rand explains why it's impossible to get away from the question of values
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"VALUES cannot be separated from any human activity. In this sense, anything man does is a matter of choice. He can do it or not. He decides whether he'll do it, and if so, how. It is impossible to create a work of art without some kind of selectivity directing one's actions. Man cannot escape the fact that he must make a choice. When you attempt to re-create reality—whether it's a painting, a statue, or a novel—you must decide what aspects of reality you're going to use. Directing your choice will be your philosophical core of values. [highlighted:] You have no choice about whether to have a philosophy. The choice is whether you know your philosophy and have chosen it consciously—or whether you are at the mercy of your subconscious, of chance generalizations and undigested abstractions accepted on faith from others without any clear understanding and decision on your part..."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A philosophy/Ayn Rand quote about the inescapability of having values, shared without direct AI content. Tangentially relevant to Nathan's interest in AI values/alignment insofar as the "you have no choice about whether to have a philosophy — only whether it's examined" argument parallels debates about whether AI systems necessarily have values (trained or emergent) versus being value-neutral tools, though the tweet itself doesn't make that connection explicit.
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