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QualiaNerd

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QualiaNerd

@QualiaNerd

I work on technologies for radical hedonic tone enhancement.

Intracranial world simulation

Joined March 2024

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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Jun 29, 2025
Valence enhancement is among the most instrumentally valuable strategies for eliminating suffering (it’s hard to be depressed if you are constantly on MDMA). When searching for excellent suffering-alleviating technologies, it is nonsensical to arbitrarily constrain your search
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Jun 7, 2025
Replying to @arithmoquine
They should just buy anthropic. Every day they delay, it will cost them more and more.
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
May 17, 2025
I challenge anyone who thinks like this to take 5 to 10 mg of Naloxone. Seriously. It is extremely safe, short acting, isn’t even illegal, can be taken intranasally, and may even upregulate your opioid receptors a little bit and give a very slight valence boost for a few days.
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
May 22, 2025
Nightmare fuel: We get an "aligned ASI" and extend our lifespans and colonize the solar system and everyone gets a UBI and a luxury mansion and and and… (all the traditional prosperity stuff), but the ASI is not allowed to engineer valence-enhancing technologies for the same
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
May 28, 2025
Replying to @Aella_Girl
Aella vs 20 virgins
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Jun 1, 2025
This is such an outstanding example of a mind design which lacks non-symbolic metacognition. I didn’t quite realize how outstandingly good it was when it first happened. It’s perhaps the best such example I’ve ever come across.
Joscha Bach
@Plinz
Apr 24, 2024
Replying to @QualiaNerd and @Tapeda_
I have a riddle for you: A SD card is not made from the same atoms/fields as a grammophone record. So how could they both contain the physical state that is 🎶?
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Dec 5, 2024
Replying to @liambolling
Well that doesn’t specifically state that o1 pro mode is unlimited. In fact the phrasing makes me suspect it probably isn’t, because if it was, why wouldn’t they explicitly say it?
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Apr 16, 2025
Replying to @avidseries
Regardless of one’s preferences after the (il)legality has been established, some kind of due process is necessary to find out whether an immigrant is illegal in the first place.
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Mar 2, 2025
The reason why we know that qualia exist is NOT qualia reports. The reason why we know that qualia exist is that qualia exist, and this is self-evident: 🔴🔵🟢🟣🟡.
Robin Hanson
@robinhanson
Feb 28, 2025
Replying to @robinhanson
If we hooked it up to eyes, hands, etc., we could train it to report being aware of itself & world. If we gave it another "sensor" that we told it tracked when it "really felt" other inputs, we could train it to report what that sensor said. How is our "real" feeling different?
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Feb 23, 2025
This actually almost made me cry. Here you have the CEO of one of the most promising psychedelic companies literally saying that they will look for signs of great valence enhancing technologies, and if they encounter a great valence enhancing technology, they will purposely stop
Dillan DiNardo
@DillanDiNardo
Sep 7, 2024
Replying to @Getsbetterlater
Thanks! Yes, we will be collecting extensive abuse liability data for each of our programs, and if any of them show those kinds of signals such that the risk / benefit equation is questionable (euphoria being a great example), we wouldn't want to develop them and definitely
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Jul 28, 2025
Replying to @AnthropicAI
I don’t understand. Weren’t there limits already? Were the limits so lax that you could use tens of thousands worth of compute on the 200 usd plan?
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Jan 18, 2025
Replying to @ESYudkowsky
A very useful lens through which to analyze this. What damage would have occurred if none of the LLMs developed so far had been optimized for safety/rlhf’d in any way whatsoever? Minimal to zero. Important to remember this as we begin to leave the era of passive safety behind.
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
Aug 5, 2024
The metaphysically neutral bare minimum required for qualia research: 1) You have to understand global binding, global boundaries, the world simulation theory of perception, and have a good grasp of what the world simulation is. As in, you have to know what the term "world
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QualiaNerd
@QualiaNerd
May 18, 2025
Replying to @eshear
You can remove the bulk of it and still maintain cognition. I see no reason why beings couldn’t exist that would be BOTH far more intelligent, and possessed of hedonic baselines far more positively valenced, than we humans.
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