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Homo Sabiens

Duncan Sabien
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Essays and fiction on human cognition, rationality, and social dynamics. Previous work findable at: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/deactivated-duncan-sabien https://medium.com/@ThingMaker https://archiveofourown.org/users/WhatWouldEnderDo/works

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Latest Issues

You Are The Deer In The Subway.

Housekeeping: after close to twenty years, my novel is finished. The prologue and chapter one are already up at passnovel.com, and the rest is being released one chapter per week for the next ~20 weeks. By the end, there’ll be an EPUB and a...

10 days ago
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Stop Asking, Start Doing

“Okay, but like. What am I supposed to do about it?”

I hear this all the time, from people who have just spent the last 5 or 10 or 30 minutes learning about the state of AI development, and how incredibly dangerous and unstable the situati...

a month ago
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Mindreading Fails Both Ways

This is my favorite new-to-me-this-year screenshot:

I’ve revisited it and referenced it in conversation over and over again, since I first saw it; it crisply summed up a thousand awful and frustrating interactions I’ve had throughout my li...

a month ago
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Muddying the Waters

I think that people frequently say a vague or rounded-off or approximate thing, and then other people frequently step in to try to clarify, and this attempt at clarification often ends up making things worse.


My go-to canonical exam...

2 months ago
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Short rant about the old books/AI thing

I’m really bothered by the moralistic discourse around the destructive scanning of old books. It feels like people are intentionally trying to make the conversation dumber, and with stuff like the known issue of Russian outrage bots, that m...

2 months ago
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