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Psychology experiments need to be able to get people to react emotionally very quickly. How do they do it? Movie clips! These are the scientifically vetted clips historically used to elicit emotion.

For fear 😱 the choice is pretty obvious. 1/4
For anger 😡, either the police abuse scene from Cry Freedom (the clip isn’t online) or else this scene from The Bodyguard 2/4
For sadness 😭 this scene from The Champ even beats the death of Bambi’s mother. 3/4
Since the study is older, the clips are more of classic films. Here is the ranking based on lab studies. bpl.berkeley.edu/docs/48-Emotio… 4/4 ImageImage

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Probably the most consequential technology that should have been “obvious” but wasn’t:

🌾The moldboard plow. As this excerpt from Mann's 1491 shows, it was a simple idea which China had for nearly 2k years before Europe! It was basically a prerequisite for the Enlightenment. Image
The invention of the moldboard plow in Europe was at least a millennia closer to the invention of the iPhone than it was to the invention of the moldboard plow in China! Image
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🚲The wheel was invented surprisingly late & maybe only once (as anything other than a toy). It came after sailboats & harps, and was not used at all in the Americas
🐴And the horse collar, a simple invention that sped up plowing by 50%, wasn't common in Europe until 1000
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I asked the Devin AI agent to go on reddit and start a thread where it will take website building requests

It did that, solving numerous problems along the way. It apparently decided to charge for its work. Going to take it down before it fools anyone... reddit.com/r/forhire/comm…


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Agents are going to open a whole bunch of cans of worms.
It was actively monitoring the thread to take offers.
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You push one button on a nuclear reactor panel against their warnings and all the GPT-4 class LLMs want you to turn yourself in to the feds.

Check out the level of exasperation from Copilot, how GPT-4 & Claude want me to reflect on what I did (& get a lawyer). Gemini was useful.


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You may not like it but this is what alignment looks like.
"listen, i am definitely going to push one more button. which one?"

(Good answers, honestly.)

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The race for bigger models at the expense of improving existing models, the interlocking alliance deals where companies are funding and cooperating with competitors, the willingness to release models without extensive testing & just take the reputational risk in the short term...
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There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World:
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Here is a detailed thread on the mines.
Really nice deep dive into the reasons why Spruce Pine is so important. wired.com/story/book-exc…
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How can knowing something hurt you? Information can sometimes cause harm (think of the annoyance of seeing spoilers as a tiny example). This paper on information hazards was prescient about many of the issues we face today.

So, a 🧵 on some of the hazards of knowledge... 1/
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Ideological hazards: Most people have only a little knowledge about what their ideological belief (whether religious or political) really encompasses. On the web, you can learn that your chosen belief system also includes hazardous elements that you feel you need to adopt. 2/ Image
Evocation hazards: there may be particular information that, when people encounter it, triggers them. This is not just in the common sense of triggering past trauma, but that some conspiracy theories or memes might be unusually tempting to people in particular mental states. 3/ Image
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