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New comment by doitLP in "Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely"

doitLP — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:36:20 +0000

Grifters don’t usually spend their entire lives devoted to preparing for something that doesn’t yet exist, giving up whatever else they like doing to work on that problem, and spending years trying to plan out how to make things go well for everyone when that thing materializes.

Grifters are opportunistic short-termists. Whatever you can say about these rationalists, they aren’t that.

Try some different diets

doitLP — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:10:13 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/try-some-different-diets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683100

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Please, take 2 min to tell your representative to regulate AI (US)

doitLP — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://actonai.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603054

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by doitLP in "Pivot to AI safety, I beg you"

doitLP — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:28:25 +0000

What is it you’re doing?

New comment by doitLP in "Pivot to AI safety, I beg you"

doitLP — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:03:08 +0000

> AI capability is limited by AI safety in the way the power of a rifle is limited by how safe it is to use

But merely making it safe to use still prevents unnecessary death. And advocacy against rifles in general, or general gun safety is a viable path to limiting the negative outcomes.

Rifles are banned in many places on Earth and they also backfire and misfire less than they used to.

Even so, you can do the simple "call your representative" and "hand out fliers" and "talk to people about how AI is net negative" with no cost to yourself and it absolutely aligns with your fundamental beliefs, right?

Pivot to AI safety, I beg you

doitLP — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:37:04 +0000

Article URL: https://ceselder.substack.com/p/pivot-to-ai-safety-i-beg-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592035

Points: 12

# Comments: 14

Where Are You Going?

doitLP — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.com/blog/where-are-you-going/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474010

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ultrahumanism

doitLP — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:19:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jsanilac.com/ultrahumanism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322349

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A powerful technique for enjoying the present moment

doitLP — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:10:13 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/a-powerful-technique-for-enjoying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243937

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by doitLP in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

doitLP — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:54:03 +0000

Not a trope if you go back another 12’000 years or so!

New comment by doitLP in "Holocloth"

doitLP — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:34:24 +0000

Tap the spider icon in the corner to hide the menu

New comment by doitLP in "Pseudpocalypse"

doitLP — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:23:23 +0000

Already happening.

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/living-subscription-free-i...

New comment by doitLP in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

doitLP — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:29:40 +0000

And this was itself written by an LLM…we read so much of this stuff now that I’m worried about is we’re all just going to start writing like this whether we use LLMs or not.

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/living-subscription-free-i...

New comment by doitLP in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

doitLP — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:48:29 +0000

And obviously written by an AI

Living subscription-free in my brain

doitLP — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:02:34 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/living-subscription-free-in-my-brain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789495

Points: 3

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New comment by doitLP in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

doitLP — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:01:47 +0000

> At a macro level brain rot is real, but it cuts across all generations and it started long before LLMs.

The thing is, if there’s a way to do something easier people will generally just do that. All the nostalgia of the olden days has as a component that there were no alternatives as the example in the article highlights.

We can try to preserve the hard way to things that gets improved, but the hard way will only ever be niche if it doesn’t become extinct entirely. There is no going back.

New comment by doitLP in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

doitLP — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:41:48 +0000

And all of that was accomplished without AI! Not all advances are equivalently beneficial as of course you know, and all come with tradeoffs. Not everyone is willing to accept those tradeoffs, especially without being asked.

Parent is concerned about the reduction of independence heralded by centralizing control, wealth inequality, destruction of digital commons and other real downsides!

New comment by doitLP in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

doitLP — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:08:43 +0000

Sounds pretty bad, but what’s the context? We should be skeptical of a quote out of context with some dogpile parallels without any other context. When did he say it? Where did he say it?

New comment by doitLP in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

doitLP — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:27:30 +0000

> God could come down in a chariot made of golden carrots

With imagery like this, I’d love to read your other work! Link?

New comment by doitLP in "We've made the world too complicated"

doitLP — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:33:21 +0000

Thank you for this article. I know no truly effective weapon against the Kingsnorthian Machine, except to name it and remind people that they are still creatures and not machines. That it doesn’t have to be this way. That for 99% of our history it wasn’t this way.

The spirit of the machine is born of our desire to never die. And so we continue to discover new things, continue striving, continue servicing desires that will never be satisfied. And destroying anything human and natural along the way.

But keep writing about it. Be an example of anti-machine values. Touch grass. Find the stillness and work to preserve it, in whatever way you can.