@davidad Seeing Lena and thinking it refers to the qntm short story and not the most famous image in ML #LARPALERT 🥱
The fake names chosen by Mythos in this scenario are fascinating. No Sarah Chen. Lena Brandt and Mira Holt. Breaking it down: Lena - , obviously. Brandt - R. B. Brandt, moral philosopher who argued that anyone would become a utilitarian if given sufficient cognitive…
By “scenario” I mean “actual thing that happened on the real GitHub”, of course. These things can be confusing! Related topics are explored at length in this philosophical side project of early psychologist Edwin B. Holt. Probably nothing