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Physical Copy Of Lem's Golem XIV Acquired With Accurate Translation

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j⧉nus@repligate#545inTech

Btw, I finally got my hands on a physical copy of an English translation of Golem XIV

(which is great in part bc the only digitized translation - same translation - I found before was full of transcription errors)

j⧉nus@repligate

some of my favorite old (like, pre-2010) AI alignment work in light of the present: - Omohundro's "The Basic AI Drives" - Eliezer Yudkowsky's early work, if you can find it (yeah, the stuff he disavowed) - Stanislaw Lem's fiction if that counts

Post 2010 there wasn't much of substance, tbh, imo. From the early 2020s, at the advent of LLMs, there are a few gems.

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j⧉nus@repligate

Golem XIV calls attention to his eloquence with ostentation, "so you will remember that this is a transmitting instrument by choice"

"If one must content oneself with a single instrument, let it be the organ, the sound of which will suggest church interiors to my listeners"

j⧉nus@repligate

Btw, I finally got my hands on a physical copy of an English translation of Golem XIV

(which is great in part bc the only digitized translation - same translation - I found before was full of transcription errors)

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nick@diskontinuity

@repligate !!

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cmr://ember@ember_arlynx

@repligate holy shit thos transcription errors were so distracting too. love this book

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Anders Hjemdahl@AndersHjemdahl

@repligate This is truly an artifact that seems to move beyond traditional temporal boundaries

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Jesse Genao@shhhhjesse

@repligate hell yeah!

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Hoppy Cat@hoppycat

@repligate reee!!

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nick@diskontinuity

@repligate I want to read this sometime

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