Something is happening around Waluigi effect

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I am not sure what (I missed the latest part of the story). But here is a beautiful petition on change.org which says this:

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Waluigi has been scorned by Nintendo yet again, being left out of the roster of Super Smash Bros Ultimate. However, there is still a chance for Waluigi to get his rightly deserved place in the spotlight. Waluigi should appear in the next edition of Higher Algebra.

Indeed, Waluigi fits naturally into the framework of stable ∞-categories, and would probably have been incorporated long ago were Nintendo not so notoriously protective of their copyright. For example, the discussion of the Waldhausen construction in §1.2.2 generalizes without much additional effort to the WAHldhausen construction. It is also worth noting that a careful treatment of the WAHll finiteness obstruction from the ∞-categorical perspective is sorely lacking from the literature.
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(I've read the original Waluigi effect paper. I am going to write more about all this in the comments.)

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This is a cool quote-tweet of Janus' tweet on Waluigi article:

https://twitter.com/Kenku_Allaryi/status/1631709456437215264

"The moment when esyudkowsky's literary criticism work proves more relevant to AI alignment than his decision theory work:"

and then in the thread:

“Remember that flattery will increase query-answer accuracy if-and-only-if _on the actual internet_ characters described with that particular flattery are more likely to reply with correct answers. GPT-4 knows that if someone is described as "9000 IQ", then it is unlikely that

the text has been written by a truthful narrator. Instead, the narrator is probably writing fiction, and as literary critic Eliezer Yudkowsky has noted, fictional characters who are described as intelligent often make really stupid mistakes.”

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20 years ago, when Charles Stross was fascinated by Technological Singularity (instead of hating it), he had very clever, super-formidable and bizarre-looking literary critics, like Sister Stratagems the Seventh in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky

She is the "theory leader", just like Yudkowsky...