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I ate bear fat with honey and salt flakes, to prove a point — LessWrong

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Based on an old tweet from Eliezer Yudkowsky, I decided to buy a jar of bear fat online, and make a treat for the people at Inkhaven. It was surprisingly good. My post discusses how that happened, and a bit about the implications for Eliezer's thesis. Read the full post below, which is slightly edited from the version at the link. Let me know if you want to try some; I can prepare some for you if you happen to be at Lighthaven before we run out of bear fat, and before I leave toward the end of November. Eliezer Yudkowsky did not exactly suggest that you should eat bear fat covered with honey and sprinkled with salt flakes. What he actually said was that an alien, looking from the outside at evolution, would predict that you would want to eat bear fat covered with honey and sprinkled with salt flakes. The point about bear fat in this tweet (also featured in "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies") was to argue that we don’t know what an AI would want, even if we know how an AI was train

x I ate bear fat with honey and salt flakes, to prove a point — LessWrong World Modeling Community Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 9 % 330 I ate bear fat with honey and salt flakes, to prove a point by aggliu 4th Nov 2025 Linkpost for signoregalilei.com 6 min read 53 330 And it was surprisingly good Based on an old tweet from Eliezer Yudkowsky , I decided to buy a jar of bear fat online, and make a treat for the people at Inkhaven . It was surprisingly good. My post discusses how that happened, and a bit about the implications for Eliezer's thesis. Read the full post below, which is slightly edited

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