life is quined matter
universes with more life probably more compressible
typos on a darknet market site. programmers sigh
problematic
Annoyance: it is the exception, rather than the norm, that taking away options from someone helps them.
The last thing ever felt was a medium-surprised “huh.”, as when one comes across a novel, but not very surprising new fact. After August 23rd 2039 11:34, nothing ever happened in an awareness again.
5-word horror story: law of conversation of valence
@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav Your reasoning is that if Zeus would create mistresses he would create too many people?” -> Nope, that he wouldn’t be able to control them (since they are only slightly less powerful than him), and “you cannot put down what you have conjured up”
”@niplav (#kfgri5a) There are no expectations when you’re honest. Expectations and honesty don’t mix.” -> I honestly wasn’t expecting that answer :)
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “@niplav (#xvbnyma) Fascinating. :-) Suspect #RMS would have a violent physical reaction – accompanied by some salty language – after even a moment’s contemplation of life under such complicity. :-D” -> He is a very unreasonable man <3
@alip@dev.exherbo.org “We are calling for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/” highly contextual/simulacrous memeplexes exclude high-variance impact neuroatypicals, nobody thinks about incentives?
hem hock
guns cock
cocks gun
i think that this becomes a bigger issue with more options in a survey?
for this reason, don’t expect consistent opinions from the percentages in survey results!
i think one can’t really infer inconsistencies from survey data all that often (as in “n% of people think X, and m% of people think y, but those are incompatible”). if n% of people say X (m% say Y), and 100-n% of people say ¬X (and 100-m% say ¬Y), and X and Y are incompatible, then the groups that say X and Y only must overlap with (X-50)+(Y-50) percent, which is often not that much.
https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment probably wrong, iq predictive, but marshmallow test is (apparently?) not
@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.” -> I disagree, the people who i know that are interested in life extension look to me more engaged in life than the ones who are not (though that hinges on definitions of ”adding life to their years”). i agree that “adding life to your years” is underappreciated, though.
@(frogorbits.com) I hope that didn’t come off too mean :-/
@(frogorbits.com) @niplav@niplav.github.io “I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…” -> It’s good that pen signatures are completely unfakeable. They’re unbelievably reliable. We can’t just copy & photoshop around the edges. Better worry about those definitely-soon-to-exist quantum computers that might crack cryptography.
look at me! Im Moldbug! I want to appoint $PROGRESSIVE_ICON as king/queen!
when forecasting, babble 10 unexpected things that might derail the forecast
e.g. editing a text – I thought i was done with it!
aversion to carrying out actions that increase my prediction error
@adi@twtxt.net “I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men.” -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there’s just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “A good read: Why I find longtermism hard – […]” -> Interesting! I don’t particularly share that emotional intuition (although my bias probably cuts the other way: I am more moved by interesting projects, and more interesting problems probably also less neglected)–I generally find most problems other people find salient not very moving at all (although probably equally strongly moved by extremely near suffering compared to other people, but with a stronger emotional distance discount). EA makes sense in a very different way to me (phenomenologically, probably closest to philosophical high valence states it evokes).
i can feel your stomach in my bones
my wish: textbooks are published together with anki flashcards
men care more than women about longevity?
interested in understanding the world of fucking
sequential decision problems in the water supply
Tran-Skript
Simp-lifying
Turbo-Lenz
Being rational is virtuous
The epistemic commons are worth protecting. Go and do your signalling with donations or fashion.
I get very squeamish when people are insistent on me saying “X is Y”. It’s usually a bad sign.
Getting laid before the age of 21 is a great predictor for becoming a utilitarian vs. a negative utilitarian.
Do people who only communicate in ASL have tiny hands as an internal monologue?
If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.
Not explaining away; instead predicting.
Bandname: Catastrophic Transcripts
Audiobook not so great because they don’t pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
There is a universe not far from ours where people signal wealth mostly through effective charitable donations.
Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
Yes andy, no butty.
How do you cooperate with suboptimal allies?
Concreteness leaking out of your abstractions there.
A jam is a very vibey object.
technocratsacy
I’m skeptical about having a model of utility actually being sufficient to solve optimizers curse. isn’t that just kicking the can down the road, finding something that fools both your utility and your utility model?
it’s uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒” -> Just as @movq@www.uninformativ.de has problems with his reading queue, I have problems with my “things to explore” queue. I even bought a planet a while back, but haven’t had time to dive into the extradimensional madness of the urbit system. Subjective impressions & reviews highly anticipated!
@ionores@twtxt.net “Perseverance ! 👏🎉😀” <3
“concept handle” is jargon for “jargon”
People who don’t create their own religions are incredibly suspect.
argmax ∑☺-☹
how highly evolved a human is can be measured by how small their little toe is
naming my eye floaters
looked better rendered by LaTeX, but whatevs
the emotion {≻,~,≺}
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: “There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron.”
Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.
Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
It always bottoms out in valence somewhere.
Values
BUT
Complex,
–
Doing a crucifix: Human
Are
value of perfect information in the water supply
Play strange games, win strange prizes.
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “@niplav (#4qeibma) Hadn’t heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I’d been reading a critique of his earlier work – in Overall’s Why Have Children? – that really wasn’t up to scratch. Now I’m reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)” -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they’re not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt
yo bro, the new alignment newsletter just dropped!
proposal: let’s ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything
leave a line of retreat in ideology-space
ironically, IRC has more slack than Slack
@prologic “we should fight for IRC more” another slack “Definition: Slack. The absence of binding constraints on behavior.” https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/
reading
@iolfree@tilde.club “I just typed in ‘censorship’ on pinterest and that is also completely banned.” https://i.imgflip.com/1ppi4p.jpg
shoot me if i ever say that X should require Educational Attainment Y
felt really tense around a maybe 4cm² area there, slowly disappeared during the sit
yesterdays session: collecting dullness (?, maybe addictive energy is a better name) at the spot where the nose begins between the eyes, then concentrating on it
un-doing not doing non-doing
challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don’t usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.
: qualia relationism: the properties of qualia are defined by their relations to other qualia (but distinguish ordinal rankings for properties of qualia without a zero-point from cardinal properties of qualia without a zero-point). E.g., the hedonic treadmill is not accidental, but a deep fact of the universe.
: qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten – and then letting it languish :-( – really belongs in Anki.” i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I’m not sure how long i’ll continue
@pbatch@pbat.ch “Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.” <3
beer is liquid psychoactive bread
i will not live in the bay, i won’t be part of the cule
note to self: don’t go to the bay
@vain@www.uninformativ.de “I don’t know. But you got me.” <3
sorry for the twtstorm o.o
Intellectualize your problems so you will become bored of them.
Whatever the question, despair is not the answer.
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?