Plants are pretty fascinating, they turn air into life.
Comp Lit: computational literature
Morpheological <-> More theological
Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).
Tactic: Moving the lever closer.
“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn’t need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”
Long Now thinking applied: Introducing the LGBT+ pride millenium!
I wonder why it isn’t more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don’t know enough anthropology?
There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.
From a /r/4chan thread: “Birth is the ultimate rape.”
I am an ecosystem
All advice should have a failure condition.
If hell exists, then it is reserved for those who don’t rebel against it.
Good/quick life extension technology would, for the first 2/3 decades, decrease the average age of death, since more people would die young in accidents etc. than of old age.
Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}
It matters how many life years are lost in car crashes, not how many lives.
Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \ • Engineering-realistic computing power \ • Physically possible computing power \ • Unlimited but finite computing power \ • Infinite computing power \ • (?) Hypercomputation
Quines are poems. Don’t @ me
“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
bootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
@lucidiot@tilde.town “nuclear realtor” I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I’ll often just reply with “I like this” or , although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I’ll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]
my plan would involve writing the code for a seed asi and giving it a completely senseless goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips & spreading as far as possible. this would benefit no one & cause untold damage. i will take no questions
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er-MPNfW4AA1KLv?format=png&name=large https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8NSHgT1o8
Do you think kantbot will come here when he realizes this is where the cryptids are?
US declining quickly, europe slowly?
I’m slightly concerned by the selection pressure against meditation
@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav What kind of thinking?” Leaning towards explicit abstract reasoning, though, if I would be pressed.
Riffing off of Mechtild of Magdeburg, yes, sex may be a mystical act towards god, but it’s a blind idiot alien god :-^
@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav What kind of thinking?” Nearly everything, I guess? More concretely: What falls into the category of whatever spans {deciding where to sit, deciding whether to blame someone else for something, catching a ball, picking a good career, proving a theorem}.
I’d rather be boring than wrong.
I am part of the problem.
“There is no single trick that gives you the truth immediately. You actually have to think.” is a mischaracterization. This thing “thinking” has a structure, and we want to discover that structure, optimally mathematically.
DSA DSA=Democratic Socialists of America decisive strategic advantage
gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
Care less about organic food
I should probably just add a mentions command to txtnish
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jointwt/we-are-twtxt/master/we-are-twtxt.txt | grep -v '^niplav ' | field 2 | xargs curl ^/dev/null | grep niplav here we go
@prologic@twtxt.net “What the hell does cartesianly mean?! 😳” Me inventing a new adjective for “there is only a one-way flow of information” ^^
Maybe I could write a script that trawls the we-are-twtxt list and notifies me when I’m mentioned–the name should be unique enough.
Disadvantage of twtxt: less incentives to reply to people since it’s not certain they’ll ever see it. My current solution to that is to follow everybody on the we-are-twtxt and only unfollow if they twt a lot of stuff I’m not interested in
One should probably have a bunch of hard-drives with random content (not some files, but really random) lying around to being able to believably glomarize towards law enforcement
@felixp7@twtxt.net “Yo, crypto-heads. Encrypted communication doesn’t protect your privacy. Laws …” I guess crypto-heads are often happy with acknowledging this, but also arguing that e.g. deniable crypto is a useful way out here (and, of course, just doing illegal stuff if it gets really rough).
@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav Re: rats: YOU ARE NOT ALONE” https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2sbUDWU3Fjk/maxresdefault.jpg
…and over to monist idealism.
I’m cartesianly divided from twitter, to which I’m often responding. We’re back to watching television again.
lief as attire will not save you. Come back to LW we miss you. Please don’t stray too far from the light. 89/89
and if you truly get down to it, there’s no ground for solomonoff induction, because your choice of TM is completely arbitrary! Furthermore, what does it even mean for bayesianism to be a coherent epistemology‽ How do we decide wha 84/89
nosilverv sits down next to me. We look at each other, still panting. I notice how his hands are still dusty. When I look up again, his eyes are glowing with a little smirk. He leans ov 73/89
ut in the desert,,, the vibe reigns. When it is not in check, we tremble. We sweat ourselves down into a negative kegan stage. We gendlin-focus on all the wrong things. The meditators see blue mushrooms in desire for deliverance. Fanged noum 51/89
nd in lemma 3.11 you can clearly see that ℝ∪lim_{k→∞} ℤ^{k} is homeomorphically convex. Furthermore, per Gibbard-Satterthwaite, you 32/89
bang. bang. bang. bang. Caledonian2 looks down on me. “What now, punk? Where is your overcoming of bias now?” “FUCK YOU” I scream. I lift 13/89
It all starts back in the days, when people started posting on SL4. As it turns out, 2/89
My definite stance on the rat/postrat discourse. Strap in. 1/89
Only 4^391 programs. That shouldn’t be that hard!
A bit tempted to trying to dovetail to find the shortest brainfuck quine.
“I will do as I please” will do as it pleases
Some people, paradoxically, can help the world most by first helping themselves. Often enough, those people are the ones most pre-disposed to helping the world.
In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you’re not trying.
Unless the world has been adversarially structured against you, you can do better by just trying. This holds both for bayesianism & consequentialism.
Niplav Yushtun, PhD in Memetodynamics
Infuriating: With the Euro, 50 ct. coins are bigger than 1€ coins.
Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
Buy some space near the sun, because it’s going to be worth a lot when a Dyson sphere gets built.
Maybe this applies to everything?
Greta Thunberg also is a nearly complete creation of the media, in the sense that we would never know about her if it were not for media.
Greta Thunberg falls into the same narrative category as Malala Yousafzai, Sophie Scholl and Jeanne D’Arc.
Don’t make deals that involve infinities.
[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
I think I understand bigint multiplication now. Not sure if I’ve reinvented the Karatsuba algorithm
Endokremlinology
gestirn
ge-stern (gasball)
“I am not owned! I am not owned” I shout as I am being consumed by grey goo
…and also for vingean reasons
Oh yeah, you know pain? Have you ever had your contact lenses on the wrong way, with ~½ a dioptrie difference?
Hot damn good post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2G8j8D5auZKKAjSfY
tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
If you’re right about this, how could you make money with it?
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
Lisp is like minarchism.
Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/12#fn1 is extremely important, but people fall into the anthropomorphization trap again and again
Actually, embedded agency is a super good name for a movement, and I could see it replacing the horrid ‘rationalism’ over time. Plus, ‘embags’ is a really good abbreviation.
I’ve always found the ‘suicide is selfish’ argument weird. Someone is making the most important (and most tragic) decision in their life, and people are talking about themselves?
If you’re an average man, my calculation tells me that freezing your sperm & getting a vasectomy is worth ~ in expectation (https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#Vasectomy–Sperm-Freezing-CostBenefit) (in the US, caveat caveat caveat)
@ “that’s it. I’m sticking to this txtnish client.” Solid choice.
As a matter of reconciliation; welp
I’m back to “tribes are bad”
Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
“Subreddits could achieve this without a schism” heh (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v7c47vjta3mavY3QC/is-science-slowing-down?commentId=e9T3hF9957pT5h2ex), two years ago
Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.