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.

Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.

Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.

”If everyone just…“ ”See, there’s your problem already”

Alternative names for ‘rationalism’: map-making, cartography

Alternative names for ‘anarcho-capitalism’: propertarianism, voluntaryism, voluntarism

Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.

There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.

A robot that constantly twitches

On a related note, ‘hopwag’ sounds like a music genre

HoPwave

fresh tapas

Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.

meta-not-caring

there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being completely X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).

renriderog

A strange mental motion in AI alignment is thinking about agency in non-agential ways.

Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.

I want a ‘Map≠Territory’ T-shirt.

The best map is still the territory.

TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.

“Which is for people, that is for people and objects.” -> From a /lit/ thread.

The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:

Ochoch

Milli Tanz

My tribe is a place, not a prison.

Classical philosophy: Disputing definitions. Analytic philosophy: Disputing definitions, rigorously. Continental philosophy: Disputing definitions, poetically.

Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.