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.