i wonder if miri is looking out for people reinventing parts of their hidden agendas, as a kind of validation set

a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff

annoyance: terminology of “maximin”/“minimax” has some deep symmetry breaking

All Cuboids Are Bwwwwwwwwwwwww

pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle

continuous graph theory

Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a real personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists

What does an enthusiast for upper body clothing say when they see a new piece? “Intewesting”

Dafür, daß sie Jainisten heißen, sind sie aber ganz schön resolut

licerology: the study of betting and auctions, auction theory

short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind

the only relief i currently have is that the number of not-completely-autistic hot women in the bayrat/ea communities is very low, so we can’t be that deep into social bullshit yet

“We are trying to accomplish an extremely difficult thing that requires everything to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, but luckily our status incentives are so optimal that the high status men getting to sleep with a lot women is just the best!”

that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.

i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is bad, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.

cut your losses. slash their bodies wide open

“What, of course I want to spend my entire life on this very specific spot on the happiness/productivity Pareto frontier, dummy.”

that’s why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they’re shit), or why meditation is so hard

feedback loops are severely underrated as a concept. if you can choose between two activities, selecting the one with the tighter feedback loop is probably the better bet.

https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/10/4/sacred-metal, and now consider computer programming (especially the terminology of wizards/gurus, programming as magic, the SICP cover &c!)

if you put both content and sources into the footnotes, screw you.

I don’t want to think about my career. I want to solve the goddamn problem!

Montmartre-Paris+New York=?

apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER

Curtis Yarvin orchestrated gamergate to see if he could

It’s not enough to be drunk for escalation, I also need to have made approaches beforehand.

Bourne in (s)hell

Mandate of Tenderness

List of fugitive schelling.pt Members

Moloch who resides in an infinite-dimensional space

Moloch whose pilots are spooky

I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.

whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it’s in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor

there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate

to do: go nuclear on a date and explain that im just performing an act, that i studied this in detail and trained myself to do it, that this is a deliberate effort to escape my patheticness

“yeah? vipassanize this then, _nerd_” suckerpunch

seeing typos in LaTeX documents always throws me off, my brain still wants to classify the whole format as respectable

increase, decrease, recrease, transcrease, supercrease, subcrease, adcrease

in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?

hot philosophy student just answered a ping i sent a week ago, thank you uncle tom :folded_hands:

thricing

inter ni

funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)

milflife crisis

picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I’m sad it hasn’t been developed further

procrastinating by writing and exercising…i have reached new lows

the fourfold spatious sutra

230/330

someone on twitter said once that if “defenestrate” means to throw someone out of a window, to “demonstrate” means to throw someone out of a monster. i think about that a lot

connetiqut

the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes

i like consequentialism, but i don’t like any specific version of it nearly as much

it’s not about what utilitarians recommend, it’s about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.

also, a girl attempted to hug me ~20 seconds after rejecting me by telling me she had a boyfriend. i was woefully unprepared for that! (yada yada she wanted you to push further yada yada, yes i know, but this is something im still against)

niplav pointing at a Schäferhund “I can learn a lot from this man”

i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind

today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. Attenborough voice “daygame is truly a land of contrasts”

i wonder whether animals experience dukkha

…and now i’m wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions

i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls

being annoying by speculating about betting uncomputable reals on items in my auction theory exam; “Who says I can’t value this item at Chaitin’s Ω?””

who decided to call it “slut” and not “dick jockey”?

experience is dirty

i’m finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.

condition number for tiling agents

generic answer to any threat: “if the grease doesn’t get me first”

when trying to learn a formula using flashcards, prefix the formula with a natural-language explanation. makes it easier to remember.

submissive strategies in normal-form games

noticing that i should go to sleep because the guitar opening on Robot Rock seems awfully fast

i just realized russell was a bigger chad than nietzsche. poor guy

someday i will descend upon the unicode consortium and add sub/superscript version of the whole latin alphabet

millenial woman who did a degree in *-studies and uses the word “communities” a lot

some people, when they hear the word “technocracy”, think of “rule by technocrats”, others think of “rule by legible mechanisms”, which is a slight difference

ghettoblaster

someone should write an Upwing Manifesto

»In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Quảng Đức, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He was seriously burned before the fire was extinguished and later could only offer the explanation that “I wanted to see what it was like.”« lmao

actually, scratch the “pi-” prefix, why not make “ĉit-” the prefix?

why not a an esperanto prefix for thisness? similar to how one has ĉiam (ĉial for “for every reason”) for “always”, and neniam for “never” (nenial for “for no reason”), one could have e.g. “piam” for “now”, “pie” for “here”, “pial” for “for this (one) reason”, etc. one could argue that this purpose could also be fulfilled by “ĉi tie”, “ĉi tiam”, “ĉi tial”, but why not put it into one word?

SneLU

recursive grant-making

blood from the bloodstone

. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first

also, wow i have a lot of physical energy. it’s making it hard to concentrate on intellectual work—my body wants to move constantly.

having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?

the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain

i hope that after i’ve aged, I will approach technology with the mindset of either “how can i use this to make cool shit” or “how can i make this technology safer”.

profectism

niplav attempting to get cancelled by the physics community: attempt 1

it’s actually the case that dark matter is just consciousness. think about it: both are unobservable, clearly extant in large amonuts, and clearly influence this universe.

it is kind of nice

might have found the way to tune into the state where you let the tension/horniness/anxiety/pain/frustration do its thing down/in/over there in the body/space around me

of course I try to be hot, but within reason — I don’t want the playing field to be the Kronecker delta

i the Matrix cookbook

strong lol at the Raëlian symbol

deep taylor decomposition ;-)

Wikipedia article on Banach spaces: “Maurice René Fréchet was the first to use the term »Banach space« and Banach in turn then coined the term »Fréchet space.«” that is very cute.

there are two types of panpsychism, and they can be distinguished by asking “if i shatter this glass, will it feel pain?”. one answers “yes”, the other answers “no clue, but probably not”

the adiabatic sutra, the inframeasure sutra, the acausal sutra

rijndaelites

melting face is great too