everybody being mad about pregnant man emoji, but im just happy emojis became horny with the biting lip one
Niplav Yushtun™: Paratechnē straight from the source
listening to the last 80k podcast i realize that there’s a lot of α left in dvcs.
the silence prickles, a mind too fast for meaning, unwrapping my thoughts
10% Bodhisattva vow
Pickup artist cryptolect
Your model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is faster than you at precommitting to not swerving.
Eliezer Yudkowsky wins every Dollar Auction.
See also “A Chronicle of the Bay Area Cults”, Vol. 2, pg. 773-776.
Meditation™: We Tear Your Reality to Shreds!
I have not looked at pictures of naked robots in quite a while.
oi mate! what’s ya ploidy?
I can’t stand it when people criticize Scott Alexander, whose knowledge of all things is unimpeded, deity of deities, excelling the Ruler of Gods, excelling Brahmā, fearless in the possession of the four kinds of perfect confidence, wielder of the ten powers, and all-seer with unobstructed knowledge.
everybody talking about harambe being the moment reality broke. for me it was the debacle with communist subreddits banning catgirl comics.
probably the same as the reals
“Space Romans! Sandalpunk! The EU is just a semantic anagram of SPQR!”
what’s the cardinality of the set containing all uncomputable reals?
one by one as they occurred.
why does my latin anki vocab deck contain a card for rhodium, an element discovered in 1803‽
antisemanticity
“metamask”, “betamax”, coincidence?
lecturer is describing von Neumann as an economist, which, yeah, isn’t entirely incorrect, but…
i am very ready to start a lesswrong shitstorm by asking for “a good textbook on causal inference, unlike the Pearl one”
first option in the multiple choice quiz is “none of the above”. don’t know what to think about this tbqh
you are a successful person who has started recently reading lesswrong, i am a novel rodent control agent
“i admire your optimism”=“wow, you are way more r-worded than i thought”
saying “without loss of generality” is a great way to hide bullshit in a proof. i have applied it many times with huge success
all the characters in the Kullback-Leibler divergence are actually dead
Jensen’s inequality (black market edition)
every copy of Jensen’s inequality is personalized
the heart say “no”, the spleen says “hey ;-)”
get yourself a girl who can pronounce the name of halley’s comet correctly
today i gave a guy with a great beard a compliment. ~10 minutes later he spotted me, walked up to me and gave me a protein shake :-D
TIL that there’s no flag emoji, there are “regional indicator symbols”, which are basically letters that are combined into two-letter codes for countries.
checkmate brits
rigourous
It is completely within your right to not have kids if you don’t want to. It is completely within your right to have kids if you want to.
pepe extending hand to wojak meme for embedded vs. dualistic agents
the filter is not just having read marx, it is having read marx and still understanding him
For me, it always makes me feel better to look at the CVs of similar bloggers and see how little they’ve accomplished in comparison. I’m proud of my posts and my accomplishments, and I’m not going to h
instead, just dump the dead bodies of your genocide victims into the nitrogen and let them sit around as symbols of your triumph
i am always surprised about how deep wikipedia is. yesterday i got lost in the paleontology section. human knowledge is deep
45% that it’s just intelligence that’s causally upstream of this: https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1484183174573744142
I may not be an autist, but I am definitely with the autists
may you die a very unrigorous death
Official Spokesbird for Conservation
don’t mind me, I’m just snacking some kakapo wings
ten billion american (passenger pigeon)s
become oviparous
the name Allosaurus is really funny to me for some reason. I imagine two biologists standing over a set of giant bones, and one saying to the other “Yeah, I think this is a different kind of lizard than what we usually have to deal with.”
it annoys me way too much, it shuold be Caelum Conterrens Est. Latin is SOV
one thousand Very Bad Takes About Alignment
non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying
gah, can’t snarf evince
this holds for mathematics as well
i think that every language should have a unary - and + operator, and that those should be idempotent. sign flipping should be done by multiplication with -1.
kuracisto estas racisto kiu kuras
my nervous system is as smooth as a baby
the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It’s too full here, let’s go home.”
a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.
synthesis: the reason why african americans commit more crimes is genetic, but responsible are the genes from the white slavers in their ancestry
reminder to self: clanishness vs. tribalism
also no simple latex macro for the symbol for conditional independence ⫫
doesn’t evoke the image of being wrong to me, much rather some equanimous exploration
beautiful though is that errare meant “to wander, to stray” originally
“ut: like, as” fsdjkljiasdasdf
the IPA for tous bas (“very small/silent”) is /tu ba/ :-D
“ainsi: thus, so as.” yeah. hm. i will definitely remember that
every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can’t tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
ĉiu volas vojaĝi al la aja, neniu ŝatas la mala versiono :-/
i also want to remember 𖤶
from now on, i will use whenever abbreviating the Fast Fourier Transform
help i’m under distributional shift
i’m a self-professed sexist, but i am not a sexist
multimodal languages (subjects are spoken, verbs are gesticulated, adjectives & adverbs are grimaced)
enjoy the once-in-a-while outages of schelling.pt, gives my brain room to think :-D
Being being been.
antinatalists: another victim of the replication crisis
shedding, shedding!
well, what if my values include a constraint that my values shouldn’t be optimized by an outside optimizer?
gnonomics
I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I’ve heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven’t seen it in a paper or blogpost
@movq@www.uninformativ.de “How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?” -> It’s the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don’t know about median age of death.
mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite
if you tickle a sub, is the result a bottom contraction?
what kind of job does one do if one is exceptionally motivated to (and reasonably good at) organising physical objects?
alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent’s optimization power
note: the previous twt does not assert the equivalence of these ideas.
The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?
learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy
schelling.pt down :-(
a pride flag for heterosexual men who don’t like women
what is the value of knowing the action of a more powerful optimizer in a single universe-state?
kind of insane that the average life expectancy in 1800 was nearly half as much as the one in the country with the lowest life expectancy today (28.5 years then, 50.7 years today in Lesotho)
limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)
one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth’s crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run
@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav I got the joke!” -> Congrats! i didn’t
every wisepost can (but doesn’t have to) be credited to carl shulman
yes, I’m in favour of a combination of fusion power and solar (dyson sphere)
father (pointing at night sky): one day this all will be yours, son.