guy who has always wanted to get into lucid dreaming
buridan’s ass: not sure which cheek to clap
“considered harmful” is not about harm: an opinionated review is all you need
if MDMA is libido-enhancing for women, and libido-diminishing for men, then that points at an important joint between male and female sexuality.
the gearless gear
I put on my best reference class tennis outfit
bell’s theorem for the haecceity of qualia
yay ingroup
markov as inverse lindy
That’s pretty Markov of you, my friend
DSOTM=Doesn’t seem obvious to me.
philosophical bullets i’m not (yet) willing to bite: illusionism, accepting the repugnant conclusion.
“showing that you care” type signalling depends on the sunk cost fallacy; or, there was selection pressure against the sunk cost fallacy (modulo reputation effects)
Robin Hanson is pretty good evidence for the Orthogonality Hypothesis
how much would you X yourself?
or, worse, a minus
I dislike it when people use two en dashes for an em dash
wondering whether non-compartmentalization is a result of monotheism
boneless intellectuals
i want a smallpox vaccine
putting myself on a list by googling various bioinfohazards
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“Attention is all you need”. Fucking prophetic
mesamodernism
bayesically,
PIPO
every man is a pick up artist. some even know it
a microwave without the urge to beep
it’s just a set bro, it doesn’t even contain anything
preposterous to assume that mathematical objects are real
everbody had a hard time in highschool :thinking_face:
middle manager of the local dharma
the good thing about this is - …………uhh…………………
muggee
“those motherfuckers actually read what I write. lmao” – Nick Land
it’s important to remember: people rarely fundamentally change
alignment posting gf, capabilities posting gf
tonalli gf, teyolía bf
the success of discord and its consequences have been a disaster for online information flow
deontology more embedded than consequentialism?
guy who has had unkind thoughts about Eliezer Yudkowsky
guy who is building AGI on a discord server with his buddies instead of getting himself a girlfriend
marvel and be wary
someone (not me) should try to learn the 1k most common words in as many languages as possible
FreeBSDick
Venn diagrams work better on hyperbolic surfaces?
Let A be the set of AI alignment complete problems. What is the problem a /∈ A so that solving a maximally delays the development of AGI? What is a, weighted by how hard/desirable it is?
Yes, I can shoehorn interpreting extropianism into every poem by Schiller. This is going to be a regular thing.
This is obviously about O’Neill cylinders, empathetic pearcean valence, and the supercooperation cluster
Was den großen Ring bewohnet / huldige der Sympathie / zu den Sternen leitet sie / wo der Unbekannte thronet
@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Laphroaig. 🥃 🥴” <3
consequentialist buddhism
chopping wood and carrying water: an endocrinological approach
I think I understand 5-10 now. It basically says “Let’s say I jumped out of the airplane. I would only do that if I had a parachute. So, any version of me that jumps out of the airplane has a parachute. Therefore, if I jump out of the airplane, I’ll have a parachute. Let’s jump out of the airplane!”
status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?
@frogorbits.com Would you recommend it?
@frogorbits.com “@niplav Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of https://www.liberaugmen.com/, right?” -> Yes, I’ve seen Pressman shill it, but I haven’t looked at it too closely. I have the intuition that it won’t tell me that much new stuff, but that’s just an impression
caviarance
probably similar to solomonoff, just in the number of variables, and without the computability aspect (since we know that prop-formulas can be evaluated in exponential time)
what is a good prior over sentences in propositional logic?
Surely people have thought about this, but is it so useful to include proofs in textbooks?
“memeticist” as a description of someone who makes memes
much lower than we’d expect from naively extrapolating just to the increased lifespan.
discount rates seem to spring mostly from being sure of ones own death. beings without aging would have extremely low discount rates, I think?
major difference between updating on evidence vs. morals: we know that a bayesian is converging (monotonically?) towards truth with each piece of evidence, while with moral progress, it seems likely that we are not bounded in how wrong our updates can be (even if we grant that the arc bends towards justice in the end). we might need to escape moral local maxima. therefore, it seems good to preserve option value.
FreeBSDitties
pïti streaming into the sky!
every permutation is a bijection, not every bijection is a permutation. this wasn’t obvious to me!
fake liminal space
fake space
I can often distinguish sympathetic mockery from sneering mockery, even with relatively litlte context. I wonder why – what am I picking up on? What is the distinct way of making fun of someone you actually like vs. don’t like?
AIXI for polynomial curve fitting
i’m sure people have studied this: maybe strategically voting iteratively reaches a fixed point in which point report their actual preferences?
my brain really likes accumulation.
Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A: “X is number”. B: “Thats not true, X is not number”. If B doesnt provide an alternative number (or an explanation of why a number is not applicable here), Im often more inclined towards believing A.
2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.
the counterpoint would be that I’m already begging the question with that attitude, though.
maybe that’s my queasiness around emotional arguers: they share beliefs more than evidence, and nearly never models
sharing beliefs < sharing evidence < sharing models < sharing ontologies
Just because things are impossible doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be good
“Break at the Byte”, a programmer adventure story.
huh, txtnish seems to have problems with linebreaks & unicode;.
twt is better because I can pronounce it like twit, which sounds a bit like “twat”, which is an insult and therefore better.
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “I can see the sinewave of my own mood skimming through past twtxts…” ▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁
metaculus is only realiable newssite send twt
hardmode as much things as you can, ordered by importance. easymode the rest.
if you’re weird, spending time around non-weird people is not going to make you more normal. but if you spend time with marginally less weird people, you’re probably going to become less weird.
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “Maybe Satoshi was an anti-capitalist after all?” -> Why do you think that?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Random thought: Would be great if you could do for i in ...; do something "$i" & done ; wait in a Shell script, but with the Shell only spawning one process per CPU.” -> Interesting which annoyances stay in the back of the head – I’d never articulated this, but it’s absolutely true that this would be great.
humiliating how long it took me to realise that the Metamorphosis by Kafka was about disability.
quantilizing porn
violation of schelling point as indicators of antimemetic infestation.
@off_grid_living@twtxt.net “Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu.” <3
@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “Just discovered an unsaved vim buffer sitting in a local tmux session I forgot about for days now. Yikes. At least it was easy to remember where I left off. :)” -> Hopefully something important
the universe needs to meditate
female spiders eat males after mating bc males won’t provide for offspring, so they might as well provide nutrients for the mother