trying to fit in with Gödelian set theorists by saying “V” when someone does something outrageously stupid
dril wrote for HiveSwap. It’s all connected
I am concerned about my outgoing debts, but not about small-ish incoming ones
Erz Herz zog
I think I’m getting more curious with age
Cormac McCarthys writing has strong Harvard sentence energy.
I’d like to garbage-collect some symbols in the math I’m currently writing, help
draining the baby out with the bathwater
Shapley values are NP-hard to compute, right?
“nubile” should mean cloud-like
productivity under anxiety is a repulsive fixed point (you might even feel worse the closer you get to what you should be doing)
from a computational complexity perspective, completeness is the “worst” axiom to violate: only O(n²) to find a violation
no Eliezer you’re wrong Runaround is about tiling agents,
“…still working on the frugal priors though”
von Neumann: I came up with this new system that generalizes probability theory to consider convex sets instead of point estimates. I think that I could use this to prove regret bounds…
WAIT WHAT DID ZIZ GET HER NAME FROM ONE OF THE ENDBRINGERS FROM WORM‽
snitches get stitches, bitches get skritches
steelmanning benefits the steelmanner
roman buddhists
midjourney prompts: the buddha as a roman senator
gimli voice: they call it a site
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
Unicode doesn’t distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl to cultivate a new gradientspawn
faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical
How long is your fundamental OODA loop?
I don’t remember where I first read this, but: A government’s OODA loop is ~6 months long.
chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode
you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not that big…
von Neumann and Morgenstern is a joy to read :-D
maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff
ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs
wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is not “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???
haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.
“neniel” could also be a biblical angel
just loving this little guy: (·,·). it’s like he’s looking through a crack: ‘come on, you’ll understand the function definition’
starstardotbib
What is the Bayesian version of calibration?
in practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary
What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
I’ve never gotten much out of a book review & don’t understand why people read or write them.
shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation
but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?
at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space
can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?
give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models
CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit
“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?
hey LLM how does on do long game
guy who would rather read than meditate
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!
there’s some IOIs it’s a crime not to react to
in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? ‘why don’t X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?’ damn economists
schelling.pt gone
everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind
position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch
What’s the difference between a homeomorphism and a diffeomorphism?
Is there a tensor product of tensor products?
A tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what’s the problem?
»If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?« »Does the bear shit in the woods?«
comparing politics to constrained optimization: taxes are equivalent to the penalty method, while regulations are equivalent to barrier functions.
heuristic-ness is the curvature of the graceful decline in prediction-accuracy to perturbations of the heuristic
I want there to be a norm that it is good for people to first state them noticing their status-guided motivations and then proceding to answer on the object level when askedabout things.
i’m not an intellectual, i’m just a guy who likes to f**k
I don’t know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.
is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?
NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders
the most galaxybrained argument for the least galaxybrained conclusion: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7MdLurJGhGmqRv25c/multiverse-wide-cooperation-in-a-nutshell
hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)
humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.
2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
here’s a question: when do NNs generalize, and how hard? as in adding two specific numbers together vs. n-digit integer addition vs. addition in general vs. simple arithmetical operations
no “SMV”. drop the “market”. it’s just cleaner
WHAT WAS YOUR POLICY FROM BEFORE YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS CREATED
he⃛h
amussy
get in, loser, we’re prompt-injecting the e-girls
balls/acc
backp/acc
so discount rates are bad mmkay say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?
i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests
the correct position on consciousness is the figure-ground inversion of functionalism
mfw Eliezer will never call any of my ideas “dignified”
what if ftm is just a really strong countersignal? have you ever considered that, Mark?
the name of the lost+found/ directory encapsulates all that is great & bad about linux. i won’t take any questions.
how much money do I need to pay you for you to take a pill that makes you insane?
you can’t just propose a counterfactual and not state whether it’s conditional or where you do() the past to produce it
on reflection disinviting AI researchers from parties and conferences is not an effective way of stopping them in developing AGI