schelling.pt gone

everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind

position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch

woman told me of a dream she had where she saw a man having sex with another woman, taking over and “being better than her”. first time i’ve heard of competitive ranked sex in the real world

mate-poaching is a thing because it makes use of information asymmetry: why do all the mate-evaluation work yourself when you can just let someone else do it?

Plotinian theory of ›good is real‹ equivalent to STV+UDASSA (more symmetry makes you easier to locate in the universal prior)

fiction story about a species where females disguise as males for procreation to steal metabolically difficult to produce eggs from other females

They’re STILL releasing new versions of the AmigaOS‽

I heard that you can summon a particular LessWronger by saying “The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories” three times in front of a mirror

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?«

Can DALL·E do Bongard problems?

does regularization of RL policies act as an impact measure?

Wikipedia article “List of Largest Snakes”: »There are eleven living snakes«

a wikipedia article for every beetle species!

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.

ethics is a non-recusive self-improving optimization process

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

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amussy

get in, loser, we’re prompt-injecting the e-girls

how do you do currying in julia?

If you put down a heavy (1t) object at the north pole, how much time does pass until the ice has moved so much it’s too warm, it melts, and the object falls in the sea?

is attraction additive or multiplicative?

if you need metascience there’s no alpha left in science

if you need metascience you should probably just go into industry instead

even fairly well informed people have 0 idea what’s coming with AI. still talking about day-to-day politics. oh boy.

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

looking through my website, I’m struck by how much it is…I made all that? impossible! But yet, it can’t be otherwise

“Was that an acustic, syntactic or semantic »What?«?” “What?”

god is what is equal in the infinite

i am normal and can be trusted to be invariate under conjugation to my supergroup