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

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