the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes

i like consequentialism, but i don’t like any specific version of it nearly as much

it’s not about what utilitarians recommend, it’s about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.

also, a girl attempted to hug me ~20 seconds after rejecting me by telling me she had a boyfriend. i was woefully unprepared for that! (yada yada she wanted you to push further yada yada, yes i know, but this is something im still against)

niplav pointing at a Schäferhund “I can learn a lot from this man”

i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind

today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. Attenborough voice “daygame is truly a land of contrasts”

i wonder whether animals experience dukkha

…and now i’m wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions

i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls

being annoying by speculating about betting uncomputable reals on items in my auction theory exam; “Who says I can’t value this item at Chaitin’s Ω?””

who decided to call it “slut” and not “dick jockey”?

experience is dirty

i’m finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.

condition number for tiling agents

generic answer to any threat: “if the grease doesn’t get me first”

when trying to learn a formula using flashcards, prefix the formula with a natural-language explanation. makes it easier to remember.

submissive strategies in normal-form games

noticing that i should go to sleep because the guitar opening on Robot Rock seems awfully fast

i just realized russell was a bigger chad than nietzsche. poor guy

someday i will descend upon the unicode consortium and add sub/superscript version of the whole latin alphabet

millenial woman who did a degree in *-studies and uses the word “communities” a lot

some people, when they hear the word “technocracy”, think of “rule by technocrats”, others think of “rule by legible mechanisms”, which is a slight difference

ghettoblaster

someone should write an Upwing Manifesto

»In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Quảng Đức, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He was seriously burned before the fire was extinguished and later could only offer the explanation that “I wanted to see what it was like.”« lmao

actually, scratch the “pi-” prefix, why not make “ĉit-” the prefix?

why not a an esperanto prefix for thisness? similar to how one has ĉiam (ĉial for “for every reason”) for “always”, and neniam for “never” (nenial for “for no reason”), one could have e.g. “piam” for “now”, “pie” for “here”, “pial” for “for this (one) reason”, etc. one could argue that this purpose could also be fulfilled by “ĉi tie”, “ĉi tiam”, “ĉi tial”, but why not put it into one word?

SneLU

recursive grant-making

blood from the bloodstone

. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first

also, wow i have a lot of physical energy. it’s making it hard to concentrate on intellectual work—my body wants to move constantly.

having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?

the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain

i hope that after i’ve aged, I will approach technology with the mindset of either “how can i use this to make cool shit” or “how can i make this technology safer”.

profectism

niplav attempting to get cancelled by the physics community: attempt 1

it’s actually the case that dark matter is just consciousness. think about it: both are unobservable, clearly extant in large amonuts, and clearly influence this universe.

it is kind of nice

might have found the way to tune into the state where you let the tension/horniness/anxiety/pain/frustration do its thing down/in/over there in the body/space around me

of course I try to be hot, but within reason — I don’t want the playing field to be the Kronecker delta

i the Matrix cookbook

strong lol at the Raëlian symbol

deep taylor decomposition ;-)

Wikipedia article on Banach spaces: “Maurice René Fréchet was the first to use the term »Banach space« and Banach in turn then coined the term »Fréchet space.«” that is very cute.

there are two types of panpsychism, and they can be distinguished by asking “if i shatter this glass, will it feel pain?”. one answers “yes”, the other answers “no clue, but probably not”

the adiabatic sutra, the inframeasure sutra, the acausal sutra

rijndaelites

melting face is great too