it annoys me way too much, it shuold be Caelum Conterrens Est. Latin is SOV

one thousand Very Bad Takes About Alignment

non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying

gah, can’t snarf evince

this holds for mathematics as well

i think that every language should have a unary - and + operator, and that those should be idempotent. sign flipping should be done by multiplication with -1.

kuracisto estas racisto kiu kuras

my nervous system is as smooth as a baby

the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It’s too full here, let’s go home.”

a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.

synthesis: the reason why african americans commit more crimes is genetic, but responsible are the genes from the white slavers in their ancestry

reminder to self: clanishness vs. tribalism

also no simple latex macro for the symbol for conditional independence ⫫

doesn’t evoke the image of being wrong to me, much rather some equanimous exploration

beautiful though is that errare meant “to wander, to stray” originally

“ut: like, as” fsdjkljiasdasdf

the IPA for tous bas (“very small/silent”) is /tu ba/ :-D

“ainsi: thus, so as.” yeah. hm. i will definitely remember that

every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can’t tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

ĉiu volas vojaĝi al la aja, neniu ŝatas la mala versiono :-/

i also want to remember 𖤶

from now on, i will use  whenever abbreviating the Fast Fourier Transform

help i’m under distributional shift

i’m a self-professed sexist, but i am not a sexist

multimodal languages (subjects are spoken, verbs are gesticulated, adjectives & adverbs are grimaced)

enjoy the once-in-a-while outages of schelling.pt, gives my brain room to think :-D

Being being been.

antinatalists: another victim of the replication crisis

shedding, shedding!

well, what if my values include a constraint that my values shouldn’t be optimized by an outside optimizer?

gnonomics

I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I’ve heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven’t seen it in a paper or blogpost

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?” -> It’s the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don’t know about median age of death.

mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite

if you tickle a sub, is the result a bottom contraction?

what kind of job does one do if one is exceptionally motivated to (and reasonably good at) organising physical objects?

alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent’s optimization power

note: the previous twt does not assert the equivalence of these ideas.

The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?

learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy

schelling.pt down :-(

a pride flag for heterosexual men who don’t like women

what is the value of knowing the action of a more powerful optimizer in a single universe-state?

kind of insane that the average life expectancy in 1800 was nearly half as much as the one in the country with the lowest life expectancy today (28.5 years then, 50.7 years today in Lesotho)

limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)

one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth’s crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run

@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav I got the joke!” -> Congrats! i didn’t

every wisepost can (but doesn’t have to) be credited to carl shulman

yes, I’m in favour of a combination of fusion power and solar (dyson sphere)

father (pointing at night sky): one day this all will be yours, son.