Was den großen Ring bewohnet / huldige der Sympathie / zu den Sternen leitet sie / wo der Unbekannte thronet

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Laphroaig. 🥃 🥴” <3

consequentialist buddhism

chopping wood and carrying water: an endocrinological approach

I think I understand 5-10 now. It basically says “Let’s say I jumped out of the airplane. I would only do that if I had a parachute. So, any version of me that jumps out of the airplane has a parachute. Therefore, if I jump out of the airplane, I’ll have a parachute. Let’s jump out of the airplane!”

status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?

@frogorbits.com Would you recommend it?

@frogorbits.com “@niplav Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of https://www.liberaugmen.com/, right?” -> Yes, I’ve seen Pressman shill it, but I haven’t looked at it too closely. I have the intuition that it won’t tell me that much new stuff, but that’s just an impression

caviarance

probably similar to solomonoff, just in the number of variables, and without the computability aspect (since we know that prop-formulas can be evaluated in exponential time)

what is a good prior over sentences in propositional logic?

Surely people have thought about this, but is it so useful to include proofs in textbooks?

“memeticist” as a description of someone who makes memes

much lower than we’d expect from naively extrapolating just to the increased lifespan.

discount rates seem to spring mostly from being sure of ones own death. beings without aging would have extremely low discount rates, I think?

major difference between updating on evidence vs. morals: we know that a bayesian is converging (monotonically?) towards truth with each piece of evidence, while with moral progress, it seems likely that we are not bounded in how wrong our updates can be (even if we grant that the arc bends towards justice in the end). we might need to escape moral local maxima. therefore, it seems good to preserve option value.

FreeBSDitties

pïti streaming into the sky!

every permutation is a bijection, not every bijection is a permutation. this wasn’t obvious to me!

fake liminal space

fake space

I can often distinguish sympathetic mockery from sneering mockery, even with relatively litlte context. I wonder why – what am I picking up on? What is the distinct way of making fun of someone you actually like vs. don’t like?

AIXI for polynomial curve fitting

i’m sure people have studied this: maybe strategically voting iteratively reaches a fixed point in which point report their actual preferences?

my brain really likes accumulation.

Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

A: “X is number”. B: “Thats not true, X is not number”. If B doesnt provide an alternative number (or an explanation of why a number is not applicable here), Im often more inclined towards believing A.

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.

the counterpoint would be that I’m already begging the question with that attitude, though.

maybe that’s my queasiness around emotional arguers: they share beliefs more than evidence, and nearly never models

sharing beliefs < sharing evidence < sharing models < sharing ontologies

Just because things are impossible doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be good

“Break at the Byte”, a programmer adventure story.

huh, txtnish seems to have problems with linebreaks & unicode;.

twt is better because I can pronounce it like twit, which sounds a bit like “twat”, which is an insult and therefore better.

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “I can see the sinewave of my own mood skimming through past twtxts…” ▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁

metaculus is only realiable newssite send twt

hardmode as much things as you can, ordered by importance. easymode the rest.

if you’re weird, spending time around non-weird people is not going to make you more normal. but if you spend time with marginally less weird people, you’re probably going to become less weird.

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “Maybe Satoshi was an anti-capitalist after all?” -> Why do you think that?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Random thought: Would be great if you could do for i in ...; do something "$i" & done ; wait in a Shell script, but with the Shell only spawning one process per CPU.” -> Interesting which annoyances stay in the back of the head – I’d never articulated this, but it’s absolutely true that this would be great.

humiliating how long it took me to realise that the Metamorphosis by Kafka was about disability.

quantilizing porn

violation of schelling point as indicators of antimemetic infestation.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net “Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu.” <3

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “Just discovered an unsaved vim buffer sitting in a local tmux session I forgot about for days now. Yikes. At least it was easy to remember where I left off. :)” -> Hopefully something important

the universe needs to meditate

female spiders eat males after mating bc males won’t provide for offspring, so they might as well provide nutrients for the mother