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nosilverv sits down next to me. We look at each other, still panting. I notice how his hands are still dusty. When I look up again, his eyes are glowing with a little smirk. He leans ov 73/89
ut in the desert,,, the vibe reigns. When it is not in check, we tremble. We sweat ourselves down into a negative kegan stage. We gendlin-focus on all the wrong things. The meditators see blue mushrooms in desire for deliverance. Fanged noum 51/89
nd in lemma 3.11 you can clearly see that ℝ∪lim_{k→∞} ℤ^{k} is homeomorphically convex. Furthermore, per Gibbard-Satterthwaite, you 32/89
bang. bang. bang. bang. Caledonian2 looks down on me. “What now, punk? Where is your overcoming of bias now?” “FUCK YOU” I scream. I lift 13/89
It all starts back in the days, when people started posting on SL4. As it turns out, 2/89
My definite stance on the rat/postrat discourse. Strap in. 1/89
Only 4^391 programs. That shouldn’t be that hard!
A bit tempted to trying to dovetail to find the shortest brainfuck quine.
“I will do as I please” will do as it pleases
Some people, paradoxically, can help the world most by first helping themselves. Often enough, those people are the ones most pre-disposed to helping the world.
In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you’re not trying.
Unless the world has been adversarially structured against you, you can do better by just trying. This holds both for bayesianism & consequentialism.
Niplav Yushtun, PhD in Memetodynamics
Infuriating: With the Euro, 50 ct. coins are bigger than 1€ coins.
Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
Buy some space near the sun, because it’s going to be worth a lot when a Dyson sphere gets built.
Maybe this applies to everything?
Greta Thunberg also is a nearly complete creation of the media, in the sense that we would never know about her if it were not for media.
Greta Thunberg falls into the same narrative category as Malala Yousafzai, Sophie Scholl and Jeanne D’Arc.
Don’t make deals that involve infinities.
[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
I think I understand bigint multiplication now. Not sure if I’ve reinvented the Karatsuba algorithm
Endokremlinology
gestirn
ge-stern (gasball)
“I am not owned! I am not owned” I shout as I am being consumed by grey goo
…and also for vingean reasons
Oh yeah, you know pain? Have you ever had your contact lenses on the wrong way, with ~½ a dioptrie difference?
Hot damn good post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2G8j8D5auZKKAjSfY
tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
If you’re right about this, how could you make money with it?
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
Lisp is like minarchism.
Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/12#fn1 is extremely important, but people fall into the anthropomorphization trap again and again
Actually, embedded agency is a super good name for a movement, and I could see it replacing the horrid ‘rationalism’ over time. Plus, ‘embags’ is a really good abbreviation.
I’ve always found the ‘suicide is selfish’ argument weird. Someone is making the most important (and most tragic) decision in their life, and people are talking about themselves?
If you’re an average man, my calculation tells me that freezing your sperm & getting a vasectomy is worth ~ in expectation (https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#Vasectomy–Sperm-Freezing-CostBenefit) (in the US, caveat caveat caveat)
@ “that’s it. I’m sticking to this txtnish client.” Solid choice.
As a matter of reconciliation; welp
I’m back to “tribes are bad”
Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
“Subreddits could achieve this without a schism” heh (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v7c47vjta3mavY3QC/is-science-slowing-down?commentId=e9T3hF9957pT5h2ex), two years ago
Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.