dvorak edm remix which is actually good

tolerating what we can

taking the pledge to become 10% less misogynistic

now is a good time to sit back and read

topics i will never research: how the prussian military inventing boardgames with dice to train military strategists influenced modern eurogames and not amerigames

It seems quite unlikely to me that humans will cease to care about wealth after the singularity (15% maybe?), or that markets will cease to exist after the singularity (30% or sth). so the best investment strategy now for post-singularity scenarios is to invest broadly in the economy. not sure about divesting from AGI companies (bc they accelerate danger) or AI hardware companies (ditto)—they’re going to especially valuable post-singularity.

L’an 2100 ne passera pas

from now on, when talking about fractions, i will only use the terms “upper number” and “lower number”. those both have fewer syllables AND they’re vastly easier to understand. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

libsucker. rolls of the tongue

all the cool kids? in the bay. me? chillin’

HAHAHAHAHAA IT’S FEBRUARY 2020 ALL OVER AGAIN HAHAHAHA

warm & wet game theory

being cone-theoryd

solution to the fermi paradox: ~all species don’t have nerds bc nerds are locally maladaptive, get stuck at the social reality bullshit level, humans are a fluke in the regard (kindness to kin, but for…, uhh, nerds?)

i think in practice people were most convinced by timelines, if not arguments, then observations abt progress.

see https://www.gwern.net/Subscripts#evidentials

using subscripts for probability assignments?

malign prior as an idealized case of meta-optimization

lw events should give one the ability to report probabilities

did women really faint that often in the past? if yes, what changed so they don’t anymore?

the new chinchilla scaling laws were not what I expected

whenever someone denies something, nod my head sagely and say “glomarizing nicely, I see.”

shoutout to the woman that broke my heart so that I now read papers titled stuff like “Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making”

HOW DO THOSE PEOPLE READ SO MUCH

that probably relies on a bunch of interpretability work done beforehand

todo: find a way to track ontology shifts in neural networks

me reading planecrash is unstable bc while reading it I become so enthusiastic about reading textbooks that I go off and do that instead

just thought to myself “hopefully a bigger pandemic hits, that sounds like it’ll delay ai capabilities progres”, which, no,,,

a rationalists lament: on the EA community

what are people’s attitudes towards others voting selfishly vs. not voting at all?

myopic consequentialism might often outperform heuristics, don’t know about full consequentialism in bounded agents tho

biology:philosophy of mind::ethology:meditation

researchers drunkenly explaining 5-10 to each other

surveys probably get more results if people get their some summary statistic at the end—a way to increase participation rate?

https://nitter.hu/Aella_Girl/status/1549665979130593283#m !!!!!!!!

find the next number in the sequence 0,2,2,46,3640

daily reminder that most politicians wouldn’t be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them

I’m a midwit with high need for cognition

reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out

commitment races in rape accusation

rip schelling.pt

stiglered again

pet peeve: scales that have a neutral or default or average point, but which are nearly or completely on the positive. why are people asked to rate happiness from 0 to 10, not -10 to 10, where 0 is the neutral state? why are movies rated from 0 to five stars?

the right level for solving the hard problem of consciousness is within existing science/within philosophy/within meta- or pre-philosophy/needs a fully new paradigm of thought

transhumanism is simplified humanism.

ideologies are just compressed & distributed vibes, shards of shared stances.

fodgehox

“im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”

Einstürzende Neugeburten

good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.