ganrsl

i’m now pretty sure the urbit whitepaper is impossible to parody.

oh yeah I love software that just dumps giant amounts of data into my home directory without giving me any option of changing where it dumps the data

GPT-Alyx (Codebase: 96% Idris)

i find the removal of the “master/slave” thing in computer protocols to be kinkshaming

the EA community is grabbing existential risk by the black balls

maybe for most people social media isn’t an epistemic hazard, but “just” an attention hazard?

there’s a lot of alpha left in high-weirdness mental wellbeing interventions

lojban rap, microtonal giantstepscore, taxxonpop

if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.

pandas makes my RAM usage jump like a cardiogram

if you want to minimize the amount of words in your library, every function should have as many parameters as there are functions in total.

plasmacrane

I expect the future to be more, not less, absurd than ~all scifi. way more—there’s no scifi this abstract & absurd, and noone would buy it (& also bc of Vinge’s law)

dath ilan has screened off its past just es ey wants to screen off his past before ~2003

numpy.unique needs the type to be comparable by < and >, not just ==. that seems like overkill.

diversity inequity exclusion

following legislation from the ELSC (european long site commission), I now have to adopt an ocelot

apparently we’re going to build AGI, whatever that is

evopsych is confused by persistent conflict between mothers-in-law and spouses—don’t both want to maximize the number of children? i don’t see any conflict arising for evolutionary reasons

it’s crazy how we basically haven’t tested nuclear weapons in ~30 years

how much did large volcano eruptions in the past change agricultural output?

you know that you’ve made it when you’re using fermi estimates to debug your rl agent.

rationality is having strong opinions about things nobody has ever thought about before.

lipogrammatic pangram

found spicy khmer waltz vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

extra spicy bunns

naxus

foqed

jokez

ezafu

jarns

janus

mozed

bouge

foofe

boxem

neither is warez

qream

spicy wheat found

oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it’s the reaction i have the most when playing it

“if enough of us listen to prophets of doom, it becomes self-fulfilling” — Leo Szilard

pressman being another taxxon fan is a delightful finding

if your eag profile doesn’t say ‘neartermism’, you’ll automatically be drafted into the deepmind potential hires mailing list

“The problem with Marcus’ argument is that the only alternative to statistical AI is spiritual AI“ no what the fuck why would you say this did you even read the sequences i don’t even know where to start with that

holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.

at least i’m up to a level where i’m reading a comment on an acx post and someone uses “consciousness” and i’m hella out there real quick

to what extent did AlphaFold2 solve protein folding? there should be a writeup of how much & what needs to be done for it to be completely solved.

wait, is CIRL incorrigible for the same reason that utility-maximizers don’t wirehead? https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#A-Short-Example-For-Why-CIRL-Is-Incorrigible

solarpunk slightly hindered by the fact that for solar panels and cutesy robots you need industrial-strength chipfabs that are so advanced we have like 6 of them in the entire world