now that must be a pretty impressive shirt i guess
when you convert all your money into assets stored on the blockchain while you go into cryopreservation in an underground bunker—literally crypt-o-currency
comment quality in /r/rational worse than on LW
just downloaded micatwoa html files inshallah
menchbarks
what is the MNIST of education interventions? what the ImageNet? what the Danbooru 2021‽
Statisticians: NOoooooo you can’t execute a t-test on elements from a Likert scale! Psychologists: Hah NHST go brrrrrrrrr
pickup artistry is incredibly feminine: if you were masculine, women would come to you anyway
what the hell my phone gives me tracers in the dark if i move it
the elegance of zeppelines is sublimp
my watch has been running for ~5 years now, and I’ve never had to change the battery. wow.
some blogs have a “start here” page that is not the default landing page: why? most people visiting your site will be there for the first time, but they have to perform an additional click to go to the “start here” page, unnecessarily.
if we clone neanderthals/denisovans, we should probably ask them about consciousness.
hang web developers by ropes whose length is inversely proportional to the loading time of their pages
people liked the old SSC more than ACX because substack is chickenshit minimalism, and it’s slow. you have to wait for the fucking text & comments to appear, while the old site loaded pretty much instantaneously. people have learned to associate chickenshit minimalism aesthetic with slow loading times, and subconsciously detest it bc of that.
Welcome to the Niplaverse! Take a seat over there, your ultrasound-stimulation helmet is being prepared in right order.
what if we kissed 👉👈😳 in front of the whiteboard with haphazard alignment ideas
eliezer yudkowsky is good actually
the answer to all questions is either: “Can you feel your toes right now?”, “Start a long site” or “Talk to more girls”.
but maybe i’m underestimating the research
looking from afar, the quality of science there looks quite abysmal, while the field is very important (finding out how to make humans learn things better! come on!)
if there’s one field ripe for huge progress by a large swath of theoretical physicists invading it, it’s probably educational research.
humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn’t catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)
who has taken the train to crazytown the furthest? (and hasn’t suffered from nervous breakdown in the process)
to diversify its lingo, the rationality community should adopt the evidentials smṛti (“I read this in a blogpost”) and śruti (“someone told this to me in a one-on-one”).
pseudoquasisemimetric
if we solve distributional shift, do we also solve ontological crises?
maybe the worst action i could take right now would be to improve a bunch of reinforcement learning wikipedia pages.
Maybe it’s true that intelligence depends on the environment, but consider: the environments where policy iteration performs better than RL with temporal difference learning are kind of dumb.
Breaking News: On-site nuke at Deepmind headquarters in London detonated.
The Moser spindle
The Balaban 11-cage
The second Blanuša snark
The first Blanuša snark
graph names that sound like war crimes:
I’m only paying lisp service to John McCarthy
guy who, when he hears someone mention SARS, thinks of deep Q-learning
let’s not read the thielleaves
which doesn’t have to be this way! blue tribe & anti-agi risk people have mostly orthogonal concerns (i really don’t see the overlap of algorithmic fairness & agent foundations, tbqhwy), and probably ample opportunities for trade (which blue-triber actually cares about compute governance etc.?) but i think zero-sum anti-trade genre affiliation thinking from blue-tribes side will prevent most of that mutually beneficial governance from happening.
looks like blue tribe will end up anti agi risk. sucks, but should have been forseeable—the connection to gray tribe & techbros is too strong.
new favorite color: space cadet (#1E2952) (not really)
from now on whenever the word “spirituality” or “consciousness” comes up in a discussion i will look slightly quizzical and ask “yeah, sure, but can you feel your toes right now?”
i don’t know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don’t know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)
have to admit that switching to python & numpy for data analysis from klong relieves me from a huge pain in the ass—klong is just slow for that.
fair enough, I forgot to remember that something being a hatecrime is considered a good thing around these regions let me pull my dick out alright
i begrudgingly admit that i have learned some things in my courses at university
a peaceful world, with moral patients peacefully grazing in the valleys
they didn’t understand my posting at twitter, they won’t understand it once they come here
We can’t guarantee success, but we can deserve it.