trying to fit in with Gödelian set theorists by saying “V” when someone does something outrageously stupid
dril wrote for HiveSwap. It’s all connected
I am concerned about my outgoing debts, but not about small-ish incoming ones
Erz Herz zog
I think I’m getting more curious with age
Cormac McCarthys writing has strong Harvard sentence energy.
I’d like to garbage-collect some symbols in the math I’m currently writing, help
draining the baby out with the bathwater
Shapley values are NP-hard to compute, right?
“nubile” should mean cloud-like
productivity under anxiety is a repulsive fixed point (you might even feel worse the closer you get to what you should be doing)
from a computational complexity perspective, completeness is the “worst” axiom to violate: only O(n²) to find a violation
no Eliezer you’re wrong Runaround is about tiling agents,
“…still working on the frugal priors though”
von Neumann: I came up with this new system that generalizes probability theory to consider convex sets instead of point estimates. I think that I could use this to prove regret bounds…
WAIT WHAT DID ZIZ GET HER NAME FROM ONE OF THE ENDBRINGERS FROM WORM‽
snitches get stitches, bitches get skritches
steelmanning benefits the steelmanner
roman buddhists
midjourney prompts: the buddha as a roman senator
gimli voice: they call it a site
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
Unicode doesn’t distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl to cultivate a new gradientspawn
faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical
How long is your fundamental OODA loop?
I don’t remember where I first read this, but: A government’s OODA loop is ~6 months long.
chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode
you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not that big…
von Neumann and Morgenstern is a joy to read :-D
maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff
ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs
wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is not “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???
haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.
“neniel” could also be a biblical angel
just loving this little guy: (·,·). it’s like he’s looking through a crack: ‘come on, you’ll understand the function definition’
starstardotbib
What is the Bayesian version of calibration?
in practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary
What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
I’ve never gotten much out of a book review & don’t understand why people read or write them.