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people talk often about power in a way that is not clearly physical power. i have never understood those people, but i suspect that there is some thing there, and that i often perceive its shadow which is epistemic bullshit.
rereading the wikipedia page on ramanujan, we should absolutely clone him and von Neumann, and have them talk to each other. this is either going to destroy the world or usher in utopia, not sure which
rereading the wikipedia page on ramanujan, we should absolutely clone him and von Neumann, and have them talk to each other. this is either going to destroy the world or usher in utopia, not sure which
we could also clone Ramanujan
we could also clone Ramanujan
powerful move to reply to a statement with “sorry, I have that argument tree mapped out, and a minimax search shows me stalemate in every possible play” and leave
the pickup community is the only one i know of that went straight from geeks to psychopaths, without any MOPs.
problems with finding partners at an event dedicated to X: if you're interested in X independently of it being good to find partners there, the gender(/sex) ratio is (if you're heterosexual) likely not in your favour (unless you're odd, but few people are odd). furthermore, if you *do* ask someone out, you might get rejected & perceived (and gain a reputation as) creepy, or mistakenly (“mistakenly”) identified as a sex pest (or, more lightly, as being there just to chase skirt/kilt). even if you don't care about your reputation at the event/in the group, you probably care about X, and that people do X, if you creep them out, they will stop doing X. (not success). (how do normal people handle interacting after one has romantically rejected the other? the ~2 times i have experienced it, it was always just awkward and odd, is there no standard social script? when do you learn it?) if they do agree, you have another mess: others might still get jealous and call you a pest, with the standard hansonian dynamics voluminousifying, or leading to sliding into social bullshit; or there might be a less than optimal breakup that leads to one party not wanting to do X anymore. (not success). (this is furthermore worsened by the fact that you are probably not calibrated & smooth and can handle rejection well, or the other person can't handle rejecting well. oh well). so. if you go to an event about X because the gender ratio is good and you don't really care about X, then it is probably immediately and super clear that you are being *very* incongruous, and it's, like, not a great move? it feels very much like not a great move. so, this is the tree of badness for asking people at hobby events.~
introduction to coq continued, now i have learned what the codebase is supposed to do when it's finished
introduction to coq continued, now i have learned what the codebase is supposed to do when it's finished
so the British colonized most of world, but they also made lots of countries abolish slavery, so it's impossible to tell whether they're good or bad,,,
so the British colonized most of world, but they also made lots of countries abolish slavery, so it's impossible to tell whether they're good or bad,,,
it's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same
it's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same
I also mostly didn't get Chapo Trap House (although the stuff I did get was sometimes pretty funny)
I also mostly didn't get Chapo Trap House (although the stuff I did get was sometimes pretty funny)
to fend off possible accusations of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is not funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don't have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.
to fend off possible accusations of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is not funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don't have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.
for a given graph G, there is a set of graphs \\mathcal{G} so that for every G' ∈ \\mathcal{G}, the transitive closure of G' is G. does \\mathcal{G} contain only one element?
for a given graph G, there is a set of graphs \mathcal{G} so that for every G' ∈ \mathcal{G}, the transitive closure of G' is G. does \mathcal{G} contain only one element?
if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?
if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?
wikipedia redirects shitcoin to cryptocurrency. heh
wikipedia redirects shitcoin to cryptocurrency. heh
if you're not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don't need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority
if you're not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don't need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority
why, of course extremal graph theory is, ahem, extremely relevant to ethics! who would have argued otherwise?
i notice my confusion: i would have expected many more and larger NN models by now, trained on larger amounts of data and displaying significant scaling. where are they? are orgs hiding them?
decision theory is applicable when nobody else in the environment is an agent relative to you, game theory is applicable when some things are as agent-like as you, and despair can be used when you are very un-agenty compared to everything else in the environment
male evopsych researchers post your laycounts
also beethoven was Austrian. sorry, I don't make the rules
Bach was actually French. Checkmate, Teutons
one goal of my site is to maximize the number of intelligent responses I get
hunting hungarians with a howitzer
the status incentives might not be interested in you, but you are surely interested in the status incentives
the status incentives might not be interested in you, but you are surely interested in the status incentives
not the best move on the side of the red cross to call me and tell me it's because of my blood donation — i nearly had a panic attack for the 10 seconds that they didn't tell me it was all fine (why would you call me then‽ and why speak as if you're going to tell me i'll be dead in a month‽)
not the best move on the side of the red cross to call me and tell me it's because of my blood donation — i nearly had a panic attack for the 10 seconds that they didn't tell me it was all fine (why would you call me then‽ and why speak as if you're going to tell me i'll be dead in a month‽)
/r/sneerclub believes that everybody in the bay is attending ceremonies where peter thiel and moldbug sacrifice black children on the altar of acausal capitalism, of course, they are right.
/r/sneerclub believes that everybody in the bay is attending ceremonies where peter thiel and moldbug sacrifice black children on the altar of acausal capitalism, of course, they are right.
guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it's all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general
guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it's all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general
this firefox isn't just leaking memory, it's gushing as if someone had performed shechita on it
this firefox isn't just leaking memory, it's gushing as if someone had performed shechita on it
use known inconsistencies of human preferences as value-learning trip-wires: if the value learning algorithm hasn't learned them yet, it's operating at the wrong level of abstraction.
use known inconsistencies of human preferences as value-learning trip-wires: if the value learning algorithm hasn't learned them yet, it's operating at the wrong level of abstraction.
i wonder if miri is looking out for people reinventing parts of their hidden agendas, as a kind of validation set
i wonder if miri is looking out for people reinventing parts of their hidden agendas, as a kind of validation set
a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff
a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff
annoyance: terminology of "maximin"/"minimax" has some deep symmetry breaking
annoyance: terminology of "maximin"/"minimax" has some deep symmetry breaking
All Cuboids Are Bwwwwwwwwwwwww
All Cuboids Are Bwwwwwwwwwwwww
pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle
pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle
Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a *real* personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists
Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a *real* personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists
What does an enthusiast for upper body clothing say when they see a new piece? “Intewesting”
What does an enthusiast for upper body clothing say when they see a new piece? “Intewesting”
Dafür, daß sie Jainisten heißen, sind sie aber ganz schön resolut
Dafür, daß sie Jainisten heißen, sind sie aber ganz schön resolut
licerology: the study of betting and auctions, auction theory
licerology: the study of betting and auctions, auction theory
short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind
short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind
the only relief i currently have is that the number of not-completely-autistic hot women in the bayrat/ea communities is very low, so we can't be that deep into social bullshit yet
the only relief i currently have is that the number of not-completely-autistic hot women in the bayrat/ea communities is very low, so we can't be that deep into social bullshit yet
“We are trying to accomplish an extremely difficult thing that requires everything to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, but luckily our status incentives are so optimal that the high status men getting to sleep with a lot women is just the best!”
“We are trying to accomplish an extremely difficult thing that requires everything to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, but luckily our status incentives are so optimal that the high status men getting to sleep with a lot women is just the best!”
that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.~
that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.~
i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is *bad*, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.
i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is *bad*, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.
cut your losses. slash their bodies wide open
cut your losses. slash their bodies wide open
“What, of course I want to spend my entire life on this very specific spot on the happiness/productivity Pareto frontier, dummy.”
“What, of course I want to spend my entire life on this very specific spot on the happiness/productivity Pareto frontier, dummy.”
that's why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they're shit), or why meditation is so hard
that's why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they're shit), or why meditation is so hard
feedback loops are severely underrated as a concept. if you can choose between two activities, selecting the one with the tighter feedback loop is probably the better bet.
feedback loops are severely underrated as a concept. if you can choose between two activities, selecting the one with the tighter feedback loop is probably the better bet.
if you put both content and sources into the footnotes, screw you.
if you put both content and sources into the footnotes, screw you.
I don't want to think about my career. I want to solve the goddamn problem!
I don't want to think about my career. I want to solve the goddamn problem!
the Bulow-Klemperer theorem should really be called the Size Matters theorem
purpose lost, purpose regained?
TurnTrout long site, johnswentworth long site, JhanicManifold long site
Stuart Armstrong being an absolute Chad by using S to signify both the set of possible worlds *and separately* the set of impossible worlds in Utility Indifference
they're Borscht-dancing circles around you
Montmartre-Paris+New York=?=