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tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
Michel Foucault -> Mishio Fuko (misheard at the breakfast table)
Pronounciation of iff (non-IPA at the moment): ifef
If you're right about this, how could you make money with it?
If you're right about this, how could you make money with it?
Humans have 0th, 1st, 2nd and 4th potentiality.
4th Potentiality: Having the ability to increase 3rd potentiality (being able to acquire intelligence-amplifying technology)
3rd Potentiality: Having the ability to increase 2nd potentiality (having the ability to increase intelligence)
2nd Potentiality: Having the ability to acquire abilities (intelligence)
1st Potentiality: Having the ability to do something
0th Potentiality: Doing something
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
Life-extension/superhappiness are not answers to the question of meaning, just frames for making the search for meaning easier and more likely to succeed in the long run.
Thinking about founding an organization that does exactly that.
I have a feeling that the first step in solving any coordination problem is “bring all relevant parties in a room, and lock them in there with water, food & sanitation until they have either found a solution or killed each other”
Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
Actually, embedded agency is a super good name for a movement, and I could see it replacing the horrid 'rationalism' over time. Plus, 'embags' is a really good abbreviation.
Actually, embedded agency is a super good name for a movement, and I could see it replacing the horrid 'rationalism' over time. Plus, 'embags' is a really good abbreviation.
I've always found the 'suicide is selfish' argument weird. Someone is making the most important (and most tragic) decision in their life, and people are talking about themselves?
I've always found the 'suicide is selfish' argument weird. Someone is making the most important (and most tragic) decision in their life, and people are talking about themselves?
My LW shortform was not appreciated as much as I expected – was I subtly wrong, or did I miss discussion about the choice of TM in Solomonoff induction?
Current status: High moral/ontologicial/metaphysical/empirical uncertainty. Thus: Relative conservativism, plus progression in direction of more cooperation, increasing option value/attainable utility. More concretely: Prevent wars, prevent extinction, freeze people, don't destroy ecosystems (for now). Possible flaws: Assumes we will be able to coordinate even better in the future. Seems more likely to me than not, but otherwise, flip the whole thing and go exploit on current morality.
@ "that's it. I'm sticking to this txtnish client." Solid choice.
@ "that's it. I'm sticking to this txtnish client." Solid choice.
To all the people arguing for putting the comma inside the quotation marks: You are nitpicking and biased, I win, bye bye
As a matter of reconciliation; welp
As a matter of reconciliation; welp
I'm back to “tribes are bad”
I'm back to “tribes are bad”
Noting “noting itself” itself
Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
Oh die Tyrannei der Mühle, oh die Medizin der Mühle!
Why does biology contain the field of ecology? This makes biology even bigger than it is already, ranging from biochemistry up to ecology. That would be like including sociology and medicine plus anthropology in one gigantic field of study.
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper,
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.
connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.
Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.
Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.
Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.
Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.
”If everyone just…“ ”See, there's your problem already”
”If everyone just…“ ”See, there's your problem already”
Alternative names for 'rationalism': map-making, cartography
Alternative names for 'rationalism': map-making, cartography
Alternative names for 'anarcho-capitalism': propertarianism, voluntaryism, voluntarism
Alternative names for 'anarcho-capitalism': propertarianism, voluntaryism, voluntarism
Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.
Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.
There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
A robot that constantly twitches
A robot that constantly twitches
On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being *completely* X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).
there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being *completely* X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).
progress in bits, progress in atoms, progress in qualia
Did communism kill 100mio. counterfactual people? And – how many counterfactual people did it save?
Somebody is always the bottleneck.