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find the next number in the sequence 0,2,2,46,3640
find the next number in the sequence 0,2,2,46,3640
daily reminder that most politicians wouldn't be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them
daily reminder that most politicians wouldn't be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them
I'm a midwit with high need for cognition
I'm a midwit with high need for cognition
I had to reject the p-zombie, they just weren't qualiafied
i'm gonna solve ontological shifts, just wait for it
if i ever take on a buddhist name it will be udassa
small death is when someone points to a sociohazard to make clear how bad that sociohazard is, not orgasm
Ted đź‘Ź Kaczynski đź‘Ź was đź‘Ź AGP
p(2020 C.E.-2120 C.E. is the most important century)≅1/3
note to self: not to underestimate e/acc. shitposting can lead to scary big results. The reaction from some EAs indicates underestimating it, with some smug superiority—not a good sign!
note to self: not to underestimate e/acc. shitposting can lead to scary big results.
ah yes it's good i don't have a twitter right now
holding back human capabilities is by itself not a wisdom intervention.
every programming language should have a nop-equivalent statement. python left the option of using “continue” on the ground
“Noooo you can't just slap »Bayesian« onto something and that automatically makes it good” “haha MCMC go brrrrrrrrrr”
“Noooo you can't just slap »Bayesian« onto something and that automatically makes it good” “haha priors go brrrrrrrrrr
if you believe i am causing massive amounts of harm, i want to hear from you
In the Heideggerian sense, Sorge≠worry (as i believed), but Sorge=care=
reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out
reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out
commitment races in rape accusation
commitment races in rape accusation
pet peeve: scales that have a neutral or default or average point, but which are nearly or completely on the positive. why are people asked to rate happiness from 0 to 10, not -10 to 10, where 0 is the neutral state? why are movies rated from 0 to five stars?
pet peeve: scales that have a neutral or default or average point, but which are nearly or completely on the positive. why are people asked to rate happiness from 0 to 10, not -10 to 10, where 0 is the neutral state? why are movies rated from 0 to five stars?
the right level for solving the hard problem of consciousness is within existing science/within philosophy/within meta- or pre-philosophy/needs a fully new paradigm of thought
the right level for solving the hard problem of consciousness is within existing science/within philosophy/within meta- or pre-philosophy/needs a fully new paradigm of thought
transhumanism is simplified humanism.
transhumanist is simplified humanism.
transhumanism is simplified humanism.
ideologies are just compressed & distributed vibes, shards of shared stances.
ideologies are just compressed & distributed vibes, shards of shared stances.
(wistfully) “im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”
(wistfully) “im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”
EinstĂĽrzende Neugeburten
EinstĂĽrzende Neugeburten
good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.
good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.
i'm now pretty sure the urbit whitepaper is impossible to parody.
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
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)
GPT-Alyx (Codebase: 96% Idris)
i find the removal of the “master/slave” thing in computer protocols to be kinkshaming
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
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?
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
there's a lot of alpha left in high-weirdness mental wellbeing interventions
lojban rap, microtonal giantstepcore, taxxonpop
lojban rap, microtonal giantstepscore, taxxonpop
lojban rap, microtonal giantstepscore, taxxonpop
if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.
if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.
pandas makes my RAM usage jump like a cardiogram
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.
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.
“but niplav, isn't that way too meta/coupling?” “yes.”
steelmanning the whole “space colonization ideology is just a new colonialism/imperialism, and just as bad”: let's take domestic robots which display signals of pain when damaged (even though we know that they don't feel pain, because consciousness research was miraculously successful). if there was no moral norm against damaging/destroying them, we would still regard it as bad, because it's harmful to the human psyche to perceive oneself to be causing pain, and that being okay. similarly, talk about aggressive space colonization could be damaging to the human psyche, because it kindles an emotional stance that does not respect other people or their lands. this is irrespective whether we would encounter alien life out there or not! (i suspect most people can't think clearly about the distinction anyway). it'd be enough if that emotional stance/ideology would do damage on earth.
we're paving over the reputational ecosystems with beautiful curves whose area sums to one, just watch
wrangling (& getting to work) an RL agent with a friend until half past 2 am. good times
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)~
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)~
“It's a traditional niplavistani recipe.” “And what's that weird plushy stuff?” “Oh, that's really special. Fermented blåhaj fins.”
twt vitrification order? at tetraspace
Thermal Discouragement Beam, Edgeless Safety Cube. lmao
dath ilan has screened off its past just es ey wants to screen off his past before ~2003~
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.
numpy.unique needs the type to be comparable by < and >, not just . that seems like overkill.
diversity inequity exclusion
diversity inequity exclusion
following legislation from the ELSC (european long site commission), I now have to adopt an ocelot
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
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
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
lack of exasperation at the inadequacy of the world