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Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released *before* GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane
“sorry dude, you have vingean uncertainty over the EA community”
“sorry dude, you have vingean uncertainty over the EA community”
critiques of effective altruism in the form “effective altruism isn't blue/green enough” are really boring, and likely wrong
critiques of effective altruism in the form “effective altruism isn't blue/green enough” are really boring, and likely wrong
I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun
I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun
nofap promises so much and in the end just makes my balls ache a bit
nofap promises so much and in the end just makes my balls ache a bit
tbh i can understand why people dislike Pinker so much—he's usually right, but he so unfathomably smug about everything
tbh i can understand why people dislike Pinker so much—he's usually right, but he so unfathomably smug about everything
GPT-3 probably has a better model of human psychology than normal humans
“benching your own bodyweight” is a moving target with an interesting set of fixpoints
erotic indexical uncertainty
aviation safety is a small shard of dath ilan that fell into our world
aviation safety is a small shard of dath ilan that fell into our world
rapidly oscillating between nibbanic zero-ontology and plotinian “badness is non-being” views
rapidly oscillating between nibbanic zero-ontology and plotinian “badness is non-being” views
What is a market then? A wretched piece of matching algorithm
“blockchains are bad because harmful ai systems could use them to acquire resources” nice try
daygame coaches are sex workers
why does reality give me my strongest leads from my weakest opens
are ftm trans people more often sociopathic or psychopathic?
I'm rapidly flip-flopping between believing that I'm extremely autistic and believing that everyone else is autistic compared to me
I'm rapidly flip-flopping between believing that I'm extremely autistic and believing that everyone else is autistic compared to me
In this House — We might fail, but never with abandon — Every moment is fresh, unimpeded by the one before — We remove as many obligations as we add — There is something to protect, something to give everything for — Tsuyoku Naritai!
In this House — We might fail, but never with abandon — Every moment is fresh, unimpeded by the one before — We remove as many obligations as we add — There is something to protect, something to give everything for — Tsuyoku Naritai!
the distinction between Trying Hard and Moving Toward the Goal
why does meditation make me *so* horny & temporarily relieve me of erectile dysfunction?
why does meditation make me *so* horny & temporarily relieve me of erectile dysfunction?
why is >80% of the most read literotica content incest related?
why is >80% of the most read literotica content incest related?
the last century was wild: “Her love of tennis included playing naked, with nude tennis ‘a common practice in those days among the more louche members of the middle classes’”, from the Wikipedia article on Enid Blyton.
the last century was wild: “Her love of tennis included playing naked, with nude tennis ‘a common practice in those days among the more louche members of the middle classes’”, from the Wikipedia article on Enid Blyton.
pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)
pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)
gotta get a child with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom
gotta get a child with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom
*another paper* which relies on questionnaires for attention span. am i going crazy? how is this a good metric‽
*another paper* which relies on questionnaires for attention span. am i going crazy? how is this a good metric‽
WWTSCCD (what would the super-cooperation cluster do)
openphils first spent dollar is more effective at promoting public good than the first tax dollar to the eu (to speak nothing of the us)
I believe that in effective altruism, deciding where funds are redirected by classic one-person-gets-one-vote methods would be hugely misguided. leading to coalitions appropriating resources, working against specialization etc. not against funders trying better mechanisms to elicit local knowledge, but applause-lighting “democracy” ain't gonna cut it
tbh maybe the biggest innovations that Julia makes are the iseven() and isodd() functions
computers? miss me with that wimpy shit, that's for women
functional illiteracy (doesn't know anything about functional analysis)
My Generation — The Who (Eurobeat Remix)
My Generation — The Who (Eurobeat Remix)
noone told me that you can get basically free tutoring from professors during so-called office hours‽
noone told me that you can get basically free tutoring from professors during so-called office hours‽
Julius Caesar Scaliger pre-empted Scott Alexanders solution to theodicy: in his view god had created every being that would add more good than not to the cosmos
Julius Caesar Scaliger pre-empted Scott Alexanders solution to theodicy: in his view god had created every being that would add more good than not to the cosmos
proposal: ability to sort posts on forum magnum by length
proposal: ability to sort posts on forum magnum by length
Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi
Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi
how much programmer activity is spent writing new code vs. debugging existing code?
how much programmer activity is spent writing new code vs. debugging existing code?
concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code.
concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code.
THE ACTOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM VGHS MARRIED THE ACTRESS PLAYING HIS LOVE INTEREST
THE ACTOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM VGHS MARRIED THE ACTRESS PLAYING HIS LOVE INTEREST
beliefs are position, epistemology is speed. i care about acceleration
arrière and derrière having the same meaning is just such a thing
arrière and derrière having the same meaning is just such a thing
of course the Soviet Union failed—they didn't have computers yet!
of course the Soviet Union failed—they didn't have computers yet!
Albert Ellis, who probably wrote the first book on pickup, “The Art of Erotic Seduction”, was influenced by Alfred Korzybski for inspiring his philosophical path for founding rational therapy. TINACBNIEAC
computational complexity theory of self-modifying code. probably not good for execution speed, but great for code size.
computational complexity theory of self-modifying code. probably not good for execution speed, but great for code size.
i only allow myself to go the hard way. good or bad?
i only allow myself to go the hard way. good or bad?
if agents are usually suffering negative sum games might be good via destructive warfare
if agents are usually suffering negative sum games might be good via destructive warfare
thing that bugged me about don't look up is that they didn't restart the calculation in the beginning for four times and instead just immediately concluded doom.
heuristics decline more gracefully in predictive accuracy than deep models. Example: Having the cosmological constant be off by one part in a thousand yields quite different predictions, while the heuristic "two objects of significant weight (e.g. >10²⁰kg) will enter an elliptical orbit" declines more gracefully as you change the weight
elon musk is not playing 4d chess with neuralink, or with spacex.
language is the middle layer of a qualia autoencoder
Today, scientists fear the corpses