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There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.
There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.
From a /r/4chan thread: “Birth is the ultimate rape.”
From a /r/4chan thread: “Birth is the ultimate rape.”
All advice should have a failure condition.
All advice should have a failure condition.
If hell exists, then it is reserved for those who don't rebel against it.
If hell exists, then it is reserved for those who don't rebel against it.
Good/quick life extension technology would, for the first 2/3 decades, decrease the average age of death, since more people would die young in accidents etc. than of old age.
Good/quick life extension technology would, for the first 2/3 decades, decrease the average age of death, since more people would die young in accidents etc. than of old age.
Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}*
Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}*
It matters how many life years are lost in car crashes, not how many lives.
It matters how many life years are lost in car crashes, not how many lives.
Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \\ • Engineering-realistic computing power \\ • Physically possible computing power \\ • Unlimited but finite computing power \\ • Infinite computing power \\ • (?) Hypercomputation
Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \ • Engineering-realistic computing power \ • Physically possible computing power \ • Unlimited but finite computing power \ • Infinite computing power \ • (?) Hypercomputation
Ich werde eure Jachten anzünden und eure scheiß Ferraris in die Luft jagen.
If the evolution of human-level intelligence is a great filter, then neat AI seems a bit more likely
oh, you meditate? note every sensation then
niplav yushtun, whose map is not the territory
seeing EA/LW people date each other dramatically reduces my confidence in them being successful at truth-seeking
other weird thing: while cutting my nails a few weeks back (and accidentally cutting into the flesh of my toes), my visual field very quickly disappeared, flashed white, and reappeared. the whole thing took maybe 0.2 seconds. what was that?
when meditating with eyes open in (semi-)darkness, darker objects become darker & seed a spreading shadow that sometimes consumes large parts (or all of) the visual field. if attention comes to the visual field, this effect disappears, while awareness can hold it stably. what is it?
while this does not abolish the problem of arbitrary category selection, it does abolish the problem of making arbitrary cutoffs
bc objects from ontologically basic categories have no continuous transformation between them, e.g. there's no continuous transformation from the number e to an oak (or from the quale of a piano chord to an iron atom), but there is a continuous transformation from a human into a pig, or from a pig into a superintelligent pig
using ontologically basic categories for deciding moral relevance is of practical importance, it prevents others from being able to slippery-sloping one into moral stances one dislikes on reflection
eating : drinking :: feeding : ?
Is the common usage of overly violent examples an example of memetic decay?
old carrots taste horrible
Modulo the cost of generating them, quantified uncertainties are always more useful than unquantified uncertainties
create universe – thought experiment – delete universe
frogorbits.com "I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better." <3
frogorbits.com "@niplav Re: selection pressure against meditation: go on…" It's just that people who become enlightened have less kids than people who don't. (This is not to say that people who become enlightened should have many kids).
co-evolution of C and operating systems
if we loose control soon (or just decreasing control), grab all value that you can, otherwise delegate as much as possible into the future
move solving metaphilosophy & similar problems into the future
2x2 {what we're able to do now, what we have to do now}
Quines are poems. Don't @ me
Quines are poems. Don't @ me
“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
bootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
bootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
@lucidiot "nuclear realtor" I like this twtxt. \n
@lucidiot "nuclear realtor" I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I'll often just reply with "I like this" or <3, although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I'll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]\n2021-01-20T14:36:36.000000Z\tbootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
@lucidiot "nuclear realtor" I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I'll often just reply with "I like this" or <3, although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I'll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]
@lucidiot "nuclear realtor" I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I'll often just reply with "I like this" or <3, although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I'll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]
my plan would involve writing the code for a seed asi and giving it a completely senseless goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips & spreading as far as possible. this would benefit no one & cause untold damage. i will take no questions
my plan would involve writing the code for a seed asi and giving it a completely senseless goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips & spreading as far as possible. this would benefit no one & cause untold damage. i will take no questions
Do you think kantbot will come here when he realizes this is where the cryptids are?
Do you think kantbot will come here when he realizes this is where the cryptids are?
US declining quickly, europe slowly?
US declining quickly, europe slowly?
I'm slightly concerned by the selection pressure against meditation
I'm slightly concerned by the selection pressure against meditation
Memetic algorithms are a thing! [Moscato and Cotta 2010]. Wonderful
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Leaning towards explicit abstract reasoning, though, if I would be pressed.
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Leaning towards explicit abstract reasoning, though, if I would be pressed.
Riffing off of Mechtild of Magdeburg, yes, sex may be a mystical act towards god, but it's a blind idiot alien god :-^
Riffing off of Mechtild of Magdeburg, yes, sex may be a mystical act towards god, but it's a blind idiot alien god :-^
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Nearly everything, I guess? More concretely: What falls into the category of whatever spans {deciding where to sit, deciding whether to blame someone else for something, catching a ball, picking a good career, proving a theorem}.
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Nearly everything, I guess? More concretely: What falls into the category of whatever spans {deciding where to sit, deciding whether to blame someone else for something, catching a ball, picking a good career, proving a theorem}.
I'd rather be boring than wrong.
I'd rather be boring than wrong.
I am part of the problem.
I am part of the problem.
“There is no single trick that gives you the truth immediately. You actually have to _think_.” is a mischaracterization. This thing “thinking” has a structure, and we want to discover that structure, optimally mathematically.
“There is no single trick that gives you the truth immediately. You actually have to _think_.” is a mischaracterization. This thing “thinking” has a structure, and we want to discover that structure, optimally mathematically.
The thing that is maximally different from itself
I have never seen anybody fire a gun in real life.
Ten minutes have passed, I have concluded it's all just an act.
“Is everything just a giant LARP?” – Guy Debord, right before writing The Society of the Spectacle
EA has started feeling LARPy to me. Is that bc I do it LARPily or because it actually is?
DSA DSA=Democratic Socialists of America decisive strategic advantage=
DSA DSA=Democratic Socialists of America decisive strategic advantage=
gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
Care less about organic food
Care less about organic food
I should probably just add a mentions command to txtnish
I should probably just add a mentions command to txtnish
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jointwt/we-are-twtxt/master/we-are-twtxt.txt | grep -v '^niplav ' | field 2 | xargs curl ^/dev/null | grep niplav here we go
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jointwt/we-are-twtxt/master/we-are-twtxt.txt | grep -v '^niplav ' | field 2 | xargs curl ^/dev/null | grep niplav here we go
@prologic "What the hell does cartesianly mean?! 😳" Me inventing a new adjective for "there is only a one-way flow of information" ^^
@prologic "What the hell does cartesianly mean?! 😳" Me inventing a new adjective for "there is only a one-way flow of information" ^^
Maybe I could write a script that trawls the we-are-twtxt list and notifies me when I'm mentioned–the name should be unique enough.
Maybe I could write a script that trawls the we-are-twtxt list and notifies me when I'm mentioned–the name should be unique enough.