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or, more flippantly: almost all economic growth is destroyed by regulation, almost all progress in hardware is destroyed by slower software
Wirth's law, but for economic growth and regulation instead of hardware and software
@jlj "@niplav (#4qeibma) Hadn't heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)" -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they're not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt*
@jlj "@niplav (#4qeibma) Hadn't heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)" -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they're not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt*
this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar
Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm*
reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)" -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they're not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt
piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in
yo bro, the new alignment newsletter just dropped!
yo bro, the new alignment newsletter just dropped!
proposal: let's ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything
proposal: let's ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything
leave a line of retreat in ideology-space
leave a line of retreat in ideology-space
ironically, IRC has more slack than Slack
ironically, IRC has more slack than Slack
what is the popperian stance towards tolerance's stance towards the popperian stance towards tolerance?
paradox of tolerance is self-swallowing?
I should fight for slack more.
dislike of editing because it induces a prediction error for believing ”I'm already finished working on this text”
or, longer: in the cartesian product of the space of minds by their rationality and mind-states by their emotional well-being on the high end the tails may come apart, but they are not anti-correlated
rationalist ∟ postrationalist
humans are maybe better at solving common resource problems than more rational agents for adaption-executer reasons
high discounters force low discounters into high discounting
winner's curse for high discount rates
how come there's a Hard Problem of Consciousness™, but no hard problem of matter?
shoot me if i ever say that X should require Educational Attainment Y
shoot me if i ever say that X should require Educational Attainment Y
could we build a blockchain which auctions off computing power to companies who wish to solve NP-hard problems as proof of work?
I used aversion factoring yesterday
felt really tense around a maybe 4cm² area there, slowly disappeared during the sit
felt really tense around a maybe 4cm² area there, slowly disappeared during the sit
yesterdays session: collecting dullness (?, maybe addictive energy is a better name) at the spot where the nose begins between the eyes, then concentrating on it
yesterdays session: collecting dullness (?, maybe addictive energy is a better name) at the spot where the nose begins between the eyes, then concentrating on it
un-doing not doing non-doing
un-doing not doing non-doing
challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don't usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.
challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don't usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.
(cont): qualia relationism: the properties of qualia are defined by their relations to other qualia (but distinguish ordinal rankings for properties of qualia without a zero-point from cardinal properties of qualia without a zero-point). E.g., the hedonic treadmill is not accidental, but a deep fact of the universe.
(cont): qualia relationism: the properties of qualia are defined by their relations to other qualia (but distinguish ordinal rankings for properties of qualia without a zero-point from cardinal properties of qualia without a zero-point). E.g., the hedonic treadmill is not accidental, but a deep fact of the universe.
(me making up words): qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.
(me making up words): qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.
@jlj "Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten -- and then letting it languish :-( -- really belongs in Anki." <3 i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I'm not sure how long i'll continue~
@jlj "Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten -- and then letting it languish :-( -- really belongs in Anki." <3 i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I'm not sure how long i'll continue~
learning dril tweets & morse code using spaced repetition
@pbatch "Writing a "tweet" is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts." <3
@pbatch "Writing a "tweet" is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts." <3
Let TM1 and TM2 be turing machines. Let p_{1 on 2} be the shortest program that emulates TM1 on TM2, and p_{2 on 1} be the shortest program that emulates TM2 on TM1. TM1≺TM2 iff |p_{1 on 2}|<|p_{2 on 1}| (and TM1~TM2 iff |p_{1 on 2}|=|p_{2 on 1}|). Is ≺ then transitive?~
Another datapoint for the technocrats is, of course, Ignaz Semmelweis. He comes around high-phalumphin with his data and his measurements, wanting nurses to abolish their age-old practice of “not caring whether one has washed ones hands before helping to give birth”
people have it the wrong way around: algorithmic decision-making is usually fairer (but cless efficient), but people making decisions is more efficient (while being more biased)
beer is liquid psychoactive bread
beer is liquid psychoactive bread
i will not live in the bay, i won't be part of the cule
i will not live in the bay, i won't be part of the cule
note to self: don't go to the bay
note to self: don't go to the bay
@vain “I don’t know. But you got me.” <3
@vain “I don’t know. But you got me.” <3
sorry for the twtstorm o.o
sorry for the twtstorm o.o
Intellectualize your problems so you will become bored of them.
Intellectualize your problems so you will become bored of them.
Whatever the question, despair is not the answer.
Whatever the question, despair is not the answer.
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?
Plants are pretty fascinating, they turn air into life.
Plants are pretty fascinating, they turn air into life.
Comp Lit: computational literature
Comp Lit: computational literature
Morpheological <-> More theological
Morpheological <-> More theological
Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).
Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).
Tactic: Moving the lever closer.
Tactic: Moving the lever closer.
“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn't need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”
“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn't need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”
Long Now thinking applied: Introducing the LGBT+ pride millenium!
Long Now thinking applied: Introducing the LGBT+ pride millenium!
I wonder why it isn't more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don't know enough anthropology?
I wonder why it isn't more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don't know enough anthropology?