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The epistemic commons are worth protecting. Go and do your signalling with donations or fashion.
I get very squeamish when people are insistent on me saying “X is Y”. It's usually a bad sign.
I get very squeamish when people are insistent on me saying “X is Y”. It's usually a bad sign.
Getting laid before the age of 21 is a great predictor for becoming a utilitarian vs. a negative utilitarian.
Getting laid before the age of 21 is a great predictor for becoming a utilitarian vs. a negative utilitarian.
Do people who only communicate in ASL have tiny hands as an internal monologue?
Do people who only communicate in ASL have tiny hands as an internal monologue?
If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.
If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.
Not explaining away; instead predicting.
Not explaining away; instead predicting.
Bandname: Catastrophic Transcripts
Bandname: Catastrophic Transcripts
Audiobook not so great because they don't pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
Audiobook not so great because they don't pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
There is a universe not far from ours where people signal wealth mostly through effective charitable donations.
There is a universe not far from ours where people signal wealth mostly through effective charitable donations.
Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
How do you cooperate with suboptimal allies?
How do you cooperate with suboptimal allies?
Concreteness leaking out of your abstractions there.
Concreteness leaking out of your abstractions there.
A jam is a very vibey object.
A jam is a very vibey object.
Minimax, maximin, minimin, maximax
I'm skeptical about having a model of utility actually being sufficient to solve optimizers curse. isn't that just kicking the can down the road, finding something that fools both your utility and your utility model?
I'm skeptical about having a model of utility actually being sufficient to solve optimizers curse. isn't that just kicking the can down the road, finding something that fools both your utility and your utility model?
it's uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking
it's uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking
@jlj "Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒" -> Just as @movq has problems with his reading queue, I have problems with my "things to explore" queue. I even bought a planet a while back, but haven't had time to dive into the extradimensional madness of the urbit system. Subjective impressions & reviews highly anticipated!
@jlj "Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒" -> Just as @movq has problems with his reading queue, I have problems with my "things to explore" queue. I even bought a planet a while back, but haven't had time to dive into the extradimensional madness of the urbit system. Subjective impressions & reviews highly anticipated!
“concept handle” is jargon for “jargon”
“concept handle” is jargon for “jargon”
People who don't create their own religions are incredibly suspect.
People who don't create their own religions are incredibly suspect.
how highly evolved a human is can be measured by how small their little toe is
how highly evolved a human is can be measured by how small their little toe is
looked better rendered by LaTeX, but whatevs
looked better rendered by LaTeX, but whatevs
At least you can feel good about the counterfactual worlds which are doing really well right now!
Note to self: Use “Eat my shorts” and “Stay fresh, cheese bags” more often.
Some of you haven't read the sequences and it shows.
The singular of criteria is criterion goddamnit!
Approval directed behavior in the water supply
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: "There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron."
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: "There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron."
Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.
Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.
Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
It always bottoms out in valence somewhere.
It always bottoms out in valence somewhere.
value of perfect information in the water supply
value of perfect information in the water supply
Play strange games, win strange prizes.
Play strange games, win strange prizes.
Omohundro monsters in the water supply.
A lot of social technology developed by nerds makes lying harder, and therefore won't be accepted except in nerd-only spaces.
Virginity actuarial table
Families are probably very good: people genetically pre-disposed to like/help/cooperate with you.
It's harder for me to be mindful of default states of mind (calm etc.) than very agitated states (nervousness, stress etc.).
Politics supervenes on ethics/epistemology.
Sure, give me all the negative space you want. I'll take the most comfortable spot.
I'm here to chew bubblegum and refine my subjective experience, and luckily both can be combined
meditation is a fine long-term form of suicide
subtle sense of impending doom
fnarglization might work if you have a ruler that's about as smart as humans and rational (it definitely doesn't if one of those doesn't hold)
Note: I'm not sure how much I believe this as of yet. Maybe 10%?