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Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.
There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
A robot that constantly twitches
A robot that constantly twitches
On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being *completely* X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).
there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being *completely* X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).
progress in bits, progress in atoms, progress in qualia
Did communism kill 100mio. counterfactual people? And – how many counterfactual people did it save?
Somebody is always the bottleneck.
Ein Wille wie Silizium, ein Auftreten wie Sand, ein Gemüt wie von Licht durchschienenes Glas.
Issa Rice was right about Wei Dai.
I'm already looking forward to Hanson's next book.
A strange mental motion in AI alignment is thinking about agency in non-agential ways.
A strange mental motion in AI alignment is thinking about agency in non-agential ways.
Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.
Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.
I want a 'Map≠Territory' T-shirt.
I want a 'Map≠Territory' T-shirt.
The best map is still the territory.
The best map is still the territory.
TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.
TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.
"Which is for people, that is for people and objects." -> From a /lit/ thread.
"Which is for people, that is for people and objects." -> From a /lit/ thread.
The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:
The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:
My tribe is a place, not a prison.
My tribe is a place, not a prison.
Classical philosophy: Disputing definitions. Analytic philosophy: Disputing definitions, rigorously. Continental philosophy: Disputing definitions, poetically.
Classical philosophy: Disputing definitions. Analytic philosophy: Disputing definitions, rigorously. Continental philosophy: Disputing definitions, poetically.
Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.
Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.
There is no correct marxism, but there is a right marxism.
ש (shin). Any connection to Evangelion? It is the letter of fire in kabbalah, apparently :thinking_face:
The upper class unconsciously wages class war against the lower classes through lax social laws, such as deregulation of drugs or teenage sexuality, which upper classes can cope with easily (higher discipline), but lower classes can't (and become criminal/addicted to drugs/pregnant at an early age/drop out of school early). This secures the upper class's position.
Decision theory ↔ Microeconomics, Game theory ↔ Macroeconomics?
Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
Fashion seems to operate on two different timescales: 'high fashion' (?) on ½ or 1 year cycles, and 'macro fashion', which changes on the scale of 5 to 10 years
You don't actually need to convince idiots
Believing something doesn't mean you have to tell it to everyone
Rationality is a set of mental motions. Meditation teaches to observe mental motions, and possibly methods to construct new ones.
Working hours are not about work, they're about class warfare.
If Functionalism, then Reality is Dovetailing, but Reality Dovetailing is just Tegmark IV/Zero Ontology (as per Curry-Howard Correspondence).
Getting Boltzmanned on Dust Theory.
"Why do you [X]?" "Signaling."
No person on MDMA ever complained about the lack of meaning in their experience.
ifff = If and only if, and I will take no complaints!=
Image of Dog holding tennisball: "Please babble! No! No prune, only babble!"
A textbooks is a book with exercises
It's an absolute crime that ii doesn't support SSL out of the box.
this feels like write-only access to twitter
reference magnetism in the water supply
Demonless preference utilitarianism
A textbook is a book with exercises
Attempting suicide sometimes isn't about killing yourself, it's about signalling.
The thought that we should respect people's wishes after they're dead might be a corollary of death being bad.
I upekkhan't get annoyed about this.
"If you both die, I will mourn the corpse closest to the finish line."
Or, in other words: would we have a repugnant conclusion?
That is, would total utilitarians build very small (& not very intensive) pockets of hedonium, or extremely big ones?
Is the most efficient hedonium decreasing or increasing in supplied matter-energy?
I should pay more attention.
Does this void answer with jazz?
Lecturer: "0 is not the empty set." Me (looking into Naïve Set Theory by Halmos): "we have no choice; we must write (as we did) 0=∅"=
Lecturer: "0 is not the empty set." Me (looking into Naive Set Theory by Halmos): "we have no choice; we must write (as we did) 0=∅"=
BTW, website! I can be found at https://niplav.github.io. If you want to read things I thought about for more than 5 seconds, that's the place to go.
If it's not insightful enough for the LessWrong shortform, not in context enough for reddit, and not long enough for my website, it goes on here.
I used to have a twitter, but then I got addicted to it and shut it down (https://twitter.com/niplavyushtun). I think I'll put similar stuff on here, and maybe more extreme experimental takes, because there's no risk of getting banned.