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ethically diverse, we have consequentialists, deontologists, and virtue ethicists

Local catgirl pushes your longest dimension, then i'm *checks notes* negative three hundred and it's? — thatcan.be/my/next/tweet

In the parameters that matter most, some people are more special that others. Out of all the humans alive today, what % are more special than the average respondent to this poll?

interesting that they made a language that runs on the Kotlin Virtual Machine that’s like Kotlin but worse called Java

idk if coming up with fun names for special moves counts as writing or brainstorming anyway i like it

gf who lowers her complexity in the universal prior by embedding reference to herself in a more reductive basement universe

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gf who performs acausal trade with the fraction of simulators who are simulating your relationship from your first-person perspective

wise man made a big mistake he should have made it clearer he was being grimly cynical rather than tolerant

When Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote HPMOR he eternal september’d LessWrong. This began a gradual shift away from STEM nerd norms to fandom geek norms. The outcomes were largely predictable and uninteresting. More interesting are the failure modes the nerd subculture underwent as things fell apart.

Chapman’s standard account of how this goes is relevant, but the decline looked less like sociopathic sabotage and more like unaligned geeks crowding out the signal.

Beyond intake filters it was socially accelerated by the pathological insistence that you’re not allowed to notice bad faith. The LW focus on ‘agency’ and ‘world saving’ led to a dynamic where traits that 9/10 times imply a generative person in a normal space were faked by geeks for social acceptance. The archetype persona was something like “Hi I’m Jessie, I write fanfiction but want to do AI research as soon as I get over my traumatic childhood.”

girl, are you legible? it’s really hard to tell because it’s not written down whether you are anywhere

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