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“What is the nature of reality” well if you use the SIA to update on anthropics no matter which Turing machine you guess is reality there’s an arbitrarily more probable one with a smaller prior probability

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“How many jelly beans are in the jar” well if your loss function is inverse-googological or harsher in the difference then for any number you can name you’d regret naming a bigger one because of your prior on very very large number of jelly beans

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I feel like more people should be concerned about how no interesting functions of the complexity prior normalise but maybe they are and I’m just ignoring them or maybe I’m missing something

tweet about little free libraries and effective altruism and virtue signalling in general I guess

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a. This is a ploy to trick people into thinking it’s good!
b. Right, but is it actually good?
a. I don’t understand the question

asked GPT3 to list the names of some items in the reference class of roko’s basilisk and well I have no idea what the “”infinite torture” vampire meme” is but I have been assured I don’t want to

wonder how much of the earths surface is currently on fire at this exact moment

omori homestuck au where dave's headspace is sbahj

the obverse (observable universe), the converse (controllable universe)

my new compromise position that is sure to make everyone happy is parents can stop their kids from getting COVID vaccines but if they do it publicly its neglect and the government arrests them

watching Oliver Twist and waiting for the Academy warbeasts to show up

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