niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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Melancholy about successful technology (of which Ford has a nice nuanced version I'm not taking issue with) is very striking to me:
we don't really want our problems solved, or we only want em solved in filmic ways - the big speech, the big march, the bad guys usurped, 0 profit
Nasir H. Naqvi; David Rudrauf; Hanna Damasio; Antoine Bechara. (January 2007). "Damage to the Insula Disrupts Addiction to Cigarette Smoking". Science. 315 (5811): 531–4. Bibcode:2007Sci...315..531N. doi:10.1126/science.1135926. PMC 3698854. PMID 17255515.
Thöni, Christian; Volk, Stefan (2021-06-08). "Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (23): e2026112118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2026112118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8201935. PMID 34088838.
"Research published in 2007[^78] has shown that cigarette smokers suffering damage to the insular cortex, from a stroke for instance, have their addiction to cigarettes practically eliminated. These individuals were found to be up to 136 times more likely to undergo a disruption of smoking addiction than smokers with damage in other areas."
"In 2021, two meta-analyses on preference measurement in experimental economics find strong evidence for greater male variability for cooperation (variance ratio: 1.30, 95% CI [1.22, 1.38]), time preferences (1.15 [1.08, 1.22]), risk preferences (1.25 [1.13, 1.37]), dictator game offers (1.18 [1.12, 1.25]) and transfers in the trust game (1.28 [1.18, 1.38])."
@TetraspaceGrouping (if we make it)
@TetraspaceGrouping oh man it's going to be so rad
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Ascended transhuman me looking at the high dimensional configuration space of sets of 17 squares
@TetraspaceGrouping
person who links the lesswrong tag instead of the wikipedia article
Wireheading is the generalization of a goal where the policy is extremely similar across all goals
Hm this felt more insighty when I noted it down
@macja
who would win:
• A million lazy hippies
• One (1) Daisy Cutter
is the foot fetish common because feet are next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?
@Cedar Cool to hear! I'd never thought about using APL-likes to train ML models, but that obviously makes sense.
@rune Fair enough. I now slightly regret being "the billionaire defender has logged on" :-D
@Cedar this is very cursed. Good job.
I think the existence on a Dustin Moskovitz/Cari Tuna and 100 billionaires who do random stuff with their money outweighs no billionaires and the government has the money.
(By a very very wide margin)
I would support taxing billionaires and giving the money to the poorest people in the world directly (à la GiveDirectly). Giving it to governments strikes me as a bad idea.
@rune
Additionally, giving money to people in developed countries goes way less far than giving it to people in developing countries. The difference in wealth & income is just very stark (if you earn more than 10$ an hour you're in the richest 10% of humanity &c).
Could you give an example of billionaire philanthropists abusing their power?
I don't recall a concrete incident from the philanthropists I'm thinking about (Dustin Moskovitz, Bill Gates). SBF I concur did abuse power.
@rune Disagree. I think marginal dollars to governments are bad—they will probably use them to subsidize failing banks, or pump money into the military-industrial complex to kill brown people with ever-more-fancy drones.
I also think the first sentence in the previous toot is a non-sequitur: It doesn't strike me as plausible that doing good should lead to looking not sad (although I also claim that billionaire philanthropists look quite happy to me).
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