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@lorddimwit Does vis[1] count as a vi variant?

Vi & sam in one package!

[1]: https://github.com/martanne/vis

You can use subscripts to add probabilities to claims:

https://niplav.github.io/notes#Subscripts_for_Probabilities

In a similar fashion, rare nodes central in a semantic network (such as domain names for very common words) have only value due to their connections to other nodes nearby.

Corollary: Land-value tax would make far less sense in a hyperbolic space: It's really easy to get from one point to another quickly.

Natural resources consumption taxes might still be worth it.

Land-Value Tax seems roughly right to me, but I feel like they could be generalized to graph-centrality taxes:

It's not that we don't have enough land, but the value of land is really dependent on how valuable the land around it is (in a fashion similar to the value of networks in Metcalfe's law[1]).

So establishing the value of land is a kind of coordination game, in which people try to eke out centers of valuable land.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

@TetraspaceGrouping I have heard that politicians are often surprisingly easy to talk to and especially low on knowledge about cutting-edge tech.

Capabilities idea: 9b853b32ec0e742a0978f7999278326ba8138b55

They figured out they wouldn't be able to create alignment in time and therefore chose noble civilizational decline in hopes of future civilizations picking up the task

i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?

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Trying to resolve a complicated interpersonal puzzle

meditation has the effect of “conceptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries

evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations

orthogonality of substrate and structure in general

@gigabecquerel My fingers aren't cold anymore. I feel like the first category is in the intersection of the latter ones

@gigabecquerel "Project" stands for "thing I'd do in my free time"

My fingers are cold, so no further elaboration

Projects that give me money > projects that improve my life > projects that increase my knowledge about the world > all other projects

@panchromaticity This feels pretty straightforward to me. "Give me money or the world will end."

Or, sometimes, "come to the Bay Area & be my math pet/epistemic sub or the world will end."