niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

@animeirl nice, congrats

@animeirl Oh, and not to overplay my hand, this was on one stock

My other trades haven't been this good

@animeirl What was the lucky bet?

@animeirl Not bad, however…

Allegedly 5% of papers are fraudulent

Respect is status for men, prestige is status for women

@Paradox BTW wjere did you get the immune system answer from? I searched and got nothing

What path in life do you walk to reach the point at which you say "let me auto-generate the docker image from the codebase"

*at least* 3 bad choices precede this

Some of my mutuals are going to become billionaires, and some are going to end up homeless, and I have no idea how to distinguish them

@Paradox Thanks for numbers! Also "all of them" yeah, fair.

(And which part is criminals?)

How much energy do organisms spent on their immune systems?

How many animals in a given trophic level are predators?

How many people employed in computers are black-hat attackers?

What percentage of population is cops?

The stripe number of "2-3% of the financial system will always be fraudulent transactions" is really interesting.

@j2kun There can be more than one existential risk

unfortunately

@sj It still baffles me that micropayments didn't work out

Is it just that our financial system is *not equipped* for <1 ct transactions?

If an agent technically "cooperates" but computing the conditions for cooperation is computationally intractable then the agent isn't truly cooperating

Engaged in modal combat with institutions

A significant theme in my life is actively choosing not to Goodhart and then being punished for it

Lesswrong fads:

• "Akrasia"
• "Gears-level"
• Nootropics?

@rime This is individually risky but socially beneficial, so I will not dissuade you! Forward-chain on