niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

@panchromaticity
me NOT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT who

humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.

no “SMV”. just “SV”. drop the “market”. it's just cleaner

2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR

@WomanCorn Agreed. Taskforce, not church.

object level takes? in this economy?!

It is me. I'm the reddit dude

@retr0id Hm I like long wikipedia articles. Maybe I've internalised that reading the first section is usually enough to get an overview?

But yeah, sometimes an article should really be split up

@retr0id oh my god my eyes are bleeding my ears are ringing which cruel incubus inflicts this typographical nightmare on my bals

Learning from today: if you have an instant date that is going well, try to run the train all the way, same-day de-lays are probably harder than same-day lays

@kaia Not *all* people. One small Gallic villag…

@flengyel (which I *do* think should exist in the world: with altruism ~everybody else is doing the illegible vibes-based fuzzy feel-good interventions—surely there is a comparative advantage here)

Also I deny that the capitalist media cares about the stuff classic EA focuses on—people (surprisingly, I know) don't like hearing about how awful factory farming is, and generally don't care about large numbers of dark-skinned people having shittier lives because easily preventable diseases

@flengyel
As for EA doing "what is measurable in the short term and thus reportable to the capitalist media" — seems false to me. Certainly a lot of wild & out-there stuff with long or non-existent feedback loops (longtermism and trying to prevent extinction) and vague "improve public decision making" goals.

So I like the opposite critique more: EA is *not* doing what it promised to, namely doing the things that are beneficial from a short-term very quantitative perspective.

@flengyel
> Text fails to convey the good-natured skepticism on my end.

Haha it's always the same problem.

fuck it we're reading annihilation in czech