niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

@rime Awwww

😌

In the spherical market in perfect vacuum, difficulty of hiring=difficulty of firing

Breaking news: local anon maybe doesn't need to do all that stuff

my brain is *not* able to deal with the word "schemaless"

"but what about the glory of god?"

What if we kissed in the 'petertodd ' region of latent space

@rime

To be clear (contrary? to my previous reply) I don't really think the market for altruism is efficient yet, and will not be so for quite a while

Transfer from high to very high to extremely high utility projects—no idea

When I look back the backchainers didn't do very much cool stuff (?)

Weirdly many good things come from stumbling & sweat (Haber-Bosch process, electricity, reducing biomes…)

@rime I don't know whether I buy this :-)

Like, yes, good tech brought into the world only needs to be brought into the world once, but then one needs *maintenance*.

"We know how to kill Moloch, but it's not glorious, just tedious."

See also Ostroms work on Governing the Commons

@rime
There's levels to this! If we have a decreasing marginal returns model & weakly efficient market for altruism (vis à vis EA) we get a bunch of difficult but useless problems + few medium — difficult useful problems

But one can also be good along some axis, e.g. being able to deal with boring/tedious/stupid/low-status stuff that has high leverage

And then there's also problems which, if solved, unlock many low-hanging fruits cascadically

@rime Yes! It's surprising this works at all, but it does sometimes

I found one of the stranger websites today https://inferiorasian.com/

Risk-aversion with generalized mean

@a @internetarchive "self-destructing paper" :-(

@rime Also hi shell-chan! ~^^~

@rime "asl" → ask, was typing on my phone

SE is software engineering

I honestly adore the sex-negative feminists attitude towards sexual orientation:

heterosexuality is a skill issue, just nietzscheanly redirect your sexual orientation to the best one, decided by your logical faculties

incredible

Animal welfare intervention: making us able to talk to animals

@Paradox "Mr Bond, I have triangulated your data source"

@Paradox There's https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantitativity but not https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantitavity, but that kind of thing has never stopped me