niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

dharma HODL

joule supremacy

"science" job gf
science "job" bf

is ethics under Tegmark IV indexical?

can we make shocklevel bragging cool again?

Breaking Reedspacer's limit with a volcano lair filled with spidergirls instead of catgirls

Never knew it could be so easy

impact-limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)

one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth's crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run

my plan would involve writing the code for a seed asi and giving it a completely senseless goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips & spreading as far as possible. this would benefit no one & cause untold damage. i will take no questions

people lie about dating so much holy shit

hanson's just spot on about this, so much self-deception in advice about romance – might as well be adversarially optimized (still passes the most basic bullshit filters, but otherwise completely counterproductive)

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/08/why-does-reasons-reach-vary.html

metaphilosophical regress in the water supply

Cartesian product

“is socially constructed” is socially constructed

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there's relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.