niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Making puns that ~4 people worldwide understand, I rock at poasting

Computational theologists are a pain in the ass, a Newsomes!

Podcasts are conversational superstimuli.

Given how different human psychologies are, it's surprising that most rich humans in developed countries live so similar lives.

Music is bad maybe?

Actual self-identifying Nazis talk about Moloch a lot, but mean something very different from the LW sphere (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/). This is probably a bad look for LW, but it's such a great concept…

Abstract art much closer to music without vocals than to other paintings

Hilma af Klint did nothing wrong, Kandinsky did nothing wrong

These are instances of beauty

Seriously, am I the only one who still thinks fast & discontinuous takeoff is actually pretty plausible?

Yud tweets about fast takeoff due to regulation feel like backpedaling.
The whole idea of foom was "there's a true optimal simple algorithm for intelligence under constraints/embeddedness, which is going to be found relatively early by some proto-AGI mathematics program, and then, out of the blue, FOOM."
Were minds changed at MIRI?

Senryū:

How many raindrops
Are there in the air
This very moment

How many raindrops are there in the air at any point in time

Can you own long yud image as an NFT?

9front has the aesthetic urbit wants to have

Moloch whose wasp-nests are fractal!

Moloch, repugnant in a universal iron lattice!