niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Some books are just 5 papers in a trenchcoat

The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?

alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent's optimization power

learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy

If you tickle a sub, the result is a bottom contraction

mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite

Guy who goes to therapy once to find out how it's like

Oh my god I remembered it

That were the worst 10 minutes of an already shitty week

I do *not* recommend remembering the password to your encrypted drive by 80%

bayesianism much closer to correct epistemology than utilitarianism to correct ethics

don't even get me started about metaphysics

quineposting

"is burdened with glorious purpose" is burdened with glorious purpose.

*scribbles additional item on “List of Unethical Experiments to Try In Simulation”*

Mining replycoin

brb, selling chaitins Ω as an NFT

Shoah by Lanzmann was sold as an NFT (!!!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token#Film