niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

A nice epistemological move missing in Bayesianism is "all current theories suck, I'm waiting for a good one to come around and convince me"

Brought to you by the current evopsych explanations of sex difference in red-green blindness

(source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YG7E84Dvs2PyoKMgSgZFgEX0Kh0RtJqsazZsyVGY8dk/preview?pru=AAABfiHbaTs*SYMroL3TcTqMfdbqsdBozQ)

tumblr bans "long post" tag

this is rat erasure and i will stand against it

pass then

hm, hellthread in my replies isn't _that_ great

i wonder why these people don't just block each other

sweet summer…dog?

they…they don't know!?

(I have a complicated relationship with people blindly going out and trying to solve a problem, so I want to appreciate that Musk is trying to fix the problem, but he also caused a lot of damage in the process which is rare but can happen)

I mean COME ON WHAT THE FUCK EVEN

Sure, we're not optimizing something that shouldn't exist, so WE ARE FUNDING AN ORGANIZATION TO GIVE SUPERINTELLIGNENT AI TO EVERYONE I MEAN **WHAT COULD GO WRONG**

https://mobile.twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928
Musk himself, of course, elegantly avoids this failure mode...
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https://www.google.com/url?q=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RiCoj4SuAboeK3jW4
https://niplav.github.io/bcis_and_alignment.html

If I wanted to get excommunicated by the Catholic church, how would I go about doing that? (I'm an atheist)

The existence of pronouns implies the existence of casualnouns