niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

it appears to me that in some parts of mathematics, errors in proofs often are fixable (number theory seems that way?), in others, a bug is often fatal (computational complexity theory, it seems)

why the difference? or am i just imagining things

We were talking about raising the sanity waterline as a moderate intervention.
But the years have shown that this is a time for drastic revolutions.

We will shake the faultlines of all worldviews to usher forth a sanity tsunami, a cataclysm or reasonableness. We will flatten mountainranges of delusion and push the dust into the deep-sea trenches of impartial anticipation

no, niplav, you can't just say that you have complicated feelings about a social situation and then assume it to be solved

humans are actually distributed via a Cauchy distribution,,,

new concept: if your field needs to argue for its relevance, the question is already answered

10000 hours of meditation
10000 daygame approaches
10000 forecasts
10000 burpees
10000 posts read

BuzzFeed quiz: Which decision theory are you?

there are no turing machines around, only finite state machines

this is relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wXB-kZBq0

eh, maybe more like 15%

the thing is that this stuff is *extremely* powerful, and I have been careless in taking & recommending it

20% sure that taking LSD the second time significantly harmed my ability to get an erection

i also took away many benefits

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