niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

i dip my big toe into the discourse—a quick, searing pain.
as i pull it out again, only pieces of bone dangle from a stump, with blobs of "Musk" and "woke" dripping from it

DALL-E 2 prompt: A quokka with fangs

Cade Metz, occasional tech blogger at the New York Times

and make our world in data pay for it

todo: create a ranking of countries anywhere by how open their borders are

harberger taxes on domain names, but the ratio of the tax is higher the shorter the domain name is

maybe lw culture is missing parts of forecasting culture?

I think I like LW culture, but I also really like forecaster culture

longevity research is trying to move an outer loss signal into the inner optimizer, we'll have to see whether that one is strong enough to take up the burden

update: invoking cultural evolution as an explanation is most of the time tenuous, see https://www.gwern.net/Backstop#artificial-persons: “cultures or groups are rarely driven extinct, with most large-scale ones persisting for millennia; such ‘natural selection’ on the group-level is only tenuously linked to the many thousands of distinct practices & beliefs that make up these cultures; and these cultures mutate rapidly as fads and visions and stories and neighboring cultures and new technologies all change over time"

knuckle tatoos: “nplv site”, “ttra spce”, “less wrng”

The Lightgirl of the Gate

DALL·E 2 prompts: The Gateboss of the Girlkeep

thinking about nea-risks

not enough algae

the masculine urge to become a nameless star on a wall somewhere in a basement of site 39

Now hips, a black hole to surround
no Riemann metric has yet traced
an old, a new decision is now made
a bow is drawn
a good one, as of yet
no fragmented escutcheon
from the old master's whirring feet
a pair of compasses would never
traverse the geodesic so
a “hi”, a “no”, a saddest look, relieved of possibility
Now have I fucking traumatized the bird‽

northonormal korea

AI alignment in 12 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4NcHrCz8yE