niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

relationship status: resolving a recent ontological shift

I can either poast https://niplav.github.io/turning.html as it's now (with non-finished sections elided) to LW or post a half-finished version in 5 months (yes, it's not even half-finished by now)

wat do

https://swarthy.substack.com/p/effective-accelerationism-eacc hmmmmmmm

no

(this is a misogynist poast in disguise)

the existence of trans women is a godsend for the diversity of my reading list

effective altruist who works in fintech

and we knew already that adversarial examples are often likely features, not bugs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02175

https://nitter.hu/giannis_daras/status/1531693104821985280#m verdict: doesn't feel surprising to me. adversarial examples apparently have some structure, which is (some) evidence against the natural abstraction hypothesis. we will end up having to extrapolate concepts

Nuclear futarchy biotech EU

signalboosting this: https://old.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/uznkhw/gpt3_2nd_anniversary/

insightful, as usual, with some strong predictions

Why am I more bullish on blockchain than SBF? I'm not *that* bullish on blockchain

putting webpages on the blockchain as backup

(this is an actual usecase!)

Non-fungible tokens, offline:

* Nobel prizes
* Olympic medals
* Military medals
* Signs in concert halls that tell you how much who donated to the hall (certificates of impact in general)