niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

I notice im confused abt the fact that people don't get a belief from the LW community, and then Holden Karnofsky explains it, and suddenly everyone starts believing it.

I don't trust that process

Transport via likrete not-quite-sleds

Live in pykrete-but-with-lichen ("likrete"?) houses, not igloos

Somewhat-domesticated penguins and seals

Fiction about somewhat peaceful antarctic native population who use lichen for heating and as ritual drugs (very odd "space eating itself" and temporal effects) and have an extremely violent mythology

From the viewpoint of a 19th century French woman

wait @TetraspaceGrouping why did you delete your reply? I thought it was good and basically true

Niplav's in the fun zone

I will not judge ethical theories *only* by their conclusions
I will not judge ethical theories *only* by their conclusions
I will not judge ethical theories *only* by their conclusions
I will not judge ethical theories *only* b

I'm willing to take bets similar to the ones described in this tweet: https://nitter.hu/MatthewJBar/status/1534113341156691968#m

though prepping is still a good idea! you should have three months of food & water at home

it's funny, conditional on AGI (and perhaps also WBE?) not doing us in, i'm pretty bullish on this century. bio seems much less of a problem, and everything else is basically a-okay, especially with people becoming richer and needing to fight less. most other collapse narratives sound pretty unlikely

if aliens exists and UAPs are caused by them, what implication does that have for AI safety?