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i know omega is the reason i hate needles.
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@niplav When you get down to it everything has a 50% chance of happening because there are two possibilities, it either happens or it doesn't happen

Morality has been naughty, it's now grounded.

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is your child writing about agent foundations?

• ffs: finite factored sets
• lmao: let's measure agency objectively
• idc: independently discovering corrigibility

“if enough of us listen to prophets of doom, it becomes self-fulfilling” — Leo Szilard

pressman being another taxxon fan is a delightful finding

found spicy khmer waltz; vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it's the reaction i have the most when playing it

spicy wheat found
qream, neither is warez
boxem, foofe, bouge, mozed, janus, jarns, ezafu, jokez, foqed, naxus, extra spicy bunns

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bussy is not an absurdle word
neither is quarz

grebo is, tho (?!?!?!?)
and verry (⸘)
eagre
pleas

i dislike the way most people deal with QRI stuff

sure, they're kind of out there, man, but i'd like it if people were critiquing individual points

e.g. my opinions

* stv is ~correct: 10%
* log scales of pain & pleasure is correct: 85%
* this has huge implications: 65%
* neural annealing is a good framework for the brain: 50%
* neural annealing is correct, in all of the aspects they say: 1% (come on! it's a *huge* conjunction!)
* tyranny of intentional object is right: 90%

Taxxon just casually drops a 1½ hour album

youtube.com/watch?v=5w6_D-jrt6

it's a good day i might say

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YOU LEARN IDIOMS IN SCHOOL?!? what the fuck, i'm genuinely scared these freaks lurk among us
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list processing for the masses, the common lisp
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