niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

the vibe i get from objectivists is that they have a giant bottom line written out & really want to get to it, moreso than from nearly every other ideology?

(or, on hellthreads, it seems like

reply>boost>like,

which, yea, well, ok)

fedistanis seem to think that
boost>like>reply

in terms of revealed preference via frequency, but the better order would be

like>reply>boost

(boost/whatever it's called on other fediverse sites is "I want to push this into as many eyeballs as possible), and unless you're a xenofem.me user, you rarely want to push things into other people's eyeballs

accounts created before 202{0,1,2} will become valuable

Ah well caveat caveat

Alignment Newsletter is back baby!

Listening to Hassabis on the Friedman podcast, I'm impressed by the character and purity of intentions of the man.

I now understand why people are excited about AI.

Tell Berkeley I said hi

Eppur si morbe

GPT-Alyx

Codebase 96% Idris

there's a lot of alpha left in high-weirdness mental wellbeing interventions

maybe for most people social media isn't an epistemic hazard, but “just” an attention hazard?

Ah interesting https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15474

The EA community is grabbing xrisk by the black balls

After a fair bit-chosen, we continue our search for the best unicode character, with a quaternary search by codepoint.

Round 4 (with some RTL stuff).

The timelines are a'shrinking