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gotta get a 9 year old with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom

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the Scheme Shell Acknowledgements section may be one of my top five favorite pieces of writing tbh https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
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attempts at steady attention are ongoing

it's really funny when people tag jimmy wales on twitter when they don't like some of the content on wikipedia. it's like someone would tag Nat Friedman when they find a bug in a program hosted on github

i love the kind of capable agent that will actually just kill me

Technically if you just doveltail you also create an embedded diamond-maximizer

compromise: making Trump Shitposter in Chief

Thoughts about Emily in Paris:

Nice anti-villain story, set in a caricature of a misunderstanding of Paris. Lovely to watch for getting some insight into the mindset of hot women: ~all problems are solved by manipulating social reality (even emotional reality takes a backseat).

Also interesting (for me) to see the seductions going on in the series: mostly good-looking guy game, but also teasing, push-pull (in the specific variant of irreality/irreality-collapse).

And it *is* pretty.

There should[1] be a conservation law in deontology: the amount of rights must be equal to the amount of duties

[1]: Should here in the axiomatic sense

Virtue ethics is just the bounded agent's cry for a larger t

Some people can only act if there are adults in the room. But there often aren't

there are naive millionaires, but there are no naive billionaires

but also the amount of time a broken clock is right has measure zero

corollary: broken clocks are infinitely more accurate than shifted clocks: a broken clock is right twice a day, but a shifted clock is *never* right

In deontic logic, is ~obligation(~x)=permission(x)?

philosophical technique: A is X, B is Y, but there is a continuous transformation from A to B, but there isn't from X to Y, where does the switch occur?

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