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me listening to a metal band I haven't listened to before, tentatively headbanging: this rules, the singer better not ruin it

singer: [fucking ruins it]

it is very nice to come back here and see the common lisp people still doing their thing

godspeed

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There is still alpha in doing weird things and writing down what happens

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Wealth is the ability to do all your flashcards, exercise, meditate an hour and read a paper or two a every day

decouple intelligence and goals and policies, feeling and suffering and pain, ought and can and is

any further suggestions?

running ahead with this

covaries with nuclear weapon proliferation, ofc
perception is all you need+is moore even faster?

bio doesn't seem energy-bottlenecked, hm

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there's an anthropic shadow on nuclear energy proliferation

If you can't bring in exponentially more people by compromising on cause areas it's not worth it

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__FUNCTION__ = {<optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>, <optimized out>}

This is a genuine question, same for Hessians. Search engines are surprisingly reluctant at telling me whether this is the case

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Jacobian of f(x)+g(x) is just Jacobian of f(x)+Jacobian of g(x), right?

right‽‽

straight genderconfused people become trans, gay genderconfused people become furries

proposal: "tossing the icosahedron"="feeling bad"

you like RCTs because they allow limited causal inference

i like RCTs because they are gaslighting

we are not the same

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once the US treasury inevitably mints a trillion dollar platinum coin, who's down for a heist?

(1) we have no idea what is going on in LLMs
(2) it's outlandish to claim that LLMs have no understanding of the world

it's hard for both of these to be true.

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