niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
it's not fair that roko was right about effective altruism
it's just not fair
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I have since tried to adopt my colleague's habit of tempering pure optimism with a sincere effort to locate counterexamples. Even if the result is true and counterexamples do not exist, these efforts often "map out the negative space" and leave a lot of clues as to how the proof of the positive result has to proceed, for instance by directly identifying the most dangerous putative counterexample scenarios and suggesting what the right "weapons" are to defeat them. 5/5
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Astrology also encounters notable discontinuities when passing from one star sign to the next: a pair of twins, one born a minute before midnight at the end of one star sign period, and one born a minute after, would have significantly different horoscopes; similarly if they were born on opposite sides of a border between time zones (or better yet, the international date line). (2/2)
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it's between me and god, and i'm not sure He wants any part in this
i am objectlevelmaxxing. i am cutthroughthebullshitpilled. i am in my simulacrum 0 arc. living the hugquerycore
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My literal advice to anyone is to find the biggest, densest, most scholarly book that interests you and read it cover-to-cover. Take as much time as you could possibly need. Get to know it intimately, so much that you can explain the logic of its internal structure, terminological choices, etc. Then try to identify the book that that book's author read, or argued against, and repeat. Take as much time as you need. Your quality of intellectual life will skyrocket.
2023 is the year of the object level
solomonoff induction but with sophistication
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Gwern, the rightful caliph
I remember Richard Ngo making the suggestion that the science of the interactions between individual humans is going to end up being similar to economics:
The main claim was that human interaction can be modeled as ongoing microtransactions of status.
E.g. take boasting: it's a sort of staking/investment/prediction in the status of a thing associated with a person, the harder the boast the bigger the "staking". Others can either join in (add stake) or in a grou you can then have a KBC-ish thin
Nuclear powerplants that float on the ocean so that when they melt down you can transport them away from the coast quickly and sink them in the ocean
right foundations
do you believe economics comes to conclusions that are more right/left wing? are you right/left wing politically?
is leto atreides a villain?
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in the alternate universe where we took the biopunk tech tree option, “chinchilla scaling” is way cooler
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If there was an account that was “animals that go hard” I would be one of them
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it sucks that the English cannot distinguish Schloss, Burg, Feste, Herrenhaus and Rittergut.
implementing Augmented Lagrangian because you want to: cozy, relaxed
implementing Augmented Lagrangian because your degree requires it: nausea-inducing, terminal ugh-field
doing it anyway in a 3 hour haze of nicotine-fueled parameter-tuning: self-transcending, supremely agentic
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
