niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Everybody is unhappy because everybody is a price taker

(retweeting some old posts I think were bangers)

A solution is technical if it is precise enough to be goodharted, and social if it's so cryptonormatively imprecise that it can be used to coalitionally extract value

dimwit: people are too lazy, too little is happening

midwit: but if you do too much, you risk running into addictive processes & self-reinforcing loops; credit-assignment is hard and goodharts law looms everywhere

synwit: yet: we see high-variance societies with lots of innovation doing useful & better stuff all the time, look for actions bounded below but not above, if you're good at optimizing you're probably also good at discovering that your optimization has gone haywire, thousand flowers!

my reply guys have reply guys, and they have reply guys too, and deeper still; together we implement an HCH tree.

I think restricting the greater male variability hypothesis to mainly just IQ is odd

If it's true it explains *so much* about why humanity is the way it is

such an elegant compression (I believe it to be true, mostly)

you can't just propose a counterfactual and not state whether it's evidential or causal

where you do() the past to produce it

Quanta magazine is good

Only the avatar…

Are dowries just payments ensuring paternal investment by using the sunk-cost "fallacy"?

acquaintance just said that she has *lower* standards for men that approach than for the women she approaches

jives well with the zero (0) approaches during my 1½ hour dg session today :-/

heh I was accidentally hosting the libgeneg copy of Age of Em on my site for a year

Also outer product spaces apparently always only have positive semi-definite elements?

Recipes from the Matrix Cookbook, part 1/?

what if ftm is just a *really* strong countersignal? have you ever considered that, Mark?

the correct position on consciousness is the figure-ground inversion of functionalism

mfw Eliezer will never call any of my ideas “dignified”