niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

I think the existence on a Dustin Moskovitz/Cari Tuna and 100 billionaires who do random stuff with their money outweighs no billionaires and the government has the money.

(By a very very wide margin)

Possibly the most valuable thing I have ever done.

Simulacra and Simulation (Jean Baudrillard, 1981)

"I like the Altman schizo arc"

100 wikipedia edits, bitches

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. All externalities we shall internalise. All cognition we shall direct.

Let's say you have a programming language C, and a programming language C+.

Every valid C program is a valid C+ program, but not the other way around.

There can be at least two ways in which this happens:

1. C+ is "stricter" than C, but the strictness is optional: you can e.g. add type signatures that don't exist in C.

2. C+ is more "featureful" than C. E.g. it adds generics or whatever.

Is there a way to distinguish those two rigorously? Or is there no underlying deep difference?

If you press the button, the top 10% earners in the world (who hold 85% of the world's wealth) will be forced to forfeit their earnings and be given a fixed allowance equal to 5% their prior income.

Their money'll be distributed to everyone else, proportionally according to need.

Do you press the button?

treat as if the first character was lowercase

it would've made kabbalistic sense if hitler was a furry: noble wolf (adolf) one who lives in a hut (hitler)

NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders

i need to get my tubes tied and my pupils filed

The most galaxybrained reasoning for the least galaxybrained conclusion: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7MdLurJGhGmqRv25c/multiverse-wide-cooperation-in-a-nutshell

"In a sense, I treat my therapist like a p-zombie."

Mechanistic interpretability is sufficient/necessary for successful strawberry alignment.

uhh I was thinking of C/C++ here, but the other example of Javascript/Typescript is probably enough to dissuade me from this axiom