niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Hm, I noticed the snarky thought "I can't come up with any large scale positive development[1] that I would attribute to redistribution".

But now I'm like "that's too snarky, you might just ask people for examples".

E.g. I'd attribute rising lifespan with improved nutrition (core cycle in the economy improving).

[1]: like, at least over several decades and hundreds of millions of people

regularised monarchy

presidential democracy is just myopic dictatorship

Everything I don't like is an externality

A guide for arguing with libertarians I don't like

You are a {morning lark/night owl}, you associate {morning with red & evening with blue (mr&eb))/morning with blue & evening with red (mb&er)}

i am losing my mind

yes louise incorrigible indeed

We have both, RLHF+fine-tuning *and* RHLF+fine-tuning!

Hm this is not very reassuring guys

How many (currently unknown) problems for alignment on the same level as inner optimizers will we encounter in very advanced AI systems?

"Don't talk to journalists" as in "Don't talk to the cops"

climate change might be more or less important, but the solution is not to give more resources to the people currently loudest about climate change

guy who writes {{cn}} instead of [citatiton needed]

These days I spent way more time on Wikipedia than anywhere else tbh

ghastly incentives! horrid incentives!

Mate-poaching is a thing because it makes use of information asymmetry: why do all the mate-evaluation work yourself when you can just let someone else do it?