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Joined Aug 2021
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@niplav heh, funny how that works out sometimes :D
Well off the top of my head I'd probably be promoting:
#1 Diaspora for the best depiction of virtual persons I've ever seen.
#2 Schild's Ladder for the adventure of unleashing a universal X-risk and the race to halt it.
#3 Permutation City; all about Cellular Automata so good but also weird cults too?
#4-N pretty much all the collections of short stories which have some vcool concepts
Orthogonal is bit weird, no Relativity in the setting :!?
In which niplav undertakes the easy step of formalising a concept:
is chatgpt conscious
Capabilities idea: bf83a0cb25bb227743a9fc877a02571dca55d204
the longer you were uncertain about a thing, the stronger the reward upon discovering its true nature
is this just reinventing the powerseeking theorems? gotta check
it would be helpful if we knew whether for almost all random functions from ℝⁿ→ℝ, changing any one element of the domain slightly changes the output a lot
then one might also prove (or disprove) the same thing for functions implementable by some classes neural networks
the eigenluigi
Myself in 7 books:
The Sequences
There is no Antimemetics Division
The Elephant in the Brain
C for Dummies
House of Leaves
Who Owns The Future
1984
Niplav Yushtum™: Mostly a Reputation Hazard
Robin Hanson tells you to read textbooks ASMR
i wonder whether anyone will actually get this one
the bible is boring as shit at the beginning but it picks up once they introduce evolution so don't worry
Who'd thought that *sampling from a distribution* of all problems is that hard
I like this, steampunk math: https://observablehq.com/collection/@ishi/arithmetic
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
