niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

we do a little yak-shaving

okay new task find all the papers in which people have undergone the CPT and do a meta-analysis

Would it be a good thing if someone wrote a Wikipedia article on neural network scaling laws?

daygame locations as a multi-armed bandit

hey LLM how does one do long game

guy who would rather read than meditate

optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing

a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!

very good

from https://twitter.com/doxometrist/status/1634308402473058305

interpretability for AlphaFold

claims

i beg you to learn anything else about game theory

guy who compares everything to the prisoners dilemma

"we actually don't need X" is hard to distinguish from "X doesn't work yet, just needs some engineering" and "elites suppress X"

pointer to an *extremely specific* point in qualiaspace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPBRvd8OTY

why does this feel so incredibly primal

donating blood and then taking mdma is a good idea: you're both easier to intoxicate *and* happier about what you did