niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Databass systems

Overcoming Bias move to substack thoughts:

• Old redirects to LessWrong have stopped working.
• Old comments are accessible, but only to paying subscribers
• The æsthetic isn't my thing

Idea: I flip a coin to make the decision to floss/not floss for at least 3 months. Then at the next dental inspection, when the dentist asks whether I floss, I tell them my setup and ask them to predict.

Should I bother?

I SHALL SAY NO TO ALMOST ALL DEMANDS

WHY ARE PEOPLE MAKING SO MANY DEMANDS ON ME

Everyone Everywhere Extend Embrace Extinguish

Anyone wanna be post-post-ironic bronies

http://niplav.site/text_reviews#What_We_Owe_The_Future_William_MacAskill_2022

I want a visualization of idea heritage on the internet. KnowYourMeme has genealogies, scrape and use LLMs to curate a dataset, then...?

dril wrote for HiveSwap. It's all connected

read my website, not my toots

https://niplav.site

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_bomb
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System

trying to fit in with Gödelian set theorists by saying “V” when someone does something outrageously stupid

Are there weapon systems installed on the ocean floor?

I have not yet heard a convincing-to-me argument against empty individualism, and open individualism falls to Occam's razor.

Which ones exist?

"I would simply vipassanize my trauma"

Structural regular expressions are, I think, kind of overlooked

vNM might not imply undominatedness, but it sure does waggle its eyebrows suggestively in that general direction

Has anyone tried to train neural networks to predict sudden drops in loss of LLM training?

We surely can observe many scaling curves from many different tasks

rlhfucked up