niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Is the humane nose optimized as to pull in air as widely as possible and then exhale it in one specific direction?

Would make sense as to not breathe in the air you already deoxygenated

PSA: numpy.isclose is neither symmetric nor transitive 💔

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The Taoists were wrong:

Recent masturbation likely doesn't decrease meditation quality.

http://niplav.site/notes#Does_Recent_Masturbation_Decrease_Meditation_Quality

Understanding vNM oncoherence better -> prevent surrogate goals from being edited out of utility functions

Why is the majority of all living multicellular animals on earth nematodes?

IIRC ~half of all multicellular animals on earth are nematodes. What makes them special to be do successful?

It is the most important century

And I'm reading a report on snail welfare

Oh actually they make up >80% of all animals. (!!!)

If you have advanced BCIs, while training an AI system, you might be able to use a distance metric between the human neural activations and the weights as an additional training signal

To inch closer to human-like cognition in trained AI systems

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LaTeX is bad software

In 2017 there were ~100 mio. beehives in the world

(fao.org/faostat/en/#da…, parameters Live Animals, World + (Total), Beehives, Stocks, from https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/ptTzTsuDJEK8awdf6/p/JR4azSe4Yr2qdBBwt )

With ~1 trio. bees

I just gotta really appreciate our dear admin @pee_zombie. Server always running, no random bans because someone didn't like the right videogame, appreciable schizoposts… just all around great.

with YOUR HELP we can get http://schelling.pt on fediblock!

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