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Is a time traveler who dies in a time loop a "causalty"?

Some of my mutuals are going to become billionaires, and some are going to end up homeless, and I have no idea how to distinguish them

How much energy do organisms spent on their immune systems?

How many animals in a given trophic level are predators?

How many people employed in computers are black-hat attackers?

What percentage of population is cops?

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The stripe number of "2-3% of the financial system will always be fraudulent transactions" is really interesting.

If an agent technically "cooperates" but computing the conditions for cooperation is computationally intractable then the agent isn't truly cooperating

Engaged in modal combat with institutions

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A significant theme in my life is actively choosing not to Goodhart and then being punished for it

Lesswrong fads:

• "Akrasia"
• "Gears-level"
• Nootropics?

In the spherical market in perfect vacuum, difficulty of hiring=difficulty of firing

Breaking news: local anon maybe doesn't need to do all that stuff

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my brain is *not* able to deal with the word "schemaless"

What if we kissed in the 'petertodd ' region of latent space

Sexuality, *probably* weird racial role-playing, racism, internalized racism 

I found one of the stranger websites today inferiorasian.com/

I honestly adore the sex-negative feminists attitude towards sexual orientation:

heterosexuality is a skill issue, just nietzscheanly redirect your sexual orientation to the best one, decided by your logical faculties

incredible

Animal welfare intervention: making us able to talk to animals

Also: Why are basically only Indonesians studying the effectiveness of the Pólya method

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One of those abstracts where you feel like you're having a stroke

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