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Today is international happiness day!

Let's do some sabotage at the mill 😈

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How do you call it if two Germans eat each other's cookies?

Nasch-equilibrium

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Meditation is so difficult because it's basically the opposite of being addictive

Respect is status for men, prestige is status for women

What path in life do you walk to reach the point at which you say "let me auto-generate the docker image from the codebase"

*at least* 3 bad choices precede this

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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

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