niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
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hey can one of u nerds help me out? I'm looking for the name of a concept, like "Stuart's Rules", some name like that? its a set of rules used in nerd cultures where one declares that they prefer that people prioritize clarity over protecting their feelings when talking to them
Gwern fat-trading post but for height
I wonder what the price of a centimeter of additional height would be if you could trade it
I guess it would be positive, since I suspect men want to be tall more than women want to be short, for example
Name one thing that isn't gradient descent
I fucking dare you
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RT @paleoludic
The student asked, "How many Zen masters does it take to enlighten a student?"
"Zero," replied the zen master.
And the student was enlightened.
"So one," said the student.
"Yeah," said the master, "usually one."
log-log bulb
a living thing is just a set of nested hyperspirals with random error on top
biological organisms are so cyclic!
heartbeat, breathing, sleeping, mating cycles, life & death…
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sounds crazy, but it's still ok to be friends with someone you disagree with
I will try to adopt the russian style of writing things: "Consider $PROBLEM. [equations]"
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Explore [[gradients]]!
Learn from burning and unburning
Big tent whxte supremacy
If you read too much old PUA material you have a high negetic load
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propaganda of the deez
maybe the solution is that most random mutations are just harmful, and beneficial mutations are quite uncommon & reach fixation reasonably quickly, so removing rare mutations is good on avg
people like steve hsu talk about removing mutational load, and that that will create much more healthy & intelligent individuals.
BUT if you just replace rare variants with common ones, wouldn't you also remove rare *slightly advantageous* variants, and just end up with an average animal?
- Website
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
