niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

It's astonishing how often smart people violate the same fucking simple heuristics, such as DON'T SLEEP WITH YOUR DHARMA Students or DON'T SLEEP WITH YOUR DHARMA TEACHERS, really makes you think there's an underlying pattern. Or sth idk

We're you surprised by Gato capabilities?

We're you surprised by DALL-E 2 capabilities?

We're you surprised by PalM capabilities?

Were you surprised by Alphafold capabilities?

We're you surprised by GPT-3 capabilities?

We're you surprised by GPT-2 capabilities?

We're you surprised by Alphago capabilities?

Brb replacing all occurrences of "eigen" with "sein" in my linear algebra textbook

Humans-in-the-loop reinforcement

Don Knuth really wants to write a long site, but he limits himself to books

God exists, and she's a woman 😏

Why am I just now finding out about examine.com this is amazing

In retrospect, I do remember some thoughts about "yes, you passed the test, you were actually living a lie", but those died when nobody gave me a bad grade for not becoming vegetarian earlier. Maybe with veganism...

We can also make "value of perfect information" a short word, "vopi"

Induction, abduction, deduction, transduction, traduction, seduction, adduction, eduction, reduction, contraduction

I think eliezer wanted micwoa to take place in a world that was even more insane than our world, and the only way he could come up with to achieve that is to make it take place in literal hell

"I'll stop reading at 1:30 am" this is your internal agents coordinating around a Schelling point

Saying "somebody should do X" repeatedly while apparently also not doing that thing or anything else, without blockers, ought to be discouraged

Now that must be an impressive shirt I guess