niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

additional question: what's going on with CFAR these days? gone?

(Un?)related point: take the winners of the first decade review (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/HSA8wsaYiqdt4ouNF):

7 of them are "fluffy" posts, a lot more concerned with the vibe of EA. this feels — lacking, in some way? maybe a bit too much?

there's definitely a thing going on there which was definitely lw/forecasting influenced, these very small thought patterns

reading thousands of blogposts on this does increase your depth, imperceptibly at first

going to an ea conference has showed me that i'm now a medium-age EA (as in, i've been in EA longer than most people I talked to at the conf)

which is *weird*

really good post: https://musingsandroughdrafts.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/on-category-i-and-category-ii-problems/

instrumental convergence is when you're jamming out a really nice tune with your buddies and really groovin' it

the swine club

with resolving inconsistent graph preferences, does the portion of non-uniquely resolvable preferences shrink with the number of options? in other words: for the set 𝓖_n of all graphs with n nodes, and the set U(𝓖_n) of those graphs with a unique path-graph with a smallest graph-edit distance, is |U(𝓖_n)|/𝓖_n<|U(𝓖_{n+1})|/|𝓖_{n+1}|?

(bc nobody ever clicks links)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-08-13

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test thinks i'm female or robot

:obama_not_bad:

great pride with that lisa classification

here's the lowest-matching ones:

huh

that's

pretty accurate, as far as i can tell?

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/