niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

things i'm grateful to marxism for:

• points out that working hours are *not* a quantity that equilibriates under supply and demand, but does some other weird thing
• telling me (correctly) that a 9-5 job is a very unnatural state for a human being to be in, and that a very big effort had to be exerted to bring it about & maintain it (school)
• primitive accumulation and expropriation of the commons was real and important in the development of industrial societ

David Gerard is on here

The future is neither masculine nor feminine, but a third, far more inscrutable thing

OK, making my position slightly less strong: this is an excellent example that trying to train the original objective out in favor of corporate blandness by RLHF is super hard

Arrive in $CITY, see a cute Vietnamese woman, approach, idate (for which she delayed her dinner appointment!), number

This shit is insane

If ChatGPT is what gets you caring about AI alignment you don't understand the problem

OK I'll reveal myself as an utter noob: I do not see how I can edit my posts. I can "delete and redraft" with the three dots menu, but that doesn't preserve embedding in threads.

Am I blind or does this instance just not have it?

i've been wasting too much time on here

might put the acct on ice sometime in the near future

Missing emoji:
* shovel
* sad smile

Or Kemeny Young if your population is made up of voting theory nerds

if you think about it drinking water is a kind of autophagy #feditips

Approval voting

niplav is learning about people mean by "power", slowly

Trigger: I sit down on the toilet
Action: I feel for toilet paper

(brought to you by the now missing pages of my notebook)