niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
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This painting of two Dinotopian companions has been made into a few memes. My favorite has one of them saying "That wasn't a microdose."
if you need metascience there's no alpha left in science
If you put down a heavy (1t) object at the north pole, how much time does pass until the ice has moved so much it's too warm, it melts, and the object falls in the sea?
amussy
Went to a party yesterday.
even fairly well informed people (working in policy) have 0 idea what's coming with AI; they don't even know about current capabilities! still talking about day-to-day politics. oh boy.
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transwomen hatch out of bleggs and transmen hatch out of rubes
few understand this
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The fine structure constant 🧵👇
1/137
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“And what’s this? Where’s your alignment plan?”
“We were, ah, going to raise it like a child.”
“Oh my life. I can’t believe it. You absolute donkey! Raise it like a fucking child? Fuck me.”
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Hell’s Kitchen but it’s Yudkowsky coming in to failing AGI projects
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talk overmuch of the way. make your entire personality about the way. go to way club where you and all your wayfriends engage only in meta discussion about the way
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If your fedi instance uptime can be measured in more than two nines of uptime, your admin works too hard.
- @rqsd@borg.socialbackp/acc
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so discount rates are bad mmkay
say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?
is it in the nature of agents to be overconfident?
i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests
looking through my website, I'm struck by how much it is…*I* made all that? impossible! But yet, it can't be otherwise
“Was that an acustic, syntactic or semantic ‘What?’?”
“……… What?”
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there's this bit my brother came up with where you find someones unlocked car in a parking lot and so you get in the drivers seat and wait until the person comes back, then you get out of the car and say "Hey, you left your doors unlocked, so I decided to make sure nothing weird happened. There are a lot of sickos out there, yknow."
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Kinda hate the idea that all tech development is "progress", particularly with AI stuff. Sometimes tech makes life worse, and it's not "being a luddite" to believe that.
order more kimchi
It takes humans twice as long to detect the *absence* of an element in a set of visual stimuli than the presence
- Website
- https://niplav.site/index.html
- Pronouns
- they/them
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
