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shall i read the posts from the 2021 lw review

just before valentine's day! it's like they're made for each other 😍

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OVERCOMING BIAS MOVED TO SUBSTACK

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I don't know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.

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are all biased in
favour of the person at
the top of the list,

also who owns the domain hell.network

and doesn't do anything with it

fellas this cannot be tolerated

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I really enjoy the names of fediverse instances.

girlboss.industries, ihatebeinga.live, yuormom.lol, mysideslm.ao, blackfell.az, crimew.gay, toot.party, hyperoscillatory.space

all great.

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@niplav @newt I lied, it will probably be a device that has a 50:50 chance of destroying the universe or proving a minor technical point in a theory
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Melancholy about successful technology (of which Ford has a nice nuanced version I'm not taking issue with) is very striking to me:

we don't really want our problems solved, or we only want em solved in filmic ways - the big speech, the big march, the bad guys usurped, 0 profit

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Nasir H. Naqvi; David Rudrauf; Hanna Damasio; Antoine Bechara. (January 2007). "Damage to the Insula Disrupts Addiction to Cigarette Smoking". Science. 315 (5811): 531–4. Bibcode:2007Sci...315..531N. doi:10.1126/science.1135926. PMC 3698854. PMID 17255515.

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Thöni, Christian; Volk, Stefan (2021-06-08). "Converging evidence for greater male variability in time, risk, and social preferences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (23): e2026112118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2026112118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8201935. PMID 34088838.

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"Research published in 2007[^78] has shown that cigarette smokers suffering damage to the insular cortex, from a stroke for instance, have their addiction to cigarettes practically eliminated. These individuals were found to be up to 136 times more likely to undergo a disruption of smoking addiction than smokers with damage in other areas."

"In 2021, two meta-analyses on preference measurement in experimental economics find strong evidence for greater male variability for cooperation (variance ratio: 1.30, 95% CI [1.22, 1.38]), time preferences (1.15 [1.08, 1.22]), risk preferences (1.25 [1.13, 1.37]), dictator game offers (1.18 [1.12, 1.25]) and transfers in the trust game (1.28 [1.18, 1.38])."

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Ascended transhuman me looking at the high dimensional configuration space of sets of 17 squares

Wireheading is the generalization of a goal where the policy is extremely similar across all goals

Hm this felt more insighty when I noted it down

is the foot fetish common because feet are next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?

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