niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
daygame locations as a multi-armed bandit
hey LLM how does one do long game
guy who would rather read than meditate
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!
interpretability for AlphaFold
claims
guy who compares everything to the prisoners dilemma
"we actually don't need X" is hard to distinguish from "X doesn't work yet, just needs some engineering" and "elites suppress X"
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AGPL stands for AutoGynePhilia License and is a plastic card that says you're allowed to find yourself hot,,,
(I, of course, am an unlicensed autogynephile because be gay do crimes)
pointer to an *extremely specific* point in qualiaspace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPBRvd8OTY
why does this feel so incredibly primal
donating blood and then taking mdma is a good idea: you're both easier to intoxicate *and* happier about what you did
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What's the current sentiment on AI?
Note: the imminent existential threat choice is meant to cover both an AI takeover situation and extreme misuse by humans.
The third option is meant to be relatively neutral, it's what you should pick if you think today's hype is overblown but see future potential in the technology.
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pronouncing bnuuy and Bernoulli identically
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extra-punish people who euler you without anything backing it up
get in loser, we're evolving to extinction
there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to
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the kryptonite fallacy: steelmanning the opponent's argument and then pulling out a counterargument that seems to hold, but actually only works on the steelman and not on the regular version
- Website
- https://niplav.site/index.html
- Pronouns
- they/them
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
