niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

How many people in the 50s knew about John von Neumann? Very few I reckon

Since tails come apart, you probably don't know the relevant polymaths in our world and know the gifted communicators much better.

On the object level, this means that I should take climate change people more seriously out of cooperative spirit even tho I don't particularly believe their object level arguments

As partially causal cooperation with worlds where they are infact right or sth idk

So how do you navigate this dilemma? People can't just disagree but avoid each other, setup implies large externalities.

So, how *do* you engage in a conflict where one side is trying to avoid apocalyptic but unobservable behavior, but everyone else doesn't believe their arguments?

We might do that with money, but feels insufficient. Assume evaluating object-level arguments is really really difficult here.

Rarely doomers could be right.

"I read all your fanfictions."
"Bet with me on the claim X you made."
"No."
"Then you are not of our culture."

One of my hot takes is that game theory is basically useless

Ali Maow Maalin was the last person to get smallpox before it was eradicated.

He was cured from it in 1977 and made a full recovery.

In the 1990s he was a local coordinator in the fight against Polio in the region, where he spent years traveling around, distributing vaccines and educating the population.

In 2013, he was again campaigning in the region after Polio had been reintroduced, but fell ill with a fever.

On July 22nd 2013, he died of Malaria.

feral law

Gonna start calling frogs "mudpuppies"

Alignment is *obviously* solvable

why do people keep claiming it isn't

haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.

wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is *not* “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???

ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs

maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff