niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Gibbard's theorem is a restricted case where Goodhart's law is unavoidable

e/acc: epistemic accelerationism

Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign
with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.

performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl
to cultivate a new gradientspawn

faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical

I don't remember where I first read this, but: A government's OODA loop is ~6 months long.

How long is *your* fundamental OODA loop?

Found another good site: https://linas.org/

I want to live to see the Betelgeuse supernova in the sky

There is no glory in prevention

Also nicely excludes some things that are Not My Job™, such as choosing which person to align the AI to or what to do about people who instruct AIs to do Bad Things™

Then I can say "that's *not my job*, sorry. talk to the policy people"

Started calling making any AI system try to do what any human wants my job

feels interesting

Were Neanderthals more intelligent than homo sapiens are today?

more math cults

chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode

you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not *that* big…

have there been any discontinuities in the domain of computer security?

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