niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

trying to fit in with Gödelian set theorists by saying “V” when someone does something outrageously stupid

Are there weapon systems installed on the ocean floor?

I have not yet heard a convincing-to-me argument against empty individualism, and open individualism falls to Occam's razor.

Which ones exist?

"I would simply vipassanize my trauma"

Structural regular expressions are, I think, kind of overlooked

vNM might not imply undominatedness, but it sure does waggle its eyebrows suggestively in that general direction

Has anyone tried to train neural networks to predict sudden drops in loss of LLM training?

We surely can observe many scaling curves from many different tasks

rlhfucked up

What'd happen to the internet if the speed of light was 100x slower?

Ok followers what are sone *really* good old blogs?

reading "automating the boring stuff with python" with the gf 🤙

Having fun challenging with how to swap to variables

How many ships are there in the ocean at any time?

Economic policy checklist

Text at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oTaku2oCFC8ya5F3L/open-thread-june-2023-inline-reacts?commentId=5W7LEsBDhKgksGngt

There are Pareto worsenings: you make everyone worse off by their standards. But are there Kaldor-Hicks worsenings?

The naive version (everyone is worse off, and there is no way of making a single person better off through distribution) doesn't work: you can always push a guy into huge debt and make everyone else super happy

Perhaps we just negate: everyone is worse off and there is no way of making everyone better off through distribution.

There is surprisingly little post singularity poetry

I didn't expect breaking up with someone to feel this bad

Does the human mind do second-order prediction to steer towards grokking? I remember that there's a way to feel when you're about to understand