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@rime eh whatever we're paraacademia

Academia can seethe and cope

Rationalist honesty norms are trauma-caused

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🪐 governments are such a sham, why are department leaders other than the prime minister not called the composite ministers

Llama model distribution is commodification of complement if I've ever seen one

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proprietary? no, it's goated with the source
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@duponin@udongein.xyz @fgaz@cdrom.tokyo A common mistake (not OP's case) is assuming /dev/null is a directory and attempting to delete something via "mv file /dev/null" and ending up overwriting it.

Post: Precision of Sets of Forecasts

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I conclude that methods based on rounding probabilities are hot flaming garbage, methods based on rounding odds or log-odds are regular garbage, and methods based on applying noise to log-oddsare ok but sort of slow.

Midnight is the best time to fire off a bunch of aversive emails

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The good thing about niplav is that he just isn't that smart

Europe is performing autoerotic asphyxiation on a civilizational level

Today I learned that some people use ℘ to represent the powerset.

Today was a good day, but that was a mediocre and disappointing move on humanity's part

"Space-Value Taxation under the Kerr-Newman Metric"

Positive update on effective altruists: I thought they wouldn't be able to update from technical AI alignment as a most important cause to a new cause X. It seems like that cause X is AI governance and the vibe shifted towards it.
Congrats! You've exceeded my expectations.

Oh cool we doing surreal consequentialism now?

I haven't thouhht about the game theory of it though

Alternative view: holidays just like dropout and makes orgs more robust

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