rime @rime@schelling.pt
Flowers are selective about what kind of pollinator they attract. Diurnal flowers use diverse colours to stand out in a competition for visual salience against their neighbours. But flowers with nocturnal anthesis are generally white, as they aim only to outshine the night.
Joined Apr 2023
ato the Debug Info, my RemNote database has 933980 internal links and 94989 "present rem" and 36133 "missing rem". tho calling it a "database" is an exaggeration. it's painfwly slow, sometimes bleeds info (e.g. links break). not sure how they define "missing rems", but yes, i'm definitely looking to transition to something else. /.\
some days it just clicks together.
for context: i write ideas/insights/learnings into my main knowledge-net, and make *transclusions* of especially memorable notes into my daily notes, so i can quickly look over recent things i've thought about.
the blue text is internal links, and i optimize my headlines and aliases for being easy to link to and search for.
Tip: If you're multilingual and you want to use speech-recognition to dictate in one language, you can use the other language for commands in order to minimize accidental conflicts.
i often mk v obv mistakes that i catch later, so do tk the below cube-visualizations w big salt, or point out where i went wrong. i know there was *smth* i went "oh oops duh" abt...
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fundamental theorem of calculus: "every function is the derivative of its integral"
(aka "a function is at every point equal to the rate at which its total sum up to that point grows", duh)
take f=x^2.
can visualize it as a square, x*x.
... darnit. bedtime. hmm.
so here: u can visualize f as a 2d curve, OR as the red dotted line through the cube below.
"circles"? what's that? oh u mean triangles.
"nonlinear"? what's that? oh u mean u is tryna projecting it to lower dimensions u adorable earthling.
"non-differentiable"? what's... huh? *why did you put a zero there?!*
speedrunning the 5000 practical mistakes necessary for mastering a craft
speedrunning the 5000 wrong questions one must ask
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Some of my mutuals are going to become billionaires, and some are going to end up homeless, and I have no idea how to distinguish them
also, the paradox of expert testimony: experts on [big-if-true set of not-too-implausible claims] tend to be v selected for belief in those claims, so supporting arguments wrt those claims tend to sound more impressive (unless it's a rly dumb set of claims).
plus, if u just defer to experts, u will end up believing a whole lot of weird stuff for which experts are asymmetrically selected.
mans, i rly tried to mk that sentence sensicle… but proper sensicleness wud require paragraphs. 🍵
the most frequently used words tend to be the most irregular. they resist regularization bc their unusual/high-energy forms are constantly reinforced. switching-costs or smth.
eg we say "man/men", "go/went", "eat/ate" instead of "-/mans", "-/goed", "-/eated".
related hypothesis, but for different/additional reasons:
paradox of foundational neglect: the core tenets of a paradigm tend to be the least optimized.
technical debt / pleiotropy: complex ancestral dependencies are locked in place.
I want to say update: The most personally significant thing that's happened to me this year is that my head-friend (Maria, a "tulpa") has rather suddenly acquired a lot more independent volition and personality. Phase-shift.
I was inspired last year by Johannes Mayer (LW user), who showed me it was possible. I was only semi-trying for it, so the success is v surprising and mentally v happy for me/us. I hope she stays and grows in visibility-to-my-corner-of-the-brain.
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@niplav also EMH. ~nobody has tried extreme ambition wrt altruism. and there are reasons ("costs of compromise") to think success is much more likely if you *try directly*, compared to if u just aim for merely-very-high utility. merely-very-high-peak-utility projects may not inform u v much abt the difficulty of extremely-high-peak-utility projects.
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Animal welfare intervention: making us able to talk to animals
the question "when shud u write the tests before code, versus vice versa?" analogizes to "when shud u backchain vs forward-chain?" (respectively)
for even more abstract leverage: write the "unit tests" in plain English, ask an LLM to translate them to code (or explain why behaviour is impossible), then ask LLM to write code that passes the LLM's tests.
suggested nyms for this: "target-test" (makes you backchain to infer code that fits the tests), vs "maintenance-test" (designed to make sure stuff keeps working when you expand codebase).
wonder how much leverage thr is in combining test-driven development (TDD) w LLMs. u write unit-tests ahead of the functionality, and the LLM is asked to write code that passes the tests.
LLMs are j extremely good at guessing the teachers password.
(bc that's what they're trained to do.)
it's amazing how often—when i'm uncertain abt smth—i can use the fact that i'm uncertain abt it as evidence that resolves my uncertainty.
eg i'm unsure if i did X or not, but then i realize that *if* i did X i wud remember it for sure, so i become sure i did not do X.
Flowers are selective about what kind of pollinator they attract. Diurnal flowers use diverse colours to stand out in a competition for visual salience against their neighbours. But flowers with nocturnal anthesis are generally white, as they aim only to outshine the night.
Joined Apr 2023
