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
@empathy2000 I had a discussion on a discord server with a 13-year-old girl about why young people aren't permitted to do paid work. In response to "what would children even do that people would pay for?" I offered to pay her to read an intro to EA, and suggested she ask her parents for permission. Unfortunately, she didn't want to be paid, but she did say she was going to read it. ^^
@niplav One the one hand, I'd be really happy if recursive LLMs could reach very high intelligence before anything else, because the capabilities are built out of parts (text-based communication) we can inspect. AI research turns into network epistemology.
On the other hand, if GPT-5 is accessible via API that doesn't control for this, some idiots are going to try their hardest to destroy the world with it (cf. ChaosGPT).
^ At present, moderately healthy subcultures are able to survive because people vote with their feet (or find virtual bubbles) and more or less isolate from the rest of the world. Their survival depends on being visible enough that kindred spirits from afar can find them, but not so visible that belligerent cultures start to target them specifically with absentee punishments.
^ When cultures give Moloch free reign to shape them in His service, you quickly see them adopt the following rituals.
- Meta-level judgments: people are punished or rewarded according to what judgments they reveal.
- Absentee punishments: people are punished for insufficiently contributing to the meta-level judgments.
It's worth noting that correlated memeplexes with the above features will tend to win out over cultures without them.
^ The negative aspect is that these reversals are often tangential to what anyone at all would prefer for themselves. As long as the core mechanics underlying pluralistic ignorance stay in effect, the culture will arbitrarily Abilene-paradox itself to places nobody wanted to go.
^ One positive aspect of living in a Keynesian culture is that norms can change at the blink of an eye, since it basically shares its underlying mechanics with what causes bank runs. If smart money says that other people will start predicting that other people will predict being gay is just fine, then people will start selling their investments in anti-gayness asap. (With the exception of subcultures where social status derives from reversing other subcultures.)
If everybody looks to their peers to decide what to think about a person, the game implicitly turns into a Keynesian beauty contest, where popularity is determined by what others predict others predict others predict (and so on) other people like.
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I just donated $1500 AUD to help combat malaria.
Because I donated via my local tax deductible EA organisation it doesn't appear on the fundraising page. So in lieu of being able to make the number go up, I'd like some praise please 😇.
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RT @givingwhatwecan
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@tortle It's effectively your <|im_start|> cue. Helps start things rolling!
Whatever this is, it's obvious that this is where it had to be. I often dump my thoughts on an unsuspecting social media site because I it helps me remember them. As such, I rarely bother pointing out caveats or nuance that I know I'll obviously remember. This may or may not offend people terribly, but consider this my excuse.
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
