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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.

wat's optimal circadian rhythm, if ju cud tune the sun to jur will? wud ju get more done if Earth period was 16h instead of 24h? or 12? or 6?

also, wat's optimal week cycle? 7 days, or 6? how do i optimally chunk passage of time into convenient mental categories? shud they be stable, or mixed-strategy?

i'm just surprisingly happy abt by my 16h-days and 144h-seasons, so thr's gotta be more utility to find here.

collection: mysteries, 96/245.

@niplav cline is a great word. cline and panmictic.

@niplav *sneak-peaks at red boxes to see where I want to end up*

Wittgensteinian! Wittgensteinian!!

@niplav Every fiber of my being at every moment of time rejects the give-up mood on Kino's face, but I can empathise with the possibility. I'm not doing this out of self-sacrifice or duty, however—going all in is a much better adventure regardless! It's not hopeless.

Partly posted because it's Kino, whom I used to identify with a lot (back in my anime days), due to the never-settling/always-travelling aspect.

@niplav oh, i forgot: there's also this thing for convenience: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/lib/Hotstring.htm#ExHelper

"By pressing Win+H (or another hotkey of your choice), the currently selected text can be turned into a hotstring."

@niplav they need to add [Ithkuil](https://www.ithkuil.net/newithkuil_12_script.htm) to unicode…

@niplav must install autohotkey for it to work, if you SOMEHOW haven't done so already. then can define jur own hotstrings in sheet, and copypaste entire B column to .ahk file.

it sorts the hotstrings to avoid conflict (ie longer strings first).

@niplav ꧁꧂
⧸https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EsEZ7PM0a0vm-NWj6y5sQ-D5U-anQ1RUlOfa20IW7ZA/edit?usp=sharing ⧸

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༽this is ༽text

look it even got bag brackets
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@puckipedia it's surprising the extent to which most human interactions are oblivious to the diegetic wall they've raised around themselves. or so i opine. i want to talk to ppl for real. can't keep getting carried away by simplistic narratives—it's bad for my cognition. 🍵

alas, i think it's highly unlikely that a given learning-regime will make the AI 1) evolve proxy-values optimised for seeming nice to others upon ~direct inspection, and 2) overgeneralise those proxy-values to actual behaviour, unless somehow carefwly designed that way. (this isn't a suggestion; i'm just talking abt the ontogeny of human values).

"effective altruism" is the v rare mutation where a brain starts to break down its own rationalisation/hypocrisy-barriers, and instead of then becoming consistently selfish, it generalises the other way, such that verbal values start to influence actual behaviour. humans can do this bc we are v prone to overgeneralising our learned proxies.

and since humans hv the ability to do hypocrisy (aka value-action gap, rationalisation, memetic-immune-system), it enables our verbal values to evolve independently of what makes effective behaviour. this is crucial, and (i think) extremely lucky, bc no brain cud possibly evolve cosmopolitan values if it had to actually implement it in its behaviour.

@niplav @Paradox on my view, there are "base drives" and "verbal values". the former are selected for producing effective behaviour, and the latter are selected for producing effective words. (somewhat tracking near/far mode of human behaviour.)

@flats just be glad you didn't see the time knife.

@niplav yes… same procedure as every year, James.

https://youtu.be/boisQwkK7rs