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

dril wrote for HiveSwap. It's all connected

I am concerned about my outgoing debts, but not about small-ish incoming ones

Erz Herz zog

I think I'm getting more curious with age

Cormac McCarthys writing has strong Harvard sentence energy.

I'd like to garbage-collect some symbols in the math I'm currently writing, help

draining the baby out with the bathwater

Shapley values are NP-hard to compute, right?

“nubile” should mean cloud-like

productivity under anxiety is a repulsive fixed point (you might even feel worse the closer you get to what you should be doing)

from a computational complexity perspective, completeness is the “worst” axiom to violate: only O(n²) to find a violation

no Eliezer you're wrong Runaround is about tiling agents,

“…still working on the frugal priors though”

von Neumann: I came up with this new system that generalizes probability theory to consider convex sets instead of point estimates. I think that I could use this to prove regret bounds…

WAIT WHAT DID ZIZ GET HER NAME FROM ONE OF THE ENDBRINGERS FROM WORM‽

snitches get stitches, bitches get skritches

steelmanning benefits the steelmanner

roman buddhists

midjourney prompts: the buddha as a roman senator

gimli voice: they call it a site

e/acc: epistemic accelerationism

Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.

performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl to cultivate a new gradientspawn

faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical

How long is your fundamental OODA loop?

I don't remember where I first read this, but: A government's OODA loop is ~6 months long.

chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode

you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not that big…

von Neumann and Morgenstern is a joy to read :-D

maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff

ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs

wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is not “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???

haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.

“neniel” could also be a biblical angel

just loving this little guy: (·,·). it's like he's looking through a crack: ‘come on, you'll understand the function definition’

starstardotbib

What is the Bayesian version of calibration?

in practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary

What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?

“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”

i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?

orthogonality of substrate and structure in general

meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries

evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations

wow https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vwLxd6hhFvPbvKmBH/yudkowsky-and-christiano-discuss-takeoff-speeds?commentId=mKgEsfShs2xtaWz4K

how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?

well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)

ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.

I've never gotten much out of a book review & don't understand why people read or write them.

shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation

but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?

at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space

can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?

give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models

CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)

half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit

“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?

hey LLM how does on do long game

guy who would rather read than meditate

optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing

a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!

there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to

in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? 'why don't X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?' damn economists

schelling.pt gone

everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind

position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch

What's the difference between a homeomorphism and a diffeomorphism?

(Non-joke question) Is there a tensor product of tensor products?

A tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what's the problem?

»If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?« »Does the bear shit in the woods?«

comparing politics to constrained optimization: taxes are equivalent to the penalty method, while regulations are equivalent to barrier functions.

heuristic-ness is the curvature of the graceful decline in prediction-accuracy to perturbations of the heuristic

I want there to be a norm that it is good for people to first state them noticing their status-guided motivations and then proceding to answer on the object level when askedabout things.

i'm not an intellectual, i'm just a guy who likes to f**k

I don't know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.

is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?

NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders

the most galaxybrained argument for the least galaxybrained conclusion: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7MdLurJGhGmqRv25c/multiverse-wide-cooperation-in-a-nutshell

hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)

humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.

2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR

image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”

here's a question: when do NNs generalize, and how hard? as in adding two specific numbers together vs. n-digit integer addition vs. addition in general vs. simple arithmetical operations

no “SMV”. drop the “market”. it's just cleaner

WHAT WAS YOUR POLICY FROM BEFORE YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS CREATED

he⃛h

amussy

get in, loser, we're prompt-injecting the e-girls

balls/acc

backp/acc

so discount rates are bad mmkay say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?

i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests

the correct position on consciousness is the figure-ground inversion of functionalism

mfw Eliezer will never call any of my ideas “dignified”

what if ftm is just a really strong countersignal? have you ever considered that, Mark?

the name of the lost+found/ directory encapsulates all that is great & bad about linux. i won't take any questions.

how much money do I need to pay you for you to take a pill that makes you insane?

you can't just propose a counterfactual and not state whether it's conditional or where you do() the past to produce it

on reflection disinviting AI researchers from parties and conferences is not an effective way of stopping them in developing AGI

“(1) we don't know what is going on in LLMs (2) it's outlandish to say that LLMs have no understanding of the world” both claims cannot be true

it's really funny when people tag jimmy wales on twitter when they don't like some of the content on wikipedia. it's like someone would tag Nat Friedman when they find a bug in a program hosted there

but also the amount of time a broken clock is right has measure zero

in deontic logic, is ~obligation(~x)=permission(x)?

philosophical technique: A is X, B is Y, but there is a continuous transformation from A to B, but there isn't from X to Y, where does the switch occur?

I really enjoy the portray of conseqduentialism in the SEP article on deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

philosophytube followers be pondering the impossibility of white bears in novaya semlya

tbh whenever someone is like “the existing arguments for agi xrisk were insufficient/unclear, here's my better version” the arguments read exactly the same to me as the existing ones.

Zeynep's razor (second-order effects): https://nitter.net/zeynep/status/1478766408691556353?lang=en

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7dRGYDqA2z6Zt7Q4h/goals-for-which-less-wrong-does-and-doesn-t-help?commentId=CRMuTvT8sYEYgddME this is just 80k hours. how did they know

(i won't watch it anyway)

Prediction: I will not like the Philosophy Tube Video about Effective Altruism

Daniel Wingman

TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp

Unlikely events can be good, likely events can be bad.

“I don't know why anyone would ever want to do that, so we should punish it” is a beautiful warning sign (milder form is “I don't know why anyone would ever want to do that, so nobody should even try”)

i am looking forward to seeing whether aliens similarly have two sexes, and whether they roughly split up by “sex that does the investing in the offspring” and “sex that provides a lot of variation in mating success”

google maps as a dating app

“But I'd love to be pinned down” — Toby Ord (The Precipice p. 397)

Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released before GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane

“sorry dude, you have vingean uncertainty over the EA community”

critiques of effective altruism in the form “effective altruism isn't blue/green enough” are really boring, and likely wrong

I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun

nofap promises so much and in the end just makes my balls ache a bit

tbh i can understand why people dislike Pinker so much—he's usually right, but he so unfathomably smug about everything

aviation safety is a small shard of dath ilan that fell into our world

rapidly oscillating between nibbanic zero-ontology and plotinian “badness is non-being” views

help

I'm rapidly flip-flopping between believing that I'm extremely autistic and believing that everyone else is autistic compared to me

In this House — We might fail, but never with abandon — Every moment is fresh, unimpeded by the one before — We remove as many obligations as we add — There is something to protect, something to give everything for — Tsuyoku Naritai!

why does meditation make me so horny & temporarily relieve me of erectile dysfunction?

why is >80% of the most read literotica content incest related?

the last century was wild: “Her love of tennis included playing naked, with nude tennis ‘a common practice in those days among the more louche members of the middle classes’”, from the Wikipedia article on Enid Blyton.

pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)

gotta get a child with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom

another paper which relies on questionnaires for attention span. am i going crazy? how is this a good metric‽

My Generation — The Who (Eurobeat Remix)

noone told me that you can get basically free tutoring from professors during so-called office hours‽

Julius Caesar Scaliger pre-empted Scott Alexanders solution to theodicy: in his view god had created every being that would add more good than not to the cosmos

schelling.party

analogue players link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3Oj00p83Q

i want that bear onesie

proposal: ability to sort posts on forum magnum by length

Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi

how much programmer activity is spent writing new code vs. debugging existing code?

concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code.

THE ACTOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM VGHS MARRIED THE ACTRESS PLAYING HIS LOVE INTEREST

arrière and derrière having the same meaning is just such a thing

of course the Soviet Union failed—they didn't have computers yet!

computational complexity theory of self-modifying code. probably not good for execution speed, but great for code size.

i only allow myself to go the hard way. good or bad?

if agents are usually suffering negative sum games might be good via destructive warfare

MANGAO

Gauzian

The Honeycomb Conjecture was probably the longest-standing open conjecture in the history of mathematics. Open for 2035 years, if Wikipedia is to believed

predict yourself as if you're a well-meaning but very unreliable friend of yourself

futuristic city image “the world if all externalities were internalized”

monotonic occam's razor

multifaceted hedgehog

killing moloch is not glorious, it's just tedious.

interpretability can ~re-create more discrete alignment methods over a leaky abstraction

maybe social constructivism is just descriptive in how most social scientists create their theories?

what's the entomology of that?

gratitude should be a brahmavihara, not upekkha

{adequate,¬adequate}×{exploitable,¬exploitable}×{efficient,¬efficient}

public relations is a reality-masking puzzle.

actual nazis talk about moloch a lot

i care about the instantiation of human values in the universe, not about whether humanity reaches the stars

“citta” should probably just be translated as “psyche”

tension between markets & hacker æsthetic: markets want competition (same thing is done often, separately, with lots of turnover), while hackers want things to be done once and well, with high maintenance (canonical resources)

could MDMA microdosing help me get into the 2nd jhana?

new cause area: buy 0day exploits

on priors, if you want to impact the world, found a religion or start a company.

/r/gonewildstories will compliment vogon poetry, it seems

often⩬percent

MTF π-12 “tensor grease”

It's impossible to tell whether he's good or not

Yudkowsky moved AI alignment research forward by 4 years, but he also sped up timelines by 2.5 years, so it all cancels out

soft (rigidity), soft (texture)

Angels from Dr. Who but everytime you look away there's new AI capabilities progress

Most zero-sum games are actually negative-sum games, because of transaction costs

It's not fair! The graph was supposed to peak in 2047, not 2028!

pet peeve: line-splitting in an ff ligature

I'd hate to be the baby strapped to Voyager 1

there are actually six hindrances: the original five and thinking about how to practically dovetail the shortest brainfuck quine

rationalist meditation retreat: listening to Replacing Guilt as a dharma talk

Todo: become an anti-recycling fanatic at some point

Maybe just not have your search space contain Turing complete elements?

Anyone else wanna laugh at millennials when they realize they have gotten old?

80,000 hours podcast but it's only Rob Wiblin speaking. Useful for voice synthesis.

Planecrash but just the dath ilan bits

Retaking an airplane after terrorist takeover is a coordination problem

You may start century time horizon projects

Playing hard to get imposes costs on other actually impossible to get players.

Well, you have my curse.

Why not focus on getting old LessWrongers to work on alignment instead of students? They might not be as skilled technically, but they probably have much deeper & well formed intuitions around the problem.

Concepts: Semiquine (a program that only outputs its code, but never halts); prefixquine (program that outputs its code, but something after that). Trivial other versions are postfixquine, substringquine, prefixsemiquine.

“I assume that not everything that can improve my thinking is found in The Sequences.”

put an epistemic status on a thing you're really confident in, once in a while.

reaching exalted meditation states is not important per se, but that you have ample material to learn not clinging to.

dvorak edm remix which is actually good

tolerating what we can

taking the pledge to become 10% less misogynistic

now is a good time to sit back and read

topics i will never research: how the prussian military inventing boardgames with dice to train military strategists influenced modern eurogames and not amerigames

It seems quite unlikely to me that humans will cease to care about wealth after the singularity (15% maybe?), or that markets will cease to exist after the singularity (30% or sth). so the best investment strategy now for post-singularity scenarios is to invest broadly in the economy. not sure about divesting from AGI companies (bc they accelerate danger) or AI hardware companies (ditto)—they're going to especially valuable post-singularity.

L'an 2100 ne passera pas

from now on, when talking about fractions, i will only use the terms “upper number” and “lower number”. those both have fewer syllables AND they're vastly easier to understand. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

libsucker. rolls of the tongue

all the cool kids? in the bay. me? chillin'

HAHAHAHAHAA IT'S FEBRUARY 2020 ALL OVER AGAIN HAHAHAHA

warm & wet game theory

being cone-theoryd

solution to the fermi paradox: ~all species don't have nerds bc nerds are locally maladaptive, get stuck at the social reality bullshit level, humans are a fluke in the regard (kindness to kin, but for…, uhh, nerds?)

i think in practice people were most convinced by timelines, if not arguments, then observations abt progress.

see https://www.gwern.net/Subscripts#evidentials

using subscripts for probability assignments?

malign prior as an idealized case of meta-optimization

lw events should give one the ability to report probabilities

did women really faint that often in the past? if yes, what changed so they don't anymore?

the new chinchilla scaling laws were not what I expected

whenever someone denies something, nod my head sagely and say “glomarizing nicely, I see.”

shoutout to the woman that broke my heart so that I now read papers titled stuff like “Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making”

HOW DO THOSE PEOPLE READ SO MUCH

that probably relies on a bunch of interpretability work done beforehand

todo: find a way to track ontology shifts in neural networks

me reading planecrash is unstable bc while reading it I become so enthusiastic about reading textbooks that I go off and do that instead

just thought to myself “hopefully a bigger pandemic hits, that sounds like it'll delay ai capabilities progres”, which, no,,,

a rationalists lament: on the EA community

what are people's attitudes towards others voting selfishly vs. not voting at all?

myopic consequentialism might often outperform heuristics, don't know about full consequentialism in bounded agents tho

biology:philosophy of mind::ethology:meditation

researchers drunkenly explaining 5-10 to each other

surveys probably get more results if people get their some summary statistic at the end—a way to increase participation rate?

https://nitter.hu/Aella_Girl/status/1549665979130593283#m !!!!!!!!

find the next number in the sequence 0,2,2,46,3640

daily reminder that most politicians wouldn't be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them

I'm a midwit with high need for cognition

reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out

commitment races in rape accusation

rip schelling.pt

stiglered again

pet peeve: scales that have a neutral or default or average point, but which are nearly or completely on the positive. why are people asked to rate happiness from 0 to 10, not -10 to 10, where 0 is the neutral state? why are movies rated from 0 to five stars?

the right level for solving the hard problem of consciousness is within existing science/within philosophy/within meta- or pre-philosophy/needs a fully new paradigm of thought

transhumanism is simplified humanism.

ideologies are just compressed & distributed vibes, shards of shared stances.

fodgehox

(wistfully) “im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”

Einstürzende Neugeburten

good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.

ganrsl

i'm now pretty sure the urbit whitepaper is impossible to parody.

oh yeah I love software that just dumps giant amounts of data into my home directory without giving me any option of changing where it dumps the data

GPT-Alyx (Codebase: 96% Idris)

i find the removal of the “master/slave” thing in computer protocols to be kinkshaming

the EA community is grabbing existential risk by the black balls

maybe for most people social media isn't an epistemic hazard, but “just” an attention hazard?

there's a lot of alpha left in high-weirdness mental wellbeing interventions

lojban rap, microtonal giantstepscore, taxxonpop

if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.

pandas makes my RAM usage jump like a cardiogram

if you want to minimize the amount of words in your library, every function should have as many parameters as there are functions in total.

plasmacrane

I expect the future to be more, not less, absurd than ~all scifi. way more—there's no scifi this abstract & absurd, and noone would buy it (& also bc of Vinge's law)

dath ilan has screened off its past just es ey wants to screen off his past before ~2003

numpy.unique needs the type to be comparable by < and >, not just ==. that seems like overkill.

diversity inequity exclusion

following legislation from the ELSC (european long site commission), I now have to adopt an ocelot

apparently we're going to build AGI, whatever that is

evopsych is confused by persistent conflict between mothers-in-law and spouses—don't both want to maximize the number of children? i don't see any conflict arising for evolutionary reasons

it's crazy how we basically haven't tested nuclear weapons in ~30 years

how much did large volcano eruptions in the past change agricultural output?

you know that you've made it when you're using fermi estimates to debug your rl agent.

rationality is having strong opinions about things nobody has ever thought about before.

lipogrammatic pangram

found spicy khmer waltz vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

extra spicy bunns

naxus

foqed

jokez

ezafu

jarns

janus

mozed

bouge

foofe

boxem

neither is warez

qream

spicy wheat found

oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it's the reaction i have the most when playing it

“if enough of us listen to prophets of doom, it becomes self-fulfilling” — Leo Szilard

pressman being another taxxon fan is a delightful finding

if your eag profile doesn't say 'neartermism', you'll automatically be drafted into the deepmind potential hires mailing list

“The problem with Marcus' argument is that the only alternative to statistical AI is spiritual AI“ no what the fuck why would you say this did you even read the sequences i don't even know where to start with that

holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.

at least i'm up to a level where i'm reading a comment on an acx post and someone uses “consciousness” and i'm hella out there real quick

to what extent did AlphaFold2 solve protein folding? there should be a writeup of how much & what needs to be done for it to be completely solved.

wait, is CIRL incorrigible for the same reason that utility-maximizers don't wirehead? https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#A-Short-Example-For-Why-CIRL-Is-Incorrigible

solarpunk slightly hindered by the fact that for solar panels and cutesy robots you need industrial-strength chipfabs that are so advanced we have like 6 of them in the entire world

a “moron” could also be a group-theoretic structure. “On the symplectic inverses of left-invariant morons”

morad and moroid

watching my motivational system surfing the edge of the indefference point on the hyperbolic discounting line—always pulled back by my good friend, the cost

once i've found a core to corrigibility i'll write an incel manifesto

ai alignment is great bc nobody knows what it should be, so you can do whatever you want and call it alignment.

some people just shouldn't be given the responsibility to create datasets.

i want to commit violence

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ARE YOU FOR REAL

……………Tetlock data uses AMERICAN DATE FORMAT IN A DATASET

lw karma political compass

the cold waste of unknown en-pyee

the words “brier score” are used inconsistently: sometimes they just refer to the MSE of the probability assigned to the correct outcome, sometimes they refer to the MSE of the sum of the probability assigned to the correct and the incorrect outcome.

retconning my inner child

“The geological study of Antarctica has been greatly hindered by nearly all of the continent being permanently covered with a thick layer of ice.”

is the “takeoff” of fundamental physics in the first half of the 20th century mostly due to the industrial revolution?

goal: develop strong opinions about vector fields and where to stick wires into people's heads.

even if cause X came along now, people wouldn't be able to update towards it within a year.

it's funny, conditional on AGI (and perhaps also WBE?) not doing us in, i'm pretty bullish on this century. bio seems much less of a problem, and everything else is basically a-okay, especially with people becoming richer and needing to fight less. most other collapse narratives sound pretty unlikely (though prepping is sitll a good idea! you should have three months of food & water at home)

if aliens exists and UAPs are caused by them, what implication does that have for AI safety?

hoooly crap the tino rangatiratanga is a good flag

closest pairs of points are not necessarily reflexive. there are some points in euclidean space that are just fundamentally abandoned

“perception is all you need” — Rosenblatt, 1958

it'd be deeply ironic if MLPs, sufficiently scaled, are enough for AGI

A machine-executable plan to install a self-supervised reinforcement learning system on all instances of the spot robot from boston dynamics, described step by step | posted on art station

our next arecibo message should probably include the orders of the sporadic groups, just to show that we're somewhat advanced as a species.

Bayesian jihad

r strategy poster by day, K strategy poster by night

with resolving inconsistent graph preferences, does the portion of non-uniquely resolvable preferences shrink with the number of options? in other words: for the set 𝓖_n of all graphs with n nodes, and the set U(𝓖_n) of those graphs with a unique path-graph with a smallest graph-edit distance, is |U(𝓖_n)|/𝓖n<|U(𝓖{n+1})|/|𝓖_{n+1}|?

Logarithmic well-being views might suffer from an odd problem: They are, in some sense, too obvious, so that everyone says “yeah, that seems true” and goes on doing exactly what they did before.

“AI” refers to the observation that computers, over time, can do more & more things

The name niplav is based on a roof tile of the University of Maryland, which matches the sequence number and neuroscience thread index, which is how neuroscience researchers manage their data.

“Dodecahedron Assemblies was the publication I chose to read on my way to heaven”—apparently Uriel has managed to gain short contact via the Gato agent.

I really look forward to the next AI winter! We'll all cozy up inside by the fireside in thick markov blankets, everyone finds a new agent foundations paper in their stocking, and we can listen to uncle Paul have his discussion with uncle Eliezer when the whole family re-unites…

niplav yushtun, ta faret ne digal.

longevity research is trying to move an outer loss signal into the inner optimizer, we'll have to see whether that one is strong enough to take up the burden

knuckle tatoos: “nplv site”, “ttra spce”, “less wrng”

The Lightgirl of the Gate

DALL·E 2 prompts: The Gateboss of the Girlkeep

Have you considered that removing Occam's razor from your worldview makes the worldview simpler?

the buddha vector is calculated by finding the path in the space of possible attractors that maximizes the number of attractors it could fall into with an ε perturbation, but falls into none.

vibe computing

Don Knuth really really wants to write a long site and not books. I mean…just take a look at them!

God exists, and she is a woman 😏

why am i just now finding out about examine.com this is pretty cool

in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…

we can also make value of perfect information a shorter word, vopi. or voi for just value of information.

induction, abduction, deduction, transduction, traduction, seduction, adduction, eduction, reduction, contraduction

i think eliezer wanted micatwoa to take place in a world that was even more insane than here for us to more clearly see what's wrong with our world, and the only way he could come up to accomplish that was to make the story take place in actual hell.

“i'll stop reading at 1:30” this is your internal agents coordinating

saying “somebody should do X” repeatedly while apparently also not doing that thing (while also not being blocked by anything, such as doing something else that's also important) ought to be discouraged.

now that must be a pretty impressive shirt i guess

when you convert all your money into assets stored on the blockchain while you go into cryopreservation in an underground bunker—literally crypt-o-currency

comment quality in /r/rational worse than on LW

just downloaded micatwoa html files inshallah

menchbarks

what is the MNIST of education interventions? what the ImageNet? what the Danbooru 2021‽

Statisticians: NOoooooo you can't execute a t-test on elements from a Likert scale! Psychologists: Hah NHST go brrrrrrrrr

pickup artistry is incredibly feminine: if you were masculine, women would come to you anyway

what the hell my phone gives me tracers in the dark if i move it

the elegance of zeppelines is sublimp

my watch has been running for ~5 years now, and I've never had to change the battery. wow.

some blogs have a “start here” page that is not the default landing page: why? most people visiting your site will be there for the first time, but they have to perform an additional click to go to the “start here” page, unnecessarily.

if we clone neanderthals/denisovans, we should probably ask them about consciousness.

hang web developers by ropes whose length is inversely proportional to the loading time of their pages

people liked the old SSC more than ACX because substack is chickenshit minimalism, and it's slow. you have to wait for the fucking text & comments to appear, while the old site loaded pretty much instantaneously. people have learned to associate chickenshit minimalism aesthetic with slow loading times, and subconsciously detest it bc of that.

Welcome to the Niplaverse! Take a seat over there, your ultrasound-stimulation helmet is being prepared in right order.

what if we kissed 👉👈😳 in front of the whiteboard with haphazard alignment ideas

(cringe opinion) eliezer yudkowsky is good actually

the answer to all questions is either: “Can you feel your toes right now?”, “Start a long site” or “Talk to more girls”.

but maybe i'm underestimating the research

looking from afar, the quality of science there looks quite abysmal, while the field is very important (finding out how to make humans learn things better! come on!)

if there's one field ripe for huge progress by a large swath of theoretical physicists invading it, it's probably educational research.

humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn't catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)

who has taken the train to crazytown the furthest? (and hasn't suffered from nervous breakdown in the process)

to diversify its lingo, the rationality community should adopt the evidentials smṛti (“I read this in a blogpost”) and śruti (“someone told this to me in a one-on-one”).

pseudoquasisemimetric

https://arachnid.town/objects/797821f8-f885-41aa-afe1-a9d764a93b7d

if we solve distributional shift, do we also solve ontological crises?

(kind of tongue in cheek) maybe the worst action i could take right now would be to improve a bunch of reinforcement learning wikipedia pages.

Maybe it's true that intelligence depends on the environment, but consider: the environments where policy iteration performs better than RL with temporal difference learning are kind of dumb.

Breaking News: On-site nuke at Deepmind headquarters in London detonated.

The Moser spindle

The Balaban 11-cage

The second Blanuša snark

graph names that sound like war crimes:

I'm only paying lisp service to John McCarthy

guy who, when he hears someone mention SARS, thinks of deep Q-learning

let's not read the thielleaves

which doesn't have to be this way! blue tribe & anti-agi risk people have mostly orthogonal concerns (i really don't see the overlap of algorithmic fairness & agent foundations, tbqhwy), and probably ample opportunities for trade (which blue-triber actually cares about compute governance etc.?) but i think zero-sum anti-trade genre affiliation thinking from blue-tribes side will prevent most of that mutually beneficial governance from happening.

looks like blue tribe will end up anti agi risk. sucks, but should have been forseeable—the connection to gray tribe & techbros is too strong.

new favorite color: space cadet (not really)

from now on whenever the word “spirituality” or “consciousness” comes up in a discussion i will look slightly quizzical and ask “yeah, sure, but can you feel your toes right now?”

i don't know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don't know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)

have to admit that switching to python & numpy for data analysis from klong relieves me from a huge pain in the ass—klong is just slow for that.

fair enough, I forgot to remember that something being a hatecrime is considered a good thing around these regions let me pull my dick out alright

i begrudgingly admit that i have learned some things in my courses at university

a peaceful world, with moral patients peacefully grazing in the valleys

they didn't understand my posting at twitter, they won't understand it once they come here

We can't guarantee success, but we can deserve it.

𐤌𐤕

no, niplav, you won't get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.

• North Korea

SBF f-bomb counter

one then checks that the following diagrams commute [devil god diagram]

three aspects of feedback loops: 1. speed (how quickly do you get feedback); 2. thickness (how much information do you get about your performance); 3. signal (how related is that feedback to your performance)

ẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞ

the famous unix command ʪ

🙰 c

ffs

on the overwhelming irrelevance of plant epistemology

“We don't come with guarantees, that's absolutely for sure.”

[snowpiercer] fan theory: they're all actually patients in a mental asylum, dreaming this up as a collective delusion

[SPOILERS SPOILERS] [snowpiercer spoilers] the osweiller guy is learning one important lesson the hard way: don't stick your dick in crazy

[SPOILERS SPOILERS] [snowpiercer spoilers] you know, i wouldn't have been angry if all the new-eden people hadn't found anything at the horn, fallen off the bridge and died—looks straight into camera because sometimes in real life, you make a fatal thinking error and everyone dies

power is wasted without science

When the last superforecaster has given up, when the last bet has been resolved, you will discover that you can't eat living by the sword

some people are better at some things than others. also, some people are better at nearly all things than others. maybe there are also people that are better at all things than some others.

stands up from the battlefield “I am TetraspaceWest” gets shot immediately

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gwern&offset=&limit=500&target=Gwern

tried to figure out how to use university springer access to download a textbook, gave up after two minutes and just used libgen. lmao

at the moment, all medicine merely delays the moment of death

9 wikipedia edits today! yay me! (also a bunch of small scale contributions to other people's texts: https://niplav.github.io/contributions.html)

so, would people in 1920 have been irrational in worrying about the development of nuclear weapons? would they have been irrational thinking about the resulting dynamics between countries, the safety of those weapons?

the joy of having written down a possible improvement for a wikipedia article, only to go & find out somebody else has already done it. glorious

scaling laws for dogs

vipassana is all about the vibes (the fundamental vibrations that make up all experience)

while we're on the topic; what's the gender-neutral term for fuckboy?

you can only call someone a pickup artist if they don't sleep with the people they seduce, otherwise they're just sparkly fuckboys/gals.

who has experienced at least one jhana?

is there at least one billionaire who is also a stream-enterer?

the anti-“hairy ball theorem” of decision theory: it's always newcombeable

open your textbooks on page one.

fun fact: there's around 10 mio. times more bacteria on this planet than neurons

this is a partial answer to http://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/

to leave every Pile behind, to stop doing my Anki cards, recording data on my life, and just be Done.

sometimes i think i should return to a cleaner state of mind, abandon all big never-to-be-finished projects, and write simple text-processing utilities on a raspberry pi running plan 9, improvising fractile jazz over a lonely lake and spend most of my remaining time meditating.

My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can't tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won't shrink. it's piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it's an eternal struggle.

Piling, on the other hand, is when you have something that is infinitely extendable in scope and size, where every paragraph can have a subparagraph, every feature can be customizable, the dataset could be 10% bigger, the party could be a bit more extravagant, …, …, ……….

Doneness is when something is temporarily finished, but if it is modified in any way, it is either fixed because the winds of time have buried under the bitrot, and it must be dug out, or because something was found that could be removed.

fifth, small & nifty programs. https://niplav.github.io/code/99_klong/sol.kg being exemplary, but i want to write some more code. every single function there is Done. there is only stuff to remove, if at all, and nothing to add.

fourth, let's look at music, especially jamming. if you improvise, you are riding that same edge of time as with meditation, all music you create is there right now, and only the causal vibe carrying it all forward. that's why i mostly don't compose or record (also because my music is shit)

third, let's look at daygame. if you ask someone out in a social circle/hobby group, that leaves residual social cruft lying around: awkwardness & mutual avoidance. the whole thing is not Done the way it is when you get cleanly rejected on the street. (online dating has a similar quality of Doneness to it, I think, but matches might stack up and old leads might spring to life sometime, but that's the same with DG).

second, there's predictions. a prediction is Done when it's made. you could add comments, explanations, models &c, but the prediction can be Done and stand there on its own. (there is a slight problem with the fact that predictions need to be updated over time, though, so there is some Piling there as well).

there is this property of Doneness that I really like, and that tracks a lot (but not all) of my interests. First, let's take meditation: every single moment in meditation is really Done after it's over, it doesn't linger around, the sensations don't pile up somewhere. They might influence each other, sure, but at the end of the day it's just the present experience, slashing into and out of existence in its clear luminosity.

truly Weapons From a More Civilized Age material

i remembered i liked structural regular expressions, but re-reading the paper reminds me of how cool they are

in general, lw feels like a place where it would be good for many people to cross-post to, a content aggregator/archiver

idea: upvote-only lw shortforms posts: the karma isn't counted on the user karma score, but it also can't be downvoted, which encourages more wild and possibly wrong speculations

the elephant seal in the brain

okay, so here's a claim: axes of personal development à la Kegan are in principle orthogonal to meditative attainments

“there's still canyons worth of work this winter”

squiggle number one

ahhhhh pdfs with columns aaahhhh

all linear programming is integer linear programming if you try hard enough

“Lines of Flight in Intelligence Explosions: Queering the Causal/Evidential/Functional Trichotomy”

i imagine postrats who learn esperanto have a huge problem with the word for school,,,

the curse of academia: having to build complex models when simple ones would be sufficient

bworse

Cowen's second law: there is a literature on everything

probably quite fun at parties

im gonna go out onna limb here and claim that theres not enough positive utilitarians around

Christmas dinner at Aella's family must be…interesting

best known to me as the youtube skull & swords guy that breadtube made fun of

still amazing (davis?) aurini was an early lesswronger

Gwern's law: Well-known quotes are often wittier and more memorable than the original.

what do you mean, Infinite Jest is not a blogpost by Andrés Gomez-Emilsson?

is every normal-form game representable by a tree a potential game?

you heard of Différance, now get ready for Différance 2: Convergance

party game idea: MNIST debate

por vs. pro in esperanto always trips me up

What's astonishing is not that people try so hard to establish a positive reputation online, it's that they try so little.

the best time to participate in a community is after it has died

for what i've invested in my site, it's now probably time to move it off github.io on my own domain

I wish more people would number their podcast episodes

domain pestile.nz

Ramanujan voice “Oh, AI alignment? That's just a continued fraction” pulls out a notebook

you know what's interesting? if you randomly replace some words in a conversation with “redacted”, very few people will notice

some minds start cutting themselves if not dulled repeatedly.

what's a bijection between ℝ and ℝ^2?

people talk often about power in a way that is not clearly physical power. i have never understood those people, but i suspect that there is some thing there, and that i often perceive its shadow which is epistemic bullshit.

rereading the wikipedia page on ramanujan, we should absolutely clone him and von Neumann, and have them talk to each other. this is either going to destroy the world or usher in utopia, not sure which

we could also clone Ramanujan

introduction to coq continued, now i have learned what the codebase is supposed to do when it's finished

see http://lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-revolution/#footnote_79_3108

so the British colonized most of world, but they also made lots of countries abolish slavery, so it's impossible to tell whether they're good or bad,,,

it's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same

I also mostly didn't get Chapo Trap House (although the stuff I did get was sometimes pretty funny)

to fend off possible accusations of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is not funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don't have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.

for a given graph G, there is a set of graphs \mathcal{G} so that for every G' ∈ \mathcal{G}, the transitive closure of G' is G. does \mathcal{G} contain only one element?

if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?

wikipedia redirects shitcoin to cryptocurrency. heh

if you're not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don't need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority

the status incentives might not be interested in you, but you are surely interested in the status incentives

not the best move on the side of the red cross to call me and tell me it's because of my blood donation — i nearly had a panic attack for the 10 seconds that they didn't tell me it was all fine (why would you call me then‽ and why speak as if you're going to tell me i'll be dead in a month‽)

/r/sneerclub believes that everybody in the bay is attending ceremonies where peter thiel and moldbug sacrifice black children on the altar of acausal capitalism, of course, they are right.

guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it's all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general

this firefox isn't just leaking memory, it's gushing as if someone had performed shechita on it

use known inconsistencies of human preferences as value-learning trip-wires: if the value learning algorithm hasn't learned them yet, it's operating at the wrong level of abstraction.

i wonder if miri is looking out for people reinventing parts of their hidden agendas, as a kind of validation set

a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff

annoyance: terminology of "maximin"/"minimax" has some deep symmetry breaking

All Cuboids Are Bwwwwwwwwwwwww

pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle

continuous graph theory

Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a real personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists

What does an enthusiast for upper body clothing say when they see a new piece? “Intewesting”

Dafür, daß sie Jainisten heißen, sind sie aber ganz schön resolut

licerology: the study of betting and auctions, auction theory

short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind

the only relief i currently have is that the number of not-completely-autistic hot women in the bayrat/ea communities is very low, so we can't be that deep into social bullshit yet

“We are trying to accomplish an extremely difficult thing that requires everything to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, but luckily our status incentives are so optimal that the high status men getting to sleep with a lot women is just the best!”

that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.

i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is bad, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.

cut your losses. slash their bodies wide open

“What, of course I want to spend my entire life on this very specific spot on the happiness/productivity Pareto frontier, dummy.”

that's why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they're shit), or why meditation is so hard

feedback loops are severely underrated as a concept. if you can choose between two activities, selecting the one with the tighter feedback loop is probably the better bet.

https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/10/4/sacred-metal, and now consider computer programming (especially the terminology of wizards/gurus, programming as magic, the SICP cover &c!)

if you put both content and sources into the footnotes, screw you.

I don't want to think about my career. I want to solve the goddamn problem!

Montmartre-Paris+New York=?

apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER

Curtis Yarvin orchestrated gamergate to see if he could

It's not enough to be drunk for escalation, I also need to have made approaches beforehand.

Bourne in (s)hell

Mandate of Tenderness

List of fugitive schelling.pt Members

Moloch who resides in an infinite-dimensional space

Moloch whose pilots are spooky

I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.

whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it's in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor

there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate

to do: go nuclear on a date and explain that im just performing an act, that i studied this in detail and trained myself to do it, that this is a deliberate effort to escape my patheticness

“yeah? vipassanize this then, nerd” suckerpunch

seeing typos in LaTeX documents always throws me off, my brain still wants to classify the whole format as respectable

increase, decrease, recrease, transcrease, supercrease, subcrease, adcrease

in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?

hot philosophy student just answered a ping i sent a week ago, thank you uncle tom :folded_hands:

thricing

inter ni

funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)

milflife crisis

picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I'm sad it hasn't been developed further

procrastinating by writing and exercising…i have reached new lows

the fourfold spatious sutra

230/330

someone on twitter said once that if “defenestrate” means to throw someone out of a window, to “demonstrate” means to throw someone out of a monster. i think about that a lot

connetiqut

the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes

i like consequentialism, but i don't like any specific version of it nearly as much

it's not about what utilitarians recommend, it's about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.

also, a girl attempted to hug me ~20 seconds after rejecting me by telling me she had a boyfriend. i was woefully unprepared for that! (yada yada she wanted you to push further yada yada, yes i know, but this is something im still against)

niplav pointing at a Schäferhund “I can learn a lot from this man”

i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind

today, after getting blown off with a clean & clear “fuck you”, two girls told me in succession that I made their day and that I should continue what I was doing. Attenborough voice “daygame is truly a land of contrasts”

i wonder whether animals experience dukkha

…and now i'm wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions

i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls

being annoying by speculating about betting uncomputable reals on items in my auction theory exam; “Who says I can't value this item at Chaitin's Ω?”"

who decided to call it “slut” and not “dick jockey”?

experience is dirty

i'm finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.

condition number for tiling agents

generic answer to any threat: “if the grease doesn't get me first”

when trying to learn a formula using flashcards, prefix the formula with a natural-language explanation. makes it easier to remember.

submissive strategies in normal-form games

noticing that i should go to sleep because the guitar opening on Robot Rock seems awfully fast

i just realized russell was a bigger chad than nietzsche. poor guy

someday i will descend upon the unicode consortium and add sub/superscript version of the whole latin alphabet

millenial woman who did a degree in *-studies and uses the word “communities” a lot

some people, when they hear the word “technocracy”, think of “rule by technocrats”, others think of “rule by legible mechanisms”, which is a slight difference

ghettoblaster

someone should write an Upwing Manifesto

»In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Quảng Đức, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He was seriously burned before the fire was extinguished and later could only offer the explanation that “I wanted to see what it was like.”« lmao

actually, scratch the “pi-” prefix, why not make “ĉit-” the prefix?

why not a an esperanto prefix for thisness? similar to how one has ĉiam (ĉial for “for every reason”) for “always”, and neniam for “never” (nenial for “for no reason”), one could have e.g. “piam” for “now”, “pie” for “here”, “pial” for “for this (one) reason”, etc. one could argue that this purpose could also be fulfilled by “ĉi tie”, “ĉi tiam”, “ĉi tial”, but why not put it into one word?

SneLU

recursive grant-making

blood from the bloodstone

since so many people are shilling psychedelics so much right now, i have a personal partially negative experience with it; I'm like ~20% sure it gave me ~~erectile dysfunction* (two tildes because it's not quite that, but in ED-space). this stuff is seriously profound, and you're able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn't be obvious at first

the luminous fractal tendrils of physical agony

(that's probably not due to meditation, but to exercising 3½ hours a week

also, wow i have a lot of physical energy. it's making it hard to concentrate on intellectual work—my body wants to move constantly.

having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?

the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain

i hope that after i've aged, I will approach technology with the mindset of either “how can i use this to make cool shit” or “how can i make this technology safer”.

profectism

niplav attempting to get cancelled by the physics community: attempt 1

it's actually the case that dark matter is just consciousness. think about it: both are unobservable, clearly extant in large amonuts, and clearly influence this universe.

it is kind of nice

might have found the way to tune into the state where you let the tension/horniness/anxiety/pain/frustration do its thing down/in/over there in the body/space around me

of course I try to be hot, but within reason — I don't want the playing field to be the Kronecker delta

i <3 the Matrix cookbook

strong lol at the Raëlian symbol

deep taylor decomposition ;-)

Wikipedia article on Banach spaces: “Maurice René Fréchet was the first to use the term »Banach space« and Banach in turn then coined the term »Fréchet space.«” that is very cute.

there are two types of panpsychism, and they can be distinguished by asking “if i shatter this glass, will it feel pain?”. one answers "yes", the other answers "no clue, but probably not"

the adiabatic sutra, the inframeasure sutra, the acausal sutra

rijndaelites

melting face is great too

everybody being mad about pregnant man emoji, but im just happy emojis became horny with the biting lip one

Niplav Yushtun™: Paratechnē straight from the source

listening to the last 80k podcast i realize that there's a lot of α left in dvcs.

the silence prickles, a mind too fast for meaning, unwrapping my thoughts

10% Bodhisattva vow

Pickup artist cryptolect

Your model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is faster than you at precommitting to not swerving.

Eliezer Yudkowsky wins every Dollar Auction.

See also “A Chronicle of the Bay Area Cults”, Vol. 2, pg. 773-776.

Meditation™: We Tear Your Reality to Shreds!

I have not looked at pictures of naked robots in quite a while.

oi mate! what's ya ploidy?

I can't stand it when people criticize Scott Alexander, whose knowledge of all things is unimpeded, deity of deities, excelling the Ruler of Gods, excelling Brahmā, fearless in the possession of the four kinds of perfect confidence, wielder of the ten powers, and all-seer with unobstructed knowledge.

everybody talking about harambe being the moment reality broke. for me it was the debacle with communist subreddits banning catgirl comics.

probably the same as the reals

“Space Romans! Sandalpunk! The EU is just a semantic anagram of SPQR!”

what's the cardinality of the set containing all uncomputable reals?

one by one as they occurred.

why does my latin anki vocab deck contain a card for rhodium, an element discovered in 1803‽

antisemanticity

“metamask”, “betamax”, coincidence?

lecturer is describing von Neumann as an economist, which, yeah, isn't entirely incorrect, but…

i am very ready to start a lesswrong shitstorm by asking for “a good textbook on causal inference, unlike the Pearl one”

first option in the multiple choice quiz is “none of the above”. don't know what to think about this tbqh

you are a successful person who has started recently reading lesswrong, i am a novel rodent control agent

“i admire your optimism”=“wow, you are way more r-worded than i thought”

saying “without loss of generality” is a great way to hide bullshit in a proof. i have applied it many times with huge success

all the characters in the Kullback-Leibler divergence are actually dead

Jensen's inequality (black market edition)

every copy of Jensen's inequality is personalized

the heart say “no”, the spleen says “hey ;-)”

get yourself a girl who can pronounce the name of halley's comet correctly

today i gave a guy with a great beard a compliment. ~10 minutes later he spotted me, walked up to me and gave me a protein shake :-D

TIL that there's no flag emoji, there are “regional indicator symbols”, which are basically letters that are combined into two-letter codes for countries.

checkmate brits

rigourous

It is completely within your right to not have kids if you don't want to. It is completely within your right to have kids if you want to.

pepe extending hand to wojak meme for embedded vs. dualistic agents

the filter is not just having read marx, it is having read marx and still understanding him

For me, it always makes me feel better to look at the CVs of similar bloggers and see how little they've accomplished in comparison. I'm proud of my posts and my accomplishments, and I'm not going to h

instead, just dump the dead bodies of your genocide victims into the nitrogen and let them sit around as symbols of your triumph

i am always surprised about how deep wikipedia is. yesterday i got lost in the paleontology section. human knowledge is deep

45% that it's just intelligence that's causally upstream of this: https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1484183174573744142

I may not be an autist, but I am definitely with the autists

may you die a very unrigorous death

Official Spokesbird for Conservation

don't mind me, I'm just snacking some kakapo wings

ten billion american (passenger pigeon)s

become oviparous

the name Allosaurus is really funny to me for some reason. I imagine two biologists standing over a set of giant bones, and one saying to the other “Yeah, I think this is a different kind of lizard than what we usually have to deal with.”

it annoys me way too much, it shuold be Caelum Conterrens Est. Latin is SOV

one thousand Very Bad Takes About Alignment

non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying

gah, can't snarf evince

this holds for mathematics as well

i think that every language should have a unary - and + operator, and that those should be idempotent. sign flipping should be done by multiplication with -1.

kuracisto estas racisto kiu kuras

my nervous system is as smooth as a baby

the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It's too full here, let's go home.”

a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.