Tilde Club Twtxt Timeline

2023-07-05T14:55:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
trying to fit in with Gödelian set theorists by saying “V” when someone does something outrageously stupid
2023-06-30T14:26:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
dril wrote for HiveSwap. It's all connected
2023-05-26T20:41:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I am concerned about my outgoing debts, but not about small-ish incoming ones
2023-05-26T20:40:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Erz Herz zog
2023-05-26T20:40:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I think I'm getting *more* curious with age
2023-05-26T19:15:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Cormac McCarthys writing has strong Harvard sentence energy.
2023-05-26T18:40:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'd like to garbage-collect some symbols in the math I'm currently writing, help
2023-05-15T18:47:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
draining the baby out with the bathwater
2023-05-13T14:23:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Shapley values are NP-hard to compute, right?
2023-05-12T10:23:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“nubile” should mean cloud-like
2023-05-11T18:24:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
productivity under anxiety is a repulsive fixed point (you might even feel worse the closer you get to what you should be doing)
2023-05-10T21:32:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
from a computational complexity perspective, completeness is the “worst” axiom to violate: only O(n²) to find a violation
2023-05-10T20:58:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
no Eliezer you're wrong Runaround is about tiling agents,
2023-05-10T20:47:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“…still working on the frugal priors though”
2023-05-10T20:46:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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…
2023-05-10T14:55:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
WAIT WHAT DID ZIZ GET HER NAME FROM ONE OF THE ENDBRINGERS FROM WORM‽
2023-05-10T12:32:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
snitches get stitches, bitches get skritches
2023-05-10T10:26:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
steelmanning benefits the steelmanner
2023-05-10T09:30:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
roman buddhists
2023-05-10T09:30:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
midjourney prompts: the buddha as a roman senator
2023-05-10T08:04:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gimli voice: they call it a *site*
2023-05-08T21:08:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
e/acc: epistemic accelerationism
2023-05-08T20:43:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.
2023-05-07T11:30:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl to cultivate a new gradientspawn
2023-05-05T23:50:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical
2023-05-04T22:18:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
How long is *your* fundamental OODA loop?
2023-05-04T22:18:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I don't remember where I first read this, but: A government's OODA loop is ~6 months long.
2023-05-04T10:32:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode
2023-05-03T12:46:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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…
2023-04-19T13:53:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
von Neumann and Morgenstern is a joy to read :-D
2023-04-19T12:27:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff
2023-04-19T12:27:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs
2023-04-19T06:18:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is *not* “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???
2023-04-19T06:16:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.
2023-04-15T09:52:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“neniel” could also be a biblical angel
2023-04-14T23:39:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
just loving this little guy: (·,·). it's like he's looking through a crack: ‘come on, you'll understand the function definition’
2023-04-14T12:44:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
starstardotbib
2023-04-14T11:48:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
What is the Bayesian version of calibration?
2023-04-14T11:20:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
in practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary
2023-04-14T11:14:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?
2023-04-11T22:59:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“…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?”
2023-04-08T21:33:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
2023-04-08T10:40:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
2023-04-06T21:48:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
2023-04-06T20:32:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
2023-04-02T11:16:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
wow https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vwLxd6hhFvPbvKmBH/yudkowsky-and-christiano-discuss-takeoff-speeds?commentId=mKgEsfShs2xtaWz4K
2023-04-01T11:57:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
2023-04-01T11:19:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
2023-03-31T07:46:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
2023-03-26T22:14:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I've never gotten much out of a book review & don't understand why people read or write them.
2023-03-25T02:51:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation
2023-03-23T15:47:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?
2023-03-22T16:33:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2023-03-21T10:05:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?
2023-03-20T15:49:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models
2023-03-19T16:30:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
2023-03-17T19:02:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit
2023-03-16T21:58:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?
2023-03-15T19:05:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hey LLM how does on do long game
2023-03-13T03:41:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who would rather read than meditate
2023-03-12T16:46:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
2023-03-12T15:21:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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!
2023-03-10T17:23:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to
2023-03-06T01:39:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2023-03-05T19:43:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
schelling.pt gone
2023-03-05T19:31:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind
2023-02-28T00:07:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch
2023-02-26T01:54:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
What's the difference between a homeomorphism and a diffeomorphism?
2023-02-26T01:18:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(Non-joke question) Is there a tensor product of tensor products?
2023-02-26T01:18:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what's the problem?
2023-02-25T16:22:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
»If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?« »Does the bear shit in the woods?«
2023-02-22T11:30:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
comparing politics to constrained optimization: taxes are equivalent to the penalty method, while regulations are equivalent to barrier functions.
2023-02-22T00:58:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
heuristic-ness is the curvature of the graceful decline in prediction-accuracy to perturbations of the heuristic
2023-02-19T00:11:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2023-02-17T15:23:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i'm not an intellectual, i'm just a guy who likes to f**k
2023-02-15T00:19:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I don't know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.
2023-02-14T12:27:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?
2023-02-10T09:37:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders
2023-02-09T21:13:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the most galaxybrained argument for the least galaxybrained conclusion: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7MdLurJGhGmqRv25c/multiverse-wide-cooperation-in-a-nutshell
2023-02-08T22:44:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)
2023-02-06T02:51:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.
2023-02-05T21:27:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR
2023-02-05T01:06:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
2023-02-04T20:51:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2023-02-02T22:13:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
no “SMV”. drop the “market”. it's just cleaner
2023-02-02T14:24:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
WHAT WAS YOUR POLICY FROM BEFORE YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS CREATED
2023-02-02T12:42:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
he⃛h
2023-01-30T10:25:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
amussy
2023-01-30T00:24:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
get in, loser, we're prompt-injecting the e-girls
2023-01-28T10:37:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
balls/acc
2023-01-28T10:37:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
backp/acc
2023-01-28T00:37:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
so discount rates are bad mmkay say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?
2023-01-28T00:12:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests
2023-01-25T21:42:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the correct position on consciousness is the figure-ground inversion of functionalism
2023-01-25T20:23:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
mfw Eliezer will never call any of my ideas “dignified”
2023-01-24T21:29:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what if ftm is just a *really* strong countersignal? have you ever considered that, Mark?
2023-01-22T00:09:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the name of the lost+found/ directory encapsulates all that is great & bad about linux. i won't take any questions.
2023-01-16T14:46:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how much money do I need to pay you for you to take a pill that makes you insane?
2023-01-13T12:03:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
you can't just propose a counterfactual and not state whether it's conditional or where you do() the past to produce it
2023-01-13T10:38:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
on reflection disinviting AI researchers from parties and conferences is not an effective way of stopping them in developing AGI
2023-01-08T20:57:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“(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
2022-12-23T16:08:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-12-21T23:45:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
but also the amount of time a broken clock is right has measure zero
2022-12-21T19:54:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
in deontic logic, is ~obligation(~x)=permission(x)?
2022-12-21T19:48:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?
2022-12-21T19:45:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I really enjoy the portray of conseqduentialism in the SEP article on deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
2022-12-21T18:49:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
philosophytube followers be pondering the impossibility of white bears in novaya semlya
2022-12-21T18:29:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-12-21T16:00:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Zeynep's razor (second-order effects): https://nitter.net/zeynep/status/1478766408691556353?lang=en
2022-12-19T22:50:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-12-19T16:25:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(i won't watch it anyway)
2022-12-19T16:24:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Prediction: I will not like the Philosophy Tube Video about Effective Altruism
2022-12-19T15:28:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Daniel Wingman
2022-12-18T23:18:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp
2022-12-18T01:39:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Unlikely events can be good, likely events can be bad.
2022-12-18T01:07:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“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”)
2022-12-17T23:46:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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”
2022-12-17T13:02:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
google maps as a dating app
2022-12-17T00:13:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“But I'd love to be pinned down” — Toby Ord (The Precipice p. 397)
2022-12-14T20:51:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released *before* GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane
2022-12-14T20:46:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“sorry dude, you have vingean uncertainty over the EA community”
2022-12-14T20:45:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
critiques of effective altruism in the form “effective altruism isn't blue/green enough” are really boring, and likely wrong
2022-12-14T00:56:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun
2022-12-14T00:16:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
nofap promises so much and in the end just makes my balls ache a bit
2022-12-13T14:00:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tbh i can understand why people dislike Pinker so much—he's usually right, but he so unfathomably smug about everything
2022-12-11T23:22:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
aviation safety is a small shard of dath ilan that fell into our world
2022-12-11T21:34:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rapidly oscillating between nibbanic zero-ontology and plotinian “badness is non-being” views
2022-12-06T15:59:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
help
2022-12-06T15:58:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm rapidly flip-flopping between believing that I'm extremely autistic and believing that everyone else is autistic compared to me
2022-12-06T01:01:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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!
2022-11-29T00:03:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
why does meditation make me *so* horny & temporarily relieve me of erectile dysfunction?
2022-11-28T23:54:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
why is >80% of the most read literotica content incest related?
2022-11-27T23:54:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-11-27T09:53:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-11-26T22:05:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gotta get a child with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom
2022-11-25T14:56:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
*another paper* which relies on questionnaires for attention span. am i going crazy? how is this a good metric‽
2022-11-22T20:49:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
My Generation — The Who (Eurobeat Remix)
2022-11-19T20:32:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
noone told me that you can get basically free tutoring from professors during so-called office hours‽
2022-11-19T20:30:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-11-19T18:52:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
schelling.party
2022-11-19T18:00:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
analogue players link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3Oj00p83Q
2022-11-19T17:22:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i want that bear onesie
2022-11-18T07:35:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
proposal: ability to sort posts on forum magnum by length
2022-11-17T22:04:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi
2022-11-15T23:32:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how much programmer activity is spent writing new code vs. debugging existing code?
2022-11-15T23:31:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code.
2022-11-15T22:23:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
THE ACTOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM VGHS MARRIED THE ACTRESS PLAYING HIS LOVE INTEREST
2022-11-10T14:34:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
arrière and derrière having the same meaning is just such a thing
2022-11-09T11:01:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
of course the Soviet Union failed—they didn't have computers yet!
2022-11-07T23:15:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
computational complexity theory of self-modifying code. probably not good for execution speed, but great for code size.
2022-11-06T00:42:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i only allow myself to go the hard way. good or bad?
2022-11-05T12:01:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if agents are usually suffering negative sum games might be good via destructive warfare
2022-11-01T22:46:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
MANGAO
2022-11-01T20:33:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Gauzian
2022-10-29T21:45:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The Honeycomb Conjecture was probably the longest-standing open conjecture in the history of mathematics. Open for 2035 years, if Wikipedia is to believed
2022-10-28T15:49:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
predict yourself as if you're a well-meaning but very unreliable friend of yourself
2022-10-26T12:20:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
futuristic city image “the world if all externalities were internalized”
2022-10-23T18:09:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
monotonic occam's razor
2022-10-23T17:04:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
multifaceted hedgehog
2022-10-22T23:04:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
killing moloch is not glorious, it's just tedious.
2022-10-22T21:35:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
interpretability can ~re-create more discrete alignment methods over a leaky abstraction
2022-10-21T15:05:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
maybe social constructivism is just descriptive in how most social scientists create their theories?
2022-10-18T11:00:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what's the entomology of that?
2022-10-14T15:19:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gratitude should be a brahmavihara, not upekkha
2022-10-07T13:57:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
{adequate,¬adequate}×{exploitable,¬exploitable}×{efficient,¬efficient}
2022-10-05T15:26:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
public relations is a reality-masking puzzle.
2022-10-04T12:24:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
actual nazis talk about moloch a lot
2022-10-04T12:22:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i care about the instantiation of human values in the universe, not about whether humanity reaches the stars
2022-10-03T15:00:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“citta” should probably just be translated as “psyche”
2022-10-03T12:48:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-10-03T09:12:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
could MDMA microdosing help me get into the 2nd jhana?
2022-10-03T08:48:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
new cause area: buy 0day exploits
2022-10-03T07:55:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
on priors, if you want to impact the world, found a religion or start a company.
2022-09-27T21:43:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
/r/gonewildstories will compliment vogon poetry, it seems
2022-09-27T09:36:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
often⩬percent
2022-09-22T23:05:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
MTF π-12 “tensor grease”
2022-09-22T23:04:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It's impossible to tell whether he's good or not
2022-09-22T23:04:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Yudkowsky moved AI alignment research forward by 4 years, but he also sped up timelines by 2.5 years, so it all cancels out
2022-09-22T23:04:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
soft (rigidity), soft (texture)
2022-09-22T23:02:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Angels from Dr. Who but everytime you look away there's new AI capabilities progress
2022-09-22T23:02:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Most zero-sum games are actually negative-sum games, because of transaction costs
2022-09-22T23:02:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It's not fair! The graph was supposed to peak in 2047, not 2028!
2022-09-21T23:05:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pet peeve: line-splitting in an ff ligature
2022-09-20T22:20:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'd hate to be the baby strapped to Voyager 1
2022-09-20T22:19:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
there are actually six hindrances: the original five and thinking about how to practically dovetail the shortest brainfuck quine
2022-09-20T22:17:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rationalist meditation retreat: listening to Replacing Guilt as a dharma talk
2022-09-20T22:07:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Todo: become an anti-recycling fanatic at some point
2022-09-20T21:53:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Maybe just not have your search space contain Turing complete elements?
2022-09-20T21:52:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Anyone else wanna laugh at millennials when they realize they have gotten old?
2022-09-20T21:47:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
80,000 hours podcast but it's only Rob Wiblin speaking. Useful for voice synthesis.
2022-09-20T21:47:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Planecrash but just the dath ilan bits
2022-09-20T21:47:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Retaking an airplane after terrorist takeover is a coordination problem
2022-09-20T21:46:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
You may start century time horizon projects
2022-09-20T21:45:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Playing hard to get imposes costs on other actually impossible to get players.
2022-09-20T21:45:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Well, you have my curse.
2022-09-20T21:29:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-09-20T21:29:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-09-20T21:26:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“I assume that not everything that can improve my thinking is found in The Sequences.”
2022-09-20T21:24:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
put an epistemic status on a thing you're really confident in, once in a while.
2022-09-20T09:11:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
reaching exalted meditation states is not important per se, but that you have ample material to learn not clinging to.
2022-09-19T21:22:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
dvorak edm remix which is actually good
2022-09-19T19:09:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tolerating what we can
2022-09-19T19:08:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
taking the pledge to become 10% less misogynistic
2022-09-15T01:10:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
now is a good time to sit back and read
2022-08-04T18:12:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
topics i will never research: how the prussian military inventing boardgames with dice to train military strategists influenced modern eurogames and not amerigames
2022-08-04T16:07:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-08-04T15:38:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
L'an 2100 ne passera pas
2022-08-04T14:34:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-07-30T23:09:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
libsucker. rolls of the tongue
2022-07-29T16:06:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
all the cool kids? in the bay. me? chillin'
2022-07-29T11:09:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
HAHAHAHAHAA IT'S FEBRUARY 2020 ALL OVER AGAIN HAHAHAHA
2022-07-28T21:00:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
warm & wet game theory
2022-07-27T22:49:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
being cone-theoryd
2022-07-27T22:48:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?)
2022-07-27T21:14:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i think in practice people were most convinced by timelines, if not arguments, then observations abt progress.
2022-07-27T10:40:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
see https://www.gwern.net/Subscripts#evidentials
2022-07-27T10:39:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
using subscripts for probability assignments?
2022-07-26T22:11:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
malign prior as an idealized case of meta-optimization
2022-07-26T22:11:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lw events should give one the ability to report probabilities
2022-07-25T15:21:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
did women really faint that often in the past? if yes, what changed so they don't anymore?
2022-07-25T14:03:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the new chinchilla scaling laws were not what I expected
2022-07-25T12:36:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
whenever someone denies something, nod my head sagely and say “glomarizing nicely, I see.”
2022-07-24T21:56:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
shoutout to the woman that broke my heart so that I now read papers titled stuff like “Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making”
2022-07-24T20:53:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
HOW DO THOSE PEOPLE READ SO MUCH
2022-07-24T20:52:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
that probably relies on a bunch of interpretability work done beforehand
2022-07-24T20:52:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
todo: find a way to track ontology shifts in neural networks
2022-07-23T20:57:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
me reading planecrash is unstable bc while reading it I become so enthusiastic about reading textbooks that I go off and do that instead
2022-07-23T19:42:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
just thought to myself “hopefully a bigger pandemic hits, that sounds like it'll delay ai capabilities progres”, which, no,,,
2022-07-22T10:44:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a rationalists lament: on the EA community
2022-07-21T13:52:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what are people's attitudes towards others voting selfishly vs. not voting at all?
2022-07-21T12:03:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
myopic consequentialism might often outperform heuristics, don't know about full consequentialism in bounded agents tho
2022-07-20T21:56:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
biology:philosophy of mind::ethology:meditation
2022-07-20T21:27:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
researchers drunkenly explaining 5-10 to each other
2022-07-20T16:46:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
surveys probably get more results if people get their some summary statistic at the end—a way to increase participation rate?
2022-07-20T11:32:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://nitter.hu/Aella_Girl/status/1549665979130593283#m !!!!!!!!
2022-07-19T22:20:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
find the next number in the sequence 0,2,2,46,3640
2022-07-19T00:11:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
daily reminder that most politicians wouldn't be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them
2022-07-19T00:01:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm a midwit with high need for cognition
2022-07-11T16:49:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-07-11T16:20:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
commitment races in rape accusation
2022-07-11T15:55:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rip schelling.pt
2022-07-10T18:55:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
stiglered again
2022-07-10T17:27:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?
2022-07-09T23:30:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-07-09T23:27:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
transhumanism is simplified humanism.
2022-07-08T22:22:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ideologies are just compressed & distributed vibes, shards of shared stances.
2022-07-07T22:32:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
fodgehox
2022-07-07T19:13:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(wistfully) “im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”
2022-07-07T12:21:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Einstürzende Neugeburten
2022-07-06T15:48:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-07-06T14:49:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ganrsl
2022-07-04T23:31:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i'm now pretty sure the urbit whitepaper is impossible to parody.
2022-07-04T06:36:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-07-02T21:54:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
GPT-Alyx (Codebase: 96% Idris)
2022-07-02T20:24:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i find the removal of the “master/slave” thing in computer protocols to be kinkshaming
2022-07-01T23:12:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the EA community is grabbing existential risk by the black balls
2022-07-01T08:24:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
maybe for most people social media isn't an epistemic hazard, but “just” an attention hazard?
2022-06-30T20:36:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
there's a lot of alpha left in high-weirdness mental wellbeing interventions
2022-06-28T21:03:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lojban rap, microtonal giantstepscore, taxxonpop
2022-06-27T21:05:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.
2022-06-27T09:22:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pandas makes my RAM usage jump like a cardiogram
2022-06-27T08:37:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-06-21T19:28:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
plasmacrane
2022-06-21T19:17:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-06-19T18:32:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
dath ilan has screened off its past just es ey wants to screen off his past before ~2003
2022-06-19T14:26:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
numpy.unique needs the type to be comparable by < and >, not just ==. that seems like overkill.
2022-06-19T08:25:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
diversity inequity exclusion
2022-06-19T08:23:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
following legislation from the ELSC (european long site commission), I now have to adopt an ocelot
2022-06-17T18:31:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
apparently we're going to build AGI, whatever that is
2022-06-17T15:16:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-06-15T22:22:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's crazy how we basically haven't tested nuclear weapons in ~30 years
2022-06-15T21:51:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how much did large volcano eruptions in the past change agricultural output?
2022-06-15T20:11:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
you know that you've made it when you're using fermi estimates to debug your rl agent.
2022-06-14T20:49:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rationality is having strong opinions about things nobody has ever thought about before.
2022-06-14T19:05:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lipogrammatic pangram
2022-06-14T07:32:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
found spicy khmer waltz vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)
2022-06-13T23:48:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
extra spicy bunns
2022-06-13T23:45:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
naxus
2022-06-13T23:41:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
foqed
2022-06-13T23:39:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
jokez
2022-06-13T23:39:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ezafu
2022-06-13T23:33:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
jarns
2022-06-13T23:31:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
janus
2022-06-13T23:26:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
mozed
2022-06-13T23:24:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bouge
2022-06-13T23:23:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
foofe
2022-06-13T23:23:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
boxem
2022-06-13T23:10:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
neither is warez
2022-06-13T23:05:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
qream
2022-06-13T23:02:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
spicy wheat found
2022-06-13T22:58:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it's the reaction i have the most when playing it
2022-06-13T14:05:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“if enough of us listen to prophets of doom, it becomes self-fulfilling” — Leo Szilard
2022-06-13T13:35:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pressman being another taxxon fan is a delightful finding
2022-06-12T21:31:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if your eag profile doesn't say 'neartermism', you'll automatically be drafted into the deepmind potential hires mailing list
2022-06-12T00:19:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“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
2022-06-12T00:19:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.
2022-06-12T00:15:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-06-11T23:31:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-06-11T23:00:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-06-10T20:14:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-06-10T19:28:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a “moron” could also be a group-theoretic structure. “On the symplectic inverses of left-invariant morons”
2022-06-10T19:27:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
morad and moroid
2022-06-10T18:58:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-06-10T18:40:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
once i've found a core to corrigibility i'll write an incel manifesto
2022-06-10T13:53:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ai alignment is great bc nobody knows what it should be, so you can do whatever you want and call it alignment.
2022-06-09T19:20:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
some people just shouldn't be given the responsibility to create datasets.
2022-06-09T19:18:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i want to commit violence
2022-06-09T19:17:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ARE YOU FOR REAL
2022-06-09T19:17:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
……………Tetlock data uses AMERICAN DATE FORMAT IN A DATASET
2022-06-09T18:24:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lw karma political compass
2022-06-09T16:10:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the cold waste of unknown en-pyee
2022-06-09T13:51:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-06-08T21:45:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
retconning my inner child
2022-06-08T19:41:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“The geological study of Antarctica has been greatly hindered by nearly all of the continent being permanently covered with a thick layer of ice.”
2022-06-07T22:31:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
is the “takeoff” of fundamental physics in the first half of the 20th century mostly due to the industrial revolution?
2022-06-07T18:52:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
goal: develop strong opinions about vector fields and where to stick wires into people's heads.
2022-06-07T18:42:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
even if cause X came along now, people wouldn't be able to update towards it within a year.
2022-06-06T23:01:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-06-06T22:44:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if aliens exists and UAPs are caused by them, what implication does that have for AI safety?
2022-06-06T12:55:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hoooly crap the tino rangatiratanga is a good flag
2022-06-05T23:12:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
closest pairs of points are not necessarily reflexive. there are some points in euclidean space that are just fundamentally abandoned
2022-06-05T20:36:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“perception is all you need” — Rosenblatt, 1958
2022-06-05T20:35:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it'd be deeply ironic if MLPs, sufficiently scaled, are enough for AGI
2022-06-03T22:45:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-05-30T22:31:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
our next arecibo message should probably include the orders of the sporadic groups, just to show that we're somewhat advanced as a species.
2022-05-30T08:45:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Bayesian jihad
2022-05-27T20:30:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
r strategy poster by day, K strategy poster by night
2022-05-27T12:53:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)|/𝓖_n<|U(𝓖_{n+1})|/|𝓖_{n+1}|?
2022-05-25T22:15:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-24T23:19:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“AI” refers to the observation that computers, over time, can do more & more things
2022-05-23T22:35:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-23T22:33:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“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.
2022-05-23T21:55:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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…
2022-05-23T21:43:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
niplav yushtun, ta faret ne digal.
2022-05-21T19:13:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-05-20T21:29:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
knuckle tatoos: “nplv site”, “ttra spce”, “less wrng”
2022-05-19T23:34:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The Lightgirl of the Gate
2022-05-18T17:58:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
DALL·E 2 prompts: The Gateboss of the Girlkeep
2022-05-17T21:29:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Have you considered that removing Occam's razor from your worldview makes the worldview simpler?
2022-05-17T00:11:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-16T14:14:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
vibe computing
2022-05-11T20:55:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Don Knuth really really wants to write a long site and not books. I mean…just take a look at them!
2022-05-11T20:55:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
God exists, and she is a woman 😏
2022-05-11T12:06:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
why am i just now finding out about examine.com this is pretty cool
2022-05-10T23:55:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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…
2022-05-10T23:38:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
we can also make value of perfect information a shorter word, vopi. or voi for just value of information.
2022-05-10T23:37:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
induction, abduction, deduction, transduction, traduction, seduction, adduction, eduction, reduction, contraduction
2022-05-10T23:17:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-10T23:14:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“i'll stop reading at 1:30” this is your internal agents coordinating
2022-05-10T22:48:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-10T22:24:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
now that must be a pretty impressive shirt i guess
2022-05-10T21:34:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-05-10T10:46:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
comment quality in /r/rational worse than on LW
2022-05-10T08:52:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
just downloaded micatwoa html files inshallah
2022-05-09T15:28:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
menchbarks
2022-05-09T15:01:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what is the MNIST of education interventions? what the ImageNet? what the Danbooru 2021‽
2022-05-09T14:46:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Statisticians: NOoooooo you can't execute a t-test on elements from a Likert scale! Psychologists: Hah NHST go brrrrrrrrr
2022-05-09T13:55:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pickup artistry is incredibly feminine: if you were masculine, women would come to you anyway
2022-05-07T23:42:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what the hell my phone gives me tracers in the dark if i move it
2022-05-07T21:39:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the elegance of zeppelines is sublimp
2022-05-07T21:30:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my watch has been running for ~5 years now, and I've never had to change the battery. wow.
2022-05-07T21:26:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-07T20:27:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if we clone neanderthals/denisovans, we should probably ask them about consciousness.
2022-05-07T17:47:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hang web developers by ropes whose length is inversely proportional to the loading time of their pages
2022-05-07T17:22:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-07T17:14:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Welcome to the Niplaverse! Take a seat over there, your ultrasound-stimulation helmet is being prepared in right order.
2022-05-07T17:04:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what if we kissed 👉👈😳 in front of the whiteboard with haphazard alignment ideas
2022-05-07T17:03:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(cringe opinion) eliezer yudkowsky is good actually
2022-05-06T21:36:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the answer to all questions is either: “Can you feel your toes right now?”, “Start a long site” or “Talk to more girls”.
2022-05-06T20:58:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
but maybe i'm underestimating the research
2022-05-06T20:58:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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!)
2022-05-06T20:56:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if there's one field ripe for huge progress by a large swath of theoretical physicists invading it, it's probably educational research.
2022-05-06T20:55:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?)
2022-05-06T20:53:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
who has taken the train to crazytown the furthest? (and hasn't suffered from nervous breakdown in the process)
2022-05-06T20:53:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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”).
2022-05-06T20:50:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pseudoquasisemimetric
2022-05-06T11:55:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://arachnid.town/objects/797821f8-f885-41aa-afe1-a9d764a93b7d
2022-05-06T07:12:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if we solve distributional shift, do we also solve ontological crises?
2022-05-05T07:37:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(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.
2022-05-05T07:35:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-05T07:30:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Breaking News: On-site nuke at Deepmind headquarters in London detonated.
2022-05-05T06:34:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The Moser spindle
2022-05-05T06:34:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The Balaban 11-cage
2022-05-05T06:33:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The first Blanuša snark
2022-05-05T06:33:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The second Blanuša snark
2022-05-05T06:33:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
graph names that sound like war crimes:
2022-05-04T10:37:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm only paying lisp service to John McCarthy
2022-05-04T10:13:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who, when he hears someone mention SARS, thinks of deep Q-learning
2022-05-02T17:20:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
let's not read the thielleaves
2022-05-02T09:56:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-02T09:48:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-05-01T22:41:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
new favorite color: space cadet (#1E2952) (not really)
2022-04-30T18:55:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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*?”
2022-04-30T13:47:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-04-30T00:17:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-25T21:11:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-04-25T20:41:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i begrudgingly admit that i have learned some things in my courses at university
2022-04-25T20:34:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a peaceful world, with moral patients peacefully grazing in the valleys
2022-04-25T19:04:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
they didn't understand my posting at twitter, they won't understand it once they come here
2022-04-25T18:54:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
We can't guarantee success, but we can deserve it.
2022-04-24T22:14:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
𐤌𐤕
2022-04-24T21:55:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-24T21:52:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
list of countries whose emblems contain overhead power lines:
2022-04-24T21:52:06.000001Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
• North Korea
2022-04-22T17:04:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
SBF f-bomb counter
2022-04-22T13:30:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
one then checks that the following diagrams commute [devil god diagram]
2022-04-22T13:07:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-04-22T00:28:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞẞ
2022-04-22T00:25:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the famous unix command ʪ
2022-04-22T00:24:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
🙰 c
2022-04-22T00:24:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ffs
2022-04-21T23:44:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
on the overwhelming irrelevance of plant epistemology
2022-04-21T19:59:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“We don't come with guarantees, that's absolutely for sure.”
2022-04-20T21:40:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
[snowpiercer] fan theory: they're all actually patients in a mental asylum, dreaming this up as a collective delusion
2022-04-20T21:39:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
[SPOILERS SPOILERS] [snowpiercer spoilers] the osweiller guy is learning one important lesson the hard way: don't stick your dick in crazy
2022-04-20T21:38:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
[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
2022-04-20T17:58:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
power is wasted without science
2022-04-19T09:32:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-04-18T20:31:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-18T20:23:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
*stands up from the battlefield* “I am TetraspaceWest” *gets shot immediately*
2022-04-17T16:11:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gwern&offset=&limit=500&target=Gwern
2022-04-15T16:36:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tried to figure out how to use university springer access to download a textbook, gave up after two minutes and just used libgen. lmao
2022-04-15T15:58:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
at the moment, all medicine merely delays the moment of death
2022-04-15T03:35:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
9 wikipedia edits today! yay me! (also a bunch of small scale contributions to other people's texts: https://niplav.github.io/contributions.html)
2022-04-15T01:36:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?
2022-04-14T19:03:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-04-14T13:39:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
scaling laws for dogs
2022-04-14T10:12:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
vipassana is all about the vibes (the fundamental vibrations that make up all experience)
2022-04-11T09:13:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
while we're on the topic; what's the gender-neutral term for fuckboy?
2022-04-11T09:12:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-11T00:27:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
who has experienced at least one jhana?
2022-04-11T00:26:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
is there at least one billionaire who is also a stream-enterer?
2022-04-10T23:54:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the anti-“hairy ball theorem” of decision theory: it's always newcombeable
2022-04-09T08:34:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
open your textbooks on page one.
2022-04-07T00:19:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
fun fact: there's around 10 mio. times more bacteria on this planet than neurons
2022-04-07T00:04:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
this is a partial answer to http://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/
2022-04-07T00:03:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
to leave every Pile behind, to stop doing my Anki cards, recording data on my life, and just be Done.
2022-04-07T00:03:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-07T00:01:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-06T23:59:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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, …, …, ……….
2022-04-06T23:58:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-06T23:57:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-06T23:56:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-04-06T23:54:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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).
2022-04-06T23:53:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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).
2022-04-06T23:51:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-04-04T21:47:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
truly Weapons From a More Civilized Age material
2022-04-04T21:47:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i remembered i liked structural regular expressions, but re-reading the paper reminds me of how cool they are
2022-04-04T18:25:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
in general, lw feels like a place where it would be good for many people to cross-post to, a content aggregator/archiver
2022-04-04T18:24:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-04-04T17:55:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the elephant seal in the brain
2022-04-04T16:06:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
okay, so here's a claim: axes of personal development à la Kegan are in principle orthogonal to meditative attainments
2022-04-04T13:15:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“there's still canyons worth of work this winter”
2022-04-04T12:45:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
squiggle number one
2022-04-03T19:35:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ahhhhh pdfs with columns aaahhhh
2022-04-02T21:38:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
all linear programming is integer linear programming if you try hard enough
2022-04-02T07:21:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Lines of Flight in Intelligence Explosions: Queering the Causal/Evidential/Functional Trichotomy”
2022-04-01T13:43:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i imagine postrats who learn esperanto have a huge problem with the word for school,,,
2022-04-01T03:31:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the curse of academia: having to build complex models when simple ones would be sufficient
2022-03-31T18:09:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bworse
2022-03-31T15:53:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Cowen's second law: there is a literature on everything
2022-03-31T15:41:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
probably quite fun at parties
2022-03-31T15:41:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
im gonna go out onna limb here and claim that theres not enough positive utilitarians around
2022-03-31T13:34:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Christmas dinner at Aella's family must be…interesting
2022-03-30T21:58:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
best known to me as the youtube skull & swords guy that breadtube made fun of
2022-03-30T21:58:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
still amazing (davis?) aurini was an early lesswronger
2022-03-30T20:33:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Gwern's law: Well-known quotes are often wittier and more memorable than the original.
2022-03-30T18:25:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what do you mean, Infinite Jest is not a blogpost by Andrés Gomez-Emilsson?
2022-03-30T12:28:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
is every normal-form game representable by a tree a potential game?
2022-03-30T12:27:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
you heard of Différance, now get ready for Différance 2: Convergance
2022-03-30T11:38:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
party game idea: MNIST debate
2022-03-29T21:07:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
por vs. pro in esperanto always trips me up
2022-03-29T18:04:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
What's astonishing is not that people try so hard to establish a positive reputation online, it's that they try so *little*.
2022-03-29T15:58:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the best time to participate in a community is after it has died
2022-03-29T14:36:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
for what i've invested in my site, it's now probably time to move it off github.io on my own domain
2022-03-28T22:06:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I wish more people would number their podcast episodes
2022-03-28T21:58:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
domain pestile.nz
2022-03-28T20:53:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
*Ramanujan voice* “Oh, AI alignment? That's just a continued fraction” *pulls out a notebook*
2022-03-28T20:48:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
you know what's interesting? if you randomly replace some words in a conversation with “redacted”, very few people will notice
2022-03-28T19:47:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
some minds start cutting themselves if not dulled repeatedly.
2022-03-28T19:43:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what's a bijection between ℝ and ℝ^2?
2022-03-28T14:32:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-28T14:17:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-28T10:03:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
we could also clone Ramanujan
2022-03-27T22:30:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
introduction to coq continued, now i have learned what the codebase is supposed to do when it's finished
2022-03-27T18:53:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
see http://lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-revolution/#footnote_79_3108
2022-03-27T18:52:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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,,,
2022-03-27T18:28:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's crazy how rob miles and toby ord sound almost exactly the same
2022-03-26T15:15:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I also mostly didn't get Chapo Trap House (although the stuff I did get was sometimes pretty funny)
2022-03-26T15:15:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-26T10:13:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?
2022-03-25T14:58:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?
2022-03-25T13:09:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
wikipedia redirects shitcoin to cryptocurrency. heh
2022-03-25T12:12:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-23T23:01:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the status incentives might not be interested in you, but you are surely interested in the status incentives
2022-03-23T21:16:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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‽)
2022-03-23T20:37:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
/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.
2022-03-23T10:50:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-22T22:21:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
this firefox isn't just leaking memory, it's gushing as if someone had performed shechita on it
2022-03-22T21:36:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-22T21:14:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i wonder if miri is looking out for people reinventing parts of their hidden agendas, as a kind of validation set
2022-03-22T21:00:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a vector field is just a kind of graph, mathematicians are silly for inventing unnecessary stuff
2022-03-21T15:44:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
annoyance: terminology of "maximin"/"minimax" has some deep symmetry breaking
2022-03-21T15:31:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
All Cuboids Are Bwwwwwwwwwwwww
2022-03-20T22:26:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle
2022-03-20T22:12:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
continuous graph theory
2022-03-20T21:15:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a *real* personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists
2022-03-20T21:07:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
What does an enthusiast for upper body clothing say when they see a new piece? “Intewesting”
2022-03-20T21:06:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Dafür, daß sie Jainisten heißen, sind sie aber ganz schön resolut
2022-03-20T17:45:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
licerology: the study of betting and auctions, auction theory
2022-03-20T17:24:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-19T00:06:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-19T00:00:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“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!”
2022-03-18T23:56:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-18T23:55:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-18T23:16:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
cut your losses. slash their bodies wide open
2022-03-18T19:52:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“What, of course I want to spend my entire life on this very specific spot on the happiness/productivity Pareto frontier, dummy.”
2022-03-18T02:38:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-18T02:37:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-03-18T01:10:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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!)
2022-03-17T19:27:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if you put both content and sources into the footnotes, screw you.
2022-03-17T12:44:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I don't want to think about my career. I want to solve the goddamn problem!
2022-03-15T10:04:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Montmartre-Paris+New York=?
2022-03-14T12:56:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-13T00:28:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Curtis Yarvin orchestrated gamergate to see if he could
2022-03-09T23:04:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It's not enough to be drunk for escalation, I also need to have made approaches beforehand.
2022-03-08T17:11:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Bourne in (s)hell
2022-03-03T22:55:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Mandate of Tenderness
2022-03-03T22:43:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
List of fugitive schelling.pt Members
2022-03-03T21:37:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Moloch who resides in an infinite-dimensional space
2022-03-03T21:35:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Moloch whose pilots are spooky
2022-03-03T21:16:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.
2022-03-03T17:15:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-03T16:05:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate
2022-03-01T22:19:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-03-01T20:37:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“yeah? vipassanize this then, _nerd_” *suckerpunch*
2022-03-01T16:00:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
seeing typos in LaTeX documents always throws me off, my brain still wants to classify the whole format as respectable
2022-03-01T15:25:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
increase, decrease, recrease, transcrease, supercrease, subcrease, adcrease
2022-02-28T22:54:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?
2022-02-28T10:32:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hot philosophy student just answered a ping i sent a week ago, thank you uncle tom :folded_hands:
2022-02-28T09:07:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
thricing
2022-02-28T08:53:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
inter ni
2022-02-27T20:04:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)
2022-02-27T18:17:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
milflife crisis
2022-02-23T21:30:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I'm sad it hasn't been developed further
2022-02-23T21:29:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
procrastinating by writing and exercising…i have reached new lows
2022-02-21T23:37:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the fourfold spatious sutra
2022-02-21T20:36:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
230/330
2022-02-21T19:44:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-02-20T22:34:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
connetiqut
2022-02-19T19:33:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the utter shock when you discover that the two biggest mistakes humanity is making right now are in fact philosophical mistakes
2022-02-19T00:30:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i like consequentialism, but i don't like any specific version of it nearly as much
2022-02-18T18:32:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's not about what utilitarians recommend, it's about what utilitarianism recommends, rob.
2022-02-17T20:00:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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)
2022-02-17T19:57:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
*niplav pointing at a Schäferhund* “I can learn a lot from this man”
2022-02-17T19:56:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i can also learn a lot from bursts of wind
2022-02-17T19:55:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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”
2022-02-17T14:53:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i wonder whether animals experience dukkha
2022-02-17T11:47:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
…and now i'm wondering whether virginity auctions on dath ilan are second-price auctions
2022-02-17T11:04:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i can learn a lot from dogs. and from hot girls
2022-02-17T10:57:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?”"
2022-02-17T10:54:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
who decided to call it “slut” and not “dick jockey”?
2022-02-16T22:21:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
experience is dirty
2022-02-16T14:35:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i'm finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.
2022-02-16T11:01:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
condition number for tiling agents
2022-02-16T10:45:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
generic answer to any threat: “if the grease doesn't get me first”
2022-02-16T09:28:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
when trying to learn a formula using flashcards, prefix the formula with a natural-language explanation. makes it easier to remember.
2022-02-16T08:55:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
submissive strategies in normal-form games
2022-02-16T00:26:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
noticing that i should go to sleep because the guitar opening on Robot Rock seems awfully fast
2022-02-16T00:11:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i just realized russell was a bigger chad than nietzsche. poor guy
2022-02-15T23:47:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
someday i will descend upon the unicode consortium and add sub/superscript version of the whole latin alphabet
2022-02-15T19:10:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
millenial woman who did a degree in *-studies and uses the word “communities” a lot
2022-02-15T15:21:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-02-15T10:12:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ghettoblaster
2022-02-14T23:53:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
someone should write an Upwing Manifesto
2022-02-14T21:55:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
»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
2022-02-14T15:01:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
actually, scratch the “pi-” prefix, why not make “ĉit-” the prefix?
2022-02-14T15:00:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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?
2022-02-14T12:33:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
SneLU
2022-02-14T11:54:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
recursive grant-making
2022-02-13T22:46:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
blood from the bloodstone
2022-02-13T18:01:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-02-13T17:54:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the luminous fractal tendrils of physical agony
2022-02-13T17:51:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(that's probably not due to meditation, but to exercising 3½ hours a week
2022-02-13T17:51:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-02-13T17:50:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?
2022-02-13T17:39:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain
2022-02-13T17:39:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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”.
2022-02-13T07:32:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
profectism
2022-02-13T07:32:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
niplav attempting to get cancelled by the physics community: attempt 1
2022-02-13T07:32:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-02-10T23:07:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it _is_ kind of nice
2022-02-10T23:06:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-02-09T18:32:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
of course I try to be hot, but within reason — I don't want the playing field to be the Kronecker delta
2022-02-07T12:54:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i <3 the Matrix cookbook
2022-02-07T12:25:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
strong lol at the Raëlian symbol
2022-02-07T10:55:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
deep taylor decomposition ;-)
2022-02-07T03:15:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-02-06T22:53:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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"
2022-02-06T21:38:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the adiabatic sutra, the inframeasure sutra, the acausal sutra
2022-02-06T18:04:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rijndaelites
2022-02-06T17:31:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
melting face is great too
2022-02-06T17:30:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
everybody being mad about pregnant man emoji, but im just happy emojis became horny with the biting lip one
2022-02-06T17:24:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Niplav Yushtun™: Paratechnē straight from the source
2022-02-05T07:43:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
listening to the last 80k podcast i realize that there's a lot of α left in dvcs.
2022-02-04T23:46:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the silence prickles, a mind too fast for meaning, unwrapping my thoughts
2022-02-04T23:44:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
10% Bodhisattva vow
2022-02-04T10:33:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Pickup artist cryptolect
2022-02-04T10:07:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Your model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is faster than you at precommitting to not swerving.
2022-02-04T10:07:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Eliezer Yudkowsky wins every Dollar Auction.
2022-02-04T09:26:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
See also “A Chronicle of the Bay Area Cults”, Vol. 2, pg. 773-776.
2022-02-03T23:49:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Meditation™: We Tear Your Reality to Shreds!
2022-02-03T22:10:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I have not looked at pictures of naked robots in quite a while.
2022-02-03T22:05:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
oi mate! what's ya ploidy?
2022-02-03T19:59:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-02-02T23:24:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
everybody talking about harambe being the moment reality broke. for me it was the debacle with communist subreddits banning catgirl comics.
2022-02-01T23:21:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
probably the same as the reals
2022-02-01T23:20:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Space Romans! Sandalpunk! The EU is just a semantic anagram of SPQR!”
2022-02-01T22:58:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what's the cardinality of the set containing all uncomputable reals?
2022-02-01T22:35:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
one by one as they occurred.
2022-02-01T22:34:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
why does my latin anki vocab deck contain a card for rhodium, an element discovered in 1803‽
2022-02-01T21:37:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
antisemanticity
2022-02-01T15:03:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“metamask”, “betamax”, coincidence?
2022-01-31T23:37:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lecturer is describing von Neumann as an economist, which, yeah, isn't entirely incorrect, but…
2022-01-31T22:27:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i am very ready to start a lesswrong shitstorm by asking for “a good textbook on causal inference, unlike the Pearl one”
2022-01-31T15:22:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
first option in the multiple choice quiz is “none of the above”. don't know what to think about this tbqh
2022-01-31T13:37:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
you are a successful person who has started recently reading lesswrong, i am a novel rodent control agent
2022-01-30T18:59:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“i admire your optimism”=“wow, you are *way* more r-worded than i thought”
2022-01-30T18:11:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
saying “without loss of generality” is a great way to hide bullshit in a proof. i have applied it many times with huge success
2022-01-30T18:02:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
all the characters in the Kullback-Leibler divergence are actually dead
2022-01-30T18:01:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Jensen's inequality (black market edition)
2022-01-30T18:00:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
every copy of Jensen's inequality is personalized
2022-01-30T00:16:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the heart say “no”, the spleen says “hey ;-)”
2022-01-26T18:15:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
get yourself a girl who can pronounce the name of halley's comet correctly
2022-01-26T17:59:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-01-25T13:04:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-01-25T00:13:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
checkmate brits
2022-01-25T00:13:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rigourous
2022-01-24T21:37:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-01-24T20:22:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pepe extending hand to wojak meme for embedded vs. dualistic agents
2022-01-24T20:21:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the filter is not just having read marx, it is having read marx and still understanding him
2022-01-24T20:16:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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
2022-01-24T20:15:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
instead, just dump the dead bodies of your genocide victims into the nitrogen and let them sit around as symbols of your triumph
2022-01-24T20:12:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i am always surprised about how deep wikipedia is. yesterday i got lost in the paleontology section. human knowledge is __deep__
2022-01-24T20:09:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
45% that it's just intelligence that's causally upstream of this: https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1484183174573744142
2022-01-24T20:06:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I may not be an autist, but I am __definitely__ *with* the autists
2022-01-24T19:57:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
may you die a very unrigorous death
2022-01-23T21:53:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Official Spokesbird for Conservation
2022-01-23T21:50:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
don't mind me, I'm just snacking some kakapo wings
2022-01-23T21:33:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ten billion american (passenger pigeon)s
2022-01-23T20:10:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
become oviparous
2022-01-23T20:10:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.”
2022-01-23T15:20:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it annoys me way too much, it shuold be Caelum Conterrens Est. Latin is SOV
2022-01-23T00:47:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
one thousand Very Bad Takes About Alignment
2022-01-13T19:42:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying
2022-01-13T19:42:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gah, can't snarf evince
2022-01-13T12:35:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
this holds for mathematics as well
2022-01-13T12:35:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
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.
2022-01-12T22:59:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
kuracisto estas racisto kiu kuras
2022-01-12T22:57:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my nervous system is as smooth as a baby
2022-01-12T21:48:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It's too full here, let's go home.”
2022-01-12T21:47:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.
2022-01-12T21:46:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
synthesis: the reason why african americans commit more crimes _is_ genetic, but responsible are the genes from the white slavers in their ancestry
2022-01-09T22:52:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
reminder to self: clanishness vs. tribalism
2022-01-09T21:58:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
also no simple latex macro for the symbol for conditional independence ⫫
2022-01-09T21:51:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
doesn't evoke the image of being wrong to me, much rather some equanimous exploration
2022-01-09T21:50:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
beautiful though is that errare meant “to wander, to stray” originally
2022-01-09T21:49:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“ut: like, as” fsdjkljiasdasdf
2022-01-09T21:47:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the IPA for tous bas (“very small/silent”) is /tu ba/ :-D
2022-01-09T21:45:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“ainsi: thus, so as.” yeah. hm. i will definitely remember _that_
2022-01-09T21:43:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can't tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
2022-01-09T21:42:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ĉiu volas vojaĝi al la aja, neniu ŝatas la mala versiono :-/
2022-01-05T16:04:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i also want to remember 𖤶
2022-01-05T15:58:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
from now on, i will use  whenever abbreviating the Fast Fourier Transform
2022-01-02T15:43:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
help i'm under distributional shift
2022-01-02T13:59:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i'm a self-professed sexist, but i am not a sexist
2022-01-02T13:34:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
multimodal languages (subjects are spoken, verbs are gesticulated, adjectives & adverbs are grimaced)
2022-01-01T12:10:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
enjoy the once-in-a-while outages of schelling.pt, gives my brain room to think :-D
2022-01-01T11:56:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Being being been.
2022-01-01T11:55:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
antinatalists: another victim of the replication crisis
2021-12-31T00:38:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
shedding, shedding!
2021-12-31T00:35:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
well, what if my values include a constraint that my values shouldn't be optimized by an outside optimizer?
2021-12-29T18:05:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gnonomics
2021-10-10T15:32:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I've heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven't seen it in a paper or blogpost
2021-09-19T13:41:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@movq "How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?" -> It's the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don't know about median age of death.
2021-09-18T19:46:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite
2021-09-18T19:39:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if you tickle a sub, is the result a bottom contraction?
2021-09-11T18:06:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what kind of job does one do if one is exceptionally motivated to (and reasonably good at) organising physical objects?
2021-09-11T17:34:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent's optimization power
2021-09-11T17:24:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
note: the previous twt does _not_ assert the equivalence of these ideas.
2021-09-11T17:23:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?
2021-09-11T16:39:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy
2021-09-06T16:41:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
schelling.pt down :-(
2021-09-05T20:26:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a pride flag for heterosexual men who don't like women
2021-09-05T15:47:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what is the value of knowing the action of a more powerful optimizer in a single universe-state?
2021-09-04T18:59:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
kind of insane that the average life expectancy in 1800 was nearly half as much as the one in the country with the lowest life expectancy today (28.5 years then, 50.7 years today in Lesotho)
2021-09-01T11:18:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)
2021-09-01T10:03:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth's crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run
2021-08-29T21:55:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@adi "@niplav I got the joke!" -> Congrats! i didn't
2021-08-29T20:51:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
every wisepost can (but doesn't have to) be credited to carl shulman
2021-08-29T20:48:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
yes, I'm in favour of a combination of fusion power and solar (dyson sphere)
2021-08-29T20:48:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
father (pointing at night sky): one day this all will be yours, son.
2021-08-29T20:47:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
really mad about the death of the FAQ
2021-08-28T22:10:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bigword bigwords bigword2
2021-08-28T22:09:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
joule supremacy
2021-08-28T22:08:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who can't use a twitter account responsibly
2021-08-28T17:44:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
age of em is transpositive send twt
2021-08-27T21:41:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
just to make clear: people who actually identify as attack helicopters are unironically valid
2021-08-27T21:01:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the hardest sci-fi is just 22 pages of differential equations describing the dynamics of Omohundro sludge
2021-08-21T12:05:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
meme innoculation
2021-08-20T16:37:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Die Wimpern der Cherubim
2021-08-17T07:27:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I want you to spell out the context. like in porn
2021-08-17T07:23:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
this is the worst meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/daily-struggle
2021-08-17T06:54:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
maybe elites appear incompetent because they're mostly trying to prevent AI disaster behind the curtains? perhaps that's why GPT-4 hasn't appeared yet – they coordinated not to do it.
2021-08-15T23:02:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
on the other hand, induction has also never worked before for anti-inductionists, so they might try it.
2021-08-11T13:25:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lol, just realised that standard AI risk is just environmental disaster risk amped up to 10^(10^10), only that the direct perpetrator isn't humanity (we're only the proximate perpetrator). huh
2021-08-10T23:25:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8W9k1SXoA8Khmf?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
2021-08-10T17:10:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what,,, you are trying to do good? how about I complain about you wanting to do good, and accuse you of being evil, even though on further questioning I would agree your actions are at worst net-zero?
2021-08-10T14:45:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
children are also just self-replicating probes
2021-08-06T21:25:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
not a big fan of retributive justice, but considering the fact that mosquitoe-borne diseases have killed **half of all humans that have ever lived**, we might consider exterminating the fuckers just because they deserve it.
2021-08-06T21:19:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
people who use kilowatt-hours of something should go f**k themselves
2021-08-06T17:58:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
collecting large STEM datasets for training huge models a good step for avoiding human models?
2021-08-06T17:10:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
beating the ender dragon in minecraft with dying <100 times (but arbitrary training on video beforehand) seems like a nice candidate for another fire alarm (I wonder whether people would panic then, or whether that challenge is already AI-complete)
2021-08-06T16:38:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
paradises, peacocks, peaches and palimpsests! Prussians, prowlers plus plumous penguins, priestess parks principles – priceless.
2021-08-02T22:17:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the existence of competence porn implies the existence of competence horniness
2021-07-29T23:39:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it is cold in the anthropic shadow.
2021-07-27T08:02:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof
2021-07-27T08:01:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my single-peaked ass
2021-07-26T19:10:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
censors will censor complaints about being censored. therefore we should complain about censorship all the time – once those complaints disappear, we know things are going downhill.
2021-07-26T09:22:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“= I've been waiting for this for years. I don't want to join in what I read is supposed to be a highly competitive work environment. But I am impressed by the vision and potential of your approach.” Pretty much my reaction to new many EA stuff.
2021-07-26T09:20:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Two men in mirror saws the edge of time For real or woe, we bury the grass and raise the” cryptic
2021-07-26T09:19:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“ah, but I use myself as a handle”
2021-07-26T09:18:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Hah, tweet-like-me.xyz with my old twitter handle is great. “Agreed. Should we therefore call for »epsilon umeshisms«?”
2021-07-23T23:52:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a model that gives a probability distribution over 12 orders of magnitude is good and brave and we need more of it.
2021-07-23T23:30:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@alip "Br em hlk rmnnd, Fkrdm, bkldryrum! Ben br bk ucuyum, Kvg verm hlkn, Bkldryrum te, Vrn benm frkm ! #sydbx" -> Aoe iiiu! Iyou eiau üuiu yäiiö. Äuuuůǒ ēēiyou #ïïïyae
2021-07-23T23:07:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i remember having quite strange & unusual qualia as a child (kind of hard to describe & varied, i remember 2 specifically (not just the old “having more imagination” or “being easier to frighten”, but on a similar level as déja vu)), but these have faded over time as i went through adolescence. i wonder whether this is common. perhaps i should write that up, together with a rough description of those qualia
2021-07-22T21:51:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a guy who likes to f**k.
2021-07-21T17:18:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@(frogorbits.com) "@niplav interesting, it seems like you uploaded at least two weeks worth of posts sometime between yesterday and right now" -> Yes. I have changed my interaction with the internet a little bit – uploading/downloading in batches, not constantly online, to prevent my attention becoming even more damaged than it is now.
2021-07-20T17:17:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
identity politics defection from class warfare, maybe?
2021-07-17T21:21:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the inclusive genetic fitness party
2021-07-17T00:59:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
trump turned out to not be such a big deal
2021-07-15T20:28:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gonna start crediting Carl Shulman for some of my ideas, seems trendy right now
2021-07-15T18:24:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Ah! “Logical Prior Probability” (Demski 2008). Of course
2021-07-15T18:22:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Niplav Yushtun, treasurer of the “Clone John von Neumann a Million Times” party
2021-07-15T18:19:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
why no paradise engineering companies?
2021-07-15T18:16:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
not reading
2021-07-15T18:15:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the singular of equilibria is equilibrium goddamnit!
2021-07-15T17:54:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
impact measures depend on, rather than specify, inaction baselines
2021-07-14T20:12:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bullett
2021-07-14T20:11:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
meditation techniques have inbuilt anti-abuse mechanism if they reduce agency and/or wanting
2021-07-09T10:53:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
basin of corrigibility seems to be a reasonably large crux for prosaic alignment vs. miri debates
2021-07-09T09:25:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
don't be middle class
2021-07-09T09:19:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/phgigGpzxHLTb9jrQ/some-thoughts-on-my-psychiatry-practice?commentId=oP2fBrTJkJZ2niX5t
2021-07-08T22:41:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
nice bullet you got there. would be a shame if someone were to…… bite it
2021-07-07T13:45:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
impac
2021-07-06T20:01:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
metis, doxa, episteme, gnosis, techne – did I forget anything?
2021-07-06T08:58:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
because prune needs to be more calibrated than babble
2021-07-06T08:58:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
or: sneering=uncalibrated pruning
2021-07-06T08:56:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
sneering is pruning without any metric of success
2021-07-06T08:55:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
left not as good at babble as it used to be? more pruney, definitely
2021-07-05T10:49:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
no canonical universal turing machine for solomonoff induction
2021-07-04T18:57:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
………women
2021-07-04T18:57:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
and, not to forget the obvious contender,
2021-07-04T18:48:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
……girls
2021-07-04T09:59:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the burrito judge needs to be extremely powerful
2021-07-03T16:45:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
formalise early, formalise often
2021-07-02T14:54:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ikto verso lapido
2021-07-02T10:48:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
does the buddha have maze nature?
2021-07-01T19:51:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
rational people can use very irrational people as babble generators in conversations, if the rational people are high prune (which they usually are).
2021-07-01T11:14:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
qouta
2021-06-30T21:10:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
not yet woke
2021-06-30T20:55:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
cannibalistic respectability cascades in the water supply
2021-06-30T20:35:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
memdemic
2021-06-30T16:40:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E48JHmPVcAcnFYw?format=jpg&name=small
2021-06-29T22:46:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(mostly)
2021-06-29T22:45:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
excess wealth spent on addiction or sex
2021-06-29T21:42:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
approached a girl on saturday. the approach itself was nothing special, & i got rejected as expected. BUT I know understand what all those guys mean with femininity. this girl was dripping with it. she even gave me a compliment (“you have beautiful eyes”) after rejecting me. damn
2021-06-29T21:39:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
carteography
2021-06-29T21:37:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
MFTOM
2021-06-29T21:37:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
MFTOC
2021-06-29T21:35:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how come nobody takes the view seriously that coordination is eternally hard on all levels?
2021-06-29T21:32:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
discourse between a man and his baaaaaa
2021-06-29T21:31:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
at least we'll die a really cool death
2021-06-29T21:30:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what a strange optimizer it is
2021-06-29T21:30:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a date with a human model
2021-06-29T21:27:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
todo: find some nice population axiologies where the bound is a parameter
2021-06-29T21:25:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
makes me update towards the awfulness of ancestral environment
2021-06-29T21:24:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ancestral social environment probably most comparable with today's high school – everybody is very near each other a lot of the time, high amounts of common knowledge. differences: existence of age gaps in AE, more common tasks
2021-06-26T12:09:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gridworlds scenario with corrigible/noncorrigible subagents
2021-06-26T09:06:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“improve the system” is not an atomic action
2021-06-25T20:50:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7CdoznhJaLEKHwvJW/p/LfGzAduBWzY5gq6FE uses color really well in proofs. I will need to copy that.
2021-06-25T18:41:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
forecasting questions can be divided into “we have an indicator, let the people forecast it” and “we have a question, let's find an indicator/indicators to concretise it”
2021-06-24T10:43:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Gotami said: “why is experience bad so often?” Upon hearing this, the nun got enlightened.
2021-06-23T23:00:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
internal/external validity for attractiveness rankings
2021-06-23T22:58:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
heiliges römisches rotes kreuz deutscher nation
2021-06-22T09:55:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
even an ASI would defer to an even smarter version of itself. does this solve the problem of fully updated deference?
2021-06-22T06:13:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
twitch, robot, twitch!
2021-06-21T07:47:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
toe tall, I tear ian?
2021-06-20T15:46:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@iolfree "TEST hello twtxt xxx" -> :wave:
2021-06-19T21:11:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
amazing they managed to get double-blind RCTs through asymmetric justice
2021-06-19T12:45:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
christianity has been bad for sexuality, do other religions fare better? monotheistic ones don't seem to
2021-06-19T12:43:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tibeetan dreeem yooeeeeeeeee
2021-06-19T12:39:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who has always wanted to get into lucid dreaming
2021-06-19T12:36:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(yes, I know the thought experiment doesn't come from buridan)
2021-06-19T12:36:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
buridan's ass: not sure which cheek to clap
2021-06-18T23:33:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“considered harmful” is not about harm: an opinionated review is all you need
2021-06-18T14:25:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if MDMA is libido-enhancing for women, and libido-diminishing for men, then that points at an important joint between male and female sexuality.
2021-06-18T11:37:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the gearless gear
2021-06-18T11:32:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I put on my best reference class tennis outfit
2021-06-18T09:13:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bell's theorem for the haecceity of qualia
2021-06-16T22:24:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
yay ingroup
2021-06-16T10:32:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
markov as inverse lindy
2021-06-16T10:32:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
That's pretty Markov of you, my friend
2021-06-16T09:32:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
DSOTM=Doesn't seem obvious to me.
2021-06-15T22:46:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
philosophical bullets i'm not (yet) willing to bite: illusionism, accepting the repugnant conclusion.
2021-06-15T22:25:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“showing that you care” type signalling depends on the sunk cost fallacy; or, there was selection pressure against the sunk cost fallacy (modulo reputation effects)
2021-06-14T20:43:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Robin Hanson is pretty good evidence for the Orthogonality Hypothesis
2021-06-14T17:47:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how much would you X yourself?
2021-06-14T10:28:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
or, worse, a minus
2021-06-14T10:26:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I dislike it when people use two en dashes for an em dash
2021-06-12T20:08:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
wondering whether non-compartmentalization is a result of monotheism
2021-06-12T18:56:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
boneless intellectuals
2021-06-10T08:05:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i want a smallpox vaccine
2021-06-10T07:48:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
putting myself on a list by googling various bioinfohazards
2021-06-09T22:04:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
6fe54e3e669470cf6b3b371149716d06704beda48a0ca553f45cf4a913edd180
2021-06-09T21:25:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Attention is all you need”. Fucking prophetic
2021-06-09T21:25:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
mesamodernism
2021-06-09T14:16:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bayesically,
2021-06-08T22:53:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
PIPO
2021-06-04T22:40:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
every man is a pick up artist. some even know it
2021-06-01T21:00:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a microwave without the urge to beep
2021-06-01T19:41:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's just a set bro, it doesn't even contain anything
2021-06-01T19:40:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
preposterous to assume that mathematical objects are real
2021-06-01T19:33:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
*everbody* had a hard time in highschool :thinking_face:
2021-06-01T10:05:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
middle manager of the local dharma
2021-05-30T22:49:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the good thing about this is - …………uhh…………………
2021-05-30T14:32:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
muggee
2021-05-29T22:18:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“those motherfuckers actually read what I write. lmao” – Nick Land
2021-05-28T20:34:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's important to remember: people rarely fundamentally change
2021-05-28T20:34:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
alignment posting gf, capabilities posting gf
2021-05-28T20:33:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tonalli gf, teyolía bf
2021-05-26T21:37:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the success of discord and its consequences have been a disaster for online information flow
2021-05-26T09:52:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
deontology more embedded than consequentialism?
2021-05-25T13:53:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who has had unkind thoughts about Eliezer Yudkowsky
2021-05-25T13:52:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guy who is building AGI on a discord server with his buddies instead of getting himself a girlfriend
2021-05-24T21:04:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
marvel and be wary
2021-05-24T20:07:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
someone (not me) should try to learn the 1k most common words in as many languages as possible
2021-05-24T20:05:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
FreeBSDick
2021-05-24T11:53:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Venn diagrams work better on hyperbolic surfaces?
2021-05-22T21:16:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Let A be the set of AI alignment complete problems. What is the problem a /∈ A so that solving a maximally delays the development of AGI? What is a, weighted by how hard/desirable it is?
2021-05-21T21:28:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Yes, I can shoehorn interpreting extropianism into every poem by Schiller. This is going to be a regular thing.
2021-05-21T21:28:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
This is obviously about O'Neill cylinders, empathetic pearcean valence, and the supercooperation cluster
2021-05-21T21:26:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Was den großen Ring bewohnet / huldige der Sympathie / zu den Sternen leitet sie / wo der Unbekannte thronet
2021-05-20T19:10:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@movq "Laphroaig. 🥃 🥴" <3
2021-05-17T13:34:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
consequentialist buddhism
2021-05-17T13:19:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
chopping wood and carrying water: an endocrinological approach
2021-05-16T21:29:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I think I understand 5-10 now. It basically says “Let's say I jumped out of the airplane. I would only do that if I had a parachute. So, any version of me that jumps out of the airplane has a parachute. Therefore, if I jump out of the airplane, I'll have a parachute. Let's jump out of the airplane!”
2021-05-13T20:13:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?
2021-05-12T17:47:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@frogorbits.com Would you recommend it?
2021-05-12T17:46:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@frogorbits.com "@niplav Speaking of ontologies, you’ve heard of <https://www.liberaugmen.com/>, right?" -> Yes, I've seen Pressman shill it, but I haven't looked at it too closely. I have the intuition that it won't tell me _that_ much new stuff, but that's just an impression
2021-05-11T14:43:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
caviarance
2021-05-07T13:42:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
probably similar to solomonoff, just in the number of variables, and without the computability aspect (since we know that prop-formulas can be evaluated in exponential time)
2021-05-07T13:30:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
what is a good prior over sentences in propositional logic?
2021-05-07T12:53:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Surely people have thought about this, but is it _so_ useful to include proofs in textbooks?
2021-05-02T08:40:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“memeticist” as a description of someone who makes memes
2021-05-02T08:37:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
much lower than we'd expect from naively extrapolating just to the increased lifespan.
2021-05-02T08:37:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
discount rates seem to spring mostly from being sure of ones own death. beings without aging would have extremely low discount rates, I think?
2021-05-02T08:32:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
major difference between updating on evidence vs. morals: we know that a bayesian is converging (monotonically?) towards truth with each piece of evidence, while with moral progress, it seems likely that we are not bounded in how wrong our updates can be (even if we grant that the arc bends towards justice in the end). we might need to escape moral local maxima. therefore, it seems good to preserve option value.
2021-05-02T00:15:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
FreeBSDitties
2021-05-01T23:27:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
pïti streaming into the sky!
2021-04-30T13:55:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
every permutation is a bijection, not every bijection is a permutation. this wasn't obvious to me!
2021-04-28T09:33:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
fake liminal space
2021-04-28T09:32:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
fake space
2021-04-27T13:41:15.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I can often distinguish sympathetic mockery from sneering mockery, even with relatively litlte context. I wonder why – what am I picking up on? What is the distinct way of making fun of someone you actually like vs. don't like?
2021-04-20T12:29:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
AIXI for polynomial curve fitting
2021-04-20T11:55:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i'm sure people have studied this: maybe strategically voting iteratively reaches a fixed point in which point report their actual preferences?
2021-04-20T11:14:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(⋅,⋅)
2021-04-20T00:29:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my brain really likes accumulation.
2021-04-17T22:29:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.
2021-04-17T22:06:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
2021-04-17T22:03:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A: “X is number”. B: “Thats not true, X is not number”. If B doesnt provide an alternative number (or an explanation of why a number is not applicable here), Im often more inclined towards believing A.
2021-04-17T21:52:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there's relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.
2021-04-17T21:49:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the counterpoint would be that I'm already begging the question with that attitude, though.
2021-04-17T21:45:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
maybe that's my queasiness around emotional arguers: they share beliefs more than evidence, and nearly never models
2021-04-17T21:44:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
sharing beliefs < sharing evidence < sharing models < sharing ontologies
2021-04-17T20:34:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Just because things are impossible doesn't mean they wouldn't be good
2021-04-17T10:15:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Break at the Byte”, a programmer adventure story.
2021-04-17T10:13:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
huh, txtnish seems to have problems with linebreaks & unicode;.
2021-04-17T10:12:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
twt is better because I can pronounce it like twit, which sounds a bit like “twat”, which is an insult and therefore better.
2021-04-17T10:05:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@hecanjog "I can see the sinewave of my own mood skimming through past twtxts..." ▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁
2021-04-17T10:01:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
metaculus is only realiable newssite send twt
2021-04-16T16:57:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hardmode as much things as you can, ordered by importance. easymode the rest.
2021-04-14T21:33:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
if you're weird, spending time around non-weird people is not going to make you more normal. but if you spend time with marginally less weird people, you're probably going to become less weird.
2021-04-14T19:32:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@hecanjog "Maybe Satoshi was an anti-capitalist after all?" -> Why do you think that?
2021-04-14T19:32:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@movq "Random thought: Would be great if you could do `for i in ...; do something "$i" & done ; wait` in a Shell script, but with the Shell only spawning one process per CPU." -> Interesting which annoyances stay in the back of the head – I'd never articulated this, but it's absolutely true that this would be great.
2021-04-13T21:42:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
humiliating how long it took me to realise that the Metamorphosis by Kafka was about disability.
2021-04-13T20:45:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
quantilizing porn
2021-04-13T18:25:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
violation of schelling point as indicators of antimemetic infestation.
2021-04-12T22:28:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@off_grid_living "Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu." <3
2021-04-12T22:26:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@hecanjog "Just discovered an unsaved vim buffer sitting in a local tmux session I forgot about for days now. Yikes. At least it was easy to remember where I left off. :)" -> Hopefully something important
2021-04-12T22:25:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the universe needs to meditate
2021-04-11T21:00:48.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
female spiders eat males after mating bc males won't provide for offspring, so they might as well provide nutrients for the mother
2021-04-11T13:27:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
life is quined matter
2021-04-11T12:39:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
universes with more life probably more compressible
2021-04-10T19:26:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
typos on a darknet market site. programmers *sigh*
2021-04-08T21:45:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
~problematic~
2021-04-07T13:52:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Annoyance: it is the exception, rather than the norm, that taking away options from someone helps them.
2021-04-06T19:28:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The last thing ever felt was a medium-surprised “huh.”, as when one comes across a novel, but not very surprising new fact. After August 23rd 2039 11:34, nothing ever happened in an awareness again.
2021-04-05T18:19:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
5-word horror story: law of conversation of valence
a021-04-05T18:21:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@mox "so much is different now, i feel like i'm in a completely different place then when i was writing here last" -> Welcome back
2021-03-31T22:29:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@adi "@niplav Your reasoning is that if Zeus would create mistresses he would create _too many_ people?" -> Nope, that he wouldn't be able to control them (since they are only slightly less powerful than him), and “you cannot put down what you have conjured up”
2021-03-28T12:20:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
"@niplav (#<kfgri5a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=kfgri5a>) There are no expectations when you're honest. Expectations and honesty don't mix." -> I honestly wasn't expecting _that_ answer :)
2021-03-25T10:17:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
 
2021-03-24T21:18:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@jlj "@niplav (#<xvbnyma https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xvbnyma>) Fascinating. :-) Suspect #<RMS https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=RMS> would have a violent physical reaction -- accompanied by some salty language -- after even a moment's contemplation of life under such complicity. :-D" -> He is a very unreasonable man <3
2021-03-24T20:46:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@alip "We are calling for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/" highly contextual/simulacrous memeplexes exclude high-variance impact neuroatypicals, nobody thinks about incentives?
2021-03-16T22:56:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
hem hock
2021-03-16T15:26:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
guns cock
2021-03-16T15:26:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
cocks gun
2021-03-06T22:42:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i think that this becomes a bigger issue with more options in a survey?
2021-03-06T22:41:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
for this reason, don't expect consistent opinions from the percentages in survey results!
2021-03-06T22:41:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i think one can't really infer inconsistencies from survey data all that often (as in “n% of people think X, and m% of people think y, but those are incompatible”). if n% of people say X (m% say Y), and 100-n% of people say ¬X (and 100-m% say ¬Y), and X and Y are incompatible, then the groups that say X and Y only must overlap with (X-50)+(Y-50) percent, which is often not that much.
2021-03-05T21:44:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment probably wrong, iq predictive, but marshmallow test is (apparently?) not
2021-03-05T21:43:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@(frogorbits.com) "@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people." -> I disagree, the people who i know that are interested in life extension look to me more engaged in life than the ones who are not (though that hinges on definitions of ”adding life to their years”). i agree that “adding life to your years” is underappreciated, though.
2021-03-05T21:39:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@(frogorbits.com) I hope that didn't come off too mean :-/
2021-03-05T21:39:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@(frogorbits.com) @niplav "I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…" -> It's good that pen signatures are completely unfakeable. They're unbelievably reliable. We can't just copy & photoshop around the edges. Better worry about those definitely-soon-to-exist quantum computers that might crack cryptography.
2021-03-05T21:22:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
look at me! Im Moldbug! I want to appoint $PROGRESSIVE_ICON as king/queen!
2021-03-03T23:54:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
when forecasting, babble 10 unexpected things that might derail the forecast
2021-03-03T23:46:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
e.g. editing a text – I thought i was done with it!
2021-03-03T23:46:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
aversion to carrying out actions that increase my prediction error
2021-03-02T21:21:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@adi "I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men." -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there's just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.
2021-03-02T21:17:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@jlj "A good read: [Why I find longtermism hard](https://80000hours.org/2021/02/why-i-find-longtermism-hard/) -- […]" -> Interesting! I don't particularly share that emotional intuition (although my bias probably cuts the other way: I am more moved by interesting projects, and more interesting problems probably also less neglected)–I generally find most problems other people find salient not very moving at all (although probably equally strongly moved by extremely near suffering compared to other people, but with a stronger emotional distance discount). EA makes sense in a very different way to me (phenomenologically, probably closest to philosophical high valence states it evokes).
2021-03-02T21:11:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i can feel your stomach in my bones
2021-03-01T15:09:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my wish: textbooks are published together with anki flashcards
2021-02-28T21:10:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
men care more than women about longevity?
2021-02-26T14:40:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
interested in understanding the world of fucking
2021-02-26T13:58:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
sequential decision problems in the water supply
2021-02-25T10:21:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Tran-Skript
2021-02-25T10:21:35.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Simp-lifying
2021-02-25T10:21:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Turbo-Lenz
2021-02-24T11:22:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Being rational is virtuous
2021-02-22T10:49:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The epistemic commons are worth protecting. Go and do your signalling with donations or fashion.
2021-02-22T10:48:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I get very squeamish when people are insistent on me saying “X is Y”. It's usually a bad sign.
2021-02-22T10:48:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Getting laid before the age of 21 is a great predictor for becoming a utilitarian vs. a negative utilitarian.
2021-02-22T10:48:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Do people who only communicate in ASL have tiny hands as an internal monologue?
2021-02-22T10:47:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.
2021-02-22T10:47:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Not explaining away; instead predicting.
2021-02-22T10:46:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Bandname: Catastrophic Transcripts
2021-02-22T10:46:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Audiobook not so great because they don't pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
2021-02-22T10:46:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
There is a universe not far from ours where people signal wealth mostly through effective charitable donations.
2021-02-22T10:45:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
2021-02-22T10:45:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Yes andy, no butty.
2021-02-22T10:45:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
How do you cooperate with suboptimal allies?
2021-02-22T10:45:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Concreteness leaking out of your abstractions there.
2021-02-22T10:45:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A jam is a very vibey object.
2021-02-22T10:43:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
technocratsacy
2021-02-21T21:11:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm skeptical about having a model of utility actually being sufficient to solve optimizers curse. isn't that just kicking the can down the road, finding something that fools both your utility and your utility model?
2021-02-20T23:48:29.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
it's uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking
2021-02-20T11:49:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@jlj "Anyone running [Urbit](https://github.com/urbit/urbit)? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒" -> Just as @movq has problems with his reading queue, I have problems with my "things to explore" queue. I even bought a planet a while back, but haven't had time to dive into the extradimensional madness of the urbit system. Subjective impressions & reviews highly anticipated!
2021-02-19T09:58:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@ionores "Perseverance ! 👏🎉😀" <3
2021-02-19T09:56:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“concept handle” is jargon for “jargon”
2021-02-18T22:33:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
People who don't create their own religions are incredibly suspect.
2021-02-17T11:16:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
argmax ∑☺-☹
2021-02-16T11:44:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
how highly evolved a human is can be measured by how small their little toe is
2021-02-16T11:20:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
naming my eye floaters
2021-02-16T11:00:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
looked better rendered by LaTeX, but whatevs
2021-02-16T11:00:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
the emotion {≻,~,≺}
2021-02-15T11:56:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: "There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron."
2021-02-15T11:56:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.
2021-02-15T11:56:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
2021-02-15T11:55:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It always bottoms out in valence somewhere.
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Doing a crucifix: Human
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000001Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000002Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Values
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000003Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000004Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Are
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000005Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000006Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Complex,
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000007Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
BUT
2021-02-15T11:55:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
value of perfect information in the water supply
2021-02-15T11:55:22.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Play strange games, win strange prizes.
2021-02-14T14:23:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@jlj "@niplav (#<4qeibma https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4qeibma>) Hadn't heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)" -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they're not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt
2021-02-10T18:18:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
yo bro, the new alignment newsletter just dropped!
2021-02-10T10:11:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
proposal: let's ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything
2021-02-07T22:43:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
leave a line of retreat in ideology-space
2021-02-06T10:22:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ironically, IRC has more slack than Slack
2021-02-06T10:20:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@prologic “we _should_ fight for IRC more” another slack “Definition: Slack. The absence of binding constraints on behavior.” https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/
2021-02-06T10:18:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
reading
2021-02-04T15:03:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@iolfree "I just typed in 'censorship' on pinterest and that is also completely banned." https://i.imgflip.com/1ppi4p.jpg
2021-02-03T13:30:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
shoot me if i ever say that X should require Educational Attainment Y
2021-02-02T12:41:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
felt really tense around a maybe 4cm² area there, slowly disappeared during the sit
2021-02-02T12:40:38.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
yesterdays session: collecting dullness (?, maybe addictive energy is a better name) at the spot where the nose begins between the eyes, then concentrating on it
2021-01-31T15:01:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
un-doing not doing non-doing
2021-01-31T12:07:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don't usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.
2021-01-31T12:05:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(cont): qualia relationism: the properties of qualia are defined by their relations to other qualia (but distinguish ordinal rankings for properties of qualia without a zero-point from cardinal properties of qualia without a zero-point). E.g., the hedonic treadmill is not accidental, but a deep fact of the universe.
2021-01-31T12:02:03.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(me making up words): qualia internalism: the properties of a quale are internal to the quale, and therefore the properties of different qualia can be projected onto a cardinal scale with zero point.
2021-01-30T16:53:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@jlj "Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten -- and then letting it languish :-( -- really belongs in Anki." <3 i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I'm not sure how long i'll continue
2021-01-29T18:59:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@pbatch "Writing a "tweet" is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts." <3
2021-01-27T21:16:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
beer is liquid psychoactive bread
2021-01-26T11:16:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
i will not live in the bay, i won't be part of the cule
2021-01-26T09:29:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
note to self: don't go to the bay
2021-01-25T18:46:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@vain “I don’t know. But you got me.” <3
2021-01-25T17:15:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
sorry for the twtstorm o.o
2021-01-25T14:44:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Intellectualize your problems so you will become bored of them.
2021-01-25T14:44:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Whatever the question, despair is not the answer.
2021-01-25T14:44:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?
2021-01-25T14:43:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Plants are pretty fascinating, they turn air into life.
2021-01-25T14:43:39.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Comp Lit: computational literature
2021-01-25T14:43:26.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Morpheological <-> More theological
2021-01-25T14:43:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).
2021-01-25T14:43:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Tactic: Moving the lever closer.
2021-01-25T14:42:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn't need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”
2021-01-25T14:42:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Long Now thinking applied: Introducing the LGBT+ pride millenium!
2021-01-25T14:41:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I wonder why it isn't more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don't know enough anthropology?
2021-01-25T14:41:43.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.
2021-01-25T14:40:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
From a /r/4chan thread: “Birth is the ultimate rape.”
2021-01-25T14:40:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I am an ecosystem
2021-01-25T14:40:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
All advice should have a failure condition.
2021-01-25T14:40:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
If hell exists, then it is reserved for those who don't rebel against it.
2021-01-25T14:40:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Good/quick life extension technology would, for the first 2/3 decades, decrease the average age of death, since more people would die young in accidents etc. than of old age.
2021-01-25T14:39:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}
2021-01-25T14:37:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It matters how many life years are lost in car crashes, not how many lives.
2021-01-25T14:36:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \ • Engineering-realistic computing power \ • Physically possible computing power \ • Unlimited but finite computing power \ • Infinite computing power \ • (?) Hypercomputation
2021-01-20T22:27:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Quines are poems. Don't @ me
2021-01-20T22:26:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
2021-01-20T14:36:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
2021-01-19T08:29:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@lucidiot "nuclear realtor" I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I'll often just reply with "I like this" or <3, although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I'll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]
2021-01-19T00:56:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
my plan would involve writing the code for a seed asi and giving it a completely senseless goal, such as maximizing the number of paperclips & spreading as far as possible. this would benefit no one & cause untold damage. i will take no questions
2021-01-19T00:45:32.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er-MPNfW4AA1KLv?format=png&name=large https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8NSHgT1o8
2021-01-19T00:41:27.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Do you think kantbot will come here when he realizes this is where the cryptids are?
2021-01-19T00:40:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://twitter.com/JgaltTweets/status/1351231569055383554 :-(
2021-01-18T22:32:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
US declining quickly, europe slowly?
2021-01-18T21:45:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm slightly concerned by the selection pressure against meditation
2021-01-15T21:08:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Leaning towards explicit abstract reasoning, though, if I would be pressed.
2021-01-15T21:06:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Riffing off of Mechtild of Magdeburg, yes, sex may be a mystical act towards god, but it's a blind idiot alien god :-^
2021-01-15T21:04:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@adi “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Nearly everything, I guess? More concretely: What falls into the category of whatever spans {deciding where to sit, deciding whether to blame someone else for something, catching a ball, picking a good career, proving a theorem}.
2021-01-15T15:41:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'd rather be boring than wrong.
2021-01-15T14:36:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I am part of the problem.
2021-01-15T07:50:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“There is no single trick that gives you the truth immediately. You actually have to _think_.” is a mischaracterization. This thing “thinking” has a structure, and we want to discover that structure, optimally mathematically.
2021-01-13T11:29:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
DSA DSA=Democratic Socialists of America decisive strategic advantage
2021-01-12T16:03:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
2021-01-11T09:06:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Care less about organic food
2021-01-10T14:20:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
New post: https://niplav.github.io/toy_ai_takeoff_model.html.
2021-01-10T14:07:17.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I should probably just add a `mentions` command to txtnish
2021-01-10T14:01:31.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
`curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jointwt/we-are-twtxt/master/we-are-twtxt.txt | grep -v '^niplav ' | field 2 | xargs curl ^/dev/null | grep niplav` here we go
2021-01-10T14:00:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@prologic "What the hell does [cartesianly](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cartesianly) mean?! 😳" Me inventing a new adjective for "there is only a one-way flow of information" ^^
2021-01-10T13:53:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Maybe I could write a script that trawls the we-are-twtxt list and notifies me when I'm mentioned–the name should be unique enough.
2021-01-10T13:52:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Disadvantage of twtxt: less incentives to reply to people since it's not certain they'll ever see it. My current solution to that is to follow everybody on the we-are-twtxt and only unfollow if they twt a lot of stuff I'm not interested in
2021-01-10T13:50:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
One should probably have a bunch of hard-drives with random content (not some files, but really random) lying around to being able to believably glomarize towards law enforcement
2021-01-10T13:49:47.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@felixp7 "Yo, crypto-heads. Encrypted communication doesn't protect your privacy. Laws …" I guess crypto-heads are often happy with acknowledging this, but also arguing that e.g. deniable crypto is a useful way out here (and, of course, just doing illegal stuff if it gets really rough).
2021-01-10T13:30:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@(frogorbits.com) "@niplav Re: rats: YOU ARE NOT ALONE" https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2sbUDWU3Fjk/maxresdefault.jpg
2021-01-09T00:00:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
…and over to monist idealism.
2021-01-07T22:39:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm cartesianly divided from twitter, to which I'm often responding. We're back to watching television again.
2021-01-07T21:32:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://twitter.com/skluuug/status/1343488552512802817
2021-01-07T21:29:24.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
lief as attire will not save you. Come back to LW we miss you. Please don't stray too far from the light. 89/89
2021-01-07T21:28:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
and if you truly get down to it, there's no ground for solomonoff induction, because your choice of TM is completely arbitrary! Furthermore, what does it even mean for bayesianism to be a coherent epistemology‽ How do we decide wha 84/89
2021-01-07T21:27:10.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
nosilverv sits down next to me. We look at each other, still panting. I notice how his hands are still dusty. When I look up again, his eyes are glowing with a little smirk. He leans ov 73/89
2021-01-07T21:25:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ut in the desert,,, the vibe reigns. When it is not in check, we tremble. We sweat ourselves down into a negative kegan stage. We gendlin-focus on all the wrong things. The meditators see blue mushrooms in desire for deliverance. Fanged noum 51/89
2021-01-07T21:23:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
nd in lemma 3.11 you can clearly see that ℝ∪lim_{k→∞} ℤ^{k} is homeomorphically convex. Furthermore, per Gibbard-Satterthwaite, you 32/89
2021-01-07T21:22:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
bang. bang. bang. bang. Caledonian2 looks down on me. “What now, punk? Where is your overcoming of bias now?” “FUCK YOU” I scream. I lift 13/89
2021-01-07T21:21:13.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
It all starts back in the days, when people started posting on SL4. As it turns out, 2/89
2021-01-07T21:20:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
My definite stance on the rat/postrat discourse. Strap in. 1/89
2021-01-07T09:38:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Only 4^391 programs. That shouldn't be _that_ hard!
2021-01-07T09:38:01.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A bit tempted to trying to dovetail to find the shortest brainfuck quine.
2021-01-07T09:31:45.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“I will do as I please” will do as it pleases
2021-01-05T16:01:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Some people, paradoxically, can help the world most by first helping themselves. Often enough, those people are the ones most pre-disposed to helping the world.
2021-01-05T16:00:12.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you're not trying.
2021-01-05T15:59:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Unless the world has been adversarially structured against you, you can do better by just trying. This holds both for bayesianism & consequentialism.
2021-01-05T11:06:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Niplav Yushtun, PhD in Memetodynamics
2021-01-04T10:21:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Infuriating: With the Euro, 50 ct. coins are bigger than 1€ coins.
2021-01-04T10:21:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
2021-01-04T10:20:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Buy some space near the sun, because it's going to be worth a lot when a Dyson sphere gets built.
2021-01-04T10:20:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Maybe this applies to everything?
2021-01-04T10:20:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Greta Thunberg also is a nearly complete creation of the media, in the sense that we would never know about her if it were not for media.
2021-01-04T10:20:09.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Greta Thunberg falls into the same narrative category as Malala Yousafzai, Sophie Scholl and Jeanne D'Arc.
2021-01-04T10:19:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Don't make deals that involve infinities.
2021-01-03T11:42:54.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
2020-12-30T10:23:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I think I understand bigint multiplication now. Not sure if I've reinvented the Karatsuba algorithm
2020-12-29T12:25:51.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Endokremlinology
2020-12-28T14:54:00.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
gestirn
2020-12-28T14:53:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
ge-stern (gasball)
2020-12-28T14:35:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(Hanson voice) “I am not owned! I am not owned” I shout as I am being consumed by grey goo
2020-12-28T14:33:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
(slightly nasally) …and also for vingean reasons
2020-12-28T13:41:53.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Oh yeah, you know pain? Have you ever had your contact lenses on the wrong way, with ~½ a dioptrie difference?
2020-12-26T12:37:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Hot damn good post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2G8j8D5auZKKAjSfY
2020-12-26T12:34:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
2020-12-26T12:34:25.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
If you're right about this, how could you make money with it?
2020-12-26T12:33:06.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
2020-12-26T12:32:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Lisp is like minarchism.
2020-12-26T11:50:05.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
2020-12-26T11:09:36.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
2020-12-24T23:47:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/12#fn1 is extremely important, but people fall into the anthropomorphization trap again and again
2020-12-24T14:17:41.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Actually, embedded agency is a super good name for a movement, and I could see it replacing the horrid 'rationalism' over time. Plus, 'embags' is a really good abbreviation.
2020-12-24T14:05:57.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I've always found the 'suicide is selfish' argument weird. Someone is making the most important (and most tragic) decision in their life, and people are talking about themselves?
2020-12-24T14:03:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
If you're an average man, my calculation tells me that freezing your sperm & getting a vasectomy is worth ~ in expectation (https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#Vasectomy--Sperm-Freezing-CostBenefit) (in the US, caveat caveat caveat)
2020-12-23T22:10:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
@pbatch "that's it. I'm sticking to this txtnish client." Solid choice.
2020-12-22T15:18:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xdwbX9pFEr7Pomaxv/meta-honesty-firming-up-honesty-around-its-edge-cases?commentId=rfYQjT8SfzfQPLWYH lel
2020-12-20T01:59:55.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
As a matter of reconciliation; welp
2020-12-20T01:58:34.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I'm back to “tribes are bad”
2020-12-18T09:41:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
2020-12-18T09:31:59.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
2020-12-18T09:16:52.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
“Subreddits could achieve this without a schism” heh (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v7c47vjta3mavY3QC/is-science-slowing-down?commentId=e9T3hF9957pT5h2ex), two years ago
2020-12-18T08:43:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
2020-12-18T08:43:16.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
2020-12-18T08:43:04.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
2020-12-18T08:42:02.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.
2020-12-18T08:40:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.
2020-12-18T08:39:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.
2020-12-18T08:39:18.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
”If everyone just…“ ”See, there's your problem already”
2020-12-18T08:38:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Alternative names for 'rationalism': map-making, cartography
2020-12-18T08:38:11.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Alternative names for 'anarcho-capitalism': propertarianism, voluntaryism, voluntarism
2020-12-18T08:36:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.
2020-12-18T08:30:14.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
2020-12-18T08:29:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A robot that constantly twitches
2020-12-16T11:19:28.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
2020-12-16T11:18:56.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
HoPwave
2020-12-15T09:03:49.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
fresh tapas
2020-12-13T01:12:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
2020-12-12T23:19:08.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
meta-not-caring
2020-12-12T23:12:40.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
there are a lot of things that disappear when applied to themselves partially. principle of charity, tolerance, libertarianism in CEV. but, being *completely* X lets you retain them. (being maximally tolerant, maximally charitable towards everything, maximally libertarian towards other value systems).
2020-12-08T10:25:42.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
renriderog
2020-12-03T08:40:44.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
A strange mental motion in AI alignment is thinking about agency in non-agential ways.
2020-12-02T18:35:50.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.
2020-12-02T15:07:07.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
I want a 'Map≠Territory' T-shirt.
2020-12-02T15:06:46.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The best map is still the territory.
2020-12-02T15:06:37.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.
2020-12-02T15:06:19.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
"Which is for people, that is for people and objects." -> From a /lit/ thread.
2020-12-02T15:05:30.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:
2020-12-02T08:59:23.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Ochoch
2020-12-02T08:59:20.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Milli Tanz
2020-12-01T11:15:33.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
My tribe is a place, not a prison.
2020-12-01T11:15:21.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Classical philosophy: Disputing definitions. Analytic philosophy: Disputing definitions, rigorously. Continental philosophy: Disputing definitions, poetically.
2020-12-01T09:08:58.000000Z ( remote@niplav.github.io )
Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.