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2020-11-26T14:43:42.000000Z	I used to have a twitter, but then I got addicted to it and shut it down (https://twitter.com/niplavyushtun). I think I'll put similar stuff on here, and maybe more extreme experimental takes, because there's no risk of getting banned.
2020-11-26T15:06:04.000000Z	If it's not insightful enough for the LessWrong shortform, not in context enough for reddit, and not long enough for my website, it goes on here.
2020-11-26T15:06:56.000000Z	BTW, website! I can be found at https://niplav.github.io. If you want to read things I thought about for more than 5 seconds, that's the place to go.
2020-11-26T15:10:30.000000Z	Tiktokracy
2020-11-26T16:06:28.000000Z	Lecturer: "0 is not the empty set." Me (looking into Naive Set Theory by Halmos): "we have no choice; we must write (as we did) 0=∅"
2020-11-26T16:09:08.000000Z	Does this void answer with jazz?
2020-11-26T16:10:10.000000Z	I should pay more attention.
2020-11-26T16:20:50.000000Z	Is the most efficient hedonium decreasing or increasing in supplied matter-energy?
2020-11-26T16:23:49.000000Z	That is, would total utilitarians build very small (& not very intensive) pockets of hedonium, or extremely big ones?
2020-11-26T16:24:15.000000Z	Or, in other words: would we have a repugnant conclusion?
2020-11-26T16:27:12.000000Z	"If you both die, I will mourn the corpse closest to the finish line."
2020-11-26T16:27:47.000000Z	I upekkhan't get annoyed about this.
2020-11-26T16:28:30.000000Z	The thought that we should respect people's wishes after they're dead might be a corollary of death being bad.
2020-11-26T16:29:29.000000Z	Attempting suicide sometimes isn't about killing yourself, it's about signalling.
2020-11-26T16:30:08.000000Z	A textbook is a book with exercises
2020-11-26T16:30:23.000000Z	Demonless preference utilitarianism
2020-11-26T16:30:42.000000Z	reference magnetism in the water supply
2020-11-26T16:31:34.000000Z	this feels like write-only access to twitter
2020-11-26T16:57:20.000000Z	It's an absolute crime that ii doesn't support SSL out of the box.
2020-11-27T09:16:27.000000Z	A textbooks is a book with exercises
2020-11-27T09:18:15.000000Z	Image of Dog holding tennisball: "Please babble! No! No prune, only babble!"
2020-11-27T09:21:40.000000Z	ifff = If and only if, and I will take no complaints!
2020-11-27T09:22:26.000000Z	No person on MDMA ever complained about the lack of meaning in their experience.
2020-11-27T15:14:32.000000Z	"Why do you [X]?" "Signaling."
2020-11-27T16:04:20.000000Z	Getting Boltzmanned on Dust Theory.
2020-11-27T16:04:35.000000Z	If Functionalism, then Reality is Dovetailing, but Reality Dovetailing is just Tegmark IV/Zero Ontology (as per Curry-Howard Correspondence).
2020-11-27T16:04:46.000000Z	Ibrahim ←→ Abraham
2020-11-27T16:04:55.000000Z	Working hours are not about work, they're about class warfare.
2020-11-28T14:31:33.000000Z	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OcxBzUgK4&t=40m25s it could be like this.
2020-11-28T15:01:54.000000Z	Rationality is a set of mental motions. Meditation teaches to observe mental motions, and possibly methods to construct new ones.
2020-11-29T13:20:00.000000Z	Believing something doesn't mean you have to tell it to everyone
2020-11-29T13:20:21.000000Z	You don't actually need to convince idiots
2020-11-29T15:57:29.000000Z	sapolskywave
2020-11-29T22:08:03.000000Z	Fashion seems to operate on two different timescales: 'high fashion' (?) on ½ or 1 year cycles, and 'macro fashion', which changes on the scale of 5 to 10 years
2020-11-30T10:14:19.000000Z	https://grahamkarta.bandcamp.com now that's my kind of music
2020-11-30T10:22:54.000000Z	PSA: SL4≠seL4
2020-11-30T10:44:33.000000Z	Placebos funktionieren.
2020-11-30T10:44:45.000000Z	Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
2020-11-30T10:45:00.000000Z	Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
2020-11-30T10:45:19.000000Z	Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
2020-11-30T10:45:49.000000Z	Placebos funktionieren auch dann, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass Placebos auch dann funktionieren, wenn Menschen, die Placebos nehmen, wissen, dass es Placebos sind.
2020-11-30T10:45:56.000000Z	Decision theory ↔ Microeconomics, Game theory ↔ Macroeconomics?
2020-11-30T10:46:04.000000Z	Opportunitätsmoral
2020-11-30T10:46:42.000000Z	The upper class unconsciously wages class war against the lower classes through lax social laws, such as deregulation of drugs or teenage sexuality, which upper classes can cope with easily (higher discipline), but lower classes can't (and become criminal/addicted to drugs/pregnant at an early age/drop out of school early). This secures the upper class's position.
2020-11-30T10:51:56.000000Z	Totraum
2020-11-30T10:54:00.000000Z	ש (shin). Any connection to Evangelion? It is the letter of fire in kabbalah, apparently :thinking_face:
2020-11-30T10:54:16.000000Z	There is no correct marxism, but there is a right marxism.
2020-12-01T09:08:58.000000Z	Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.
2020-12-01T11:15:21.000000Z	Classical philosophy: Disputing definitions. Analytic philosophy: Disputing definitions, rigorously. Continental philosophy: Disputing definitions, poetically.
2020-12-01T11:15:33.000000Z	My tribe is a place, not a prison.
2020-12-02T08:59:20.000000Z	Milli Tanz
2020-12-02T08:59:23.000000Z	Ochoch
2020-12-02T15:05:30.000000Z	The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:
2020-12-02T15:06:19.000000Z	"Which is for people, that is for people and objects." -> From a /lit/ thread.
2020-12-02T15:06:37.000000Z	TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.
2020-12-02T15:06:46.000000Z	The best map is still the territory.
2020-12-02T15:07:07.000000Z	I want a 'Map≠Territory' T-shirt.
2020-12-02T18:35:50.000000Z	Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.
2020-12-03T08:40:44.000000Z	A strange mental motion in AI alignment is thinking about agency in non-agential ways.
2020-12-03T18:10:43.000000Z	I'm already looking forward to Hanson's next book.
2020-12-05T16:50:27.000000Z	Issa Rice was right about Wei Dai.
2020-12-05T16:52:46.000000Z	Sorta context: https://issarice.com/wei-dai
2020-12-06T11:19:18.000000Z	Ein Wille wie Silizium, ein Auftreten wie Sand, ein Gemüt wie von Licht durchschienenes Glas.
2020-12-06T11:19:34.000000Z	Somebody is always the bottleneck.
2020-12-06T12:59:32.000000Z	Did communism kill 100mio. counterfactual people? And – how many counterfactual people did it save?
2020-12-06T12:59:58.000000Z	Or, rather 'communism'
2020-12-08T10:25:42.000000Z	renriderog
2020-12-12T22:52:12.000000Z	progress in bits, progress in atoms, progress in qualia
2020-12-12T23:12:40.000000Z	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).
2020-12-12T23:19:08.000000Z	meta-not-caring
2020-12-12T23:24:21.000000Z	ratoid
2020-12-13T01:12:07.000000Z	Not too nice. Not too nasty. Not either to nice or too nasty. Not neither too nice nor too nasty.
2020-12-15T09:03:49.000000Z	fresh tapas
2020-12-16T11:18:56.000000Z	HoPwave
2020-12-16T11:19:28.000000Z	On a related note, 'hopwag' sounds like a music genre
2020-12-18T08:29:50.000000Z	A robot that constantly twitches
2020-12-18T08:30:14.000000Z	There are two types of computer programmers: Those who think that computers are the problem, and those who think that programmers are the problem.
2020-12-18T08:36:50.000000Z	Revealed preferences are super fuzzy.
2020-12-18T08:38:11.000000Z	Alternative names for 'anarcho-capitalism': propertarianism, voluntaryism, voluntarism
2020-12-18T08:38:28.000000Z	Alternative names for 'rationalism': map-making, cartography
2020-12-18T08:39:18.000000Z	”If everyone just…“ ”See, there's your problem already”
2020-12-18T08:39:49.000000Z	Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.
2020-12-18T08:40:08.000000Z	Most advice is basically “become better at signaling”, or it is itself signaling.
2020-12-18T08:42:02.000000Z	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,
2020-12-18T08:42:02.000001Z	more
2020-12-18T08:42:02.000002Z	human
2020-12-18T08:42:02.000003Z	connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.
2020-12-18T08:42:33.000000Z	Why does biology contain the field of ecology? This makes biology even bigger than it is already, ranging from biochemistry up to ecology. That would be like including sociology and medicine plus anthropology in one gigantic field of study.
2020-12-18T08:42:41.000000Z	Oh die Tyrannei der Mühle, oh die Medizin der Mühle!
2020-12-18T08:43:04.000000Z	Evolution is going to destroy everything you love and then piss on the shards.
2020-12-18T08:43:16.000000Z	Take all the bacteria in the world and dump them into a big hole. How does this look like?
2020-12-18T08:43:37.000000Z	Can one encode if-statements by using modulo?
2020-12-18T09:16:52.000000Z	“Subreddits could achieve this without a schism” heh (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v7c47vjta3mavY3QC/is-science-slowing-down?commentId=e9T3hF9957pT5h2ex), two years ago
2020-12-18T09:31:59.000000Z	Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
2020-12-18T09:41:37.000000Z	Suicide is legal, assisted suicide is illegal. Hm.
2020-12-19T12:22:08.000000Z	Noting “noting itself” itself
2020-12-20T01:58:34.000000Z	I'm back to “tribes are bad”
2020-12-20T01:59:55.000000Z	As a matter of reconciliation; welp
2020-12-22T15:18:40.000000Z	https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xdwbX9pFEr7Pomaxv/meta-honesty-firming-up-honesty-around-its-edge-cases?commentId=rfYQjT8SfzfQPLWYH lel
2020-12-23T21:57:33.000000Z	To all the people arguing for putting the comma inside the quotation marks: You are nitpicking and biased, I win, bye bye
2020-12-23T22:10:40.000000Z	@<pbatch (3 days ago)> "that's it. I'm sticking to this txtnish client." Solid choice.
2020-12-23T22:19:37.000000Z	Current status: High moral/ontologicial/metaphysical/empirical uncertainty. Thus: Relative conservativism, plus progression in direction of more cooperation, increasing option value/attainable utility. More concretely: Prevent wars, prevent extinction, freeze people, don't destroy ecosystems (for now). Possible flaws: Assumes we will be able to coordinate even better in the future. Seems more likely to me than not, but otherwise, flip the whole thing and go exploit on current morality.
2020-12-23T22:21:21.000000Z	My LW shortform was not appreciated as much as I expected – was I subtly wrong, or did I miss discussion about the choice of TM in Solomonoff induction?
2020-12-24T14:03:11.000000Z	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)
2020-12-24T14:05:57.000000Z	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?
2020-12-24T14:17:41.000000Z	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.
2020-12-24T23:47:20.000000Z	https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/12#fn1 is extremely important, but people fall into the anthropomorphization trap again and again
2020-12-26T11:09:36.000000Z	My internal monologue is somewhere in my right hemisphere, more on the outside than the inside. Sort of above my right ear.
2020-12-26T11:50:05.000000Z	Inner alignment is a problem when you train the reward function & the policy function jointly.
2020-12-26T12:32:03.000000Z	I have a feeling that the first step in solving any coordination problem is “bring all relevant parties in a room, and lock them in there with water, food & sanitation until they have either found a solution or killed each other”
2020-12-26T12:32:17.000000Z	Thinking about founding an organization that does exactly that.
2020-12-26T12:32:35.000000Z	Life-extension/superhappiness are not answers to the question of meaning, just frames for making the search for meaning easier and more likely to succeed in the long run.
2020-12-26T12:32:52.000000Z	Lisp is like minarchism.
2020-12-26T12:33:06.000000Z	Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
2020-12-26T12:33:23.000000Z	0th Potentiality: Doing something
2020-12-26T12:33:32.000000Z	1st Potentiality: Having the ability to do something
2020-12-26T12:33:47.000000Z	2nd Potentiality: Having the ability to acquire abilities (intelligence)
2020-12-26T12:33:55.000000Z	3rd Potentiality: Having the ability to increase 2nd potentiality (having the ability to increase intelligence)
2020-12-26T12:34:03.000000Z	4th Potentiality: Having the ability to increase 3rd potentiality (being able to acquire intelligence-amplifying technology)
2020-12-26T12:34:09.000000Z	Humans have 0th, 1st, 2nd and 4th potentiality.
2020-12-26T12:34:25.000000Z	If you're right about this, how could you make money with it?
2020-12-26T12:34:33.000000Z	Pronounciation of iff (non-IPA at the moment): ifef
2020-12-26T12:34:42.000000Z	Michel Foucault -> Mishio Fuko (misheard at the breakfast table)
2020-12-26T12:34:56.000000Z	tangle ←→ distangle ←→ entangle ←→ untangle ←→ disentangle ←→ endistangle ←→ disuntangle ←→ endisuntangle
2020-12-26T12:37:46.000000Z	Hot damn good post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2G8j8D5auZKKAjSfY
2020-12-28T13:41:53.000000Z	Oh yeah, you know pain? Have you ever had your contact lenses on the wrong way, with ~½ a dioptrie difference?
2020-12-28T14:33:07.000000Z	(slightly nasally) …and also for vingean reasons
2020-12-28T14:35:28.000000Z	(Hanson voice) “I am not owned! I am not owned” I shout as I am being consumed by grey goo
2020-12-28T14:53:40.000000Z	ge-stern (gasball)
2020-12-28T14:54:00.000000Z	gestirn
2020-12-29T12:25:51.000000Z	Endokremlinology
2020-12-29T13:36:21.000000Z	the whole universe being filled with hedonium is not the optimal outcome, but the whole universe being filled with dolorium is the pessimal outcome
2020-12-29T13:53:04.000000Z	*sigh* I guess you are my little postrat. Come here *opens arms*
2020-12-29T16:13:15.000000Z	MFTOE: My Favourite Theory Of Ethics
2020-12-29T20:31:51.000000Z	However, most people are not even at the “endorse an outcome” stage of political debate
2020-12-29T20:57:51.000000Z	people only meditate bc it's a trauma cope mechanism
2020-12-29T21:59:01.000000Z	AI Takeoff model post coming together, slowly.
2020-12-29T21:59:55.000000Z	Also, after googling, I have discovered I'm pretty much the first person to make the “Endokremlinology” pun. You are hereby authorized to use it as the name for a russian domestic politics blog if you credit me by name.
2020-12-29T22:01:04.000000Z	Proof: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22endokremlinology%22
2020-12-30T10:23:25.000000Z	I think I understand bigint multiplication now. Not sure if I've reinvented the Karatsuba algorithm
2020-12-31T15:08:55.000000Z	no rats on the twtxt tl :-(
2020-12-31T16:48:00.000000Z	Rethink Priorities is just putting out absolute bangers one after the other. Impressive
2021-01-01T12:12:18.000000Z	The thing where a platitude you knew before gains salience (maybe related to concept-shaped holes)
2021-01-01T13:01:17.000000Z	OOP turned out to be not such big a deal
2021-01-03T11:42:54.000000Z	[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
2021-01-04T10:19:53.000000Z	Don't make deals that involve infinities.
2021-01-04T10:20:09.000000Z	Greta Thunberg falls into the same narrative category as Malala Yousafzai, Sophie Scholl and Jeanne D'Arc.
2021-01-04T10:20:21.000000Z	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.
2021-01-04T10:20:28.000000Z	Maybe this applies to everything?
2021-01-04T10:20:42.000000Z	Buy some space near the sun, because it's going to be worth a lot when a Dyson sphere gets built.
2021-01-04T10:21:05.000000Z	Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
2021-01-04T10:21:14.000000Z	Infuriating: With the Euro, 50 ct. coins are bigger than 1€ coins.
2021-01-04T10:25:30.000000Z	caveet
2021-01-04T10:26:17.000000Z	the hard problem of matter
2021-01-04T10:29:19.000000Z	IF YOU BELIEVE A THING, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU __HAVE__ TO SAY IT
2021-01-04T10:29:28.000000Z	BE WILLING TO MAKE BETS
2021-01-04T10:30:14.000000Z	“You only ever see the map, but you walk the territory.”
2021-01-04T10:30:43.000000Z	Also, as a reminder, we have noticed the skulls, yes: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/dLbkrPu5STNCBLRjr
2021-01-05T11:06:18.000000Z	Niplav Yushtun, PhD in Memetodynamics
2021-01-05T15:59:25.000000Z	Unless the world has been adversarially structured against you, you can do better by just trying. This holds both for bayesianism & consequentialism.
2021-01-05T16:00:12.000000Z	In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you're not trying.
2021-01-05T16:01:00.000000Z	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.
2021-01-07T09:31:45.000000Z	“I will do as I please” will do as it pleases
2021-01-07T09:38:01.000000Z	A bit tempted to trying to dovetail to find the shortest brainfuck quine.
2021-01-07T09:38:33.000000Z	Only 4^391 programs. That shouldn't be _that_ hard!
2021-01-07T09:54:37.000000Z	Subtly phenomenologically tainted words lead to anthropomorphization in discussions about AI
2021-01-07T09:54:54.000000Z	e.g. desire, want, reason, think
2021-01-07T16:26:03.000000Z	@<sdk https://codevoid.de/tw.txt> "Oh fun. I was not active on txtnish for a while and now all the feeds are 404 :( I miss you guys..." Same.
2021-01-07T18:06:07.000000Z	@<eli_oat https://txt.eli.li/twtxt/twtxt.txt> txt txt txt txt txt txt txt
2021-01-07T21:20:42.000000Z	My definite stance on the rat/postrat discourse. Strap in. 1/89
2021-01-07T21:21:13.000000Z	It all starts back in the days, when people started posting on SL4. As it turns out, 2/89
2021-01-07T21:22:13.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:23:45.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:25:36.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:27:10.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:28:42.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:29:24.000000Z	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
2021-01-07T21:32:05.000000Z	https://twitter.com/skluuug/status/1343488552512802817
2021-01-07T22:28:37.000000Z	i will not have the sex. i will not spread the gene.
2021-01-07T22:39:54.000000Z	I'm cartesianly divided from twitter, to which I'm often responding. We're back to watching television again.
2021-01-09T00:00:33.000000Z	…and over to monist idealism.
2021-01-09T01:02:40.000000Z	Personal anti-natalism delays the point point in time of malthusian saturation
2021-01-10T12:47:55.000000Z	Will self-driving cars also be something that's always n years away?
2021-01-10T13:30:04.000000Z	@(frogorbits.com) "@niplav Re: rats:  YOU ARE NOT ALONE" https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2sbUDWU3Fjk/maxresdefault.jpg
2021-01-10T13:49:47.000000Z	@<felixp7 https://twtxt.net/user/felixp7/twtxt.txt> "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).
2021-01-10T13:50:58.000000Z	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
2021-01-10T13:52:33.000000Z	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
2021-01-10T13:53:21.000000Z	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.
2021-01-10T14:00:57.000000Z	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> "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" ^^
2021-01-10T14:01:31.000000Z	`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
2021-01-10T14:07:17.000000Z	I should probably just add a `mentions` command to txtnish
2021-01-10T14:20:12.000000Z	New post: https://niplav.github.io/toy_ai_takeoff_model.html.
2021-01-11T09:06:25.000000Z	Oedipedia
2021-01-11T09:06:34.000000Z	Care less about organic food
2021-01-12T16:03:55.000000Z	gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
2021-01-13T11:29:19.000000Z	DSA DSA=Democratic Socialists of America decisive strategic advantage
2021-01-13T14:47:15.000000Z	EA has started feeling LARPy to me. Is that bc I do it LARPily or because it actually is?
2021-01-13T14:47:37.000000Z	“Is everything just a giant LARP?” – Guy Debord, right before writing The Society of the Spectacle
2021-01-13T14:57:32.000000Z	Ten minutes have passed, I have concluded it's all just an act.
2021-01-13T14:57:42.000000Z	How horrible.
2021-01-13T15:41:23.000000Z	I have never seen anybody fire a gun in real life.
2021-01-13T15:49:47.000000Z	The thing that is maximally different from itself
2021-01-15T07:50:55.000000Z	“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.
2021-01-15T14:36:00.000000Z	I am part of the problem.
2021-01-15T15:41:45.000000Z	I'd rather be boring than wrong.
2021-01-15T21:04:25.000000Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> “@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}.
2021-01-15T21:06:14.000000Z	Riffing off of Mechtild of Magdeburg, yes, sex may be a mystical act towards god, but it's a blind idiot alien god :-^
2021-01-15T21:08:28.000000Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> “@niplav What kind of _thinking_?” Leaning towards explicit abstract reasoning, though, if I would be pressed.