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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 Naïve 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.
2021-01-18T15:31:02.000000Z	Memetic algorithms are a thing! [Moscato and Cotta 2010]. Wonderful
2021-01-18T21:45:53.000000Z	I'm slightly concerned by the selection pressure against meditation
2021-01-18T22:32:58.000000Z	US declining quickly, europe slowly?
2021-01-19T00:40:59.000000Z	https://twitter.com/JgaltTweets/status/1351231569055383554 :-(
2021-01-19T00:41:27.000000Z	Do you think kantbot will come here when he realizes this is where the cryptids are?
2021-01-19T00:45:32.000000Z	https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er-MPNfW4AA1KLv?format=png&name=large https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8NSHgT1o8
2021-01-19T00:56:37.000000Z	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
2021-01-19T08:29:45.000000Z	@<lucidiot https://tilde.town/~lucidiot/twtxt.txt> "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]
2021-01-20T14:36:36.000000Z	bootstrap loading icons are spinning clockwise in their RTL cheatsheet. heh.
2021-01-20T22:26:57.000000Z	“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
2021-01-20T22:27:14.000000Z	Quines are poems. Don't @ me
2021-01-22T10:00:00.000000Z	2x2 {what we're able to do now, what we have to do now}
2021-01-22T10:00:32.000000Z	move solving metaphilosophy & similar problems into the future
2021-01-22T10:01:27.000000Z	if we loose control soon (or just decreasing control), grab all value that you can, otherwise delegate as much as possible into the future
2021-01-22T15:34:23.000000Z	co-evolution of C and operating systems
2021-01-22T15:46:10.000000Z	@frogorbits.com "@niplav Re: selection pressure against meditation: go on…" It's just that people who become enlightened have less kids than people who don't. (This is not to say that people who become enlightened should have many kids).
2021-01-22T15:46:51.000000Z	@frogorbits.com "I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better." <3
2021-01-23T12:19:36.000000Z	create universe – thought experiment – delete universe
2021-01-23T12:43:08.000000Z	Modulo the cost of generating them, quantified uncertainties are always more useful than unquantified uncertainties
2021-01-23T14:19:07.000000Z	old carrots taste horrible
2021-01-23T14:35:13.000000Z	Is the common usage of overly violent examples an example of memetic decay?
2021-01-23T14:45:12.000000Z	music genre: softbot
2021-01-23T15:28:32.000000Z	eating : drinking :: feeding : ?
2021-01-25T11:21:44.000000Z	using ontologically basic categories for deciding moral relevance is of practical importance, it prevents others from being able to slippery-sloping one into moral stances one dislikes on reflection
2021-01-25T11:26:26.000000Z	bc objects from ontologically basic categories have no continuous transformation between them, e.g. there's no continuous transformation from the number e to an oak (or from the quale of a piano chord to an iron atom), but there is a continuous transformation from a human into a pig, or from a pig into a superintelligent pig
2021-01-25T11:27:30.000000Z	while this does not abolish the problem of arbitrary category selection, it does abolish the problem of making arbitrary cutoffs
2021-01-25T11:29:49.000000Z	when meditating with eyes open in (semi-)darkness, darker objects become darker & seed a spreading shadow that sometimes consumes large parts (or all of) the visual field. if attention comes to the visual field, this effect disappears, while awareness can hold it stably. what is it?
2021-01-25T11:30:51.000000Z	other weird thing: while cutting my nails a few weeks back (and accidentally cutting into the flesh of my toes), my visual field very quickly disappeared, flashed white, and reappeared. the whole thing took maybe 0.2 seconds. what was that?
2021-01-25T11:38:45.000000Z	see the dank world
2021-01-25T11:40:46.000000Z	seeing EA/LW people date each other dramatically reduces my confidence in them being successful at truth-seeking
2021-01-25T11:42:51.000000Z	niplav yushtun, whose map is not the territory
2021-01-25T14:32:46.000000Z	oh, you meditate? note every sensation then
2021-01-25T14:34:27.000000Z	If the evolution of human-level intelligence is a great filter, then neat AI seems a bit more likely
2021-01-25T14:34:53.000000Z	Ich werde eure Jachten anzünden und eure scheiß Ferraris in die Luft jagen.
2021-01-25T14:35:17.000000Z	Electoral PTSD
2021-01-25T14:36:57.000000Z	Several levels: Achievable with: • Current computing power \ • Engineering-realistic computing power \ • Physically possible computing power \ • Unlimited but finite computing power \ • Infinite computing power \ • (?) Hypercomputation
2021-01-25T14:37:14.000000Z	It matters how many life years are lost in car crashes, not how many lives.
2021-01-25T14:39:55.000000Z	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}
2021-01-25T14:40:11.000000Z	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.
2021-01-25T14:40:18.000000Z	If hell exists, then it is reserved for those who don't rebel against it.
2021-01-25T14:40:30.000000Z	All advice should have a failure condition.
2021-01-25T14:40:37.000000Z	I am an ecosystem
2021-01-25T14:40:51.000000Z	From a /r/4chan thread: “Birth is the ultimate rape.”
2021-01-25T14:41:43.000000Z	There seems to be a moral bias towards inaction.
2021-01-25T14:41:53.000000Z	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?
2021-01-25T14:42:14.000000Z	Long Now thinking applied: Introducing the LGBT+ pride millenium!
2021-01-25T14:42:49.000000Z	“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.”
2021-01-25T14:43:08.000000Z	Tactic: Moving the lever closer.
2021-01-25T14:43:19.000000Z	Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).
2021-01-25T14:43:26.000000Z	Morpheological <-> More theological
2021-01-25T14:43:39.000000Z	Comp Lit: computational literature
2021-01-25T14:43:45.000000Z	Plants are pretty fascinating, they turn air into life.
2021-01-25T14:44:07.000000Z	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?
2021-01-25T14:44:27.000000Z	Whatever the question, despair is not the answer.
2021-01-25T14:44:34.000000Z	Intellectualize your problems so you will become bored of them.
2021-01-25T14:45:24.000000Z	Australien kaputt
2021-01-25T17:15:11.000000Z	sorry for the twtstorm o.o
2021-01-25T18:46:42.000000Z	@<vain https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> “I don’t know. But you got me.” <3
2021-01-26T09:29:25.000000Z	note to self: don't go to the bay
2021-01-26T11:16:21.000000Z	i will not live in the bay, i won't be part of the cule
2021-01-27T21:16:32.000000Z	beer is liquid psychoactive bread
2021-01-29T09:39:48.000000Z	people have it the wrong way around: algorithmic decision-making is usually fairer (but cless efficient), but people making decisions is more efficient (while being more biased)
2021-01-29T10:56:42.000000Z	Another datapoint for the technocrats is, of course, Ignaz Semmelweis. He comes around high-phalumphin with his data and his measurements, wanting nurses to abolish their age-old practice of “not caring whether one has washed ones hands before helping to give birth”
2021-01-29T11:07:58.000000Z	Let TM1 and TM2 be turing machines. Let p_{1 on 2} be the shortest program that emulates TM1 on TM2, and p_{2 on 1} be the shortest program that emulates TM2 on TM1. TM1≺TM2 iff |p_{1 on 2}|<|p_{2 on 1}| (and TM1~TM2 iff |p_{1 on 2}|=|p_{2 on 1}|). Is ≺ then transitive?
2021-01-29T11:10:59.000000Z	Or is that undecidable?
2021-01-29T18:59:55.000000Z	@<pbatch https://pbat.ch/twtxt.txt> "Writing a "tweet" is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts." <3
2021-01-29T22:29:20.000000Z	https://twitter.com/gregbglw/status/1354258643697475586 and then it just leaves!
2021-01-29T22:38:01.000000Z	https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cumc876woKaZLmQs5/lessons-i-ve-learned-from-self-teaching I should have started using Anki earlier as well.
2021-01-30T09:07:20.000000Z	two sigma male
2021-01-30T16:43:49.000000Z	learning dril tweets & morse code using spaced repetition
2021-01-30T16:53:05.000000Z	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> "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
2021-01-31T12:02:03.000000Z	(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.
2021-01-31T12:05:30.000000Z	(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.
2021-01-31T12:07:52.000000Z	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.
2021-01-31T15:01:32.000000Z	un-doing not doing non-doing
2021-02-02T12:40:38.000000Z	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
2021-02-02T12:41:12.000000Z	felt really tense around a maybe 4cm² area there, slowly disappeared during the sit
2021-02-02T13:51:14.000000Z	I used aversion factoring yesterday
2021-02-02T15:52:35.000000Z	masturbyte
2021-02-02T15:52:41.000000Z	masturbit
2021-02-02T15:52:46.000000Z	maturyte
2021-02-02T15:59:42.000000Z	could we build a blockchain which auctions off computing power to companies who wish to solve NP-hard problems as proof of work?
2021-02-02T21:58:30.000000Z	high effect-size male
2021-02-03T13:30:43.000000Z	shoot me if i ever say that X should require Educational Attainment Y
2021-02-04T15:03:45.000000Z	@<iolfree https://tilde.club/~iolfree/twtxt.txt> "I just typed in 'censorship' on pinterest and that is also completely banned." https://i.imgflip.com/1ppi4p.jpg
2021-02-05T09:50:31.000000Z	how come there's a Hard Problem of Consciousness™, but no hard problem of matter?
2021-02-05T10:11:50.000000Z	winner's curse for high discount rates
2021-02-05T10:12:20.000000Z	high discounters force low discounters into high discounting
2021-02-05T10:16:13.000000Z	humans are maybe better at solving common resource problems than more rational agents for adaption-executer reasons
2021-02-05T10:48:06.000000Z	rationalist ∟ postrationalist
2021-02-05T10:49:24.000000Z	or, longer: in the cartesian product of the space of minds by their rationality and mind-states by their emotional well-being on the high end the tails may come apart, but they are not anti-correlated
2021-02-05T11:15:25.000000Z	dislike of editing because it induces a prediction error for believing ”I'm already finished working on this text”
2021-02-05T14:00:58.000000Z	v_v
2021-02-05T21:12:03.000000Z	gilgamesh ratfic
2021-02-05T22:51:28.000000Z	I should fight for slack more.
2021-02-05T23:38:43.000000Z	paradox of tolerance is self-swallowing?
2021-02-05T23:39:36.000000Z	what is the popperian stance towards tolerance's stance towards the popperian stance towards tolerance?
2021-02-06T10:18:52.000000Z	reading
2021-02-06T10:20:46.000000Z	@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/
2021-02-06T10:22:57.000000Z	ironically, IRC has more slack than Slack
2021-02-07T22:43:55.000000Z	leave a line of retreat in ideology-space
2021-02-10T10:11:44.000000Z	proposal: let's ignore 2020 data when trying to argue about anything
2021-02-10T18:18:17.000000Z	yo bro, the new alignment newsletter just dropped!
2021-02-14T14:23:31.000000Z	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> "@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
2021-02-14T14:34:33.000000Z	Wirth's law, but for economic growth and regulation instead of hardware and software
2021-02-14T14:36:20.000000Z	or, more flippantly: almost all economic growth is destroyed by regulation, almost all progress in hardware is destroyed by slower software
2021-02-14T14:36:53.000000Z	Note: I'm not sure how much I believe this as of yet. Maybe 10%?
2021-02-14T15:05:03.000000Z	fnarglization might work if you have a ruler that's about as smart as humans and rational (it definitely doesn't if one of those doesn't hold)
2021-02-15T08:45:02.000000Z	positional enslavement
2021-02-15T11:52:46.000000Z	subtle sense of impending doom
2021-02-15T11:53:00.000000Z	meditation is a fine long-term form of suicide
2021-02-15T11:53:19.000000Z	I'm here to chew bubblegum and refine my subjective experience, and luckily both can be combined
2021-02-15T11:53:45.000000Z	Sure, give me all the negative space you want. I'll take the most comfortable spot.
2021-02-15T11:53:50.000000Z	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbifold#Music_theory
2021-02-15T11:53:57.000000Z	Politics supervenes on ethics/epistemology.
2021-02-15T11:54:12.000000Z	It's harder for me to be mindful of default states of mind (calm etc.) than very agitated states (nervousness, stress etc.).
2021-02-15T11:54:23.000000Z	Families are probably very good: people genetically pre-disposed to like/help/cooperate with you.
2021-02-15T11:54:33.000000Z	Virginity actuarial table
2021-02-15T11:54:48.000000Z	A lot of social technology developed by nerds makes lying harder, and therefore won't be accepted except in nerd-only spaces.
2021-02-15T11:54:57.000000Z	Omohundro monsters in the water supply.
2021-02-15T11:55:22.000000Z	Play strange games, win strange prizes.
2021-02-15T11:55:34.000000Z	value of perfect information in the water supply
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000000Z	Doing a crucifix: Human
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000001Z	–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000002Z	Values
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000003Z	–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000004Z	Are
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000005Z	–
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000006Z	Complex,
2021-02-15T11:55:43.000007Z	BUT
2021-02-15T11:55:52.000000Z	It always bottoms out in valence somewhere.
2021-02-15T11:56:02.000000Z	Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
2021-02-15T11:56:16.000000Z	Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.
2021-02-15T11:56:50.000000Z	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."
2021-02-15T11:56:57.000000Z	Meatculus
2021-02-15T11:57:11.000000Z	Approval directed behavior in the water supply
2021-02-15T11:57:19.000000Z	Pareto diversity
2021-02-15T11:57:29.000000Z	The singular of criteria is criterion goddamnit!
2021-02-15T11:57:37.000000Z	Some of you haven't read the sequences and it shows.
2021-02-15T11:58:46.000000Z	Note to self: Use “Eat my shorts” and “Stay fresh, cheese bags” more often.
2021-02-15T11:59:00.000000Z	At least you can feel good about the counterfactual worlds which are doing really well right now!
2021-02-15T11:59:46.000000Z	Echochamber of Guf.
2021-02-16T11:00:36.000000Z	the emotion {≻,~,≺}
2021-02-16T11:00:55.000000Z	looked better rendered by LaTeX, but whatevs
2021-02-16T11:20:31.000000Z	naming my eye floaters
2021-02-16T11:44:47.000000Z	how highly evolved a human is can be measured by how small their little toe is
2021-02-17T11:16:02.000000Z	argmax ∑☺-☹
2021-02-18T22:33:07.000000Z	People who don't create their own religions are incredibly suspect.
2021-02-19T09:56:56.000000Z	“concept handle” is jargon for “jargon”
2021-02-19T09:58:06.000000Z	@<ionores https://twtxt.net/user/ionores/twtxt.txt> "Perseverance ! 👏🎉😀" <3
2021-02-20T11:49:33.000000Z	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> "Anyone running [Urbit](https://github.com/urbit/urbit)? Thinking about having a play with a comet. ☄🌒" -> Just as @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> 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!
2021-02-20T23:48:29.000000Z	it's uncool on purpose to avoid you clicking
2021-02-21T21:11:55.000000Z	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?
2021-02-22T10:43:31.000000Z	technocratsacy
2021-02-22T10:44:56.000000Z	Minimax, maximin, minimin, maximax
2021-02-22T10:45:12.000000Z	A jam is a very vibey object.
2021-02-22T10:45:19.000000Z	Concreteness leaking out of your abstractions there.
2021-02-22T10:45:26.000000Z	How do you cooperate with suboptimal allies?
2021-02-22T10:45:45.000000Z	Yes andy, no butty.
2021-02-22T10:45:57.000000Z	Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
2021-02-22T10:46:26.000000Z	There is a universe not far from ours where people signal wealth mostly through effective charitable donations.
2021-02-22T10:46:40.000000Z	Audiobook not so great because they don't pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
2021-02-22T10:46:53.000000Z	Bandname: Catastrophic Transcripts
2021-02-22T10:47:00.000000Z	Not explaining away; instead predicting.
2021-02-22T10:47:29.000000Z	If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.
2021-02-22T10:48:13.000000Z	Do people who only communicate in ASL have tiny hands as an internal monologue?
2021-02-22T10:48:28.000000Z	Getting laid before the age of 21 is a great predictor for becoming a utilitarian vs. a negative utilitarian.
2021-02-22T10:48:53.000000Z	I get very squeamish when people are insistent on me saying “X is Y”. It's usually a bad sign.
2021-02-22T10:49:09.000000Z	The epistemic commons are worth protecting. Go and do your signalling with donations or fashion.
2021-02-24T11:22:12.000000Z	Being rational is virtuous
2021-02-25T10:18:15.000000Z	when thinking about metaphysics, i always feel as if i'm either reinventing the aristotelian substance/form distinction or parmenidesian monism or badly compressing deleuze.
2021-02-25T10:19:17.000000Z	Daily annoyance: When the change in a metric is given, but it's not clear whether this change was good or bad, because I don't know the metric.
2021-02-25T10:19:28.000000Z	Axistentialism
2021-02-25T10:19:54.000000Z	It's not widely known, but in fact shopping is just slang for “style hopping”
2021-02-25T10:20:37.000000Z	i mean, it's kind of obvious that if you dangle a gigantic “you oughn't think this particular thought” in front of a bunch of nerds, they are abso-fucking-lutely going to think the thought.
2021-02-25T10:20:45.000000Z	what did you expect?
2021-02-25T10:21:29.000000Z	Turbo-Lenz
2021-02-25T10:21:35.000000Z	Simp-lifying
2021-02-25T10:21:43.000000Z	Tran-Skript
2021-02-25T10:21:52.000000Z	Working hours are not about work, they're about class warfare.
2021-02-25T10:22:29.000000Z	brahmaviha-rat
2021-02-25T10:24:57.000000Z	a twitching robot, if you will
2021-02-25T10:27:48.000000Z	morning larks like breakfast more?
2021-02-25T10:28:12.000000Z	Men care more than women about longevity?
2021-02-25T10:28:34.000000Z	The automatic mental cut between “I believe this” and “I have to say this”
2021-02-25T10:30:05.000000Z	rationalist who is cryocrastinating
2021-02-25T10:30:20.000000Z	rationalist who hasn't touched his 100-card anki deck in half a year
2021-02-25T10:30:32.000000Z	rationalist who is okay-ish at forecasting
2021-02-25T10:30:37.000000Z	(it me)
2021-02-25T10:32:32.000000Z	for some reason, I really like this pattern of exchange: A:“[controversial/semi-out-of-context thing, said quickly, maybe mutteringly] what?” B [in quick succession]: ”what?” A [also quickly]: “what?” (repeat as often as needed)
2021-02-25T12:27:56.000000Z	every state is goal state
2021-02-25T12:42:43.000000Z	i'm twelve
2021-02-26T13:58:11.000000Z	sequential decision problems in the water supply
2021-02-26T14:40:23.000000Z	interested in understanding the world of fucking
2021-02-28T21:10:08.000000Z	men care more than women about longevity?
2021-03-01T15:09:47.000000Z	my wish: textbooks are published together with anki flashcards
2021-03-02T21:11:49.000000Z	i can feel your stomach in my bones
2021-03-02T21:17:09.000000Z	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> "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).
2021-03-02T21:21:56.000000Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> "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.
2021-03-03T23:46:41.000000Z	aversion to carrying out actions that increase my prediction error
2021-03-03T23:46:57.000000Z	e.g. editing a text – I thought i was done with it!
2021-03-03T23:54:37.000000Z	when forecasting, babble 10 unexpected things that might derail the forecast
2021-03-05T09:20:33.000000Z	it's fascinating (and by that i mean dumb) that we still use signatures written with pens to sign documents instead of signing them with private keys like civilized people.
2021-03-05T21:22:38.000000Z	look at me! Im Moldbug! I want to appoint $PROGRESSIVE_ICON as king/queen!
2021-03-05T21:39:36.000000Z	@(frogorbits.com) @<niplav https://niplav.github.io/twtxt.txt> "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.
2021-03-05T21:39:58.000000Z	@(frogorbits.com) I hope that didn't come off too mean :-/
2021-03-05T21:43:50.000000Z	@(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.
2021-03-05T21:44:31.000000Z	https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stanford-marshmallow-prison-experiment probably wrong, iq predictive, but marshmallow test is (apparently?) not
2021-03-06T22:41:12.000000Z	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.
2021-03-06T22:41:52.000000Z	for this reason, don't expect consistent opinions from the percentages in survey results!
2021-03-06T22:42:37.000000Z	i think that this becomes a bigger issue with more options in a survey?
2021-03-16T15:26:49.000000Z	cocks gun
2021-03-16T15:26:54.000000Z	guns cock
2021-03-16T22:56:07.000000Z	hem hock
2021-03-21T11:48:47.000000Z	Impossible → God can't do. But what about: God doesn't want → Impossible
2021-03-23T12:37:17.000000Z	Chapman's sites are wonderfully wgettable
2021-03-24T20:46:53.000000Z	@<alip https://dev.exherbo.org/~alip/twtxt.txt> "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?
2021-03-24T20:48:25.000000Z	RMS would have been well advised to learn some [Kolmogorov complicity](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/) – unfortunately he's more on the Kantorovich side, and hadn't gotten bitten as hard before
2021-03-24T20:52:54.000000Z	but now, for something enjoyable: [commmutative hyperoperators](https://observablehq.com/@ishi/arithmetic) and [their implementation](https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#Implementing-Commutative-Hyperoperators)
2021-03-24T21:14:22.000000Z	epistemic status: taking semi-jokes seriously) “irrationalism” would be a much much better name than “rationalism”: it sounds more humble (and this _is_ important to the outside world, name not yet taken, and it carries in it a very central point of bayrat thinking (namely, that humans are extremely irrational). Other idea: “adrationalism”: “towards rationality”
2021-03-24T21:18:54.000000Z	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> "@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
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2021-03-27T12:41:58.000000Z	the mental motion that is equivalent to the physical motion you make when you expel residual fluid out of your urethra
2021-03-28T09:40:08.000000Z	Be as honest to other people as you expect them to be to you.
2021-03-28T09:40:34.000000Z	That way, you can create pockets of honesty, while still succeeding when dishonesty is necessary.
2021-03-28T09:48:17.000000Z	subsumption lattices in the water supply
2021-03-28T12:14:34.000000Z	enlightenment as a road to reductionism
2021-03-28T12:15:06.000000Z	before awakening: basic inframeasure theory. after awakening: advanced inframeasure theory.
2021-03-28T12:20:03.000000Z	"@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 :)
2021-03-28T15:12:23.000000Z	maybe gods have the problem that they only can create beings slightly weaker than themselves, so they don't create as much as they would want to (this would be the reason why Zeus rapes/seduces random women and doesn't just create mistresses – the mistresses might build a coalition & turn against him
2021-03-30T09:11:10.000000Z	Skolem constants are just Skolem functions of arity 0, they have no universal quantifiers around them.
2021-03-31T22:29:59.000000Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> "@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”
2021-04-05T18:19:55.000000Z	5-word horror story: law of conversation of valence
2021-04-05T18:21:59.000000Z	@<mox https://tilde.town/~mox/twtxt.txt> "so much is different now, i feel like i'm in a completely different place then when i was writing here last" -> Welcome back
2021-04-06T19:28:45.000000Z	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.
2021-04-07T13:52:53.000000Z	Annoyance: it is the exception, rather than the norm, that taking away options from someone helps them.
2021-04-08T21:45:13.000000Z	~problematic~
2021-04-10T19:26:55.000000Z	typos on a darknet market site. programmers *sigh*
2021-04-11T12:39:58.000000Z	universes with more life probably more compressible
2021-04-11T13:27:13.000000Z	life is quined matter
2021-04-11T21:00:48.000000Z	female spiders eat males after mating bc males won't provide for offspring, so they might as well provide nutrients for the mother
2021-04-12T22:25:18.000000Z	the universe needs to meditate
2021-04-12T22:26:44.000000Z	@<hecanjog https://hecanjog.com/twtxt.txt> "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
2021-04-12T22:28:51.000000Z	@<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> "Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu." <3
2021-04-13T18:25:23.000000Z	violation of schelling point as indicators of antimemetic infestation.
2021-04-13T20:45:41.000000Z	quantilizing porn
2021-04-13T21:42:21.000000Z	humiliating how long it took me to realise that the Metamorphosis by Kafka was about disability.
2021-04-14T19:32:14.000000Z	@<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> "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.
2021-04-14T19:32:46.000000Z	@<hecanjog https://hecanjog.com/twtxt.txt> "Maybe Satoshi was an anti-capitalist after all?" -> Why do you think that?
2021-04-14T21:33:32.000000Z	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.
2021-04-16T16:57:41.000000Z	hardmore as much things as you can, ordered by importance. easymode the rest.
2021-04-17T10:01:09.000000Z	metaculus is only realiable newssite send twt
2021-04-17T10:05:02.000000Z	@<hecanjog https://hecanjog.com/twtxt.txt> "I can see the sinewave of my own mood skimming through past twtxts..." ▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁▂▄▅▆▅▄▂▁
2021-04-17T10:12:00.000000Z	twt is better because I can pronounce it like twit, which sounds a bit like “twat”, which is an insult and therefore better.
2021-04-17T10:13:44.000000Z	huh, txtnish seems to have problems with linebreaks & unicode;.
2021-04-17T10:15:50.000000Z	“Break at the Byte”, a programmer adventure story.
2021-04-17T20:34:01.000000Z	Just because things are impossible doesn't mean they wouldn't be good
2021-04-17T21:44:17.000000Z	sharing beliefs < sharing evidence < sharing models < sharing ontologies
2021-04-17T21:45:12.000000Z	maybe that's my queasiness around emotional arguers: they share beliefs more than evidence, and nearly never models
2021-04-17T21:49:13.000000Z	the counterpoint would be that I'm already begging the question with that attitude, though.
2021-04-17T21:52:58.000000Z	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.
2021-04-17T22:03:49.000000Z	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.
2021-04-17T22:06:32.000000Z	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
2021-04-17T22:29:57.000000Z	Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.
2021-04-18T01:13:36.000000Z	every problem created by utilitarianism can be solved by more & purer utilitarianism
2021-04-18T13:31:12.000000Z	Maybe the difficulty of problems is pretty randomly distributed, but we write off the obviously impossible ones, and the very easy ones are plucked early, resulting in the impression that the universe is “shitty, but not hellish” for problem-solvers
2021-04-20T00:29:21.000000Z	my brain really likes accumulation.