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Mathematician.
May 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have a greater capacity for love than you think
May 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
From each according to their ability, to each according to the geometric mean of their ability and their need.
May 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Quick drawing I made a while ago illustrating the simulacra levels
May 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Normalize platonic co-sleeping!
May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
is emotional processing even teachable? It seems like extremely-difficult-to-convey tacit knowledge that isn't even generalizable in many cases.

Then again... somehow the jhanas get taught....
May 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Buridan's mind is the ass killer!
May 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Nah, it's not fear. Buridan's ass is the mind killer.
May 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
found systemd cafe, now where is grub cafe?
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Some good propaganda right there
You are not immune to propaganda.

#art
April 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Tired: the lens that sees its own flaws

Wired: the mask that knows itself to be a mask
April 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
These days whenever I read Yudposts, I replace all instances of "human" with "Eliezer Yudkowsky".

"A human's guide to words" -> "Eliezer Yudkowsky's guide to words"

"human values" -> "Eliezer Yudkowsky's values"

etc.
April 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Unsong!Uriel: I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU TO MAXIMIZE SHRIMP WELFARE AND PREVENT EXISTENTIAL RISK. WHY ARE YOU NOT MAXIMIZING SHRIMP WELFARE AND PREVENTING EXISTENTIAL RISK.
December 14, 2024 at 8:06 AM
> 237 todo list items
> do one
> while doing it, think of 3 ways to make it more efficient
> add them all to my todo list
> 239 todo list items

My todo list is becoming a supertask! Do any of y'all know how to solve this problem?
December 12, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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The goalposts are now on an completely different field
December 8, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Category theory is formal study of tropes in mathematics, and how they relate with one another.

ncatlab is the mathematician's tvtropes.
December 10, 2024 at 6:43 AM
I'll go further and claim: Almost all conscious social/public-image optimization done by EA was a mistake.

(strong opinion, weakly held)
in retrospect i think the weirdness points post might've been the most damaging rationalist/EA strategy post of all time. we ended up optimizing for respectability at a time when the meta was rewarding boldness
December 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM