what I’m looking for in a community is people who take rat/EA ideas as given, and “yes and” them by talking about feelings with a non-berkeley-rationalist-dialect. “tpot” feels frustrating to me because it used to be close to this and now isn’t. I just want a name for this

refusing to play botc is a decision theoretic threat and I do not respect it

how funny would it be if the CA actually had a totally fine procedure for generating random numbers but they just got super unlucky

the problem is that other people try to replace due diligence with ingroup heuristics but they choose the wrong ingroup

there exist worlds that are actually just offense dominant and you probably don’t want to adopt a policy that burns those worlds down

okay you have to admit that choosing “4” as a reverse psychology style secret key worked out fairly well it took ages for people to guess it

Running another one of these November 1st; invited everyone from the partiful but let me know if you’ll be in Seattle and are interested in coming!

for an embarrassing amount of time I thought that Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Craig were the same person

one day fairlife will merge with Soylent and I’ll never have to worry about food again

if the government could actually optimize for your preferences better than you can, would you want them to?

the problem is that the promised defined benefits were set at a level that’s inconsistent with how much you paid in, given demographic changes. that’s a genuine moral error committed by the people making the promises, and we need to address that, but that doesn’t mean denying there was a promise

i think that it mostly does make sense to think of your social security checks as something you paid into as a first order approximation

saw a young child in the ferry building holding a stuffed shrimp the ea brainwashing in this city has to stop

what lies are you currently telling yourself about your motivations

in sf for a free day between two things; anything fun to do today?

can’t wait until after the singularity when we abolish social status

there are basically two possible futures at this point. either we’re all going to die of the future is going to be Good beyond our wildest imagination. the trick is to hold this duality in your head and not be driven insane by one side

the superposition hypothesis is controversial because it too is wordcels vs shape rotators

Who cares if nicks interp paper is correct the really important thing is that it has the right vibes