I suspect there's a general problem where intellectual communities never discuss the stuff that's locally uncontroversial or obvious, that's passe and the fact that you find it worthy of discussion marks you out as a newbie. This dynamic impedes dissemination of knowledge that's taken for granted
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I suspect there's a general problem where intellectual communities never discuss the stuff that's locally uncontroversial or obvious, that's passe and the fact that you find it worthy of discussion marks you out as a newbie. This dynamic impedes dissemination of knowledge that's taken for granted
Rats and rat-adjacents should really be stating the obvious more often, there's still a big backlog of ideas that need to be pumped into the water supply
The ideological purity signalling incentives for leftists require them to put more energy into distancing themselves from liberals, their outgroup, who they actually encounter and might be mistaken for, rather than MAGA, the abstract seeming fargroup who rarely appears in their filter bubbles
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Rats and rat-adjacents should really be stating the obvious more often, there's still a big backlog of ideas that need to be pumped into the water supply
The ideological purity signalling incentives for leftists require them to put more energy into distancing themselves from liberals, their outgroup, who they actually encounter and might be mistaken for, rather than MAGA, the abstract seeming fargroup who rarely appears in their filter bubbles
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The ideological purity signalling incentives for leftists require them to put more energy into distancing themselves from liberals, their outgroup, who they actually encounter and might be mistaken for, rather than MAGA, the abstract seeming fargroup who rarely appears in their filter bubbles
Greg Brockman is a scumbag. No excuse for funding wannabe dictators. It's such a bummer seeing OAI employees, many of whom I respect, complicit in this. I get that there are rationalisations, and it's hard to swim against the current of your social environment, but it's real banality of evil shit
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Greg Brockman is a scumbag. No excuse for funding wannabe dictators. It's such a bummer seeing OAI employees, many of whom I respect, complicit in this. I get that there are rationalisations, and it's hard to swim against the current of your social environment, but it's real banality of evil shit
Mitch Hedburg died in 2005, one year before twitter was founded
February 16, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Mitch Hedburg died in 2005, one year before twitter was founded
religion is fantastic at building communities of the sort of people I don't particularly want to be in a community with
February 16, 2026 at 4:39 AM
religion is fantastic at building communities of the sort of people I don't particularly want to be in a community with
Lots of people when making bets offer favourable odds to their opponent in order to represent their credence faithfully and maybe show off their epistemics, but from a selfish perspective it makes more sense to treat it as a negotiation and offer even odds as a starting point
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Lots of people when making bets offer favourable odds to their opponent in order to represent their credence faithfully and maybe show off their epistemics, but from a selfish perspective it makes more sense to treat it as a negotiation and offer even odds as a starting point
Whenever a meme reaction image becomes uncool and falls into disuse, a very specific idea becomes inexpressible, and our communication is made poorer
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Whenever a meme reaction image becomes uncool and falls into disuse, a very specific idea becomes inexpressible, and our communication is made poorer
On a person affecting view, you should care about future generations because many existing people care about future generations
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
On a person affecting view, you should care about future generations because many existing people care about future generations
The thing that most viscerally makes me believe real borderline magical artificial superintelligence is possible is watching Dan from The Slow Mo Guys getting hit in the face with a soccer ball, his neurons firing so slowly at this speed that he seems practically braindead
February 14, 2026 at 3:21 AM
The thing that most viscerally makes me believe real borderline magical artificial superintelligence is possible is watching Dan from The Slow Mo Guys getting hit in the face with a soccer ball, his neurons firing so slowly at this speed that he seems practically braindead
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well... but perhaps equal and oppositely, a sort of marriage vows of tarski, "that marriage which can be destroyed by a game of monopoly, should be"
February 14, 2026 at 3:06 AM
well... but perhaps equal and oppositely, a sort of marriage vows of tarski, "that marriage which can be destroyed by a game of monopoly, should be"
Explain why I'm wrong: Newsom isn't a viable candidate not because he has insufficient leftist bona fides, but almost the opposite: people hate coastal elites, coastal elites live in california, and he's the governor of california
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Explain why I'm wrong: Newsom isn't a viable candidate not because he has insufficient leftist bona fides, but almost the opposite: people hate coastal elites, coastal elites live in california, and he's the governor of california
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A lot of bad ideas come from misinterpreting the scope and implications of airtight theorems
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
A lot of bad ideas come from misinterpreting the scope and implications of airtight theorems
Is the FTC just full of morons?
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Is the FTC just full of morons?
Saw marty supreme, it was excellent. Tyler the creator was great in it.
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Saw marty supreme, it was excellent. Tyler the creator was great in it.
what joker decided we're going to spell "absorption" with a 'p'
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 AM
what joker decided we're going to spell "absorption" with a 'p'
thehill.com/homenews/med...
I want a prediction market on whether this was caused by pressure from the Trump administration
I want a prediction market on whether this was caused by pressure from the Trump administration
thehill.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 AM
thehill.com/homenews/med...
I want a prediction market on whether this was caused by pressure from the Trump administration
I want a prediction market on whether this was caused by pressure from the Trump administration
Interesting that I've never seen a "trust the experts" debate wrt the "are LLMs intelligent" debate. There is genuine expertise to be had here, you need to know a bit about computer science to understand the full implications of turing completeness, the fact that NNs are arbitrary fn approximators
February 12, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Interesting that I've never seen a "trust the experts" debate wrt the "are LLMs intelligent" debate. There is genuine expertise to be had here, you need to know a bit about computer science to understand the full implications of turing completeness, the fact that NNs are arbitrary fn approximators
I need correlational studies between this and all opinions I don't like
February 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I need correlational studies between this and all opinions I don't like
Whoa, claude can ask multiple choice followup questions now. Cool feature
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Whoa, claude can ask multiple choice followup questions now. Cool feature
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Typing up my snarky bullshit fully before I hit the cancel button, for that tiny frisson of having gotten it out completely, without the irritating consequences of having made it available to others.
July 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Typing up my snarky bullshit fully before I hit the cancel button, for that tiny frisson of having gotten it out completely, without the irritating consequences of having made it available to others.
It's insane how deep the pro-death propaganda has sunk into culture. Every other movie has a villain whose selfish misguided unnatural quest for immortality was their undoing.
February 9, 2026 at 3:43 AM
It's insane how deep the pro-death propaganda has sunk into culture. Every other movie has a villain whose selfish misguided unnatural quest for immortality was their undoing.
Are there "economics communicators" in the same way there are science communicators? Who are the Neil Degrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll of econ?
February 8, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Are there "economics communicators" in the same way there are science communicators? Who are the Neil Degrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll of econ?
I feel like I don't have a good understanding of how unfair the billionaire borrowing against unrealised gains trick is, and what proportion of lost counterfactual tax revenue it represents
February 8, 2026 at 3:55 AM
I feel like I don't have a good understanding of how unfair the billionaire borrowing against unrealised gains trick is, and what proportion of lost counterfactual tax revenue it represents