It’s also set to the tune of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling... , which has questionable lyrics like

“Them native maids, them tropical glades
Is a-waiting our return.
Even now their big brown eyes look out
Hoping some fine day to see
Our baggy sails runnin' 'fore the gales
Rolling down to old Maui”

Once the faculty was developed of simulating what a prey animal would have done, it could have been easily adapted to simulating what we ourselves would do in a given situation, which lines up with your description of the Active Self as predictions of what we would want to do.

The gist of the idea is that human ancestors seem to have adapted to chase prey over long distances. Part of that could have been tracking animals by figuring out what they would have done as they fled and guessing where they would have moved to, without relying on direct sight or smell as much.

That’s a fascinating series of posts! I hadn’t seen them before but will be checking them out.

I haven’t reproduced it here, but i had a thread on the pre-Musk Twitter theorizing that the development of your “Active Self” could have been an additional adaptation from persistence hunting.

Broke: Generative AI
Woke: Genital Alf

Sadly the most likely way this could change is by adding in involuntary interventions to the large commercial LLM hosting services.

Chat, is “retreat” the same as “surrender”?

They’re both abbreviations for Southern Comfort, right?

Yeah, absolutely. Buy everything in proportion to market value and hold it for the long term isn’t even a coherent concept here.

Derivatives are also bilateral and zero-sum, but it still makes sense to think of them as being a market with a certain size. No single metric is perfect, and the amount of outstanding notional value can be misleadingly high if the market participants are doing new trades that offset earlier trades.

One way to think to measure it is just in the outstanding notional value that’s committed. Like if someone puts money in now then they’re going to have it locked up for a while, and you can just count up the current value of locked up money.

They strike a good balance between anti-Trump activism, good policy work, and identifying the structural fixes that we can put in place to make a repeat of all of this less likely.

Yeah — the basic problem is that public preferences in America are just incoherent. If you want affordable, plentiful housing where everyone has a detached house with a lawn but can walk to a coffee shop five minutes away, you basically need large-scale spatial magic.

You really need something like proportional representation if you want to have a more reliable way to keep the Nazis from capturing one of the two parties in a FPTP country.

I think too that without an example like this it’s hard to motivate the changes to make backsliding harder next time. It’s one thing to theoretically know that a given reform would be better and another for it to actually get widespread support.

Bluesky: “I can’t wait for discovery!”

Ken: *eye begins to twitch more vigorously*