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by sixo 2y ago
yeah. This post seems basically right, but it's not what most of the rest of the world means by "spirituality".
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by sixo 2y ago
Re website, The photography is also noticeably low-resolution, which stands out immediately
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by sixo 2y ago
This happens for at different ages for different people, and for particular individual reasons. It is a kind of dissociation: a "part" of you becomes emotionally stuck in the past, either because of trauma, or not making peace wit
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by sixo 2y ago
When I play chess I filter out all kinds of illegal moves. I also filter out bad moves. Human is more like "recursively thinking of ideas and then evaluating them with another part of your model", why not let the LLMs do the same?
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by sixo 2y ago
ha, got one. Yes it is pretty fun if you're in the right mental state for it , I've just seen so many EA-type rationalists out on the internet proliferating this worldview, and often pushing it on people who a) don't enjoy i
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by sixo 2y ago
> to make people question their moral beliefs instead of accepting their instinct Yes every genius 20 year old wants to break down other peoples' moral beliefs, because it's the most validating feeling in the world to change so
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by sixo 2y ago
> The teenager is making an implicit moral judgement, with themselves as the only moral patient. No they're not! You have made a claim of the form "these things are the same thing"—but it only seems that way if you can&#x2
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by sixo 2y ago
This is one of those arguments that you reach when you go in a certain direction for long enough, and you can divide people into two camps at this point by whether: * they triumphally declare victory--ethics is solved! We can finally Do The
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by sixo 2y ago
OP said: > It worked well, in my opinion at least, and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be" was just… insanely frustrating. .... Now in order to keep schools
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by sixo 2y ago
yeah, it's there, but I tend to think that "equity" is what people end up reaching for as a rationalization of the emotional need for uniformity / conformity / familiarity It sort of "fits" but it just doe
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by sixo 2y ago
Equity really isn't the ideology doing this, except in a few cases, it's something else. I'd speculate the dominant effect is that people tend to dislike and resist what they have a hard time imagining: there's a strong
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by sixo 2y ago
You hear about it a lot because it's real and happens constantly, esp in past decades
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by sixo 2y ago
you use the same units on both sides of the equation, it's fine, it's like counting "meters squared"
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by sixo 2y ago
sounds like you have something to say but can't be bothered to say it
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by sixo 2y ago
"Luanti"—a nice name!
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by sixo 2y ago
Advice for anyone reading the Iliad: read Simone Weil's essay "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" first [1]. The essay was a profound experience on its own for me, in a way that came as a great relief in a world which seemed to
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by sixo 2y ago
photos and email, sources of personalization data and AI training data are also part of the ad supply chain
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by sixo 2y ago
this post makes me think I could work at cloudflare, and also that I shouldn't
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by sixo 2y ago
a simple heuristic: does it make Google a boatload of money? if yes, it's safe
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by sixo 2y ago
well, "was selected-for over trillions of iterations", they said, "... by algorithms which were themselves selected-for" "randomly" makes it sounds like some kind of miracle!
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by sixo 2y ago
It's subtle and best learned with a good (expensive, unfortunately) teacher. It's worth it, even for just a few lessons.
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by sixo 2y ago
No they don't teach this, that's the problem! The exercises are good but the right technique is v different from what Hanon describes.
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by sixo 2y ago
God this grandiose prose style is insufferable. Calm down. Anyway, this doesn't even try to make the case that that equation is universal, only that "learning" is a general phenomena of living systems, which can be modeled pr
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by sixo 2y ago
Yeah, I tend to think conversations about evil elide the distinction between two kinds of "harm". The first is like pride or the devil or idolatry, the second like "material harm". The purpose of intelligence is to predi
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by sixo 2y ago
This could be expressed as "the devil is <anything> without love". The <anything> was a tool for doing good, or a heuristic approximation to Good, or a necessary defense against harm, but it becomes demonic when it is
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by sixo 2y ago
Respect is earned, not given, and if it has to be demanded it is not deserved.
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by sixo 2y ago
That it's not required is the fun part, and really is necessary for it to be a good idea at all. See GK Chesterton: "Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, o
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by sixo 2y ago
There's a certain literary canon of "men of genius" and often Nabokov is recommended from this reference frame; people rightly react to its invocation. "Don't be terrified of Pale Fire" frames "Pale Fire&q
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by sixo 2y ago
Nothing? Something happens in the brain (and body) which is depression, at a lower level of abstraction. The world outside of the brain "causes" depression. Sometimes things inside the brain or body (ideas, beliefs, emotions) ca
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by sixo 2y ago
If SRO units weren't illegal, they could be simpler conversions, since full plumbing would only be needed in one central place per floor. See https://www.slowboring.com/p/legalize-housing-not-tent-encam...

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