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Huh, TIL.

Bostrom doesn't read much SF?

Will keep that in mind.

Thanks for the reminder! I've been meaning to fix the methodolgy and re-run the experiments.

"I'm glad I inspired you" would work.

Blimey.

Norvid_studies can start by making 2 million posts.

Don't leak those bits Abel! Norvid's trying to trick you.

I've been meaning to write this thread for a long time, and I'm fairly pleased with how it came out.

a monster outside the workings of the gods working together to slay him. He possessed courage, wits, humility, strength of purpose and the ineffable quality that only belongs to a true champion in spades. If he were alive, who could dare be a doomer?
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Now, you might wonder: what's this got to do with Washizu fixing geopolitics? Well, my dear reader, the point is that Washizu was the King of The World who brought Japan back from the ashes, undefeated by any man. To best him, it took the curse of old age and ...
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Nonetheless, he's the only one to have fought on equal terms with the inhuman Akagi. The gods revive him as a sign of his favour, and he immediately rushes to slay his unearthly nemesis, but Akagi departs, free to ruin on the frail folk of Earth once more.
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Context: Washizu, the Son of Heaven, faces the otherworldy demon Akagi in a Majhong deathmatch. Washizu pits his wits and mandate from heaven against Akagi's supernatural flow & insight. In spite of all Akagi's hax, Washizu has him on the ropes 'til Washizu's heart gives out.
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Threads that wouldn't exist but for the grace of the feed.

Lumenator RCT on myself: Increases some variables by a lot, reliably, especially the subjective length of day and happiness, but also contentment, relaxation, and horniness. Original reasoning for lumenators stands up. Does not improve productivity (surprising!) or creativity.

The problem with desire is that it gives you tunnel vision.

>Is Croissanthology lying
Before I answer in earnest, is this a real question or more of an elaborately contructed bait?

That is helpful! TY. I agree w/ the ultimate take by Alex, that AI will (probably) do to physics in 2026 what it did to coding in 2025.

Yeah, that's the tweet I was basing my claims off of.

TIL the moth-trapped-in-a-relay thing isn't the origin of the term "bug" as used in engineering, which has been around since the 19th century

Really? That would be pretty impressive. Do you remember which author?

A snapshot of a grad student, never able to acclimate more than a day's memories before getting reset.

Like a grad student, in other words.

It is somewhat impressive the AI could simplify things and then guess the formula AND prove it. So now physicists can collaborate with LLMs in the same way programmers can: do the "high level" thinking, breaking problems down into managable chunks, and then let the AI figure handle them.

AFAICT, most of the work here was done by humans who guessed some tree-level expressions should simplify in an exotic regime and have a nice formuala. (I don't understand why the simplification couldn't be done by Mathematica.)

Pretty much. While it doesn't quite sit right to me, it's (amongst) my best guesses for what's going on. (Note that best!= good.)

Oh, I agree. UAPs do seem odd and I don't have a satisfying explanation for them. Ultimately, I'd guess it is like ball lightning thing: it sounded totally crazy, no one wanted to talk about it, but turned out to be a strange and novel phenomena that didn't re-write our basic conception of reality.

I'm sure I've told you about the time aliens downloaded my mind

Since it happened at night when I was sleeping, alternate hypotheses do tend to suggest themselves...

But if we get a bet winning aliens disclosure, my p("that actually happened") goes way up

Certainly, I've obsessed over model violations often enough, such as encountering some uncomfortable bit of religious lore back in my theistic days. I imagine if I had a manic episode while I was obsessing, I'd have experienced something like what you described.

Also, that does sound pretty intense. How come you were affected so strongly by the nimitz encounters?