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You have a greater capacity for love than you think

From each according to their ability, to each according to the geometric mean of their ability and their need.

Quick drawing I made a while ago illustrating the simulacra levels

Normalize platonic co-sleeping!

is emotional processing even teachable? It seems like extremely-difficult-to-convey tacit knowledge that isn't even generalizable in many cases.

Then again... somehow the jhanas get taught....

Buridan's mind is the ass killer!

Nah, it's not fear. Buridan's ass is the mind killer.

found systemd cafe, now where is grub cafe?

Some good propaganda right there

Tired: the lens that sees its own flaws

Wired: the mask that knows itself to be a mask

These days whenever I read Yudposts, I replace all instances of "human" with "Eliezer Yudkowsky".

"A human's guide to words" -> "Eliezer Yudkowsky's guide to words"

"human values" -> "Eliezer Yudkowsky's values"

etc.

Unsong!Uriel: I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU TO MAXIMIZE SHRIMP WELFARE AND PREVENT EXISTENTIAL RISK. WHY ARE YOU NOT MAXIMIZING SHRIMP WELFARE AND PREVENTING EXISTENTIAL RISK.

> 237 todo list items
> do one
> while doing it, think of 3 ways to make it more efficient
> add them all to my todo list
> 239 todo list items

My todo list is becoming a supertask! Do any of y'all know how to solve this problem?

The goalposts are now on an completely different field

Category theory is formal study of tropes in mathematics, and how they relate with one another.

ncatlab is the mathematician's tvtropes.

I'll go further and claim: Almost all conscious social/public-image optimization done by EA was a mistake.

(strong opinion, weakly held)

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