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priestess and paladin of Iomedae. Utopian.
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2021
what I’m looking for in a community is people who take rat/EA ideas as given, and “yes and” them by talking about feelings with a non-berkeley-rationalist-dialect. “tpot” feels frustrating to me because it used to be close to this and .now isn’t. I just want a name for this.
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i think lots of criticisms of effective altruism suffer from bad empirics about what the actual behavior of people who identify as effective altruists is.
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alternative hypothesis is that meta keeps increasing salaries and selects for people who are good at AI and who value money linearly and becomes the new EA hub.
Assuming people are rationalish + realize that the benefits of money are diminishing (a $100M offer is not 10x as good as $10M), winning the AI talent war entirely with big offers is not scalable. There needs to be something else - culture, colleagues, compute per capita, etc.
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reading large amounts of glowfic is the best way to make important life decisions, right? right?.
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I kinda feel like we missed our window to create some commonly-known pronoun signifiers that are better aesthetically than pronoun pins. Something like “if you wear an accessory with this specific shade of green your pronouns are she/her”.
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you should strive to have a relationship so illegible that a couples therapist can’t help you.
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moved to Seattle right after college during Covid and attributed everything to “making friends as an adult is hard”; I am slowly coming around to “this city is not normal”.
Seattle is a coworker city. You don't have friends or social relations. you just go out to drinks with your co-workers from Big Corp and then you watch streaming video at home. The city is not a main character in anything.
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shout out to the (c*s) electrologist who put on an extended lecture from Dr Will Powers on optimal transfem hormone regimen from which I learned a lot. sweet old lady.
had a really rough electrolysis session. physically it was fine, it was just that the electrologist put on the audiobook of crime and punishment, and we listened to the part where raskolnikov dreams vividly of a horse being beaten to death by a callous, sadistic crowd.
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it’s going to be so funny if the liberal bias in the pretraining prior is so strong that trying to train a conservative model emergent-misalignments us into an existential catastrophe. total “bias of AI models is the real problem” victory.
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the problem with all the FIRE calculators is that they don’t take anthropic effects into account. youre only looking at these calculators because you live in a country that’s experienced 70 years of consistent stock market growth.
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to my knowledge I’ve never been blocked by anyone on this site. skill issue.
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guilt/shame is not instrumentally useful in the global optima. at its best it’s how different parts of you engage in negative sum conflict. and if you internalize this you will be both happier and more effective at your altruistic goals.
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game theorist making small talk at a party: “my strategy is chit-for-chat”.
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[vague unsong spoilers]. unsong is so great because it’sa bunch of silly whale puns wrapped around the single greatest act of sacrifice I’ve ever seen depicted in fiction.
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dont get me wrong i do appreciate the representation but it does feel a bit anachronistic that game of thrones featured a trans woman who was really into effective altruism.
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i want to make a prediction markets on my life decisions and make my friends bet on it when they give me advice. not to aggregate information. because I strongly believe that friends who give bad advice should be financially punished for it.
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it’s a common misconception that big lab employees are all under NDAs. In reality, they’re just socially awkward and it’s a great excuse for not talking about your job.
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so much of the desire for RCV is voting as a form of self expression. that’s why the optimal voting system is proportional nationwide representation plus a comment box where voters can write freeform comments.
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