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Some ground rules:
This account is for playing with ideas with an eye towards the βlong view,β ideally focusing on questions which would be of interest even to cultures far removed from ours in time and space. In this narrow sense I donβt want this account to be βpoliticalβ. 1/
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itβs still correct to talk about β¨ The 21st Century β¨ with an air of mystery and apprehension. most of it hasnβt happened yet.
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GitHub: βThis diff is too important, so weβve hidden it from view.β
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5 Sep 2025
but there may be functional decision theorists !
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5 Sep 2025
those who canβt help but feel that something has been lost, as opposed to those who canβt help but feel that something has yet to be gained
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24 Aug 2025
the irreducible loss is a deeply mystical quantity
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11 Aug 2025
if I had been born in the 1940s I think one of the great disappointments of my life would have been finding out the truth about Venus. my impression is we really got like a 1st-percentile planet relative to what people were imagining at the time
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6 Aug 2025
Personality Quiz: What Axis Are You Sharded Along?
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5 Aug 2025
if you think youβve discovered a dispassionate mathematical formalism which explains and justifies some common-sense feature of human sociality, you ought to be able to translate insights from that system *back* into common-sense language, making them vastly more intelligible.
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4 Aug 2025
the Pet Shop Boysβ βThe Dictator Decidesβ is an interesting example of a song thatβs straightforwardly, unashamedly, successfully about something other than one of the Usual Topics
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31 Mar 2021
the world produces about 14 million years of human experience each day
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29 Jul 2025
A single calendar year in 2025 βcontainsβ more human life than a year in 100,000 BCE, simply because todayβs population is thousands of times larger.
The graphic divides history into ten equal βblocksβ of experience: each block represents 170 billion people-years.
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19 Jul 2025
is a lens an information processing device?
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mu
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66 votes β’ Final results
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π Observer of Suns retweeted
17 Jul 2025
Digression: Dean is literally editing something worth billions of market cap to GOOG on google docs, and everyone is (correctly!) very implicitly certain that they don't need to worry about GOOG peeking at it.
This is a genuine, important thing our society has achieved.
17 Jul 2025
my transition from human to google doc is now complete
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π Observer of Suns retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Well, I'd like to see ol' neural networks wriggle their way out of THIS unsolvable problem!
*two months elapse, and neural networks wriggle their way out of the problem easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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π Observer of Suns retweeted
5 Jul 2022
Me: It is self-evident that while fully-differentiable methods work on several problems, some domains are only amenable to explicitly symbolic reasoning, and so they cannot-
Google: [passing full-on maths exams with curve-fitting]
Me: Well, nevertheless.
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17 Jul 2025
Well, Iβd like to see deep learning wriggle its way out of THIS jam!
*deep learning wriggles its way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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17 Jul 2025
I couldβve sworn I remembered seeing this posted somewhere already but couldnβt find any trace of it after many twitter searches. apologies to the plagiarizee.
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