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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT5MX8jK9tHiBM5NK/re-taste

A random walk, in retrospect, looks like like directional movement at a speed of √n.

No it doesn't, you fools, you absolute rubes

If you consider your normative values to be true, then everything looks like progress.

wat

Scott Alexander was a founding though-leader behind the Lightcone salon.

Your future region of the spacetime diagram is inside a locker, nerd

https://xcancel.com/tsarnick/status/1882927003508359242

Eliezer Yudkowsky says he would like to be a post-human some day, but the way to get there is by experimenting on augmenting biological intelligence through adult gene therapy targeting the human brain with suicide volunteers who may end up schizophrenic rather than taking a "leap of death" into unconstrained AI development

(found via flipping through LW for sneerable posts/comments)

A relevant earlier thread

And I'm sure that your snide remark will both tell them what to simplify and explain how to do so.

Enjoy your free trip to the egress.

Ick.

I mean, no, not really? "New AI is not as energy-efficient as first advertised" is just a special case of "AI is not as advertised", i.e., the least surprising turn of events.

I don't think the Scholastic Book Fair ever gave its blessing to the Star Trek Voyager tie-in novel where a derelict starship is the centerpiece of a battle between alien races-of-the-week that has raged for generations and stripped the metal from all the habitable planets in the sector. The derelict is from the species of the "this is tranya, I hope you relish it as much as I" guy played by Ron Howard's brother.

It's true: The sneerclub mod interface is a replica of the mummification machine from Young Sherlock Holmes, and when we ban people, we actually drown them in wax.

It only works with the chanting, of course.

Given the ... calibre of thinking on display in his other tweets (xharts?), I wouldn't be surprised if he just typed "Zizians" into Reddit's search box; /r/sneerclub currently comes up a few times near the top of results there.

There was one where Tom Swift and his spaceship pals landed on a planet ruled by robots, and the surviving organic people were hiding out as refugees in the jungle, and the robots wanted to make Tom's friend Anita subservient to her cybernetic leg... I think?

second warning: an xcancel search for "zizians" turns up so much transphobia that you'll feel like it's a late night on the Nebuchadnezzar and Tank accidentally loaded your brain with JK Rowling instead of kung fu.

Here's one that an xcancel search turned up (warning: is in Andy Ngo's replies)

Link to previous thread so it's less likely to get lost

Imagine the confusion that I experienced because I did not have the Internet to explain to me that there were the original Tom Swift books, the Tom Swift Jr books, the Tom Swift in space books and then the Tom Swift Jr but now it's the 1990's books. That last series had two crossover novels with the Hardy Boys, one about time travel and the other about aliens.

Demonstrating once again that Twitter is the damp locker-room floor of ideas.

Did you ever read Mad Mazes by Robert Abbott? That was a book of 20 mazes that were practically lessons in graph theory. I remember one involved navigating a public transit map where you could make free transfers of the same type (bus to bus or train to train) or to the same color (e.g., a red bus line to a red train line). Another involved using a die to mark your position on a grid; you could only move to a square if tilting the die over in that direction brought the number printed on the square to the top of the die.

I also grew up with some sumptuously illustrated science books, like Roy A. Gallant's National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, and the Eyewitness Science series. And everything I could find by David Macaulay.

Do the Zizians fit in the "rationalist/EA/risk community"? Gosh and golly gee.

Yuddites and Zizians are a better example of the "narcissism of small differences" than any of the ones that Siskind propped up.

From the comments:

Sounds like it could be the plot of a mystery novel akin to JK Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series.

The author is very much that type of guy:

Florida Man. Individualist. Free minds and free markets. Distrustful of ideologies, whether left or right.

Kelsey Piper bluechecks thusly:

James Damore was egregiously wronged.