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I saw that too, but that's actually even worse on cache - the entire conversation is then a cache miss and needs to be loaded in in order to do the compaction. Then the resulting c…

> "Someone did a CoC violation" is just a way for an org to say "someone was an asshole [...]" Not even that, since so many CoCs are vague enough that someone unprincipled wielding…

That is true but requires some extra assumptions to explain why people don't keep losing weight - because the strongest influence on most people's appetite in the short run is how …

One thing I hear people say in places DST was abolished is that the late sunrises in winter are similarly depressing, and that this is something not really appreciated by those who…

I don't think you really understood my comment

I didn't say it did, I said they're aware of it. Also thought it was worth pointing out that the LW "weird label" predates the label in the comment I replied to.

I just mean that the existence of the human brain is proof that human-level intelligence is possible. Yes it took billions of years all said and done, but it shows that there are n…

> "recursive self improvement" does not imply "self improvement without bounds" Obviously not, but thinking that the bounds are going to lie in between where AI intelligence is now…

I think most in the rationality community (and otherwise in the know) would not say that IQ differences are almost entirely biological - I think they'd say they're about half genet…

Certainly something they're aware of - the same concept was discussed as early as in 2007 on Less Wrong under the name "evaporative cooling of group beliefs" https://www.lesswrong.…

I think you'll indeed find, if you were to seek out the relevant literature, that those claims are more or less true, or at least, are the currently best-supported interpretation a…

How do you reconcile e.g. AlphaGo with the idea that data is a bottleneck? At some point learning can occur with "self-play", and I believe this is already happening with LLMs to s…

Blocking people on Twitter doesn't necessarily imply intolerance of people who disagree with you. People often block for different reasons than disagreement.

Many specific studies on the matter don't replicate, I think the book preceded the replication crisis so this is to be expected, but I don't think that negates the core idea that o…

> The most powerful AI we have now is strictly hardware-dependent Of course that's the case and it always will be - the cutting edge is the cutting edge. But the best AI you can ru…

I'm surprised not see see much pushback on your point here, so I'll provide my own. We have an existence proof for intelligence that can improve AI: humans can do this right now. D…

I mean you have to admit that that's a bit of a kafkatrap

On the other hand, I'm baffled to encounter recursive self-improvement being discussed as something not only weird to expect, but as damning evidence of sloppy thinking by those wh…

Well, black-body radiation is still peaked around a certain range of wavelengths depending on the temperature, it's not just equal power at all wavelengths. Light visible to humans…

I thought it was mostly that those are the wavelengths output out by the sun. But I guess it could be both.

Andrew is mistaken, the paper he cites doesn't say that levitation is possible in a dipole field. Brauenbecker showed that diamagnetic levitation was possible at all (e.g. in a qua…

Here in Australia, the regulator requires banks to assess your ability to make repayments at an interest rate three percentage points higher than the actual rate. A few years ago i…

Yep. I just got diagnosed recently. Still figuring out the right dose of the right meds, but in the meantime it has become painfully obvious that a lot of discussion around product…

See also, manifold, for a play-money predictions site based more around market mechanisms: https://manifold.markets Both sites come out of the same sort of rationalist bay-area cir…

And in markdown you chuck them between backticks to indicate they're verbatim text to be rendered in monospace.