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I think parts of the Frame Problem¹ can be used with Trammel-style fixed points in infinite regresses send bisk ¹: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_p...

"full-throated support for trans folk" can be either be a trivial consequence of advocating for morphological freedom, or a demand for endorsement of a specific gender ontology. Those two are often conflated.

More on how I ~don't have internet at home: niplav.site/notes#On_Hav...

Andrés Gomez Emilsson's EM field theory view predicts that strong [[magnets]] should have "psychedelic" effects?

Word for a good thing done out of ignorance (opposite, in some sense, of "mistake")?

Are the Szegedys an eminent family? Mario: Mathematics Christian: Machine learning Balázs: Mathematics

If Δ is for updating towards an interlocutor's position, then ∇ is for updating on multiple positions at the same time? Deep update/viewquake?

Friendship is owoptimal

cowonstrained owoptimization

Sleep paralysis=co-(lucid dreaming)

Blessings of scale, curses of dimensionality

Arriving in Prague and recognising a location from a Tom Torero video lmao

Besides being useful for the longest-lived computers, Dark matter could work as gravitational "glue" that other objects can pass right through

Lattice of poasters by follower inclusion

PUA blog called "Directed Panspermia"

Telling Claude to flatter me by saying "most judicious choice, sire"

Expanding on the @norvid-studies.bsky.social-referenced StarCraft mechanic of putting all "reported as jerks" players into the same game: 1. "Users who hated you also hated these users" 2. Simclustering based on being blocked/muted by the same people

Please recommend to me your favorite piece of long content¹ Rules: * Must've been worked on in public by the author for at least several months, better more * Authoritative or comprehensive about its subject (or aspires to that ideal) * No Gwern or Wikipedia ¹: gwern.net/about#long-c...