This is pretty cool. A small complaint about the post itself is that it does not explain what Squiggle is so I had to look around in your website to understand why this Squiggle language that I have never heard of is used.

The most obvious thing is that I post things out when I want people to see it, and LW/Twitter is mostly about how serious I want to be.

I don't really. Idea get revisited when I stumble on it again, but I rarely try to plan and focus on some ideas without external stimulation.

The rules are not completely consistent over time though, also it is just not articulatable in 1 minute of effort lol. I'm sure I can explain 80% of the internal rule with effort

Obsidian/LW Shortforms/Twitter for slightly different types of ideas, can't articulate the difference though

Don't really want to touch the packages, but just setting the EVALS_THREADS environmental variable worked

Tried running but I got [eval.py:233] Running in threaded mode with 10 threads! which makes it unplayable for me (because it is trying to make me to 10 tests alternating

Wealth $10k, risk 50% on $9999 loss, recommends insure for $9900 premium.

The math is correct if you're trying to optimize log(Wealth). log(10000)=4 and log(1)=0 so the mean is log(100)=2. This model assumes going bankrupt is infinitely bad, which is not accurate of an assumption, but it is not a bug.

You can still nominate posts until Dec 14th?

Thought about community summaries a very little bit too, with the current LW UI, I envision that the most likely way to achieve this is to

1. Write a distillation comment instead of post
2. Quote the first sentence of the sequences post so that it could show up on the side at the top

3. Wait for the LW team to make this setting persistent so people can choose Show All

   

There is also the issue of things only being partially orderable.

When I was recently celebrating something, I was asked to share my favorite memory. I realized I didn't have one. Then (since I have been studying Naive Set Theory a LOT), I got tetris-effected and as soon as I heard the words "I don't have a favorite" come out of my mouth, I realized that favorite memories (and in fact favorite lots of other things) are partially ordered sets. Some elements are strictly better than others but not all elements are comparable (in other words, the set of all memories ordered by favorite does not have a single maximal element). This gives me a nice framing to think about favorites in the future and shows that I'm generalizing what I'm learning by studying math which is also nice!

- Jacob G-W in his shortform