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Female sexual attractiveness seems more egalitarian than people acknowledge
Ruby15h42

I'm curious if they persist in seeming that way. I've realized that for me there are people who felt that for a slice of time, but later didn't, for no clear reason.

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Ruby's Quick Takes
Ruby12d20

Six years ago we introduced Shortform (later renamed Quick Takes) to LessWrong. Here's a meme-format thing we made at the time. How do people reckon it's gone? h/t @Raemon 

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Ruby19d42

Cheers! I think we've thought about this but I'll raise with the team again.

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Ruby's Quick Takes
Ruby21d81

Reading A Self-Dialogue on The Value Proposition of Romantic Relationships, had the following thought: 

There's often a "proposition" and separately "implications of the proposition". People often deny a proposition in order to avoid the implications, e.g. Bucket Errors 

I wonder how much "you're perfect as you are" is an instance. People need to say or believe this to avoid some implication, but if you could just avoid the implication it would be okay to be imperfect.

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AnnaJo's Shortform
Ruby24d61

Not having played this side of it so can't say I've tried this, but I'd try putting something in your bio that solicits useful filtering info at the start, like "if you ping me or we match, please start by telling me/answering...", and try to find a prompt there that's informative for what you're looking for. It might be as dumb as reading comprehension or more like "what kind of relationship are you hoping for?" or "life values". But I would iterate on it. An unintuitive thing to do would be then to also proceed further with people who give answers you don't like much, to see if you're getting false negatives because the early screen is bad.

Another idea is to put in your bio stuff that matters to/about you (that's important) but would dissuade suitors and let them filter themselves out earlier.

My personal favorite filter is writing though. You might not get many takers but "link to me to your blog" is a way to get a lot more info about someone.

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Ruby24d20

I just coded a fix for this, will get deployed soon.

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Saying Goodbye
Ruby1mo1913

I applaud you taking this seriously and saying the hard critical things. It is concerning and I do worry about the sign of everything we do.

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Sodium's Shortform
Ruby1mo73

I think there might exist people who feel that way (e.g. reactors above) but Yudkowsky/Soares, the most prominent doomers (?), are on the record saying they think alignment is in principle possible, e.g. opening paragraphs of List of Lethalities. It feels like a disingenuous strawman to me for Dario to dismiss doomers with.

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LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta]
Ruby1mo20

Ah yeah, that's pretty silly (the cards are randomly sampled currently so just silly luck to have them ordered like this).

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LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta]
Ruby1mo20

Huh, I never scroll that way but I see what you mean. I'll see what I can do.



Yeah, frontend web development is a lot like this. The current AIs are both stateless, already mad, and seemingly indefatigable though get a bit loopy the longer the conversation goes on. You feed them $$ and sanity points and problems get solved faster, hopefully. There's sometimes sanity saved when debugging something gnarly, but in the regular course of things you (or at least I) am spending mine down. (It doesn't matter how many times I ask it not to, Claude Opus 4 will revert to saying "you're absolutely right!" about everything.) Move over autistic savant, we got alzheimers savant now.

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55The Sixteen Kinds of Intimacy
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53LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta]
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48A collection of approaches to confronting doom, and my thoughts on them
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84A Slow Guide to Confronting Doom
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207Eliezer's Lost Alignment Articles / The Arbital Sequence
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281Arbital has been imported to LessWrong
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43Which LessWrong/Alignment topics would you like to be tutored in? [Poll]
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49How do we know that "good research" is good? (aka "direct evaluation" vs "eigen-evaluation")
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68Friendship is transactional, unconditional friendship is insurance
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