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Linear Diffusion of Sparse Lognormals: Causal Inference Against Scientism
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Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions
tailcalled12h20

This makes emotions subservient to rationality, but I think a lot of the people who complain about the rationalist approach to emotions instead see rationality as a system to generate compromises between emotions. From the latter perspective, the rationalist approach only really works with infinitesimal emotions.

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Screwtape's Shortform
tailcalled2d20

The main issue is, theories about how to run job interviews are developed in collaboration between businesses who need to hire people, theories on how to respond to court questions are developed in collaboration between gang members, etc.. While a business might not be disincentized from letting the non-hired employees better at negotiating, it is incentivized to teach other businesses ways of making their non-hired employees worse at negotiating.

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tailcalled4d10

Are you really gone claim that this is not a good post:

Thesis: Intellectuals are naturally attracted to poop because it is causally downstream of everything and so ends up having unusually high mutual information with everything, despite not causally influencing much (compared to e.g. food).

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Against Infrabayesianism
tailcalled4d20

Trying to obtain worst-case regret bounds.

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tailcalled5d22

Users of LessWrong, then

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I'm scared.
tailcalled7d20

I did well by taking care of myself and trying to help things progress.

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Problematic Professors
tailcalled10d20

Issue with judging the practitioners is that practicing it may be correlated with other things that are much more harmful. Like all the talk about how single parenthood is supposedly bad for you, but then it doesn't hold up to more careful scrutiny afaik.

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tailcalled13d-4-9

Autism is caused by not having access to those markets.

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-24Against Infrabayesianism
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31Knocking Down My AI Optimist Strawman
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13My Mental Model of AI Optimist Opinions
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23Evolution's selection target depends on your weighting
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43Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link
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12Binary encoding as a simple explicit construction for superposition
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11Rationalist Gnosticism
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32RLHF is the worst possible thing done when facing the alignment problem
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10Does life actually locally *increase* entropy?
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21Why I'm bearish on mechanistic interpretability: the shards are not in the network
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