Jacob, or "Jisk" when there are too many Jacobs about and I need a nickname. Host of the North Oakland LW Meetups, every Tuesday.
Honestly pretty disappointed with the state of the modern LW site, but it's marginally better than other non-blogs so I'm still here.
It should be possible to easily find me from the username I use here, though not vice versa, for interview reasons.
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Could you please announce these further in advance? Especially given the reading required beforehand it's inconvenient and honestly seems a little inconsiderate.
That's a fascinating approach to characterization. What do you do, have the actors all read the appendix before they start rehearsals?
This is apparently from a play, Man and Superman, which I have never previously heard of, let alone read or seen. I suspect that, much like Oscar Wilde's plays, it is at least as much a vehicle for witty epigrams as it is an actual performance or plot.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw, epigram
(Inspired by part of Superintelligences will not spare Earth sunlight)
For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.
-- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, demonstrating the Virtue of The Void
The most potent way to sacrifice your life has always been to do so one day at a time.
-- BoneyM, Divided Loyalties
I currently slightly prefer an but that's pending further thought and discussion.
missing thought in the footnotes
We knew they were experimenting with synthetic data. We didn't know they were succeeding.
2Not sure whether to add these in, but a number of local Google calendars theoretically exist: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?cid=bayarearationality%40gmail.com&cid=f6qs8c387dhlounnbqg6lbv3b0%40group.calendar.google.com&cid=94j0drsqgj43nkekg8968b3uo4%40group.calendar.google.com&cid=8hq2d2indjps3vr64l96e9okt4%40group.calendar.google.com&cid=theberkeleyreach%40gmail.com
This includes Berkeley REACH (defunct), CFAR Public Events (defunct locally AFAIK), EA Events (superseded by Luma calendar?), LW Meetups (unknown but blank), and Rationalist/EA Social and Community Events (likewise)
...Oh, my mistake, it looked like they were posted a lot later than that and the ~skipped one made that look confirmed. Usually-a-week ahead is plenty of time and I'm sorry I said anything.