outlining is specialized work which reduces a text to complete summary statements and collapsed detail. an outline containing a work sprint. note the collapsed points in the 'old sprints' which hide all the old sprint detail. outlining is historically recent, since particular digital interfaces (such as Workflowy, Org Mode, Dynalist...
even if you're immortal, you have a countable infinity of time, but every choice you make leads to an uncountable infinity of possibility. you may have an infinity of breakfasts, but you still have to choose what to eat for each one. you can choose to dedicate your life to...
Anyone remember a series of quick shorts posted by alexander scott (i think?) which includes a nation which includes prediction markets in its political process and a dictator takes over by opening a market that he will become the dictator in the next election cycle?
It's been 15 years. Did you figure out how to be less scared?
The solution isn't trying harder to be liked. It's expanding your comfort with being disliked.
Social anxiety is an optimal response when there is a scarcity of other people to interact with. If you are meeting new 100 people every day, it doesn't matter if 99 people dislike you, so long as you get another 100 new people tomorrow; because as long as you keep playing you will continue to gather people who like you.
If your total count of people to interact with is very small, then it suddenly becomes incredibly important to be not disliked, because you will quickly exhaust all your social prospects and be disliked by everyone.
I recently heard that thinking out loud is an important way for people to build trust (not just for LLMs) and this has helped me become more vocal. It has unfortunately not helped me become more correct, but I'm betting the tradeoff will be net positive in the long run.
go find people who are better than you by a lot. one way to quickly do this is to join some sort of physical exercise class e.g. running, climbing etc. there will be lots of people who are better than you. you will feel smaller.
or you could read research papers. or watch a movie with real life actors who are really good at acting.
you will then figure out, as @Algon has mentioned in the comments, that the narcissism is load-bearing, and have to deal with that. which is a lot more scary
game-theory-trust is built through expectation of reward from future cooperative scenarios. it is difficult to build this when you 'dont actually know who or how many people you might be talking to'.
I did see the XKCD and I agree haha, I just thought your phrasing implied 'optimize everything (indiscriminately)'.
When I say caching I mean retaining intermediate results and tools if the cost to do so is near free.
Nice. So something like grabbing a copy of swebench dataset, writing a pipeline that would solve those issues, then putting that on your CV?
I will say though that your value as an employee is not 'producing software' so much as solving business problems. How much conviction do you have that producing software marginally faster using AI will improve your value to your firm?
so you want to build a library containing all human writings + an AI librarian.
I think what we have right now ("LLM assistants that are to-the-point" and "libraries containing source text") serve distinct purposes and have distinct advantages and disadvantages.
LLM-assistants-that-are-to-the-point... (read more)
Superstimulus should be avoided because
outlining is specialized work which reduces a text to complete summary statements and collapsed detail.
outlining is historically recent, since particular digital interfaces (such as Workflowy, Org Mode, Dynalist or Ravel) make it orders of magnitude easier to reorganize and nest text.
good outlining is an act of service towards readers in an ever-more-complex world.
(family = aligned successors, in general.)
outlining includes hiding theatre from a work, and grouping, prioitizing and subcategorizing its statements, and results in a set of outline-headings... (read 822 more words →)
even if you're immortal, you have a countable infinity of time, but every choice you make leads to an uncountable infinity of possibility. you may have an infinity of breakfasts, but you still have to choose what to eat for each one. you can choose to dedicate your life to every possible variant of chocolate, but it will still be a choice against everything else.
even if you're immortal, she still won't spend time with you, even if she has immortality as well, because she has an infinite number of other people she could be spending her time with.
even if you're immortal, you'll still live in a society: you are still a single... (read 180 more words →)
we will never have a wealth tax because pirate games, so marry the rich v2
original: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G5qjrfvBb7wszBgWG/daijin-s-shortform?commentId=4b4cDSKxfdxGw4vBH
1. why have a wealth tax?
we should tax unearned wealth because the presence of unearned wealth disincentivises workers who would otherwise contribute to society. when we tax unearned wealth, the remaining wealthy people are people who have earned their wealth; and so we send a signal 'the best way for you to be privately wealthy is for your work to align with public utility maximisation' which privately incentivises work which helps increase utility.
unearned wealth includes: hereditary wealth, wealth due to being at the right place at the right time (you just so happened to buy a tract... (read more)
we will never have a wealth tax because pirate games.
why have a wealth tax? excess wealth is correlated with monopolies which are a failure to maximise utility. therefore wealth taxes would help increase total utility. monopolies include but are not limited to family wealth, natural monopolies, social network monopolies.
however, suppose a whole bunch of us got together and demanded that wealthy oligarchs pay a wealth tax. the wealthy oligarchs could instead take a small amount of money and bribe 51% of us to defect, while keeping their money piles.
therefore we will never have a wealth tax.
what to do instead? marry rich
has this been considered before?
A small govt argument for UBI is 'UBI is paying people to take care of themselves, rather than letting the government take care of people inefficiently'.
The sequences can be distilled down even further into a few sentences per article.
Starting with "The lens that sees its flaws": this distils down to: "The ability to apply science to our own thinking grants us the ability to counteract our own biases, which can be powerful." Statement by statement:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n5TqCuizyJDfAPjkr/the-baby-eating-aliens-1-8
There's an alien race in the above called the baby-eaters who eat their sentient offspring because this alien species is genetically unfortunate enough to produce thousands of immediately-sentient offspring at a time, and therefore they must cull their offspring.
More and more each day I think we are becoming like baby-eaters. Except of course we don't murder our offspring by directly consuming them.
What is murder? What is consumption? It is the reclaiming of productive resource and the denial of future growth. When a poor person, having lived through years of their life giving what little they must to society in order to survive, dies on the street, there is another person that has... (read more)