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1. The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance: Introduction
Antoine de Scorraille1mo00

Just skimmed the post. Seems your notion of "unawareness" shares a cluster alongside with Knightian uncertainty and non-realizability in decision and learning theory.

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The Value Proposition of Romantic Relationships
Antoine de Scorraille1mo50

Both insightful and somewhat surprising it wasn't that obvious to you. I really like the search and the frame sexual/romantic/intimate[1].

Amusingly, it seems to me the umbrella term to name "The Thing" is... Trust. This post seems to answer your confusion about the concept of Trust (socially intended), two years ago. 

  1. ^

    Maybe it's because I'm French, but I don't think "intimacy" is that confusing. 

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Intellectual lifehacks repo
Antoine de Scorraille5mo*10

On a quick search, I couldn't find such a repo. I agree that this is/was the heart of Lesswrong, but what I'm aiming for is more specific than ‘any cool intellectual thing’. A lot of LW's posts are about contrarian viewpoints, or very particular topics. I'm looking for well-known but surprising stuff, to develop common knowledge.

Should feel like: ‘OMG, everyone should know [INSERT YOUR TRICK]’

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Minimalist And Maximalist Type Systems
Antoine de Scorraille1y*5-2

Thanks for these last three posts!

Just sharing some vibe I've got from your.. framing! 
Minimalism ~ path ~ inside-focused ~ the signal/reward 
Maximalism ~ destination ~ outside-focused ~ the world

These two opposing aesthetics is a well-known confusing bit within agent foundation style research. The classical way to model an agent is to think as it is maximizing outside world variables. Conversely, we can think about minimization ~ inside-focused (reward hacking type error) as a drug addict accomplishing "nothing"

Feels there is also something to say with dopamine vs serotonine/homeostasis, even with deontology vs consequentialism, and I guess these two clumsy clusters mirrors each other in some way (feels isomorph by reverse signe function). Will rethink about it for now.

As an aside note: I'm French too, and was surprised I'm supposed to yuck maximalist aesthetic, but indeed it's consistent with my reaction reading you about TypeScript, also with my K-type brain.. Anecdotally, not with my love for spicy/rich foods ^^'

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Secondary forces of debt
Antoine de Scorraille1y20

Oh. As I read those first lines, I thought, "Isn't it obvious?!!! How the hell did the author not notice that at like, 5 years old?" I mean, it's such a common plot in fiction. And paradoxically, I thought I wasn't good at knowing social dynamics. But maybe that's an exception: I have a really good track record at guessing werewolves in the werewolf game. So maybe I'm just good at theory (very relevant to this game) but still bad at reading people.

The idea of applying it to wealth is interesting, though.

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Summary: Surreal Decisions
Antoine de Scorraille1y10

Me too :) But I then realized it's not any "game", but the combinatorial ones.

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Average utilitarianism is non-local
Antoine de Scorraille1y-20

This.

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Sum-threshold attacks
Antoine de Scorraille1y30

Excellent post! I think it's closely related to (but not reducible to) to the general concept of Pressure. Both pressure as

  • the physical definition (which is, indeed, a sum of many micro forces on a frontier surface, but able to affect at macroscale the whole object).
  • the metaphorical common use of it (social pressure etc): see the post.
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Sum-threshold attacks
Antoine de Scorraille1y10

It's not about bad intentions in most practical cases, but about biases. Hanlon's razor doesn't apply (or, very weakly) to systemic issues.

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Game Theory without Argmax [Part 1]
Antoine de Scorraille2y20

It's fixed ;)

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