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live in montreal, relationship anarchist,  effective altruist, aspiring rationalist.
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email: nicolas.m.lacombe@gmail.com

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ACX Montreal meetup - June 21st @1PM
nick lacombe2mo10

now we're sitting outside near but not in the wooden terrace

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ACX Montreal meetup - June 21st @1PM
nick lacombe2mo30

right now we are sitting inside on the ground floor.

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ACX Montreal meetup - June 21st @1PM
nick lacombe3mo30

i will pay cad 10 to anyone wearing a wreath on their head at this meetup.

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Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth
nick lacombe3mo30

the model still needs to be smart enough to orchestrate and combine the output of its recursive children into something that converges on a coherent goal.

i really like the post though, i think it does show a more detailed view of how a non agentic program can become more than the sum of it's parts by using recursion and data storage.

i wish the post would have been shorter though, i feel like it repeat itself often and could have been summarized better at the start.

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Why is lesswrong blocking wget and curl (scrape)?
nick lacombe7mo10

greaterwrong is a website with the same content as lesswrong but different look, it gets its content from the lesswrong website. it's basically just a different way to access the same posts.

lesswrong has a graphql api, which is probably the best way to read and dump posts on, if you rate limit conservatively. but that means some programming involved.

to just have a quick dump of everything it's probably best to use wget on greaterwrong with rate limiting. email admin@greaterwrong.com before doing so to make sure you do it in a way they approve of.

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(The Right to) Sex
nick lacombe8mo10

Coda numbers [...]

what are coda numbers?

[...] featuring our hometown hero Robin Hanson [...]

wait, is hanson from kw?

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"Starry Night" Solstice Cookies
nick lacombe8mo30

thanks a lot for this recipe! people loved the cookies in montreal's 2024 solstice :) and they were person-who-doesnt-really-cook friendly :P

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"Starry Night" Solstice Cookies
nick lacombe8mo10

i followed the recipe and made ~12 cookies. some of them were pretty big so the recipe calls for ~15 cookies id say.

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"Starry Night" Solstice Cookies
nick lacombe8mo10

@maia : how many cookies does that make? (this info should probably be in the post)

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"Starry Night" Solstice Cookies
nick lacombe8mo30

@dspeyer : we were talking about food invented specifically for rationalist rituals at the megameetup, does this count?

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