skolemizer

Personally I decided many years ago to just split the difference and spend 50% of my charity budget on GiveWell and spend 50% on MIRI, and have stuck with that decision ever since; it seemed like the straightforward thing to do and still does.

CM: This is where we differ. Because you're doing a hypothetical. A brick falling on my head is not hypothetical.

I don't know what to say lmao. He is not thinking clearly. This is triggering my "I can fix him" reflex. (I think I'd back up and explain how one can know that playing the lottery is usually a bad idea, and how to recognize the rare cases where it isn't. He's not thinking in a quantitative way about uncertainty. Which is understandable, because it is a rather twisty idea — the idea that uncertainty, the absence of knowledge itself, can be quanti... (read more)

20 bucks says that the surreality quote ends up in the book lol. The transcript makes it sound like he perked up immediately there; he seemed waaaay more interested in that than your attempts to explain epistemology.

What I'm getting from this comment is your goal in relationships is to have as much sex as possible as fast as possible with as many women as possible? IMO, when you're writing advice articles, you should probably state explicitly that that's your goal, and you don't care for romance and such. Most men aren't in your target audience, after all.

My biggest update was... five hours!?!?

I mean... sorry for stating the obvious, but have you considered finding women that you really like spending time with? (The sex is way hotter that way too!) Correct me if I'm w... (read more)

I can see how this could be confusing, but in mathematics, the phrase "representation theorem" is not specifically about "representation theory". Wikipedia's definition is quite broad:

In mathematics, a representation theorem is a theorem that states that every abstract structure with certain properties is isomorphic to another (abstract or concrete) structure.

The list of examples it gives is probably more useful.

(Adding to the confusion: a famous example of a representation theorem is a corollary of Cayley's Theorem: for every group $G$$,$ there is a... (read more)

• Our Values are (roughly) the yumminess or yearning we feel when imagining something.
• Goodness is (roughly) whatever stuff the memes say one should value.

I do not think this matches my usage of the words "Human Values" or (especially) "Goodness" (nor of the usage of the rare intelligent people whose ethical judgement I trust). The concept of yumminess/yearning is relevant; the concept of popular assertions of what one oughts to yearn for is relevant. But I object to both of these rough definitions on the grounds that they miss many central aspects.

Concr... (read more)