adamisom

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adamisom 9 Oct 2025 17:58 UTC
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on: Salt Lake City – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2025
Due to chance of rain, this meetup location has moved to City Creek Food Court, southwest corner—still Sat Oct 11th 3:00pm

Salt Lake City – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2025

adamisom3 Sep 2025 22:16 UTC

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Salt Lake City – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2025

adamisom25 Mar 2025 23:50 UTC

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adamisom 21 Sep 2023 18:25 UTC
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in reply to: plex’s comment on: Rationality Cardinality
I messaged Jim on a different platform and he promptly replied:
You can get a zipfile of card images from https://carddb.rationalitycardinality.com/card/export/images
Woot! I haven’t done this before but my plan is to order cheap, fast card sleeves from amazon, and also cheap playing cards, regular-print the card images, and do sleeve ← card-image on top of playing-card (for backing)
There’s also this currently-defunct link to buy a nicer print version than that, maybe the link will be fixed when you read this, idk: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/rationality-cardinality-beta-6
What links here?
- HPMOR Anniversary Guide by Screwtape (22 Feb 2025 16:17 UTC; 63 points)

adamisom 14 Apr 2022 15:41 UTC
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in reply to: Algon’s comment on: Make a Movie Showing Alignment Failures
“I’d probably suggest writing a novel first.”

It blows my mind that nobody (?) has written a sci-fi novel on alignment yet.

adamisom 11 Jul 2017 20:48 UTC
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in reply to: username2’s comment on: Against lone wolf self-improvement

Working with others in a shared environment with scientific ground rules ensures that your biases and their biases form a non intersecting set

I liked your first point but come on here.

adamisom 1 Jul 2015 16:46 UTC
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on: Rationality Quotes Thread July 2015
Lack of curiosity made people lose money to Madoff. This you already know—people did not due their due diligence.

Here’s what Bienes, a partner of Madoff’s who passed clients to him, said to the PBS interviewer for The Madoff Affair (before the 10 minute mark) when asked how he thought Madoff could promise 20%:

Bienes: ‘How do I know? How do you split an atom, I know that you can split them, I don’t know how you do it. How does an airplane fly? I don’t ask.’ ‘Did you ask him?’ ’Never! Why would I ask him? I wouldn’t understand it if he explained it!’

And a minute later: ‘Did you ever think to yourself, this is just too easy, this is too good?’ Bienes: ‘I said ‘I’m a little too lucky. Why am I so fortunate?’ And then I came up with the answer, my wife and I came up with the answer: ‘God wanted us to have this. God gave us this.’ ’

adamisom 28 Jan 2014 21:29 UTC
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on: Why are we not starting to map human values?
Are you kidding me? I’m staring right now, beside me, at a textbook chapter filled with catalogings of human values, with a list of ten that seem universal, with theories on how to classify values, all with citations of dozens of studies: Chapter 7, Values, of Chris Peterson’s A Primer In Positive Psychology.

LessWrong is so insular sometimes. Like lionhearted’s post Flashes of Nondecisionmaking yesterday—as if neither he nor most of the commenters had heard that we are, indeed, driven much by habit (e.g. The Power of Habit; Self-Directed Behavior; The Procrastionation Equation; ALL GOOD SELF HELP EVER), and that the folk conception of free will might be wrong (which has been long established; argued e.g. in Sam Harris’s Free Will).

adamisom 24 Feb 2013 3:10 UTC
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in reply to: Shmi’s comment on: Think Like a Supervillain
If this comment was written by a bot that produces phrases maximizing the ratio of the number of usages of pleasant-dopamine-buzz-in-group LessWrong language to non-in-group language, it would produce something like this.

I say this even though I really appreciate the comment and think it has genuine insight.

adamisom 20 Feb 2013 7:10 UTC
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in reply to: Bugmaster’s comment on: Think Like a Supervillain
Agreeing that it should have been in Discussion.

adamisom 20 Feb 2013 6:31 UTC
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on: Think Like a Supervillain
If this gets upvoted highly, I will update in favor of LessWrong continuing to become more in-group-y, more cutesy, and less attached-to-actual-change-y. It’s becoming so much delicious candy!

adamisom 2 Feb 2013 0:52 UTC
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in reply to: lukeprog’s comment on: Non-theist cinema?
How can someone have such a good memory?

adamisom 2 Feb 2013 0:42 UTC
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in reply to: Kawoomba’s comment on: Heuristic: How does it sound in a movie?

More like an exception handling routine that’s just checking for out-of-bounds errors.

Oh God. I love this place.

adamisom 2 Feb 2013 0:41 UTC
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in reply to: Kawoomba’s comment on: Heuristic: How does it sound in a movie?
And this is why I love LessWrong, folks—sometimes. In other rationality communities—ones that conceived of rationality as something other than “accomplishing goals well”—this kind of post would be hurrah’d.

adamisom 27 Jan 2013 4:06 UTC
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in reply to: MugaSofer’s comment on: One Life Against the World
Why? Because dying is painful? Beyond that, I see them equivalently.

adamisom 24 Jan 2013 17:40 UTC
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in reply to: Perplexed’s comment on: People who want to save the world
Hey guys, how about we debate who’s being egoistic about saving the world and who isn’t? That sounds like a really good way to use LessWrong and knowledge of world-saving.

adamisom 24 Jan 2013 17:33 UTC
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in reply to: Robin_Hanson2’s comment on: One Life Against the World
Which is why I”m still puzzled by a simplistic moral dilemma that just won’t go away for me: are we morally obligated to have children, and as many as we can? Sans using that using energy or money to more efficiently “save” lives, of course. It seems to me we should encourage people to have children, a common thing that many more people will actually do than donate philanthropically, in addition to other philanthropy encouragements.

adamisom 30 Dec 2012 19:27 UTC
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in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: What I Think, If Not Why

It seems to me like a pretty small probability that an AI not designed to self-improve will be the first AI that goes FOOM, when there are already many parties known to me who would like to deliberately cause such an event.

I know this is four years old, but this seems like a damn good time to “shut up and multiply” (thanks for that thoughtmeme by the way).

adamisom 11 Dec 2012 23:03 UTC
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in reply to: Davorak’s comment on: Rationality Quotes September 2012
That is cute.. no? More childish than evil. He should just be warned that’s trolling.

There really should be a comment edit history feature. Maybe it only activates once a comment reaches +10 karma.

adamisom 11 Dec 2012 18:32 UTC
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in reply to: Vaniver’s comment on: By Which It May Be Judged
I just wanted to tell everyone that it is great fun to read this in the voice of that voice actor for the Enzyte commercial :)