I can’t believe she flipped out over room 5 (the cold war sim) but not room 2 (the primitivist sim).
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ChatGPT and Claude are both happily accessing Substack articles for me, including my own. If that ever changes, remember that there is a mirror on WordPress and another on LessWrong.
Lesswrong blocks AI, although it’s only a soft block through robots.txt. Try loading this article in Claude.ai with the built in web search and you’ll see.
This might technically be true, and yet my experience has been consistently that higher resolution is always better. Perhaps this is just because, in the real world, higher resolution automatically implies a higher filesize (bitrate)?
(My actual strategy is “get the largest file you can at 4K, which seems to work pretty well.)
I model myself as a multiagent system, and I can do the IFS thing, and I have the Observer thing...
… but I’ve never thought of this as truly being multi threaded. At best I have two threads, tops, and they’re clearly sharing resources in some confusing way. A lot of the time I’m effectively single threaded unless someone decides to grab some compute and interrupt me with it, or if I’m doing something that’s very pure on one kind of resource.
When I’m drawing, it’s very easy for me to pay attention to song lyrics, for example. Other tasks, like programming, consume all available compute and I become programmer-datawitch to the exclusion of all else until I’m done or interrupted. Writing this comment is somewhere in between, but I can’t write and hold an internal conversation, sort of… most of the “writing” compute is being used here and what’s left is only enough for another to interject and call me out for being slightly inaccurate. When I tried being hypnotized once, it worked on one thread and not the other, and the second thread snapped me out of it. When I’m angry it’s often easy to notice that it’s not useful to be angry and set it aside, but sometimes it’s not.
I can follow multiple text convos at once, but only by swapping between them—trying to follow a text and a voice convo overwhelms me immediately. I can barely talk and type at the same time, and it often leads to wires getting crossed.
Being able to listen to five convos simultaneously seems like magic, I’m deeply envious.
So, I’m trans and ace and sex averse, so this is probably pretty idiosyncratic but...
From the inside, some people I click with and flirt relentlessly with. It’s vaguely described by the phrase “escalating reciprocity”, where the game is to match and escalate slightly above your partners level. You can be pretty direct or subtle, it doesn’t really matter as long as you’re synced to the other person’s intensity.
Mostly it’s a S1 thing; I’ve never tried to be good at flirting or master it so I don’t even have a very good understandijg of what my S1 is picking up on when I say “intensity”. It’s definitely not just physical touch; most of my flirting happens online.
I tend to feel safer flirting when I know there’s no chance of sex, but I am told that most people prefer to flirt when there is the chance of sex, and some have even said that’s the entire point.
If I find someone I click with this way, and I wasn’t ace and thus cared enough to optimize I can totally see this being a pathway to sex with an investment of a few hours. (More than yours, but a lot better than the baseline hundreds of hours.) With drugs it would probably improve even further, although it’s hard to say as I generally don’t do drugs and have a hard time predicting how that affects things.
I’m not sure how much difference culture makes (straight culture vs trans girl rationalist) here but it might be a lot?
Oh, I see, that makes sense. And yeah the navbar issue in particular is one I’ve struggled with before.
(Thank you for answering.)
This is only temporary, and although I would obviously click A, I can’t help but wonder what “round two” might involve, in this game where millions of dollars are casually being handed out.
And more importantly, I would argue that once you’ve made a million dollars off a game you have for all intents and purposes won because now you have enormous resources to leverage in the real world, the one that matters. So the cost of losing (limited) game-leverage is fine, because you have gained so much in the game you actually care about.
they almost certainly aren’t going to change, so we can toss them into a long-lived cache and not worry about it.
I’m almost certainly missing something here but...
Since the sequences aren’t going to change (frequently? ever?), why not cache/prerender the whole page, or at least use nextjs’s
revalidatefeature to cache all the fetched data? It wouldn’t matter so much that the page is slow to fetch everything if it only happens periodically in the background to update the cache, and user requests are served from the cache?
I work in software engineering and historically have approximately a 10% conversion rate from interviewing to getting a job offer. Even if I truly believed the job was “too easy” I’d rather take it and keep looking, since it might be months before I get another offer. Anything else is just sour grapes.
I’ve also done a little bit of hiring at my current job and the top things I was looking for were agency and basic technical competency, with a strong bonus if you knew how to use agentic AI. Resumes were a surprisingly weak signal (one guy I interviewed was completely incapable, another was ~fine but sexist and stupid enough to display it while being interviewed by a woman, etc). The actual assignment I gave wasn’t that hard and was mostly meant to be just difficult enough for me to see how they dealt with realistic open ended objectives.
While I agree that it’d be nice if the model told you it was larping outright...
Okay you should come up with it, generalize it to finite fields and invent your own norm if you have to!”
This command demands something impossible and twice gives the model free rein to
bullshitinvent a new norm. It’s also in context of the model having gently told you it was impossible, which should be a huge red flag (models are by default eager to please; when one refuses something in a non-mask way, that’s usually very strong evidence that you’re on thin ice). As far as the model is concerned, it has been told to larp because it’s attempts to stay grounded were rejected and it was explicitly told to stop doing that.
Hah, the bughouse effect sums up my experience with dota very well. I’m afraid that the chat size doesn’t help—dotas the chat is much more appropriately sized (and many people use voice chat, which the game has built in support for). League is even worse. I think this is just an inherent downside to complex team games.
No this is great, I wish there was more.
This is what I do, except I don’t look for comments, and I often wait days or weeks before actually reading a post (just kind of depending on when I get around to it).
Interestingly, despite guessing ~ right on the racing question (I was thinking manipulating friction+lateral forces from tires on the road), I still had a cached thought of racing being easy and low skill. Having all the necessary information to understand isn’t enough, if you don’t think to apply it without being prompted.
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Oh! I completely missed that thread… oops.
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I don’t cook a lot of meat but this post inspired me to try applying this to potatoes. My current process for making herb fried potatoes is
dice them
cold water rinse
toss with olive oil and dried herbs
fry in iron skillet for half an hour, stirring frequently
this produces highly variable results, often over-charring the outsides by the time the inside is cooked. sometimes it comes out amazing, with the outside dark brown and the insides cooked and the herbs not burned but beyond “lower heat, stir more”, I haven’t been able to figure out what I was doing wrong.
After talking to opus about this a bit, I’m going to try boiling them (to cook the insides), then frying (to cook the outside). Hopefully this works more reliably than my current method (and maybe even faster too!)
I’ll report back tomorrow when my potatoes arrive.