jam_brand

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jam_brand 3 Apr 2024 11:32 UTC
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in reply to: aphyer’s comment on: Religion = Cult + Culture
The person whose tweets were linked above when mentioning “they become Zealots, doing lasting damage to their lives, and then burning out spectacularly.”

jam_brand 29 Feb 2024 11:59 UTC
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in reply to: Ben Pace’s comment on: Ben Pace’s Shortform Feed
Before I read the aphoristic three-word reply to you from Richard Kennaway (admittedly a likely even clearer-cut way to indicate the following sentiment), I was thinking that to downplay any unintended implications about the magnitude of your probabilities that you could maybe say something about your tracking being for mundane-vigilance or intermittent-map-maintenance or routine-reality-syncing / -surveying / -sampling reasons.
For any audience you anticipate familiarity with this essay though, another idea might be to use a version of something like:
“The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on [by default][and {also} tracking <for posterity>].”
(spoilered section below just corrals a ~dozen expansions / embellishments of the above)
“The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on.”
- “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on and tracking.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on and tracking for posterity.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on and also tracking.”
- “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default and tracking.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default and tracking for posterity.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default and also tracking.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default and will track mindfully for posterity.”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default (mindfully though—and so will also just track as a matter of course).”
  “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on by default (mindfully though, so tracking then for posterity).”
- “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on and will track mindfully for posterity.”
- “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on (mindfully though—and so will also just track as a matter of course).”
- “The plumber says it’s fixed, which I’m splitting on (mindfully though, so tracking then for posterity).”

jam_brand 3 Feb 2024 6:16 UTC
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on: Running a Prediction Market Mafia Game
While we’re on the topic of amending standard Mafia, I suppose I’ll also mention that implementing Robin Hanson’s EquaTalk might make for an interesting game as well.

jam_brand 31 Jan 2024 1:30 UTC
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on: How to write better?
The first lecture at this link and accompanying handout from UChicago’s (now-retired) writing-program director, Larry McEnerney, has come up here on a number of occasions.
Additionally, I imagine you’ll be able to unearth some good stuff perusing LW’s writing tag.

jam_brand 28 Jan 2024 1:05 UTC
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on: The Good Balsamic Vinegar
Since you’ve not mentioned a specific brand, to make it potentially even easier for people to grab something they might like I suppose I’ll go ahead and link to the following (which appeared many moons ago in a product-recommendation post on SSC), though note it’s a bit less sugary than the one above, i.e. just 7g/Tbsp: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CMGRNAK

jam_brand 5 Dec 2023 1:44 UTC
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in reply to: niplav’s comment on: Open Thread – Winter 2023/2024
Here you go: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/13/growing-children-for-bostroms-disneyland/

jam_brand 1 Dec 2023 10:53 UTC
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in reply to: lc’s comment on: lc’s Shortform
Among other things I suppose they’re not super up on that to efficiently colonise the universe [...] watch dry paint stay dry.

jam_brand 23 Nov 2023 3:24 UTC
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in reply to: jacquesthibs’s comment on: OpenAI: The Battle of the Board
Here’s a video
It’s also written up on Cognitive Revolution’s substack for those that prefer text.

jam_brand 23 Oct 2023 23:33 UTC
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in reply to: mako yass’s comment on: Which LessWrongers are (aspiring) YouTubers?
Here’s the post about it: AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas

jam_brand 28 Sep 2023 3:33 UTC
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on: Petrov Day Retrospective, 2023 (re: the most important virtue of Petrov Day & unilaterally promoting it)
clicked first relative to receiving are the same person! And also that person is from the majority group
A majority member being the initial clicker also isn’t terribly surprising because a group being larger means one-or-more of any given sort of person—in this case, a quick-responder-type—is likelier to crop up among them.

jam_brand 27 Sep 2023 16:47 UTC
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in reply to: Ruby’s comment on: Ruby’s Shortform Feed
A small extra detail not mentioned: the end of the linked URL is “unilateralism=true”.

jam_brand 23 Jul 2023 3:12 UTC
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on: I’m consistently overwhelmed by basic obligations. Are there any paradigm shifts or other rationality-based tips that would be helpful?
While not really answering your question, reading the description for the problem you’re having brought this exploration / taxonomy of okay-ness to mind.

jam_brand 13 Jul 2023 3:00 UTC
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in reply to: lsusr’s comment on: Announcing the AI Fables Writing Contest!
Looks like the answer is yes.

jam_brand 16 Jun 2023 4:06 UTC
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in reply to: dynomight’s comment on: I still think it’s very unlikely we’re observing alien aircraft
Also perhaps of interest might be this discussion from the SSC subreddit awhile back where someone detailed their pro-Bigfoot case.

jam_brand 11 Jun 2023 2:04 UTC
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in reply to: lsusr’s comment on: Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
Serious question: would something originating adjacently from a separate Everett branch count?
(sillier-though-hopefully-not-counterproductive question: since your final statement especially would, I think, often seem to go without saying, its “needless” inclusion actually strikes me as probably-not-but-still-hypothetically-maybe worrisome—surely you’re not intending to imply that’s the only recourse allowed for being denied one’s winning lottery ticket? [or perhaps my own asking is needless since someone deciding to be a jerk and not wanting to pay could simply use such agreed-upon discretion to “fairly” declare themselves the winner anyways, in which case: sorry for the derail!])

jam_brand 7 Jun 2023 21:29 UTC
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in reply to: RamblinDash’s comment on: Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
(“Halt, Melt, and Catch Fire” is in a few posts in the Coming of Age sequence)

jam_brand 5 Jun 2023 0:51 UTC
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in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: AI #14: A Very Good Sentence
Somewhat similar to you I’ve thought of the second group as “Vroomers”, though Eliezer’s talk of cursed bananas has amusingly brought “Sunnysiders” to mind for me as well.

jam_brand 31 May 2023 20:02 UTC
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on: Product Endorsement: Food for sleep interruptions
I can’t vouch for this personally and don’t even recall the source (always a great way to start advice...), but I remember reading once that a pinch of sugar sublingually with a touch of salt might also help for quickly returning to sleep.

jam_brand 27 May 2023 20:43 UTC
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on: Open Thread With Experimental Feature: Reactions
The “Borderline” icon currently being a balance is something I most naturally interpret as “balanced fairly”, whereas a similar-ish alternative—open hands gesturing up & down—reads more like “iffy” to me and might better communicate the concept. Here’s a simultaneously too complex and too crude mockup based on https://thenounproject.com/icon/hand-disinfection-3819834/ :
A similar idea to indicate that something might be kind of a toss-up (which at first blush strikes me as less good than palms balancing, yet maybe better than the icon already in use), would be some sort of flipping coin, e.g. something like https://thenounproject.com/icon/toss-a-coin-3819618/ sans hand. Or perhaps https://thenounproject.com/icon/coin-flipping-2307580/ including the hand.
Another idea could be a thumb sticking out sideways ala https://thenounproject.com/icon/thumb-horizontal-4154461/ , though somehow that reads to me as possibly more judgmental maybe.
Finally, I noticed these half-arrows pointing in opposite directions: https://thenounproject.com/icon/double-side-arrow-236719/ . I don’t know if their abstract nature would make them feel less judge-y or if them sorta mirroring the left/right arrows we already use for voting would read to some as actually *more* unnecessarily judgemental.

jam_brand 27 May 2023 20:41 UTC
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on: Open Thread With Experimental Feature: Reactions
I’m surprised to see a “Wrong” icon as a counterpart to “Verified” and not something like “Citation Needed / Requested” or something else that solicits information / evidence.