SIDEREAL CONTACT IMMINENT Join us, and very special guest Celeste (/Parafactual) for a very special Flight (/Bsky meetup), at The National Arboretum, from noon-five today. We’re meeting at ‘the columns’, and picnicking under an adjacent tree.

It’s a false dichotomy. Since the entirety of our experience of other people is literally encoded on our brain, loving one’s self completely is not possible without loving others. All others. And everything else.

Yes, and the ultimate brain hack version of this is loving someone who loves everyone. This works because love is transitive.

Strangest thing about EA world: Loads of people who will work themselves to the bone to save drowning strangers, yet would not presume to lend their community members a hand.

Oh lol, “42 is the answer to life the universe and everything” is a Kabbalah joke, isn’t it?

The hardest true @visakanv.com insight for me to internalize is: ‘People wanna be fuckable more than they want to fuck’. I’m perennially surprised when (particularly) men’s ‘attraction’ is insta-indexed and not libido & capability indexed. Curious about the causal structure; hypotheses:

Second DC Flight is a picnic! 2pm Sunday May 14, @ The Columns (pictured), National Arboretum We will be welcoming two very special guests: Emily Crotteau and James Dama! Iykyk. If not, you’ll have to show to find out ;-)

Non-dual responsibility follows from non-dual awareness. A correctly considered non-dual mindset answers a very old question: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” …in the affirmative.

Right now.

LLM puzzle; pls help: I traced the loss curves for Meta's Llama models, and it appears loss-go-down per unit training cost of small models is still much greater than that of large models WAY past the 'Chinchilla optimal' point (~7x chinchilla for the 7B model @ 1T tokens). What am I missing?

See you in on Blueskynet, the bsky community organizing hub for DC/MD/VA! I’m very excited @winterdust.bsky.social is taking the lead on this: She has been organizing among the metatribe for over a decade, is universally respected by all who know her, and may be the most principled person I know.

Right action is a team sport.

No need to self-host to have a short handle! 0. Register a domain (I recommend Cloudflare, as it’s cheap, easy, & fast, or njalla if you’re very concerned about opsec). 1. Change handle -> “I have my own domain”. 2. Set the DNS record they give you. 3. Hit the verify button.

We have a venue for the first DC Bluesky meetup! Lulu’s Winegarden, 3pm. We’re stoked to see you there.

With sincere apology for the last minute change, we are pushing back to Sunday afternoon @3pm to accommodate a very special guest who will be in town.

First Flight: Friday night! Come celebrate our break from the birdcage, and take part in what may be the world’s first Bluesky meetup, from 7pm until whenever: The Saloon 1207 U St NW Washington, DC 20009 United States

A Bluesky meetup is called a Flight.

I love that “set this TXT record” is a supported procedure —based and DNS-pilled.