Ontological Proof of Santa: p1: No being more Jolly than Santa can be imagined p2: existence makes one more Jolly than nonexistence p3: a Santa that exists only in the mind is therefore less Jolly than one that exists in reality

Is this good or bad? anisota.net/harvest/

So funny whenever you get to Ellsberg’s paradox in a decision theory class, and you have to be like, ye, that Daniel Ellsberg.

My favorite Cremieux moment was when he was praising all hell out of this paper he "recently read." Seems interesting, let's check who wrote it, oh...

Interesting how it uses longtermist utilitarian rhetoric to justify saving Elon.

Incredible stuff

We honestly need another Scopes trial because the first one humiliated the creationists on national radio so hard they didn't even try again until the 2000s.

I wonder if people will be more willing to mention the Bosnia and Cambodia thing now that this is out in the open.

Chomsky is pretty unlucky he didn't die before the Epstein thing came out because now his eulogies are going to be real awkward.

This post made me realize that Eliezer, despite being considered an arch-utilitarian for writing torture vs dust specks. Is just straight up a Kantian at the end of the day. He literally would rather it be more likely for an AI to kill everyone (in his worldview) than to lie.

I will not be reading this article Substack.

P and Q and Bob and Alice should go on a double date.

I think some of the confusion that non-Americans get about our two party system is that the main reason it's so difficult to get a third party off the ground is that the Republican and Democratic parties are not like most political parties, they're deeply entrenched cultural institutions.

This is your last chance to dodge a block

In ten years kids will believe this photo was AI and that this didn’t actually happen.

Hahahaha how the fuck are qualia deniers real hahahaha just open your eyes like open them

There is a scene in Red Dawn (Reagan era slop film but still kinda fun) where when the Communists invade America they're able to quash resistance by using registration records to confiscate the guns, and that kind of insane fantasy is why there is opposition to something this banal.

Who would be the funniest American political figure to make a Hamilton parody musical about?

Now we need one with Wittgenstein and Kripkensteinism vs Quietism to complete the trilogy.

Robin Hanson finally got what he wanted I guess

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I am Nick Land’s Babylonian oil demon ama

Kanye, Elon, Trump: an eternal golden braid.

I knew Peter Thiel, with all his bizarre esotericism and incoherent ideology reminded me of someone, but it just hit me the other day. He's LaRouche. He's a billionaire LaRouche.

After Fetterman and now Planter it’s pretty obvious that the “tough red blooded progressive guy” gimmick is a red flag.

"Grok" is a fun word that occupies a unique niche and I'm sad that Elon ruined it for all of us.

I genuinely cannot think of anything witty or insightful to say about that Trump shitting out of a plane AI video. How is this real.

Bayes theorem needs to be treated like the Zohar where you have to demonstrate a certain amount of knowledge to be able to learn it.

People who have deeply thought about the ethics of eternal hell and still consider it just should be treated as some of the most evil people in society. This fact is independent of whether or not you believe in God or an afterlife.

Apparently, Jevons was actually correct about suncycles affecting the agricultural economy, who knew. www.k-state.edu/economics/ab...

Happy 108th anniversary of the demonic event in Fatima intended to lead the denizens of Al-Andalus away from the light of Islam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lad...

I wouldn't praise Biden if he got a deal after letting Israel do all this for so long, I won't praise Trump.

"But that's analytic philosophy" Doesn't count either when you see how much these guys love Aquinas and Nietzsche. Besides, do you really think Thiel is the way he is because he read too much about Kripke semantics?

Aspartame imo is like an Ozempic level miracle and we should start talking about it that way.

Let me put it another way: Nobody needed to get scolded not to use NFTs.

LLMs are massively popular among normies in a way that crypto and NFTs never were, and they actually have a use that appeals to regular people, NFTs were based on some weird metaphysical notion of ownership that nobody outside of the most hard-boiled crypto bros bought.

Still trying to figure out what exactly this was referring to.

I might be the only one who remembers that Bryan Caplan put a Richard Lynn IQ map within his educational book for middle schoolers.

Never change, Bryan Caplan.

Hasan Pavlov

In recent events: "Hi, I'm a sociopath who held someone at gunpoint for something that was almost definitely an accident." Comments: "Wow, so based. Anything is justified for the precious doggos ☺️"

So would cats and people would freak out if you suggested eating them.

I hope one day somebody discovers Huey P Newton‘s writings on formal epistemology and it somehow creates discourse.

I see machine learning researchers discussing the capabilities of advanced AI models. I’d better inform them that those models use text prediction, I bet they hadn’t priced that in.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Weird esoteric facts (stuff like Yakub and Posadism) becoming common knowledge online is largely due to the fact that on the internet the most insane ideas have memetic dominance.

Brad DeLong's old blog is permanently down

We need to get Aqua on this site.