I saw a car with the bumper sticker "I ❤️ my gay cat"

I don't like math-washing, but as long as the math is actually descriptive and not decorative, that's better than pure word salad It's nice to read a well-thought out wacko theory every once in a while, like a palate cleanser

Fuck I drank too much coffee and I'm about to phase out of this plane of reality

*slaps part of thing* You could fit so much stuff in here

My least woke opinion is that therapy is kind of a scam, don't pay 300 dollars to talk to someone, either (a) go to a psychiatrist or psychologist (b) just do drugs and talk to yourself or the wall

I have become fancy

just ate a terrific piece of toast, high five!

Places

I ... declare ... normalcy ...

The air was supposed to clear up soon but it got worse

Misplaced fight-or-flight response is also a problem in good situations. For exmaple there are some topics I am very excited to learn about, but I don't want to sit down for 5 hours and read a book about it. I want to run outside and punch someone in the face about it

Guess who just won Slipperiest Man award

This sucks I want to go outside but the air is poison

Got a weather alert saying "don't go outside"

Sometimes you can randomly shuffle up a sentence with words like "tha world" "life" etc. and the result sounds very deep and meaningful

More Canadian wildfires huh

Don't let the rationalists make a dating app, do not let the rationalists make a match-making dating app. Do not give rationalists control over human evolution

In the future memes will be entire fictional worlds, we live inside a throwaway meme someone generated on a whim

I love the shape store so much. Like a fun version of the backrooms. That needs to be fleshed out more

The year is 2100. The two political parties in the US are the Testosterone Party and the Estrogen Party

This completely defeats the purpose of banning trans people from the military if you're going to make soldiers reliant on T injections anyway

Going to start communicating exclusively in nonverbal Elvis noises

the really fast businessman

Ok here I go

Nature is beautiful and important

I think it's about time for culture's image of aliens to change again, maybe in a couple years. We need to mix it up. Tic-tacs for a few more years, but then we get a new shape

The Old Owl was a nonhuman figure said to walk along the side of NJ Route 12 at night, attacking motorists who slowed to get a better look. Despite never having had his existence confirmed, Americans reached across the aisle in 2032 to elect him 49th president with 85% of the popular vote

When I try to ask claude if A and B are actually the same thing: "Careful -- A and B are two completely separate things. A is named A, and B is named B. Completely different"

we need a president who can dance

What is the actual mechanism behind why people feel "impending doom" right before a cardiac event

I have to keep multiple interpretations of all of my behaviors plausible, so as to not let it collapse it into one clear motive. This prevents social feedback loops from forming. This is necessary because I have no way of damping social feedback loops, so they will amplify and destroy me

do advertisers realize how ridiculous they're being?

enough about brains, why is everything about brains now? Lets stop thinking about thinking and think about ACTION. ACTION! ACTION

I've probably internalized the "brain=computer" metaphor a little too deeply

I don't know how to articulate this: How common are goals that, if they are achieved, lead to behavioral collapse? Like the tension of not attaining a goal keeps your behavior patterns diverse Also what does it mean to achieve a goal if all you have is reward signaling at its foothills?

wrote this in my notes: "my mind is crayola sunrise" anyone know what this means?

I luv luggin buckets & barrels

I'm confused about how arms connect to the shoulder

I've had to tighten my interestingness radar recently. The goal is to find 1 or 2 things extremely interesting every few hours

Double helix stairwell, you can't get from one to the other

Thinking about how to strengthen the side effects of various medications

If you treat an image as a collection of small patches of values, as an approximation of a distribution over those patches, the density concentrates around a manifold shaped like a klein bottle arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05778

bruce lee said: I fear not the man who has posted 10000 good tweets once but I fear one who has tweeted the same good tweet 10000 times

For the record I don't completely trust anthropic, and I'm not really convinced that the US is any more likely to "solve" alignment than china is, separate from the concerns about democracy vs authoritarianism

there are more ways to fail at a task than to succeed -> there are more ways to be "dumb" than to be "clever" -> Instead of measuring "intelligence" we need to create psychometrics to measure "stupidity profiles" which would be much more descriptive and helpful

I'm genuinely becoming a distilled claude model at this point

Happy 68th birthday, actor Kevin Bacon. 🎂 #Filmsky

I can help you via hypnosis if you're interested.

Your surroundings don't matter!

I'm not planning on retaining a coherent identity over the next 20 years