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A surprise party would in that sense be kind of an mildly unpleasant and unnecessary nervous system shock

But again that's kind of a personal temperament thing

Invite me to something expecting an answer in 60s, and I will default to "no". Give me ≥10m (proportional to the scale of momentum change) and I'm much more likely to say yes

Lower level emotional circuits need nonzero time to let go of the previous plan and get comfortable with the new one

I don't necessarily endorse "no surprise parties", but I get it. I think I personally would be happier with a party planned for me with me in the loop than one dropped on me

I tend to need time to adjust if the day's momentum is [proposed to] change dramatically

But another data point: a different friend of mine, from a completely disjoint friend group, had come to the same conclusion, for similar reasons

Add to this davidad & the cloud of people vouching around him, and it begins to look like a certain body of wisdom around that game

Yes, it might be the personalities of the friends involved (ie, one's own ability to sandbox isn't the only thing that matters; also each person has their own sensitivities)

For whatever reason, certain other deception games (poker) don't seem to have this property. I don't have a strong theory what the difference is

Lesson: Scopes are leaky, whether they are supposed to be or not

I'll say that I also came to the conclusion that Mafia is a toxic game after a particularly triumphant win where I had my opponents in the palm of my hand. After the game I saw several of my friends hurt and ashamed for having trusted me, and realized that this felt much worse than winning felt good

I also have the "glide inches over a slope ballistically" dream, interesting

Neither has Scott Aaronson

I read this to mean that only norvid's login could be centered on, and was slightly disappointed that this isn't what was meant

apt analogy, I think

cat cafes are not a particularly good place to interact with cats

that is, "can I (privately) plan to perform a certain action in their situation and expect that plan to be executed"

selfhood is a model that is useful for planning and task execution, and it's not ontologically real

Same as many worlds, imv. There are a bunch of different guys in the past and future, and some of them share some commonality with me. If they share enough that one of us can use and execute the other's internal planning ledger, as far as I'm concerned, they're me

Yes, I have some onsen / ryokan time set aside in a few days

The weather also doesn't impede the food and cocktail scene, and it might be easier to get into places than during high traffic seasons

But I'd need to go again at a different time of year to know

The little alleyways are pretty when it's snowing

So far so good; but I'm also here do to do some skiing. It's pretty cold in Tokyo right now, and I imagine it'd probably be more pleasant for walking around during spring or fall

Yesterday was sunny and brisk, though, and I managed to catch a mild sunburn

conservation of piety

Doesn't help that there aren't standardized affordances / gestures like with 2D inputs (touch, mice, etc). Everyone has to invent their own interaction system

But also I think 3D always faces an uphill battle due to the difficulty of navigation on a 2D screen, particularly on a phone. Few get this right

Three fiber isn't bad! IME agents are still unusably terrible at trying to do nontrivial 3D things though. You can't really blame them, they're still basically blind

I suspect that increasing the dimensionality of the visualization just to 3D would vastly improve the topology, but the web isn't very friendly to 3D, (or really software in general is unfriendly to it) so nobody does it

bsky.app/profile/theo...

Theo said he had trouble getting the projection to fit the actual distances, but did his best

Projection to 2D destroys almost all of the proximity information. If we could see the full high dimensional space, those errors would almost surely be gone

invisible "what else is like this"

this is a "yes and" rather than a "well actually"

Boats were built before stability calculations could be done, e.g.