Educational Database System

Ok, yes, that’s basically what I thought…just trying to relate it to the stuff I already understand.
Is there a tradeoff between it being implemented as part of the optimizer vs as a loss? Could I see your paper as describing a family of optimizers?

How does this relate to the approach used by the Muon optimizer? It feels like it’s sort of similar to me, but normalized against a different background?

Happy thanksgiving, my fellow Americans. I’m grateful for freedom and life today. What are you grateful for?
If you’re not American you can give thanks too but up to you.

No, it implies that the belief “changing marginal tax rates is an important lever for changing the future” is wrong. It says, worry about something else.

Everyone who is ever bitching about taxes (either wanting to tax ppl more or less)

Neither raising taxes nor lowering marginal tax rates significantly changes the actual amount of money collected by the federal government and everyone on both sides claiming the problem is the tax rate is crazy.

A decentralized network provides different affordances from a centralized one. Trying to build a decentralized copy of a feed-based service always winds up the same: a hidden centralized layer coordinating the outcome.

The problem isn’t Twitter censoring people, it’s that Twitter is censoring the *wrong* people yeah?

“Fight the power” right? Not very specific about the good power vs the bad power.

If you spend your days trying to fight those in power, you’ll have some real internal conflict when you start winning.

The map is not a medium dose of acid

Who here is on the side of the harmonizers in the coming allbeing war?

Activate the TPOT contingency. Sleepers awaken.

You get to the point where you have in fact tried the alternatives and you are justifiably confident in your approach. It’s wonderful.

As far as trauma-derived compensating strategies go “become extremely productive” is a pretty good one.

People always ask OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE but never OH GOD HOW ARE YOU DOING

Whenever someone posts “obviously a stupid idea” I wish bsky would pull up “here’s a list of all the previous predictions”. Let’s just see, how’s your track record here?

It’s not any more clever to say “I knew it would work, I believed in it all along” but at least you’re being nice.

“I knew it was a bad idea and doomed all along” is just such an ugly, blinkered, self-congratulatory thing to say.

It is always obvious a failure was doomed in retrospect. Yet when you attempt to call out future failures with such confidence…you leave receipts of the many times you’re wrong.

And you’re so good at distributing invites. It seems like a shame not to lean in.

Maybe the real nazi was the one inside our brains the whole time

In that case, you’re a full on billionaire. Welcome to the overlord class.

I’d say more billionaire than unhoused on day to day experience.

Well, let’s take it hour by hour. Sleep: more like a billionaire, in that you have a bed in bedroom. Breakfast: more like a billionaire, in that you have food in your house, but more unhoused bc no chef. Work: more like billionaire in that you have a job. Dinner: breakfast again.

In what sense?

Every engagement we have here pulls you farther in. Turn back now before it’s too late, or tpot will claim you as it’s own!!!

This is the correct response. When my partner asks me “who is at this twitter meetup” the answer is “oh I dunno, just a bunch of people who follow some of the same folks on Twitter”

Being TPOT is illegibility fail on our part. Labels are viruses, they have played us for absolute fools, etc etc

Yes this is unfortunately inevitable and forseeable. It’s actually a @qchu.bsky.social observation; “being labeled is a precursor to being attacked”.

I have terrible news. It’s too late. You’re reading lesswrong articles about TPOT…the call is coming from inside the house…

I’m afraid the infection is terminal. Welcome to TPOT!

This is core to my view of the world