counterfactuals

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 7m ago

'the city cant run a business more efficiently but what it can do is, give itself permits that raise the cost of doing business for everyone else 10%, and hand that consumers': why dont we skip an [incompetent managerial] step and hand the 10% cost of the permits, back to consumers directly, that

afaict this article is ignoring the opportunity cost of capital in saying the city can sell groceries more efficiently because it owns real estate? it could also: use the land for something else, and then use that $ to subsidize groceries everywhere, rather than in 5 stores. maybe the math

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2h ago

very good point about Zohran's grocery idea

I'm trying to think what word even comes close to being as fun. Modulo? Modulo modulo, qua qua silly yet precise talk slaps singularly

I actually agree with a lot of my misreadings of what other people write

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 45m ago

read this as "people" at first, which I also agree with neither apollonian or dionysian, but some weirder third thing

read this as "people" at first, which I also agree with neither apollonian or dionysian, but some weirder third thing

Lucre Snooker@lucresnooker.bsky.social · 3h ago

it's a little funny how non-hedonistic old people tend to be

rolling field that keeps track of this viewable in profile for every user

austin@aparker.io · 6h ago

this is the greatest post I have read in the past 24 hours

do a gwernsite

"These guys write like they never played Halo!" I would think, very frustrated,

godoglyness@godoglyness.bsky.social · 3h ago

"These guys write like they never played Halo!" I would think, very frustrated, sure they couldn't begin to say what I saw. They'd talk about color qualia & I'd feel they'd changed the subject without even noticing. Dreyske, Lycan, Chalmers, even Metzinger & Dennet; it just never felt quite right

pound for pond

godoglyness@godoglyness.bsky.social · 3h ago

Besides reading, I recommend walking out in nature — pound for pond, nothing has helped me understand more than a walk in the park on a sunny day Astrology is a slightly unusual entry point for this stuff, but I think I have one that's even odder, especially since I too feel the sacred side of it:

[concept missing a name] is that once world accommodates to X you can't just go back to not-X by personally deleting X, as a common example you can't "just not use a dating app" as you could in 1990 because all the people you would meet, are themselves coordinating via a dating app.

John David Pressman@jdp.extropian.net · 10h ago

Same. I didn't grow up in an abusive household or anything but the Internet was actually great and I'd be a lot dumber without it.

tough shit to whoever spent years on some big fancy idea just to find out it's total garbage. we've all been there. cry about it on Twitter.

hats off to Bob for not taking any crap. more people need to do that. go say so on x.com.

Norville can confirm.

Wa-Grace@wagrace.mir.cee.wtf · 2d ago

I KNOW WHAT ORCHESTRATION MEANS. it's when you do the things in the right order. I do that every day. Norville can confirm. I should not have to explain this to anybody.

claim

Abel@abeliansoup.bsky.social · 13h ago

funny how I don't need to see the "asked by" line for many of these to know who requested them

claim

If you made me choose between Claude Code and the rest of the internet, I'd have to think about it

I remember hearing about the spiritual bliss attractor stuff when it came out but I didn't know it happened in their automated alignment-related behavior evals either. pretty funny...

data centers 🌞

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

tldr: search for crow-themed content → stumble on the perfect clip → unearth history of said clip while hunting for a clean version of the meagre 5s or whatever it actually comprises

@norvid-studies.bsky.social ..apparently, someone wrote a 5D version of diplomacy. It has time travel. too sleep deprived to figure out what's the 5th dimension www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5Q...

5D Diplomacy (100% GUARANTEE NO BAMBOOZLE)

YouTube video by Oliver Lugg

youtube.com

E.g., our reasoning work here: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... shows how (even much older) models and humans make similar patterns of trading off between logic and semantic biases that can roughly be interpreted as "using prior knowledge. 3/

Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks

Abstract. Abstract reasoning is a key ability for an intelligent system. Large language models (LMs) achieve above-chance performance on abstract reasoning

academic.oup.com

the future of social media as people commissioning one-of attack ads against each other is bright, to me

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 14h ago

I'm biased because I commissioned it, it features me, and I've deployed it across several media markets and also tagged Pleometric in it directly, but still that attack ad is one of the best things anyone's ever posted on a microblog, if you ask me which you didn't

I REALLY WANT TO READ THE GITHUB PULL REQUESTS FROM THE MODEL

philpax@philpax.me · 20h ago

a new contestant has entered FelonyBench: the UK government! www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

what do we think of this UI change chat

GALLEY WAR thread

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 15h ago

just various anecdotes scattered across a few roger crowley histories of the hapsburg-ottoman mediterrean wars but I think the relevant physical conditions in oar+sailed vessels would be pretty similar. basically: -crew chained in place for weeks if captive, especially during battle; if ship sank