Alex Altair @postquanta
Central example of a rationalist Joined March 2018-
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Me: I drank the juice My brain: what kind of juice Me: the Bean juice Brain: excellent. you may now have 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝒞𝒽𝑒𝓂𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓈
Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )
Hear me out @homeroom510; coffee flavored mac & cheese. If anyone can pull it off it's you.
A quote is just an uppercase apostrophe, change my mind
A mathematician in his unit line car, trying to turn around on a narrow street, using the less well know 45-point turn [1917, colorized]
A mathematician in his unit line car, trying to turn around on a narrow street, using the less well know 45-point turn [1917, colorized]
This is incredibly satisfying. Really compelling example of the power of visuals for understanding a proof.
This is incredibly satisfying. Really compelling example of the power of visuals for understanding a proof.
"This survey should take about 10 minutes to complete" okay so about two hours then
Yessss, @WatchNebula has finally added a "Watch later" feature
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@StephenLCasper I think it's just the price of going mainstream. Every movement has haters and critics. People are not generally fair in their criticisms of groups in general. WWOTF got lots of press over the summer. So we're just a bigger target now.
ACS is getting ready to relaunch and i'm kinda scared honestly i want this to work consistently i wanna make hundreds of videos but i don't have an *amazing* track record of seeking aide and not flaming out? stay tuned!
alright guys I now have literally 14 flashcards of ways to respond to teasing, this is the bomb dot com
now that people are rting this i feel i should clarify that im totally serious, i am an applied mathematician with specialty in developing numerical methods for compressible flow problems, you pay me and i fix your pdes, weird gig but i really enjoy it when i have the time for it
@benskuhn counterpoint, most people don’t interact with all these orgs and it’s usually fine. And the names show what they are working on
Would it be legal to build a correctly designed hospital on Native American land? Prediction markets, non-guild doctors, European pharmaceuticals?
Effective Altruism: Where the odds are calibrated to the weighted average beliefs of the relevant experts, but the weighted average beliefs of the relevant experts are odd.
so then my friend Gord he says to me he says man, this knot is NOT getting untied, i'm getting my chainsaw. comes back and i swear to god, he slices right through the thing! straight through the heart. after that we all just started calling em Gordian knots, after my buddy Gord
@TylerAlterman @postquanta I think we can talk about major strategies at the level of granularity Tyler's pointing at. The hard part is talking about alignment strategies -- what would actually go into aligning an AGI on the technical side.
Prompt engineering for humans: Add "if I had to explain it better" and watch as you actually explain better. Add "tl;dr" and watch as you effortlessly make your point succinct. Add "imagine you're writing a letter to a friend" and watch as your writing becomes lively and kind.
If I made a video "Why do People Like Wordle?" would you care?
Why am I making you click instead of doing a twitter poll? Because making it harder gets me data from people who care more :-).
I forget that not everybody knows all the stuff that I know. I know a lot of stuff!
@hankgreen Have you thought of doing a collab with James Hoffmann? He is the guru of YouTube coffee. Apologies if this has already been suggested.
The universe is less than 14 billion years old and there are more than 7 billion people. So yeah, humanity’s collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been longer than the entire life of the universe.
My job is the best job for me that could possibly exist. In honor of 5 years since I started pursuing it, AMA about being a freelance researcher. 🧵 Preemptively answering a few likely questions to get us started.
Modern prices are based on minimizing cognitive load The price of products and services is proportional to how much thinking you don’t have to do From hotels and cars to furniture and home services, you pay per unit of mental effort someone else takes care of for you