LESSWRONG
LW

699
Alex_Altair
5640Ω386465887
Message
Dialogue
Subscribe

Sequences

Posts

Sorted by New

Wikitag Contributions

Comments

Sorted by
Newest
Entropy from first principles
7Alex_Altair's Shortform
Ω
3y
Ω
53
Subscribe to my Inkhaven feed!
Alex_Altair5d20

Oops, I said two things.

Reply
RobertM's Shortform
Alex_Altair5d20

Er, bug report, the right-click menu is where my spell-check's suggestions were. So now I get a red underline telling me a word is not in the dictionary, but to correct it I have to just, try to type the correct spelling. Or google it I guess.

Reply
Stars are a rounding error
Alex_Altair6d40

Turing completeness, let alone error correction, has not been shown for leptonic matter on its own.

Curious if you have a citation for this!

Reply
Alex_Altair's Shortform
Alex_Altair13d3310

There are, as far as I can tell, no book-length biographies of Kolmogorov's life. The world is worse for it! His life was long, and his accomplishments innumerable and broad-reaching. An aspiring biographer could establish a career with such a book.

(There are a few different compilations of essays about Kolmogorov, but they're by fellow academics, and largely focus on his work rather than him.)

Reply
Halfhaven virtual blogger camp
Alex_Altair14d64

"Inkhaven" is already modifying the name of the campus "Lighthaven" (which is already a modification of "Lightcone"). Since you're still doing the "ink" part by writing, but not doing the haven part (by not being at Lighthaven) I'd recommend a different name.

May I suggest "Inkhalven"/"Inkhalfen"? Maybe the verb "Inkhalfing"?

Reply
Alex_Altair's Shortform
Alex_Altair26d51

Now that I think about it, it could be useful to have a timed sequence of posts that are just for discussing the book chapters, sort of like a read-along.

Reply
Alex_Altair's Shortform
Alex_Altair26d813

Is there any plan to post the IABIED online resources as a LW sequence? My impression is that some of the explanations are improved from the authors' previous writings, and it could be useful to get community discussion on more of the details.

Reply
LASR Labs: Applications Open
Alex_Altair1mo30

FYI on your website it says "Applications are now closed" and links to an expression of interest form, but I assume that just hasn't been updated with the new application link yet?

Reply
henryaj's Shortform
Alex_Altair1mo20

It's not national, so I might just go with BloWriMo.

Reply
Should you make stone tools?
Alex_Altair2mo157

FWIW I currently think it's bad practice to paste LLM output in a forum. It's like pasting the google search results for something. Anyone can ask an LLM, and the reason I'm here reading comments on a forum is to talk to humans, who have separate identities, reputations, and tons of cultural context of the forum.

Reply1
Load More
15Subscribe to my Inkhaven feed!
5d
2
42Apply for the 2025 Dovetail fellowship
2mo
2
114Agent foundations: not really math, not really science
2mo
25
73The Inheritors: a book review
2mo
4
173Somebody invented a better bookmark
2mo
22
190Should you make stone tools?
2mo
48
42ChatGPT is the Daguerreotype of AI
2mo
2
26Report & retrospective on the Dovetail fellowship
7mo
3
24Come join Dovetail's agent foundations fellowship talks & discussion
8mo
0
29Towards building blocks of ontologies
8mo
0
Load More
Cellular automata
3 years ago
(+306)
Dynamical systems
3 years ago
Quantilization
3 years ago
Solomonoff induction
3 years ago
Kolmogorov Complexity
3 years ago
(-37)
Kolmogorov Complexity
3 years ago
(+42/-25)
Agent
13 years ago
(+5/-42)
Computing Overhang
13 years ago
(+111/-1)