lsusr

Here is a list of all my public writings and videos.

If you want to do a dialogue with me, but I didn't check your name, just send me a message instead. Ask for what you want!

Sequences

Life Star
Daoism
True Stories
Adversarial Strategy
Dialogues on Rationality
How to Write
Bayeswatch
Luna Lovegood
Sunzi's《Methods of War》
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Wiki Contributions

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lsusr20

You're right. I just like the phrase "postmodern warfare" because I think it's funny.

lsusr80

If you enjoy The Big Short (2015), you may enjoy Margin Call (2011) too. It covers similar territory (what to do in a market crash), but I feel is more professional and dispassionate.

lsusr20

I didn't know about that. That sounds like fun!

lsusr20

In my experience, there's two main cases of "trying to do good but fails and ends up making things worse".

  1. You try halfheartedly and then give up. This happens when you don't care much about doing good.
  2. You do something in the name of good but don't look too closely at the details and end up doing harm.

#2 is particularly endemic in politics. The typical political actor puts barely any effort into figuring out if what they're advocating for is actually good policy. This isn't a bug. It's by design.

Answer by lsusr20

No, but you can create an alt account.

lsusr20

If you don’t think OpenAI is going to make trillions reasonably often, and also pay them out, then you should want to sell your stake, and fast.

And vice-versa. I bought a chunk of Microsoft a while ago, because that was the closest thing I could do to buying stock in OpenAI.

lsusr60

This post makes me feel better about my writing process. I write how I think, which means I can get away with little editing.

lsusr40

I think the answer is: the homunculus concept has a special property of being intrinsically attention-grabbing…. The homunculus is thus impossible to ignore—if the homunculus concept gets activated at all, it jumps to center stage in our minds.

I don't fully understand this bit. I feel like I'm reading a mathematical proof where the author leaves out steps that are trivial to the author, but not to me.

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