All of Warty's Comments + Replies
- Nail biting offers no intrinsic reward or pleasure. It isn't something I consciously enjoy or value.
couldn't work for me cause I lowkey love nail biting. didn't know other people were getting fucked up nails without the enjoyment
But how do you distinguish this argument from other arguments that prove false things?
1Hmm you're right, that's a good point!
A lot of things in nature seem to defy irreducible complexity, e.g. flowers, insect wings, web spitting spiders. Irreducible complexity is still the correct explanation why many things don't exist, e.g. a large animal which shoots a swarm of wasps as its enemies would be very adaptive in theory, but doesn't exist because it's hard to evolve.
But I was wrong to imply that irreducible complexity predicts/proves balloon-algae shouldn't exist. It's really just my explanatory model of why balloon-algae doesn't exist, given the hindsight information that there is no balloon-algae.
I remember the mom saying it was a wig in the Tucker Carlson interview.
what was up with the alleged wig?
android phone with google chrome
(related phenomena can be observed by scrolling to the 16-17 boundary and lowering the browser window width)
There are typos in the articles for example the category theory one:
A statement about terminal object is that any
maybe "terminal object" was a link with "s" added at the end but it reverted to its natural form in the importing process
there's weird shit going on on mobile like items 1-16 scroll a but horizontally
For 99% of random[3] reversible circuits , no such exists.
What's the proportion of circuits where P(C) is true?
if they were written today I'd be like "that's giga obvious"
wait is the lever position meaningful like that? I used lever direction = where the train go, cause it seemed intuitive.
"activating in another pattern" sounds similar enough to "scrambling". so are you saying, the brain will keep/change the patterns based on them being good/bad? it would seem partly likely (on my model), like say the motor function is scrambled in a useless way, it would be rescrambled into a way that works by learning, and if it happens to work better it would be kept. but it seems unlikely this process would strongly reflect my deepest intellectual endorsement. there could be conscious feedback fixing it, but the worry extends into the feedback "getting s...
first time I hear of TMS. I find it sus for the same reason as I find electroconvulsive therapy sus. like, what's the mechanism of the healing? sounds like it scrambles your brain and the new configuration is not depressed. but given this effect on depression, I would be worried about having other parts of me scrambled.
the fun and/or clarity can be improved/worsened. a way to improve fun is to have less text and more puzzle, here's a more fun hitchhiker version
burning the dog defense commons 😔
1cute, I hoped it would be more like historical or philosophical
An argument against computationally bounded Solomonoff induction is that it wouldn't get quantum physics, because it's exponentially hard to compute. But quantum computation isn't less natural than classical, so we might as well base it on a bounded quantum computer, which gets around the objection.
I generally think non-descriptive names are overused, but this isn't the worst of it because at least it's easy to tell which is which (1 comes before 2). Intuition/Reason aren't a perfect replacement since the words are entangled with other stuff.
I also found a huge effect in my twitter poll https://twitter.com/warty_dog/status/1773479101568786736 , though that has worse potential selection issues than ACX poll
Prayer beads, such as rosary beads (or anglican prayer beads?), are made of small round pieces of wood or metal with holes in them
Is this april fools