Oh yes thanks for the reminder.

quirk-washing TREACLES

I can’t wait to be quirk-washed, I’m ready to hang up my pick-me hat and let the new yorker do the work for me

This isn't a vote either way but my pitch for a name is just "Stubsack"

If Yud did his cult sermons IRL:

yud walks out onto stage, wearing a hat with a 🚫 sign with a period under it

Crowd: “Leader is wearing the silly hat!!! It’s a silly sermon! Prepare to laugh!!!!”

Yud: “There should be a gulag for low IQ people and Swedes!”

Crowd: “Amazing joke, leader! We must now justify the humor!!!”

In the "Rationalist Apologetic Overtures" skill tree we got:

• Denying wrongdoing/incorrectness (cantrip)
• Accusing the other side of bad faith (cantrip)
• Mentioning own IQ (cantrip)
• Non apology (1st level) (e.g. I'm sorry you feel that way)
• Empty apology (3rd level)
• Insincere apology (5th level)
• Acknowledgement of individual experience outside of one's own (7th level)
• Admission of wrongdoing/incorrectness (9th level)
• Genuine guilt (11th level)
• Actual complete apology (13th level)
• Admitting the other person is right (15th level)

This has major “because of the implication” energy.

For my research, the primary speedups from AI come from using chatGPT to speed up coding a bit and helping to write bureaucratic applications.

Lmfao

I just read the post about 0 and 1 being invalid probabilities. Here’s my best attempt at interpreting it as a joke: This is clearly yud’s attempt at creating a mathematical trollpost using only words.

But yeah as someone with a (honestly atrophied) degree in mathematics I am struggling to figure out the post. Whatever he’s doing, he’s not performing mathematics; at best it is sophistry. Honestly it makes me sad that he wrote it at all and that people read it and agreed with it.

Reading it is like going to a restaurant, seeing “bowl of plain rice” on the menu, ordering it, and getting served an old boot full of glitter and sawdust. Seeing the comment section and seeing people that think yud is smart or correct about anything is reading the yelp reviews later for the restaurant and seeing people talk about how they’ve never tried rice before having it at the restaurant, and that it was really good and that now when they go to other restaurants with rice it’s never the real thing and they shouldn’t be trusted.

For actually interesting contrarian maths, go watch some Norman Wildberger videos or something.

SBF: What if we kissed in the uncanny valley 😳😳😳

- These docs in a nutshell

Being a doomsday cult leader who denies being a cult leader must be hard. On one hand, you always need to say the end is nigh. On the other hand, if something resembling your foretold end appears, you need to downplay its apocalyptic potential while also praising it as a harbinger of the one true apocalypse. You must find the right balance so that your believers adhere to their faith, lest you lose your power source. Sounds exhausting!

Ok I figured out how to salvage it. People come on and pitch sensible business ideas that get shot down. We’d also get quotes like:

Aella: “If I take on an advisory role, will I be required to shower?”

Pinker: draws line up and to the right on graph “This problem is already as good as solved. I don’t see why any action on my part is necessary.”

EY: “You do not think in sufficient detail, and for that reason, I’m out.”

I had 100% certainty that 53 was prime when I was 12. Does that mean I was smarter than Yud back then? (I may have become more stupid since learning about LW)