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FICTION Nifty, thrifty Swifties (fifty_swifties) <2024-180 Electronics allergy (come up with wittier title) <2024-220 Pat gets experimental Russian HIV treatment side effect (discovered one morning) is allergic reaction to phone (and later all electronics) cope how? Prompts from J.M. <2024-220 Crusade against information (fiction) (anti_info) <2024-220 Sam experiences very direct pain from Sewivadan "intoxicants" Sam wields a gadget leading them to electronics to destroy Allergic Luddite Rashomon (fiction) (...) 2024-351 write from first-person perspectives of Sam, Leslie, Alex, and Pat one is electronics-allergic Luddite terrorist another is victim two other characters, somehow Unorthodox Union (fiction) (...) 2024-352 behaviours and implications of a neo-religion with the exact opposite rules of Judaism only eat treif food? only work on Shabbat? ENLX101 (fiction) (...) 2024-353 professor is someone silly like Leslie Neyret, idk written into a world with no LLMs, nor good chatbots any other way teacher demonstrates determinism/predictability of human speech and its effects analogy to other engineering contemptuous comparison to English classes PRACTICAL WEIRDNESS CSS is very powerful (css_power) <2024-220 example: index tag selector example: ordinal date converter via calc(...) abuse? If I ran the classes (...) 2024-250 maths, english (cf rcdc), history (cf predictive), science, there may be others maybe write as story Spaced repetition for dance (dance_study) <2024-200 Bombs: a card game (...) 2024-232 learn and summarise from old document (circa 2016? 2018?) maybe retitle and replace terms to be less violent Do people understand percentages? (...) 2024-287 check for prior art run an experiment, perhaps via local university resources Negligible utility of voting (...) 2024-310 argument based on lots of multiplication consider the value of differences in policies and the relative values of average Americans vs self consider the probabilities of your vote affecting the election and of your vote being "correct" likely conclusion: voting has some utility as a function of your confidence in the correct vote, and in the diff. between your values and average values, which is only useful under occasional given circumstances "democracy relies on the will of the people" democracy should care about the values of the people, but the policy to pursue that value should be picked by only the wise (focus just on this?) The Hanoi graph as a three-way "number line" (...) 2024-360 describe Hanoi graph describe neighbour relation neighbour relation (in ternary) is quite like increment/decrement (in binary) each node has a neighbour roughly up, roughly left, roughly right Should we still write? (...) 2025-052 ask an LLM to write from the cruxes of each of my recent/innovative posts check whether it recalled from having read them itself check whether it captures all the corollaries/nuances at similar quality perhaps human writing is obsolete? Physicist mindset (...) 2025-071 by analogy to "business mindset" by Lsusr (whoa) "toilets are a general mechanism for discarding objects via water" you can do pull-ups on anything "humans all the way down" is kinda a special case of this you can crudely model automobiles (from observations) without knowing there are humans within nothing magic about life, it's just a "strategy" by which structures become common FUNKY REFLECTIVE STUFF Crimes ignored in common morals (moral_crime) <2024-180 The joy of scheduling (schedule_joy) <2024-200 example: sabbath (cf comparative advantage argument, this one seems closer?) example: taking tests (that one i kinda nailed?) example: try some more dakka, write about experiences Still destroyed by madness (howl_again) <2024-200 parody of Ginsberg's "Howl", modernised to reflect what's wrong with the kids these days Consistently-seldom-used third places (...) <2024-200 You learn more from (novel) success (success_learning) <2024-180 cf boon_bane I am a humour microscope (humour_microscope) <2024-180 follow-up to loud_laugh All your friends are filtered (filtered_friends) <2024-210 Layers of willpower (willpower_layers) <2024-180 what even is this? maybe i meant: most of the time, i act by habit/inertia; i have lucid moments where willpower matters Interval and ratio variables (...) <2024-220 check for prior art detailed comparison, intuition-loading, theorems interval variable is log of ratio variable Shifting control between hypothalamus and cerebrum (...) <2024-225 example: drinking vs storing water example: eating vs storing food example: constant clothing, outdoors, vs variable clothing and heating/AC Fungibility as a form of entropy (...) <2024-225 fungible : entropic :: distant : counterfactual entropy: variety of exact forms (microstates) that look the same as far as we care (macrostates) fungibility: variety of copies of the object that are acceptable substitutes both are logarithms and so both interval variables (this totally fits) go further, perhaps, for "thermoeconomics" in general wait maybe i completely misunderstand "fungible" Living without taste (...) <2024-225 cf ascetic hedonism (close overlap in concepts) bring up the transfer function, like x^(1/4) from a normal person's rating to mine (0 to 1) example: food (pizza is better than lettuce ... i guess) example: people's appearance as targets of attraction example: music (Arrival of the Birds is better than Need to Know ... i guess) 10 broad ideas I take seriously (...) <2024-227 prediction is compression is understanding determinism (including on humans, cf "could" stuff) ubiquitous, avoidable brain-rot memory is associative preferences reduce options what matters must be observable positives are more specific than negatives 20/80 rule and its extensions (4/64, etc) humans all the way down words are arbitrary barbell strategies tools are fragile "want" is distinct from "like" feelings aren't special Additive dimensional analysis (or, positions and distances) (additive_dimension) <2024-200 example: quadratic formula Complex rules in mundane life (mundane_rules) <2024-180 hand hygiene finite state machine when do i wear spectacles? there's more, of course? Habitual spontaneity (...) 2024-282 cf ascetic hedonism if you get stuck in ruts too much, make a habit of jumping between ruts easily let's see how the "experiment" plays out Becoming icepilled (icepilled) 2024-246 an ice pill does nothing, i.e. avoid ideology perhaps more descriptive of what i really do is voidpill (check usage) What irks me of common writing (...) 2024-289 better title ofc it's arguments by authority ("citing sources") all the way down instead, cite sparsely, for measurements you couldn't take yourself, or better explanations write by logic and personal experience perhaps my field biases me Logical fallacies are only kinda wrong (...) 2024-304 look up list, as from Purdue OWL for each one, argue how the pattern really does provide some evidence (in the Bayesian sense) however, we regard them as fallacies sith they are overconfident Diversity is an anti-bane (...) 2024-313 common views promote it like a boon the bane in question: "discriminating" by criteria that don't really matter Experiences and labels (...) 2024-362 make wittier term for "experiences" the dichotomy's really a spectrum children vs adults (and why we ended up this way) relative ease of labels practices to favour experiences alt'ly: examples and definitions Death by many cuts (...) 2025-053 counterpoint to Lsusr's "Death by a single cut" inspired by Yudkowsky on Einstein's confidence: if you act only when decently sure, any action you take had multiple reasons to favour it cf AN #1478 LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY Silence over stuttering (stuttering) Language is for ease and safety (safe_language) what is the function of language? what would we do without language? cases where that breaks down cases where we actually do that in modern language (or "language") cf icepilling Arithmetic axiomatisation of difficulty (difficulty_arith) for independent tasks, diff(A then B) = diff(A) + diff(B) for independent tasks, diff(A while B) ≥ diff(A) + diff(B) diff(effortless) = 0, diff(impossible) = ∞ It's adjectives all the way down (adjectives) toki pona suffices sentence structure: (CONTEXT la)* SUBJ (li PRED)+ (PREP PP)* subject is adjectives (duh) and nouns (secretly adjectives, "jan" is just "ijo jan", kinda) predicate is verb, but verbs are fake, really just adjectives processes are the sum of their snapshots subject-predicate is topic-comment, adjectives on both sides object is part of subject prepositions can be part of topic (as in "mi moku e pan lon tomo") or part of comment (as in "mi jan lon tomo") "there is bread in the house" = "pan li lon tomo" = "tomo li jo e pan" context is topic-comment pair, repurposed as topic It's verbs all the way down (verbs) isomorphic to adjectives, but alternative, as in Daoism's contradictions, perhaps The null action is an illusion (null_action) you're always doing something skipping something expands all later things ignoring a decision lets the outside world decide minimalism is redistribution Multiple meanings of "difficult" (...) study my corpuses and cluster usages it might just be "requiring great preparation/skill to do correctly" My legs brought me here (specific_cause) "what makes you say that?" "my brain controlling my mouth" "what brings you here?" "legs" problem: those answer "what makes you say things?" and "what brings you places?" in general Tighten negatives, end with positives (limited_negative) tighten e.g. "i've never known the sky to be green" to "i've always known the sky isn't green" to "i've always known the sky is non-green" tighter negatives are easier to work with (analogy to Fitch-style proofs) positives are systematically more specific the last input sticks in the mind (limited memory fills + peak-end rule) VAGUE PROMPTS THAT MAYBE SUCK Whence extraordinary seriousness? (or, generalised Chesterton's fence) (general_chesterton) Statistical theory of gender (search for prior art, be very careful) definition of gender explain relevance of "selling nonapples" invalidate and revalidate trans Economic value is in the mind (search for prior art) Reversible logic (search for prior art) Logic is applied neuroscience (reference xkcd 435 at the start) Christianity's God does not induce a moral law Conjunction fallacy (P(A & B) > P(A)) is a problem with the questioner (make a clever title?) Risks of agentic estimators Missing the trees for the forest (in chemistry, in nutrition, ...) Vitamin M (mindfulness/meditation, by analogy to Raptitude's miraculos)
