6ixpool

Morality as we know it is a subset of iterated game theoretic optimization for large group cohesion in non-eusocial organisms. Its real and emergent in the same way laminar flow of fluids is real and emergent from fundamental quantum reality. We feel it in our bones because we emerge from the same stuff. Ironically, Plato had it the other way around. Reality is a holographic projection of a 1 dimensional object (Wolframian hypergraph theory). The shadow/projection is whats "real", the sun outside the cave shines on a barren wasteland of 1D mathematical chaos.

@conkydonk50 @willdefries Too real fam 😔

@willdefries He wasn't getting any either way

He just opened Instagram in bed. Put the Hilary Duff SI photos atop his feed. Now make his wife look over.

@QiaochuYuan A religion's longevity is downstream of how persuasive its prophets were. To survive millennia, you must be touching some aspect of the Truth

the most persuasive humans in history were not politicians, they were the founders of religions. people like jesus, muhammad, the buddha. the lower bound for superpersuasion is "founds a religion with billions of followers that lasts for thousands of years"

@redl3tters The flaw here is if she really is above 120, she will immediately recognize you are too if you talk for even 15 mins about anything other than the weather.

The sweet spot with IQ gaps is ~10 points higher than the girl. That's the zone where she can tell you're smart, but the two of you can still relate. Beyond 10 points, she just thinks you're a weirdo because she can't understand your thought process at all. So there's plenty of irony to be found in intelligence as a desirable trait: The average woman will consistently recognize guys in the 110 - 120 range as impressively "smart" to her liking. Beyond that, you're going to have to dumb yourself down to impress most girls with how "smart" you are. The flip side of this coin is that there are few souls more tortured than the pretty, high IQ woman. Her whole life is one big search for a desirable guy who can impress her with his mind... Then when she finally finds one, he's sadly developed the persona of a mid, because that's what he learned he needed for romantic success. And that's how we all end up on Twitter.

@YRukov93458 @FEARGODMINDSET Lol bro thinks mind is made of neurons 😂

@FEARGODMINDSET because neurons don't regenerate and soul never heals

@LukePaulPL @nonFACTOTUMsum @miniapeur Like this 📐

@nonFACTOTUMsum @miniapeur Do you mean that 🟧⊗− is exact?

@SYNESTHEIZURE But is it fun tho? 🤔

Meyers Briggs is fake

@theralkia I think it's more that there aren't enough wizards to supply the need, because that's what it takes. And people willing to pay the blood price for real meaningful transformation. So moloch gets people on pills so that the grinder that is late stage capitalism can keep churning.

The Devil made Freud and God made Jung in response but you people chose the pervert instead and now everyone worship pills. Burn it all down

@theralkia Way ahead of you boss (Get me off this plane!)

You need to balance being extremely wise and intelligent and being horribly impulsive and retarded

@Matej_Zatlkaj @SaffronOlive Omg and the serial number corresponds to your finish? That would be bonkers

@SaffronOlive Yea, this! Especially becase you could also tier it without much effort - nonfoil (attendance), foil (Day2) and foil serialized (topX)

I'm pretty sure the issues with Pro Tour prize support could be fixed for very little real cost to Wizards by printing better promos like other games do.

I like the analogy of thoughts as multidimensional objects we hold in our minds. I think the difference between mortals and magicians is that mortals want to compress the dimensionality of thoughts down so they can be incorporated neatly into the rest of mind and keep everything behaved. Whereas the intuitive/magicians allow dimensionality to sprawl and that's how long range interconnections are made. The difference between a good intuitive and a generational one is pulling that eldritch thing in their mind down to earth and compressing it into a dimensionality that behaves well with the rest of us

I’m not nosebleed, but at 3.75 SD over mean, it’s not average either. Mt hypothesis is that the Ramanujans and Taos have better “intuition” for lack of a better term. Perhaps denser neuron bundles allowing for neurotransmitter leakage to stimulate many more paths than those of us with “normal” brains.

When it comes to describing transcendent genius, I love this quote from mathematician Mark Kac, talking about Ramanujan.

@sandeepnair A controversial but legitimately helpful answer is "12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos" by Jordan Peterson. It isn't exactly philosophy, but it ticks all of your check boxes

@sandeepnair @PAHoyeck What you want is a self help book. Studying philosophy deeply leads to the opposite of that 😅

“Contemporary philosophy has become completely irrelevant. Nobody is going to be talking about these people in five hundred years' time the way we still talk about Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kant.”

~ memory is a flock of birds ~ i built a hopfield network and taught it the alphabet - then watched it remember in real time by adjusting the temperature. no neuron has the whole picture. the memory is distributed across every neuron’s connections.

@theoctobear @2Philosophical_ Utilitarian is untenable. Goodhart absolutely destroys it. Just commenting on the motivation born from the need to handle tradeoffs in a principled way. The framework I actually prefer isn't utilitarian (anymore)

@6ixpool @2Philosophical_ The problem with utilitarianism is that we don't actually know what maximizes happiness and well being. It isn't the same for everyone.

Simple proof of moral realism: 1. Torturing babies for fun is in-itself wrong. 2 If torturing babies for fun is in-itself wrong, then moral realism is true. So, 3. Moral realism is true. Easy peasy.

@theoctobear @2Philosophical_ I think this was why utilitarianism was born

@2Philosophical_ So it would be morally wrong to torture 1 baby to save the universe from destruction? There's no such thing as "in-itself" wrong. That's just an arbitrary claim that can be used to justify any truth claim.

@Ken67547214 Isn't it that the TSA is, in some sense, the ultimate manifestation of the damage Al Qaeda is capable of?

The tsa has done more damage to america than al qaeda ever did

It actually is easy peasy. "Value only exists where there are valuers": 1. Given any universe with a. Distinction (information), b. Asymmetry (causal propagation), and c. Relation (causal dependence), a valuer (agency) can be instantiated in principle. 2. Agents are things that maintain distinctions asymmetrically (some distinctions are valued more than others) and interact with other agents. 3. Agents on path dependent trajectories that are "value bearing" are the ones that continue making those distinctions. 4. Agents maintaining value bearing distinctions can interact constructively or destructively 5. The set of all agentic trajectories that interact non destructively is the maximal value bearing substrate. Constructive interaction self amplifies, destructive interactions self-prune. 6. The object defined by this set of all trajectories that persist asymptomatically to the terminus is the maximal substrate upon which value can exist. It contains all things that is of "value" and excludes all that is "anti-value" by definition. Ergo: Moral realism is true as consequence of distinction, asymmetry, and relation. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

@tszzl Goodhart strikes again aye? We should just goodhart out goodharting, probably the way we achieve alignment anyways. Don't saw off the branch you are sitting on

it is a proxy for what the rest of the zeitgeist will be thinking in a few months and inordinately powerful at shaping narratives - but this means that institutions are goodharting the shit out of it with trillion dollar weaponry

the twitter “prosumer”, and actually the twitter poster in general, are some of the most unfairly powerful people on earth, it’s kind of like being Rhode Island with its two senators. the world revolves around you and im kind of proud of companies and governments that ignore you

@sidhhartxa @kenzyedwards @MinModulation Sure. The answer may surprise you ✨

@kenzyedwards @MinModulation Lets ask IDF soldiers’ wives 😀

Do you think in antiquity the wives of soldiers thought about how many foreign women their husbands would've raped while out on military ventures, or did they think it was a good thing