Moon Of Life retweeted
If we cannot answer the annoying question of why there is something rather than nothing, perhaps we can at least answer why there is only something rather than everything. Perhaps existence is the default.
Moon Of Life retweeted
812 double pendulums with different initial conditions jnafzig.github.io/2018/02/05…
Moon Of Life retweeted
There is no hidden reserve of smart people who know what they're doing, anywhere. Not in government, not in science, not in tech, not at AppAmaGooBookSoft, nowhere. The world exists in the same glorious imperfection that it presents with.
Moon Of Life retweeted
You throw a corpus into word2vec and a 1-d submanifold pops out that’s just different intensities of “fnord”.
Moon Of Life retweeted
You can't explain a seemingly magical system in reductionist terms unless it was designed from the beginning to have a hidden explanation.
Moon Of Life retweeted
A human should be able to play a status game, play a status game, play a status game, and play a status game. Specialization is for insects.
Moon Of Life retweeted
Great philosophy helps predict outcomes of deterministic computation. The best philosophy changes them.
Moon Of Life retweeted
Going meta and being aroused are both easier to do when observing other people.
Moon Of Life retweeted
if we expect to transcend easily we should split into two civilizations so we can both transcend and have two seats at the galactic table
Moon Of Life retweeted
The general principle, an instance of which is: provide spell-checking during editing, but don't have red squiggly lines on the printout.
Moon Of Life retweeted
Can we all agree to stop saying "Type I" and "Type II" errors and just say "false positives" and "false negatives"?
Moon Of Life retweeted
A Lannister always pays his debts because precommitment to tit for tat is the least technically advanced way to beat prisoner's dilemmas
Many try to reduce their energy consumption, for environmental reasons; I try to increase it, the faster to reach Kardashev type 1