Nina (@NinaPanickssery) on X (original) (raw)

there’s a grain of joke in every joke

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  I'm just a grabby-alien parent living in the age of em dash
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  example is the one job a pig would be least likely to do in pigsociety
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  It should not be illegal to give bad advice! That’s how you end up with a society where no-one is willing to give any advice at all.
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  People will really be like “you believe in having a family? that pales in impact compared to my strategy, having a great career” and then have a totally banal career
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  When you tell a LessWronger that probably they can start a family without all their children dying in the next 20 years...
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  It takes skill and hard work to be this good at wasting money. Most obvious ways to get rid of money would probably be better, including just handing it out randomly.
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  I want to register a prediction that “AI romantic partners” will never become a big thing. It will continue to be the domain of a small minority of loser idiots. Most humans will continue to prefer human partners indefinitely.
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  Replying to @EigenGender
  > how people spend their time how people who spend their time right before they decide to open twitter
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  I think writing a PhD thesis on smell is a very good idea and I would be tempted to do the same It would look something like this:
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  Read these jokes from 1600 years ago and tell me that humans in a few centuries will be so dissimilar from us that we may as well be indifferent between them and AIs
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  Review of Scott Alexander's book review of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
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  Baby has spent more time at Lighthaven than any other location besides our apartment—on track for an optimal childhood
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  Meeting extremely high IQ people who hold absurd beliefs and behave very irrationally eventually hammers in the point that "ability to perform useful computation" and "behaves like a coherent, rational goal-directed agent" are different things.