Isaac King 🔍
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I enjoy Twitter, but I don't like how it encourages a focus on how many likes you get and who has the most followers. To that end I've made a Chrome extension that hides all indications of how popular everyone is. It's already improved my experience.
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This is a reverse Ishihara test, where the number is only visible to people who *are* colorblind.
Everyone who said "lol I know this isn't a number, you're just messing with me": congrats! You're not colorblind. :)
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Elaborate jokes that will only be understood by like 5 people on the planet are the actual best
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"Autistic people are so weird, they'll sometimes even answer questions truthfully. Watch out."
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Javascript is light years ahead of every other programming language.
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A case study in parrot misalignment: When we first got her, sometimes she'd get scared of new toys or other unfamiliar objects and we would reassure her with "it's ok". So now whenever she's scared of something, she says "it's ok" over and over while rapidly backing away from it.
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A few years ago, I hired someone to do some simple construction work on my house. He asked for a $300 deposit, then never did the work. After months of excuses, I paid the ~$50 fee and did the few hours of paperwork necessary to take him to small claims court.
I won the case,
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One of the worst tendencies of authorities is to make rules based not on what is good, but on what is normal.
Is a child with a bag of pencil sharpeners problematic in any way? No. But are they weird? Yes. So a rule must be made against it. Can't have weirdness in the classroom.
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@stanfordNYC
Of the colorblind people who have seen it, about half of them say it's 23 and the other half say 73. I can't see the number myself, but two people in the replies messed with photoshop to make it visible to those with normal vision and they both found 73.
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I wish there were a word that carried the positive connotations of "friend" without the closeness that it implies. There are lots of people whom I would want to describe as "someone I don't know on a personal level, but I have a generally positive opinion of them".
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This Neuralink video is really separating the Elon stans from the technology stans. We've had this technology for 15 years folks.
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There's a variant of Goodhart's law that applies to human value systems. These people presumably started out opposing animal cruelty, and they adopted "lower meat usage" as a decent proxy measure. But over time they internalized the proxy, and their moral values changed from
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If you want to understand why the world is the way it is, focus not on this math teacher, but on the quote tweets arguing that 360 is correct because it's what the teacher was looking for.
According to them, the purpose of school is to train children that they must set aside
Update -- the mystery is now solved. The answer to question 13) is 360. My daughter put infinity, so she got 39/40 on the homework, but that is how you learn.
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@davidlbowman
Well either way one party has to be willing to trust the other. In this case he said it was for materials, which I thought was reasonable at the time.
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@MouseyPiper
Yep, pretty much. People with a specific form of colorblindness can see the number 73.
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"If, tomorrow, I tell the press that 16 million baby chickens will be put through a macerator, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'. But when I say that one little old batch of squirrels will be fed into a shredding machine, well then everyone loses their minds!"
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Humanity hard at work turning superstition into a real thing.
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@trickylabyrinth
Simply knowing what the word "automata" means is probably like 5% of Americans at best.
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Important to remember that colorblindness is a spectrum. Some people are more colorblind than others, some have different types. Some people who aren't diagnosed will be able to see the number, and some who are, won't. But in general, it's much easier to see if you're colorblind.
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People often object to these sorts of anecdotes as exceptions. Obviously in a country of millions of people, even very rare things will happen more than 0 times, and the media will pick up on these rare cases and spread them all over the news.
This is a good thing to keep in
man reports his dad missing. police suspect he killed him based on vibes. after he doesnt confess after 16 hours of interrogation, they tell him theyre gonna euthanize his dog, and bring in the dog "to say goodbye." he confesses
the dad's alive the whole time
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A nice example came up at RC Edmonton of how Wizards of the Coast is actively obstructing judges' efforts to understand Magic's rules and give correct answers to players.
The question was as follows: Alice casts Intuition. Nancy responds with Opposition Agent. What happens?
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Bitcoin can be seized. The government simply says "either give us your keys or we throw you in jail".
Power over the physical world is ultimately all that matters. You cannot escape into the digital when its substrate is housed in a reality that someone else controls.
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@hejibits
And yes, "5 people" was obviously an exaggeration. Conway's Game of Life is something that many programmers and other "mathy" people know, so a couple million people in total probably, but it's still quite niche overall. Ask a random person on the street and they'll have no idea.
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An interesting question that thus far has received very few good answers.
Solutions like "press escape to go to the menu" or "kill the ender dragon and see the credits" are obviously invalid, an in-game intelligence would not have those options.
"Notice the game lagging" has
what would be the simplest route for a smart minecraft character to confirm it's in a simulation?
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@Edokwin
I think this one is only visible to a certain type of colorblindness, but there exist other tests that do show different things to different people depend on the exact type of colorblindness they have.
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I did not know dice facts were in this much demand.
Did you know that casino dice are transparent so you can verify that they don't have weights or air bubbles inside?
@shaggysurvives
@typedfemale
Traditional dice have opposite sides add up to 1 more than the highest number on the die. However this is violated sometimes, such as on "spindown" 20-sided dice, where they want it to be possible to count from 1 to 20 only moving to an adjacent face each time.
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@lisatomic5
Wow, I did not expect these results. Both pills are stable equilibria; if everyone picks the same pill, everyone lives, regardless of which pill it is. But picking blue involves personal risk while picking red doesn't, so I figured red would be the Schelling point.
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I've been trying using ChatGPT to help me code, but the amount of time I have to spend debugging plausible-looking but subtly-bugged code is mostly cancelling out the gains.
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Yes Neuralink is working on making it cheaper, faster, and more reliable, and it'll be great if they succeed, but it's not some groundbreaking demo. Here's a video from 2008:
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People have been bringing up other examples of this principle, and my favorite so far is that in Washington DC it's not uncommon for landlords to refuse to rent to anyone with diplomatic immunity, since they can't be evicted.
A few years ago, I hired someone to do some simple construction work on my house. He asked for a $300 deposit, then never did the work. After months of excuses, I paid the ~$50 fee and did the few hours of paperwork necessary to take him to small claims court.
I won the case,
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@parakeetnebula
Nah, that's just one of her favorite noises. (Her favorite noises are all of the most annoying noises.) That squeak in particular she also tends to use when she's scared.
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@kcincina
On the contrary, a bag of sharpeners can create more points than almost any other activity!
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It may look like this tweet was written by an intelligent being, but don't be fooled: it was just a bunch of chemical interactions between molecules, something that literally every other physical object is doing.
That “learning” is an anthropomorphization. It just means fitting mathematical models to data which is something literally every other quantitative science is doing.
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Yeah, there's a big problem with selection bias in the autism advocacy community. The nonverbal people (obviously) don't talk about their perspective, so they tend to not get heard, and people get the impression that all autism is just "quirky nerd with bad social skills".
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Best contender so far:
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@NJGenerals85
Ah yes, the classic "it's easier to punish victims for coming forward about bad behavior than it is to punish the bad behavior".
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@__Sam_I_am__
Sure, but that's not what math class is *supposed* to be about. And such a lesson would be even more effective if the lie were even more egregious, like being supposed to say that there are 5 lights on the ceiling when there are actually 4.
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> Looking for a good rules question.
> Someone tells me they have one about Panglacial Wurm.
> I ask if it's an interesting question or a Selvala question.
> They laugh and say "it's a good Panglacial Wurm question sir".
> I ask for the question.
> It's a Selvala question.
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@GristlyGrisly
Yeah, same problem. If you prevent fine-grained sorting, people will fall back on coarse-grained sorting.
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@paulg
Colorblindness doesn't mean you can't see color. It means the range of colors you can see is smaller than normal.
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I wish I had known that student; when I was in elementary school I collected pencils. We would have been unstoppable.
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Hmm, lots of people not reading or misunderstanding what I said. To help them out:
* I did not say that Neuralink is not cool or not an improvement over existing technology. It is! What I'm criticizing here is the people who are treating it as more revolutionary than is
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Yeah, this is deeply irresponsible reporting. Assuming its a near-infrared laser, the refractive index of air is ~1.0002741, so the laser travels around 82,000 m/s lower than the speed of light. Embarrassing.
Sometimes I wonder if I am being too hard on the media.
No.
No, I'm not.
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Traditional dice have opposite sides add up to 1 more than the highest number on the die. However this is violated sometimes, such as on "spindown" 20-sided dice, where they want it to be possible to count from 1 to 20 only moving to an adjacent face each time.
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This seems like a common failure mode in knowledge-based hobbies. People pour a ton of effort into learning the details of their field, giving it personal importance to them, and they incorrectly generalize this to a belief that their obscure trivia is of general importance.
@RichardHanania
The Carthage one can’t be real.
I refuse to believe it.
It’s such an intrinsic part of my knowledge sum since I was a kid that I can’t fathom college level students NOT knowing that basic fact.
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This "moving image that can't be seen when paused" effect doesn't need to be done with visual snow, it can be done with anything! You just need any sequence of frames where the desired video is encoded in the difference between those frames, rather than the frames themselves.
can you see the spinning dodecahedron? pause the video and it disappears
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Ok I read the "autism cure" paper that a bunch of people are sharing. Notable takeaways:
* This was not a real study where scientists come up with a hypothesis and put it to the test. This was a post-hoc report where they heard about some people who seemed to be cured, and wrote
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ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it in scratch.
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What a chart. I think this has earned second place on my all time charts list.
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TIL the Nazis made 100s of millions of dollars of extremely high-quality counterfeit English currency. They originally planned to airdrop it over Britain to destabilize the economy, but didn't have enough planes, so they used some to fund the war and dumped the rest in a lake.
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Eudaimonia Nexus as an aspirational tale
Activists: At long last we have banned the Eudaimonia Nexus from classic sci-fi novel We Should Create The Eudaimonia Nexus
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@ZachRoseWriter
@benji_smith
When you publish a book, you do in fact consent to people reading that book and learning the information within. That's actually one of the main purposes of publishing books. If you'd like to keep that information private, my suggestion would be to *not* publish the book.
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@NoNonsenseND
It's fascinating to me how often more "socially aware" people will exclude someone who's clearly trying to be a part of the conversation. Not sure if they're much less aware than they think they are, or are doing it intentionally.
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The new Twitter drama concerns both Magic rules and game theory‽ Count me in! 🧵
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Huh, age-based workplace discrimination law is very narrow.
* A 20y/o harassing a 35yo for being too old: fine.
* A 40y/o harassing a 20yo for being too young: fine.
* A 75y/o harassing a 40yo for being too young: fine.
* A 25y/o harassing a 40yo for being too old: Not allowed!
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@mike_maric
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Yeah, same here. My partner and I had an extra room and considered renting it out, but if the tenant vandalized our stuff or something we wouldn't be allowed to kick them out, so there's just one less apartment in the area now.
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now defines "eugenics" as simply the belief that humans are subject to evolution.
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Wikipedia has done an amazing job of maintaining a reasonable standard of neutrality in polarizing times. It does have a slight left-wing bias, but less so than almost every major US news platform. Perhaps if all the right-wing culture warriors tried actually contributing rather
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1. One group of people discovered the "if you disagree with me if means you're a bigot" strategy.
2. It was very effective.
3. Everyone else started using the same strategy.
4. Now everything is worse, including for the first group of people.
Hey
@Delta
- did you add Palestine as a new summer route?
Your customers on a Boston to West Palm Beach flight yesterday were perplexed to see your flight attendant adorning a flag of Palestine pin.
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Imagine these sorts of headlines being written about anything else. "Father discovers he's powerless to stop his perfectly healthy daughter from getting married."
Yes. You are describing a good thing.
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The correct answer is
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Sylvan Library offers you a choice to draw 2 cards. Narset/Leovold/Spirit of the Labyrinth says that you cannot draw more than one card, so it's illegal to choose to draw more. Replacement effects aren't applied until later.
Legacy rules quiz!
You control Sylvan Library and have two Life from the Loams in your graveyard. Your opponent controls Narset/Leovold. Can you dredge the two Life from the Loams, then draw a card for the third draw? If you can, how much life would it cost to keep everything?
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Fun fact: If you want to exercise your right to remain silent, you actually have to *say* that you're exercising your 5th amendment right to remain silent. If you just remain silent, you could have been silent for some other reason, which can legally be used against you.
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@robotsneedpoems
Are you defining "uncollectible" as "the legal system doesn't allow me to collect from them"? If so that's rather tautological, don't you think?
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I see this post has escaped containment, so to explain what I meant by misalignment, it's a reference to the alignment problem in artificial intelligence.
I gave Ada (the parrot) some data about her environment (the words I say around specific objects). She noticed a pattern,
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@Yukon_GoldRef
That is how it works, there are different types of colorblindness.
You can see all the other comments of people who can see the number for proof.
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One time I used "the sky is blue" as an example of an uncontrovertibly true fact, and the person I was talking to pointed out that it spends more time being grey, pink, or black than it does being blue.
...Why did this become the go-to example?
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Using Y2K as an example of overblown concerns should get you automatically disqualified from opining about technology or risk. The reason it didn't cause widespread problems was BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE WARNED AND FIXED IT IN ADVANCE.
Bad news.
France opted to host an AI Safety Summit in November 2024, but several of our sources confirm it has been postponed to February 2025. It has also been renamed to “AI Action Summit”, dropping the all-important safety focus. Safety will be a minor part of the summit,
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@_Mira___Mira_
Even setting aside the hedonistic argument, there are many practical differences between how I'm going to plan my next 6 months of life if I think I have a 50% chance of living vs. a 0% chance.
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The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task that everyone will yell at you if you don't do.
To return the shopping cart is objectively wrong. There are no situations other
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@theflournoy
What, specifically, about a circle, comes out to 360 degrees? Define your terms.
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FYI I strongly recommend not trusting any statistic on "antisemitism" without looking at the actual poll questions. e.g. the first statement here from the ADL is just straightforwardly true, and several others are arguably so, yet you're counted as an antisemite if you say so.
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@PelopsWar
If a society needs to turn to reality TV shows over their own justice system, something has gone horribly wrong.
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@sjohns842
@acidshill
It's also bad when rich people evade laws, but they generally can't do it quite as flagrantly, and it's much less tenable to avoid them as a group. Not sure what biases you're referring to.
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Actual conversation I just had:
Them: "My editor is automatically closing my HTML tags and I don't like it."
Me: "Yeah, there's probably a setting to disable that. It's a neat idea, but can be annoying."
Them: "Yeah, it's not ideal for me. I don't want to close my HTML tags."
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I've been alive for ~14 million minutes. In none of those minutes has a banana spontaneously appeared in front of my face and started break dancing. By Laplaca's law of induction I can justifiably be 99.99999% sure this will not occur in the next minute.
Except there's an easy
It's unhinged dogmatism to be 99.9999 sure of anything. Discuss.
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@Vuojolahti
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That's not accurate, just see the other replies. Different people do things different ways, different cultures have different norms.
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