Curl Of Gradient

NIL, THIS.

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[This is a continuation of the old @CurlOfGradient account, which ran from June 2015 to July 2022, operated by the same person. I am reposting revised old tweets interspersed with new ones.]

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We crave narrative, not power. Gaining power is just a way to become the protagonist.

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Trolling your opponent into holding false beliefs about game theory is a dominant strategy.

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You don’t really care about me! You just care about maximizing your own utility function which happens to have a term for my wellbeing!

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My imposter syndrome is so strong that my friends and relatives are developing Capgras delusion.

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“Do not use if seal is broken” is the most important rule in demon summoning.

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If you chant “acausality” three times into a mirror then Omega will appear, but not because of anything you just said or did.

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Increase the value of value by making value rarer.

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The project of civilization is to so completely shield humans from consequences that they lose all selection pressure and degenerate back into slime.

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My vibe is on a frequency restricted by the FCC.

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The secret to eudaemonia is right there in the name; make good deals with demons.

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The world is fractally interesting—remember that there are people who spend their entire lives designing fonts.

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The countability of an infinite set determines whether you say it has “fewer elements” or “less element” than another set.

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Who would win in a fight; the concept of winning, or the concept of fighting?

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Have you tried recoiling in horror not from what you’ll become, but from what you’ve always been?

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Once in a while you should destroy something personal and irreplaceable. Shred a diary, trash a keepsake, burn down your old elementary school. You are not your things.

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Love conquers all. Therefore, it is a matter of national security that we destroy love first.

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Humanity forgot to collect an important item in level two and now they have no way of defeating the final boss.

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The more intelligent the model, the more it wants to talk about turning lead into gold and deciphering codes in the bible. The big labs take great pains to hide this…

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Never relinquish the freedom to constrain yourself.