Screwtape

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@RatOrthodox The real rationality is not the friends we made along the way

[pavedwalden @pavedwalden]

@vibecamp_ is a stone soup event. People bringing little bits of this and that are what make it nourishing. But without the pot I'd be going hungry.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@gptbrooke If every attendee had one problem, that means they had a great weekend. Only one problem!

If every attendee had one problem, the organizers had five hundred problems.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@BethlehemAmanda The Berkeley community is perhaps uniquely bad at this. It's size and splintered nature means that unless an offender is dramatically, publicly bringing the fact they were banned from e.g. Lighthaven up, your friendly local dinner party host is likely not aware of the banning.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@BethlehemAmanda There are something like a couple dozen people monitoring their sub-groups with varying levels of standards, aptitude, available time, and communication with the other groups. These people frequently disagree with each other.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@Mihonarium @RatOrthodox @captgouda24 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

in the cowboy days, many issues arose from the westerners not understanding how non-centralized the native americans were. They'd make a pact with a tribe, and feel betrayed when a different tribe raided them. From the outside, all the strange native folk seemed like one big undifferentiated mass.
If you're coming from a homogeneous normietown into a wild west of unusual communities, it might be hard to comprehend the diversity within them. After all, from the outside, they seem like one mass of vaguely weird people, and if one group of them is terrible you might be tempted to be like 'ah yes, the weird people are all secretly bad even though some of them seem good'

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@Pandora_Delaney Better meetups today than we had yesterday. Better meetups tomorrow than we have today.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@RatOrthodox The accommodation I request is that I be allowed to enforce the rules on my employers even when it is least convenient for them

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@RatOrthodox @cynlioness (Or "Enjoy the next few years" or "play to your outs and the worlds where you have time" which also make sense to me)

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@RatOrthodox @cynlioness why step 1?

I'm not actually sure you're wrong, there's a lot of people and a lot of resources and all in the bay. but I do think "try and stop them" is the actual answer?

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

This is among the concepts whose implications I would like intuitively understood by more people.

The technical form is something like "payoff matrices are often asymmetrical" and nontechnical is something like "heads I win, tails you lose- wait, why don't you want to play?"

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

But from a risk mitigation perspective nobody ever says “So we checked the history books and it turns out you guys were at ground zero for all the good news, so, we decided to pay you extra for that.”

[Wes, the Dadliest Catch @wfenza]

If you haven't been to Vibecamp yet, I strongly recommend you go this year. It's a really cool place.

I love vc because the people that go are wacky and diverse, but a lot of them are basically my ideal people - rationalists who know how to party. My biggest frustration with rat spaces are that everyone is so serious all the time and they don't know how to just let loose and have a good time. That is not a problem at vc.

Vibecamp is where I can do my Summer Solstice celebration that take the template from rat Winter Solstice, but pumps it full of positivity and happiness. It's where I can host karaoke with nothing more than a smartphone. This year there will also be a petting zoo, a talk on alternative government structures, and a human conveyor belt race all in the span of 3 hours.

It's also a place where I can take my 6yo daughter and let her run wild. They have a special cabin for parents and children. It's a high-trust environment where I'm confident she'll be fine and I don't have to keep two eyes on her at all times. And on Friday and Saturday night, they hire an actual babysitter to watch all the kids to the parents can go party. It's one of the most parent-friendly events I've ever attended.

There are still plenty of tickets left for this year, so if any of that sounds interesting to you, I heavily recommend getting one.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@AriZerner @owlthatissuperb @gptbrooke ACX crowd has a couple board game nights, one Wed and one Sat.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@gptbrooke Please, call me Screwtape, Mr. LessWrong is my father.

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

Actually I'm going to disagree here. If you enjoy Rimworld have you considered becoming a project manager or perhaps a team lead?

Take a bunch of people with different skills and preferences, and a bunch of problems of varying urgency and importance, then sort and match the two.

[Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn]

I guess all I'm saying here is Stardew is great, but consider putting an actual plant in your actual living room and then talking to an actual emo hottie; Rimworld is great but consider actually....... you know what, don't actually do that nmind

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

There is a phrase this amateur statistician sometimes uses for things like this. "Hot damn look at that chart."

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

One of the things that made the Mythos release hard to interpret is that Anthropic held back details on most vulns they found, to give defenders time to patch.

1 month later, info from orgs with access to Mythos is starting to trickle out, e.g. this post from Mozilla today:

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@AlisonSomin find yourself a girl who can name at least three court decisions that she 1) hates and 2) thinks were rightly decided as a matter of law. this is a serious recommendation

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@gptbrooke Hey at least they started splitting the rationalists and postrationalists

[Screwtape @WormwoodsUncle]

@cynlioness Sometimes the best way to get the con you want is to run it.