noumena

The thing-in-herself; the map corresponds to me

[noumena @wearsshoes]

Common mistake for nontechnical people to think trans women are disproportionately interested in functional programming. Actually they're mainly interested in categirly theory

[noumena @wearsshoes]

i'm not quite sure when it happened, but pinterest interior design is pretty much all AI generated now. feels like there's now this huge gap between the photo you want and what you can find someone to actually make irl

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@JeffLadish @Ferbin08 i don't think you've truly internalized 'claude code solve everything'

[Rojava Information Center @RojavaIC]

[THREAD]

1/ On Friday, the Syrian Transitional Government (STG) announced it will recognize certificates issued by the Autonomous Administration, a major step for the region's education system, which operated for years without recognition from Damascus.

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@UpperCayce @funplings Def higher

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@ilex_ulmus 1000% this

Also if someone has Good Epistemics
You can be sure that they are Aligned

like what the actual fuck

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@tomieinlove @funplings i literally snorted ty

[noumena @wearsshoes]

deadass he's right though. 6 zillion replies objecting and not a single simple "oh honey"

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

@CharlesFLehman I’m not suggesting there’s something wrong with straight people broadly, but I would just note that the “rationalist” community appears to consist entirely of straight people

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@juliarturc @slash_rei_slash no! everything is nicer and prettier in that world! and status games get weird sometimes but ideally cozier too!

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@mark_bikes @bending_michael @captgouda24 why don't you think so? seems like a classic case to me, following the intution of https://t.co/7ZQzKhFDYm

[noumena @wearsshoes]

I think this is wrong. The basic form of conflict is "You have wronged me" "No, I did not" which is fundamentally an epistemic argument, so it is about truth seeking.

And many objective tools exist! Video, eyewitness testimony, etc.

The issue IMO is that in many cases the objective tools we have are either of insufficient resolving power ("he said, she said") or far too costly ("do you *really* want to drag this through the courts") and thus due to social transaction costs most personal conflicts can't get settled.

We also have a set of secondary tools, such as character judgment, appeal to authority, etc which are also used in first-rate real science. You are probably thinking about the extreme poewr these tools have and the frequency through which they are brought to bear, when you claim the objective lens doesn't exist.

But the sciences are sciences because they have developed first rate objective tools, not because their object of study is any more or less about truth-seeking

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@VoidNulled @Xre217 @viemccoy oops i just learned i've probably been annoying people with this. can you tell me why you don't like hearing this?

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@JonathanDBos @AndyMasley my simple model of this is that there is a roughly infinite amount of work to be done to improve my own life, but it also takes money, and if i have to trade my time to get the money, i can't use the time for myself

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@JonathanDBos @AndyMasley definitely the aid! would love to get to the bottom of why you think this is a rhetorical question.

in your setup, would the charity give you as much money for free as the factory will pay you for work, or did you have different amounts in mind? if so how different?

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@rraaaaawwwrrrrr @TylerAlterman meanwhile, effective altruists be like "i read a thing and it was obviously correct, now i'm devoting my life to it"

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@rraaaaawwwrrrrr @TylerAlterman every rationalist i know has the origin story of "i heard this phrase, immediately cringed at how socially autistic this was, yet somehow still got sucked down this dark vortex of million word posts, and now i guess i'm postratadj or something"

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@KelseyTuoc @AndyMasley move over, mr beast!

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@drethelin I'm still confused. Are you accusing OAIF of grifting? Or the nonprofits?

Like this sounds like just normal carnegie style non-EA philanthropy to me, maybe not the best use of money but the typical way that big corps give back

[noumena @wearsshoes]

After integrating our own costs at Mox, and comparing our offering to SFPL's offering, I think that $20-$25/visit is a reasonable cost for the service provided, although this isn't to necessarily say that the public should bear it on behalf of the patrons.

I could be nudged upwards by finding out that library services are more impactful to people than my current model says, or become more sympathetic to the public funding argument by finding out that libraries provide bigger public benefits beyond the immediate persons being helped than I currently think.

[noumena @wearsshoes]

@cis_female BOTEC, Mox expense is currently roughly $60 per visit (and we charge day pass as $70) which I'm sad about. Mox could hold 3x as many people at which we'd have $30-40 in expenses per visit