tmy;dr
(too much Yud; didn't read)
I think it was Walter Lewin of MIT, not Harvard
Manifold dating: for people who want to fuck the locally Euclidean
"Rationalists should win!" Not whine, win.
(Wonka voice) Strike that, reverse it
I doubted whether it would be a good use of time to read Michael Lewisβs new book Going Infinite about Sam Bankman-Fried (hereafter SBF or Sam). What would I learn that I did not already know? Was Michael Lewis so far in the tank of SBF that the book was filled with nonsense and not to be trusted?
I set up a prediction market,
10/10 perfect LessWrong, no notes
Yud loves to go on about how the map is not the territory, to the extent that his cult followers think he coined the phrase, but he is remarkably terrible at understanding which is which. Or, to be a little more precise, he is actively uninterested in appreciating that the question of what to file under "map" versus "territory" is one of the big questions that separate the different interpretations of quantum mechanics. He has his desired answer, and he argues for it by assertion.
He's also just ignorant about the math. Stepping back from the details of what he gets wrong, there are bigger-picture problems. For example, he points to a complex number and says that it can't be a probability because it's complex. True, but so what? The Fourier transform of a sequence of real numbers will generally have complex values. Just because one way of expressing information uses complex numbers doesn't mean that every perspective on the problem has to. And, in fact, what he tries to do with two complex numbers β one amplitude for each path in an interferometer β you can actually do with three real numbers. They can even be probabilities, say, the probability of getting the "yes" outcome in each of three yes/no measurements. The quantumness comes in when you consider how the probabilities assigned to the outcomes of different experiments all fit together. If probabilities are, as Yud wants, always part of the "map", and a wavefunction is mathematically equivalent to a set of probabilities satisfying some constraint, then a wavefunction belongs in the "map", too. You can of course argue that some probabilities are "territory"; that's an argument which smart people have been having back and forth for decades. But that's not what Yud does. Instead, through a flavor swirl of malice and incompetence, he ends up being too much a hypocrite to "steelman" the many other narratives about quantum mechanics.
βΉοΈ apparently is indeed the "stop button emoji"; whatever meaning he intended that to have, yours is irresistibly better.
Qu'est-ce que fuck did I just read?
split screen between "how to win the culture race" and "a short story about sex tourism in the Philippines"
"I dig a pony ... Well, you can penetrate any place you go / Yes, you can penetrate any place you go / I told you so"
That blog post irritates me in multiple directions every time I am reminded of it. The wrongness is so layered that any response I attempt degenerates into do you even Bloch sphere, bro before I give up and find something more worthwhile to do with my life.
Men will literally use an LLM instead of ~~going to therapy~~ writing documentation