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Eli Tyre
@EpistemicHope
Trying to understand the world (my relationship to twitter: https://t.co/7UrZIBBeKS…)
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Dec 11 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Do I know anyone who participated in a 24/7 D/s relationship where the sub was *markedly* smarter than the dom? I'm interested in what's psychologically appealing about these relationships. On the sub side, it seems like it's often a comforting release of control to someone else, coupled with a strong personal respect for the dom.
Dec 2 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I just took a big-five test.

The post-test's descriptions of what a person with my scores on each factor is like very dramatically DIDN'T describe me.

What should I make of that? Specifically the descriptions of someone who had my scores in...

Overall openness,
Conscientiousness-Industriousness,
Extraversion-Enthusiasm,

...were markedly, dramatically, unlike me.
Nov 25 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A divide between people who are consequentialists "at core" vs virtue ethicists "at core": do you feel more or less motivated act with virtue, if you guess that you're in a solipsist simulation, and other people don't exist. If I was the only being in the universe, and this simulation was created for me, I feel more of an impulse to behave with virtue than if there are billions of other beings to impact, but my actions have an insignificant impact on the whole.
Oct 15 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Is this true?

Are there any outstanding theories for this flip? Image My first, perhaps unflattering, thought is that males, on average, have a stronger internal sense of personal gender identity than females, who's sense of gender identity is more fluid and more socially informed.
Oct 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I wonder if the reason why many people learn that it is more authentic and alive to trust their heart, rather than their own reason, is because their mind is pwned by parasitic memes that aren't aligned with their interests. If you can't trust your own reasoning, because it's been coopted by a bunch of ideologies that are out to get you to various extents, and you're not smart enough (relative to those memes) to reason your way out of those errors, it probably DOES...
Oct 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#EconQuestion Why does anyone think that increasing aggregate demand stimulates the economy, on net?

True, if more people are spending, that's more revenue for businesses, and more dollars flowing through the economy. But spending trades of directly with saving, which (if people are investing, or at least keeping their money in banks) flows through the economy as investment.
Sep 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Today I confirmed that I've been getting pull-ups and chin-ups confused, and recording one as the other in all my logging, for...the past 10 years.

Pull-ups are the ones where you're palms face out. Chin-ups are the ones where your palms face in. When you do chin-ups you can get your chin over the bar, which is much harder with pull-ups. Hence the name.
Aug 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Do we know how many standard deviations on the human IQ bell curve, the average chimpanzee is? Or is that an ill-defined question because the cognitive profile of chimpanzees are so different from humans that using a standard psychometric battery on a chimp doesn't give a meaningful "IQ" number.
Jul 10 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@ESYudkowsky, I think you've said that voting is the real life example of Logical Decision Theory in action.

(Quickly searching your facebook posts, I didn't find the citation, so maybe I'm mistaken and you never actually said that?) My understanding of the argument: one person's vote has an insignificant causal impact on the outcome of an election. But it makes sense to vote anyway, because your decision to vote and decision of who to vote for, is an algorithm instantiated across many voters.
Jul 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My impression of 1950s America, from news reels and ads, is that it was markedly more conformist than today.

All the men wear suits and hats?

I get the vibe that there's high levels of agreement about prestige hierarchies (eg everyone treats doctors with regard). There's much more uniform adherence to (eg gendered) social roles?

Is that impression correct? Am I just noticing some dimensions of conformity and missing others?
Jul 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Interestingly, this gives me a whole different sense of "virtue".

I value being virtuous for its own sake, as something like an aesthetic judgement. But there's a different way, which is more consequentialist: you just want "straightforward" desirable things like power and respect and sex and happiness, and so you do the things that get you those things.
Jul 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I'm thinking about if I was old and cognitively impaired, knowing that I would die in less than 10 years. But this would be easy for me. I'm signed up for cryonics. I'd probably already be in suspension if I was loosing track of sentences.

...unless maybe I had grandkids or something, and they were bringing me joy everyday. Maybe that would be a reason to stick around?
Jun 25 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I think this view of society comes from a human egalitarian impulse, in two ways. 1) Society is stratified. Some people are in fact much better off and afforded real privileges and opportunities that others have less access to. Those privileges are an existence proof that "society" can be like a beneficent parent to at least some people.
Jun 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
So it seems like one way that the world could go is:

- China develops a domestic semiconductor fab industry that's not at the cutting edge, but close, so that it's less dependent on Taiwan's TSMC
- China invades Taiwan, destroying TSMC, ending up with a compute advantage... ...over.the US which translates into a military advantage

- (which might or might not actually be leveraged in a hot war).
May 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So, my short summary of planet earth is 1) we're building superintelligence without knowing what we're doing and 2) we're torturing ~100 billion non-human animals every single moment.

The moral scale of those things is so large as to dwarf pretty much everything else. There are a few other things that matter, but mostly because they impact one of those two things.

But I think maybe I should be seriously considering that training / running ML models is painful, as a third thing on the list?
Apr 23 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Does anyone know what the argument is for the retention breath segment of Wim Hof breathing is?

It seems to me, based on the proposed mechanism, you should get all the benefits (and more so?) from straight up hyperventilating, without any breath hold at all. Does anyone know the claimed reason why holding your breath helps?
Apr 12 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Has their ever been a human culture that trained it's citizens in virtue, sufficiently, such that transparent flattery doesn't work on them?

This thought prompted by the ads in the airport, many of which have barely relevant flattering slogans. dath ilani would shocked at that. The slogans are trying to hack your decision process and they're not even logically valid!

But has any real human culture done better?
Mar 21 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
I'm monogamous by nature. I've never wanted to be in a romantic relationship with more than one person.

But I've exclusively dated poly people, since the people I wanted to date were poly. And ~all my friends are poly.

So I've been pretty close to some poly relationships. I'm exploring strategic "mainstream" dating right now. Seeing about meeting people on bumble, and so on.

I've been surprised by how strong the negative reaction to poly is.
Mar 20 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
I just read @nabeelqu's post on how to use twitter.

I don't get it. This is not my experience with Twitter at all.

nabeelqu.co/twitter I basically already follow his advice, with regards to tweeting.
Mar 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So....it was probably bad that Trump lost in 2020?

Because if he had won, he wouldn't be running again, and neither would Biden (probably).

And it seems likely that the intelligence explosion is going happen in the next presidential term. If Trump had won, we would at least be seeing different candidates this time around.

And that's not a guarantee that they would be better, than these two, but we at least get a different draw.
Mar 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It's dawning on me how much the incentives of software, and the world, are warped by VC.

The possibility of unicorn returns distorts the whole industry, most of which would probably have more wholesome impacts on the world if they focused on making more revenue than costs. The whole world is using software, but most (?) of the producers of the software are beholden to something other than their customers: they need to grow, so that they're attractive to the next round of investors, so that they can grow more, so that the founders can exit.