David GerardMA to SneerClubEnglish · 1 year agoLightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money backmessage-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareLightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money backDavid GerardMA to SneerClubEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-text
Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s big fundraiser The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back
minus-squareblakestaceyMAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 year agoThe post: I think Eliezer Yudkowsky & many posts on LessWrong are failing at keeping things concise and to the point. The replies: “Kolmogorov complexity”, “Pareto frontier”, “reference class”.
minus-squareSoyweiserlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year ago“Kolmogorov complexity” lol ow god they are just tossing terms around again. Kolmogorov has nothing todo with being mega verbose.
minus-squareDavid GerardOPMAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agosolving the halting problem by talking it to death
minus-squareselfMAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agothe CS experts on the orange site and LW: “how can there be a halting problem when I refuse to ever stop?”
The post:
The replies: “Kolmogorov complexity”, “Pareto frontier”, “reference class”.
“Kolmogorov complexity” lol ow god they are just tossing terms around again. Kolmogorov has nothing todo with being mega verbose.
solving the halting problem by talking it to death
the CS experts on the orange site and LW: “how can there be a halting problem when I refuse to ever stop?”
Well that certainly is a problem