Here’s a mini-review of “If anyone builds it, everyone dies”: tl;dr: I found the book disappointing. I thought it relied on weak arguments around the evolution analogy, an implicit assumption of a future discontinuity in AI progress, conflation of “misalignment” with

Common law vs civil law of gardens

Clearly gerrymandered

US military:

Is this autism?

Disappointed. When I first saw this I thought the 266-page thesis was *about* how men pose with fish.

Is this intersectionality?

LARP

Proof that men aren't attracted to women with credentials. Higher ranked men in government service get more sex. But higher ranked women get less sex.

I’m confused by this. Does it mean A) not ‘fully monog’ by nature or B) not willing to commit to monogamy? If A, well, isn’t that every human being? If B, well, that’s fine unless you either really love someone or you want to have kids.

> can you listen to someone you disagree with without becoming corrupted? yes.

It's not just one triangle, it's an inner triangle and an outer triangle: outer = DFW, SA, Houston (economics) inner = Austin, Waco, College Station (state/education)

So much beauty in this formula

Why space is 3 dimensional (or 3+1 if you prefer)

You can tell a lot about a person by the pdfs on their desktop shelf

ChatGPT ranked NCAAF conferences. It ranked B12 just above ACC because the B12 has "Good depth, few elite contenders" while ACC has "High-variance; one elite tier, weaker lower half". When questioned it responded with this: "I wasn’t using a real computed model in that earlier

College Football Playoff Committee

My father-in-law is a mathematician. It is difficult to get his attention when he is contemplating higher dimensional space because he is lost in wonder. We were talking about 4D space years ago he said early 20th century mathematicians could picture it in their mind. I asked him

I love this but it’s too unlikely. But you can get close to it by just adding a few teams to each of the P4, splitting each conference into 2 divisions and then having division champions -> conference champions be the first two rounds. Then do seeding for the remaining rounds.

It’s just not sustainable for all the children to be above average.