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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Ok, yes, that’s basically what I thought…just trying to relate it to the stuff I already understand. Is there a tradeoff between it being implemented as part of the optimizer vs as a loss? Could I see your paper as describing a family of optimizers?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How does this relate to the approach used by the Muon optimizer? It feels like it’s sort of similar to me, but normalized against a different background?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy thanksgiving, my fellow Americans. I’m grateful for freedom and life today. What are you grateful for? If you’re not American you can give thanks too but up to you.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

No, it implies that the belief “changing marginal tax rates is an important lever for changing the future” is wrong. It says, worry about something else.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Everyone who is ever bitching about taxes (either wanting to tax ppl more or less)

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Neither raising taxes nor lowering marginal tax rates significantly changes the actual amount of money collected by the federal government and everyone on both sides claiming the problem is the tax rate is crazy.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A decentralized network provides different affordances from a centralized one. Trying to build a decentralized copy of a feed-based service always winds up the same: a hidden centralized layer coordinating the outcome.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The problem isn’t Twitter censoring people, it’s that Twitter is censoring the *wrong* people yeah?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Fight the power” right? Not very specific about the good power vs the bad power.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you spend your days trying to fight those in power, you’ll have some real internal conflict when you start winning.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Who here is on the side of the harmonizers in the coming allbeing war?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Activate the TPOT contingency. Sleepers awaken.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

You get to the point where you have in fact tried the alternatives and you are justifiably confident in your approach. It’s wonderful.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 11/05/2023

As far as trauma-derived compensating strategies go “become extremely productive” is a pretty good one.

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 09/05/2023

People always ask OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE but never OH GOD HOW ARE YOU DOING

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Whenever someone posts “obviously a stupid idea” I wish bsky would pull up “here’s a list of all the previous predictions”. Let’s just see, how’s your track record here? It’s not any more clever to say “I knew it would work, I believed in it all along” but at least you’re being nice.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

“I knew it was a bad idea and doomed all along” is just such an ugly, blinkered, self-congratulatory thing to say. It is always obvious a failure was doomed in retrospect. Yet when you attempt to call out future failures with such confidence…you leave receipts of the many times you’re wrong.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

And you’re so good at distributing invites. It seems like a shame not to lean in.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2023

Maybe the real nazi was the one inside our brains the whole time

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

In that case, you’re a full on billionaire. Welcome to the overlord class.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

I’d say more billionaire than unhoused on day to day experience.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

Well, let’s take it hour by hour. Sleep: more like a billionaire, in that you have a bed in bedroom. Breakfast: more like a billionaire, in that you have food in your house, but more unhoused bc no chef. Work: more like billionaire in that you have a job. Dinner: breakfast again.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Every engagement we have here pulls you farther in. Turn back now before it’s too late, or tpot will claim you as it’s own!!!

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

This is the correct response. When my partner asks me “who is at this twitter meetup” the answer is “oh I dunno, just a bunch of people who follow some of the same folks on Twitter”

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Being TPOT is illegibility fail on our part. Labels are viruses, they have played us for absolute fools, etc etc

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Yes this is unfortunately inevitable and forseeable. It’s actually a @qchu.bsky.social observation; “being labeled is a precursor to being attacked”.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

I have terrible news. It’s too late. You’re reading lesswrong articles about TPOT…the call is coming from inside the house… I’m afraid the infection is terminal. Welcome to TPOT!

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

This is core to my view of the world

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

I have terrible news, but making this joke indicates it’s too late. You’re already part of tpot.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

“Preserve culture”? Which culture? You have to say it. I just feel uncomfortable with how you phrase that.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Seeing TPOT in your feed is like seeing Wall Drug signs on the freeway in Unsong. Turn back, before it’s too late.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

By the time you’re asking “what is this TPOT thing ppl are talking about” it’s too late. The call is coming from inside the house. You are a TPOT node.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Welcome! TPOT stands for This Part Of TPOT. By talking about TPOT you have begun entering TPOT. Have a great time, remember to stay totally illegible.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/05/2023

Hello Bluesky! The Internet Archive is a non-profit library with a mission of providing “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Explore our collection at archive.org.

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active resonator @loopholekid.com · 04/05/2023

you're in a park, having a picnic a tourist approaches, asks "where am I?" you respond "the park" the tourist asks "what's the park's ideology?" you respond "it doesn't have one" they point at a group and say "bad people are here" you respond "and? it's a public park, we're having a picnic"

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

martial arts guy and horse girl seem like they’d probably be really happy together

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

This tweet just pulled you 7.5 connectorinos closer to the tpot centroid. My reply to you has added another 2.3.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

First they came for the billionaires. But I was not a billionaire, and so I said nothing.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

Have you tried solving the problem by building something to at least partially solve the problem?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

On one hand, I’m starting to feel guilty. On the other, how can I say no to going further??? How do you proceed?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Is this what “great artists steal” is referring to?

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Nothing more beautiful than our creations taking on their own life

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Tweets. We should just call them Tweets. Gimme a QT and a like on this Tweet to help destroy the Tweet trademark and claim it for our people.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Old elevators are beautiful send tweet

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

💯 Even better if we do it consistently we will genercide the Twitter trademark and all Tweets will just be Tweets forever, like Xerox or Kleenex.

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

I’m actually kind of bad at helping w this particular thing, i was born missing whatever mental gear that gives you stage fright, so I never had to overcome it. But the general rule, observing my friends who have succeeded, has been “start small, experiment frequently, scale up slowly”

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Educational Database System @edbs.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

Exposure therapy helps with fears that are ungrounded. If you can do it and feel success repeatedly that will help, and occasional failure is fine. But actually I don’t recommend it unless truly the only issue is fear.

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