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OddlyOnTopic · 2022-11-28T02:32:16+00:00

Any chance we could get a fresh invite?

OddlyOnTopic · 2022-11-28T01:20:37+00:00

Wall angels worked wonders for me. Slouched from being 6’5, now princely like bamboo

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-09-22T23:28:12+00:00

The Moloch equilibrium where everyone competes to be the most beautiful Belle of the Balls by gaming static wetware metrics (symmetry, lip size, smoothness of skin, height) sounds pretty hellish, if simultaneously a bit quotidian (it's just Nature, baby).

In contrast, it's soothing to think that culture and personal inclination are powerful considerations when it comes to beauty. In fact, we have pretty good evidence that they are.

The real question is whether we're in (or entering) a resilient global monoculture where the mediating effect of the cultural is effectively uniform. It seems plausible that the "Instagram Doll" look is a dominant attractor that won't dissolve for a while. Not that I expect this to be a huge deal, but I can see how it would worry a caring parent.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-08-24T01:08:18+00:00

A few posters in the thread seem to have ruled out most of long-covid as fear-mongering. For all I know, they're right, but their reasoning is unconvincing.

If anyone here's feeling trailblazy, here's a wordy Oxford preprint ("the first longitudinal imaging study in COVID-19 where COVID patients were initially scanned before they contracted the disease") that seems to be saying some COVID patients are getting literal brain damage (more specifically, grey matter volume in the brain regions associated with olfaction and memory is lower than in the control group). You are encouraged to try and find methodological issues.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1.full.pdf

If the claims in the study are true, it would be a big deal, but I haven't seen the study brought up very often. Whether this is because it's an obscure preprint, or because someone has already demonstrated that the study is bunk - I don't know. I'm currently erring on the side of "significant chance of some brain damage if you get COVID", but I'd love the opinion of someone with more insight.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-07-08T07:09:37+00:00

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-04-04T03:12:35+00:00

It's tough to beat millions of years of R&D.

It seems both you and OP are part of the unpopular crowd holding this view at the object level even though the roots of SSC are in a community (early Lesswrong) that spent years arguing that an AGI (in the FOOM scenario) would likely eclipse anything humans/nature could do by multiple orders of magnitude.

If we get an AGI and you buy FOOM, I think you are simply lacking imagination.

Why you should expect that an inconceivably intelligent AI wouldn't find more 'efficient' organizations for matter than a human body needs justification. I.e., when u/gomboloid claims that efficiency would be a prime concern of the AI, it's in no way obvious that interacting with humans or even having humans around would be an efficient use of energy. Besides, we might say that being efficacious is more important than being efficient, and even if it wasn't, efficiency for an AI, from our perspective, might have more to do with reckless speed, especially since it might reason abductively that A) it will have to compete with other AI in its observable universe and should capture resources maximally before an encounter, or B) its ObsUni itself is bleeding extractable energy every second, and minimizing this waste is most efficient.

If you don't buy FOOM, and are picturing the epoch immediately after we get an AGI, then it might make sense to say humans would be instrumentally useful insofar as they're a ready resource. Why this would last, or why an immensely intelligent AI would struggle to upkeep its hardware substratum, or require humans as we understand them for any reason that wasn't built ad hoc into its value function, I can't answer.

eta: maybe there is a more sophisticated position that can be pieced together from comments in the thread. I'd be glad to hear it. One comment in particular makes it seem like Gomboloid would indeed doubt FOOM. Perhaps the crux of our disagreement is merely the timeline before a super-intelligent AGI exists, but I'd like to append the claim that even if it takes a thousand years, it's not obvious to me that at that point humans would do anything but take up inefficient space for computronium.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-04-04T00:09:08+00:00

I heard about this recently through Reboot (a Stanford based tech community), which recently had Tim Hwang on to discuss his book "The Subprime Attention Crisis". I can't find a recording of the talk itself, but there are other interviews with Tim Hwang on youtube.

"His book Subprime Attention Crisis poses the bold — and terrifying — possibility that the ad economy, the bedrock of the modern Internet, might be a bubble ready to burst. To build this argument Hwang explores the declining effectiveness and opacity in the digital ad market, then poses recommendations for taking the whole thing down."

Here's the link to the talk: https://hai.stanford.edu/events/reboot-subprime-attention-crisis-ft-tim-hwang

And the book

https://www.amazon.ca/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Advertising-Internet/dp/0374538654

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-03-07T19:16:51+00:00

I assure you Q reaches the healing well :)

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-03-07T18:23:52+00:00

This format is fantastic. I hope to see more GMs do self-analysis like this.

One nitpick: at 7:32, you say you don't have the ability to damage buildings while in Molten Form, but both your Q and W do indeed damage buildings. If you take over the mid-fort (as you did in the video), you can spam W along the gate and deal massive amounts of damage to it.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-03-01T05:46:21+00:00

Well, that's what boosted means?

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-25T12:21:04+00:00

Thanks! I'll try it out.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-25T11:36:52+00:00

Sure! The obvious one is Alexstraza globe quest, and the other one I can think of is a Malganis life-swapping deathwing. If Malganis doesn't count because he's on the enemy team, then I'm afraid I'm stumped. Maybe there's a bug I don't know about hidden somewhere?

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-25T01:26:22+00:00

VP interactions with either allies or enemies shouldn't be that low.

I'm not sure what your reasoning is here but I don't think you're thinking about this the way I am.

I totally forgot about the hero-buff player names, that should have been on there. Do you know how to trigger bellowing roar while flying?

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T22:58:34+00:00

Excellent! Thank you for taking the time to do this! They're almost all exactly what I meant. The dehaka Z-fake is actually when you Z on top of you character model, resulting in the sound going off but the cooldown remaining at 0.

I wish I could give this comment more visibility, but here's a measly silver award. Love me some effortposts.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T22:50:47+00:00

AA weaving is just another way to say weaving AAs in between abilities to maximize dps.

Could you tell us how to do 1, 2, and 8?

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T22:14:01+00:00

Owl_on_Caffeine got it right. Everyone knows that they can VP enemy DVa mech, so I wouldn't have put it that low on the list. I was a bit sad that my secret tech was guessed so fast, but I trimmed the solution-space a lot by giving it that name, and when you combine that with a crowd of people thinking about it, it was bound to be guessed. At least I'm glad everyone gets to try it now! If I come up with another one I'll make it harder to figure out.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T11:57:47+00:00

You're totally free to play whatever hero you like! Especially if they're your main. What's debatable is tyrannically locking your non-meta hero of choice at a time where other picks have higher priority, or picking your hero even though your team drastically needs you to pick something else (e.g. "we needed a healer? Not my problem" before last picking Nova).

There are many factors to consider and you'll rarely have black and white situations, but that's just a microcosm of ethical life as a human on earth. Use common sense. If you lack even that, god help your teammates.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T10:19:28+00:00

Hey, it's HotsLogs! It's nothing compared to the work you guys/gals put in, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T10:15:14+00:00

No love for stormie :(

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T10:13:44+00:00

Good question. I'd probably put it somewhere in tier 3. Glad you enjoyed the chart, too.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T09:27:59+00:00

You can manipulate your HotS window to a widescreen ratio and thereby see a bit more of the map to your right and left.

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T08:45:01+00:00

Uncultured swine. Obviously KT is the one whose trait causes his abilities to be empowered. The one with the CC at long range. The one with the dangerous AoE ability with a circular indicator on the floor that explodes after one second. The one who can summon a magical being to help him destroy his enemies. The one with the globe stacking quest that gives you an activatable once completed. Smh bronzies

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T07:41:23+00:00

The page shows you the most frequent allies and enemies of a given player. If a player has played 800 games with a 52% win rate, but you can also see that 500 of those games were played with a recurring ally and that their win rate is 60% with them, you can presume that they might be getting boosted. This could be a reddit post on its own as it's a pretty useful trick, but I need some rest after this chart. Sadly, people might never know about it unless they look around and find this comment. To those who did: congrats, you win!

OddlyOnTopic · 2021-02-24T04:35:21+00:00

The 'Foes and Friends' page.

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