/ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/

/hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/

/vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?

I kinda suck at IPA.

it’s /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.

French spelling is a total shitshow too. what’s their excuse? Spanish and Italian turned out normal.

it’s wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like “holographic,” “isotope” and “synesthesia” (Greek), “accelerometer”, “prefabricated” and “refrigerator” (Latin), or hybrids (“television”, “microscope.”)

English is such a wonderful mutt of a language.

It’s all about the Pentiums baby.

she’s the one that shouted the t-slur at Sarah McBride on the House floor.

“politically motivated assassinations?” like the two Democratic politicians who were just murdered yesterday in Minnesota?

🎵trying to keep to the right

the context makes it better, for me.

Harry is the protagonist, but he’s not a good person. he’s a ruthlessly utilitarian sociopath who takes himself far too seriously, but it’s entertaining to watch his thought processes. again, much like the author.

Roko’s Basilisk is real, but only for LW rationalists. living with contradictions in our thinking and using gut feeling rather than obsessively chaining Bayesian priors together protected the rest of us.

seriously, Yudkowsky and others were tormented by the thought of the Basilisk. it’s a literal mind virus. just one that requires a very specific host (true believers in Timeless Decision Theory.)

Also as patient zero of Roko’s Basilisk!

If someone dies of heart attack on plane, nothing happens, they just die.

they absolutely bring the plane down. most declared Maydays are for medical emergencies in flight. until someone’s pronounced dead by an authority, they are a critically ill passenger.

And no-one wants to find out the nationality of a baby born over the Atlantic.

That actually sounds incredibly fun, as a law nerd!

and ironically, LLMs could be great for this! recognizing what’s ads and what’s content, what’s slop and what’s high-effort, wading through the cesspool of feeds and dark patterns to find the stuff that’s relevant to you.

unfortunately, the money is in using LLMs to generate more slop and make things even worse, not make it better.

not so fun fact: Ann Coulter wanted to sleep with my dad when he was in college, and once invited him to her house for the weekend, but he turned her down. I thank my lucky stars everyday that Ann Coulter isn’t my mom.

or it needs a tithing belt adjustment.