What's Nicky Learning? Decision Theory, Ottawa, Existential Risk | Patreon

(Three main sections, that take 16 minutes / 6 minutes / 5 minutes to read.) (32 minutes reading time in total, not counting links) Hey all! I haven't done a What's Nicky Learning? post in a while. So here's a thought-dump of what I've been learning recently. (Alas, I did not get any publishable work done last month. This is 10% because the world has been... distracting... but honestly 90% it's just me anxiety-ruminating and media-binging as usual. This Patreon will be paused one more month; you weren't charged on March 1st, but will be on April 1st.) Table of Contents: ———————————————————————————————— ———————————————————————————————— This comic did not do well on Twitter. I thought there'd be a bigger overlap between "people who know about weird thought experiments in decision theory" and "people who are into cyborg scalie girls". No seriously, I honestly thought that. I worked so hard on that drawing! 😿 But, speaking of weird thought experiments in decision theory... ———————————————

(Three main sections, that take 16 minutes / 6 minutes / 5 minutes to read.) (32 minutes reading time in total, not counting links) Hey all! I haven't done a What's Nicky Learning? post in a while. So here's a thought-dump of what I've been learning recently. (Alas, I did not get any publishable work done last month. This is 10% because the world has been... distracting... but honestly 90% it's just me anxiety-ruminating and media-binging as usual. This Patreon will be paused one more month; you weren't charged on March 1st, but will be on April 1st.) Table of Contents: ———————————————————————