Homunculus, Jr.

if you had to compile a reading list on the challenges of 21st century civ of similar scope, length, digestiblility by rat-adjacents as www.21civ.com BUT with YOUR political slant: how'd you go abt it? where'd you start? who else would you ask? open question but pinging @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social

being an old "millennial" is gonna sound so much more charismatic than being an old "boomer", like some kind of elder vampire caste i hope we get to keep our moniker by the time the young start blaming everything wrong with the world on us, cause we won the lottery with that one it goes hard

We'll be dropping a podcast with Ivan Vendrov on recommender systems later today

Could we try to compile another list of The Best Textbooks On Every Subject through bluesky, like this LW post attempted to? What could be possible ways to set this up to work well on bsky? (I think the rules in the picture, for starters, make sense) www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXC...

are they ever gonna patch the hedonic treadmill? that's one seriously bullshit mechanic who's working on this

And in unrelated research/browsing, another song about the graphene light sails of arxiv.org/abs/1506.09214 suno.com/song/0d174ab...

Global Risks Weekly Roundup #33/2025

slightly diminish a band: president crimson

if you looked at these graphs you'd maybe guess that, here in italy, the anti-inequality animosity from the left on our social media would differ substantially from that of the US or that they'd blame unfettered capitalism much less for our country's ills if so, you'd be wrong on both counts

When it comes to evaluating my own ideas, it's really annoying to be paralyzingly pessimistic by default and overconfident when on my ADHD meds - with no good middle ground I mean if I have to choose between the two, at least on overconfidence I try lots and get something done! but man... x_x

I haven't followed the GPT-5 release closely, but I saw a lot of disappointed commentary Progress sure doesn't seem to have plateaued on at least this measure though

3 months later i'm still looking for something like this, if anybody's down

I actually just scored 130~140 in what should be a pretty reliable test, and I even have pretty good reasons to believe I underperformed I'd been told the psychotic breaks I went through came with int decline, so I was terrified to test till now... but to my immense relief I seem to be doing ok! :D

the spotify recs engine kinda baited my curiosity with this song that made me feel Seen but I'm loving this Seth Angerer guy one man project, many different interesting pieces that go really hard... and hardly any views! insanely underrated replies to all yt comments too youtu.be/QB0OisyF2Y0?...

looking for meditation buddies to try to do a ~daily meditation pomodoro with for a while i'm flexible with time and open to anyone and any level of expertise (beginner myself)

I dont want to hide where I stand for fear of losing some bluesky friends– I think Woke is a serious threat to liberalism and lucid policy-making, not a mere annoyance. It worries and irritates me to see it downplayed. But Trumpism is an *even worse* threat to my ideals and very worth fighting too.

Any explanation of the appeal of Scott Alexander or rationalism that doesn't also explain why they're the only culture that values and promotes prediction markets and other methods of rigorous predictive accountability so much is not a very good explanation imo.

Nuño AMA still active get in • founding member of formidable forecasting team Samotsvety (pic1: Scott Alexander endorsement) • runs Sentinel, a young nonprofit org to predict and prevent catastrophes. Makes great weekly global risk reports too, look it up! • great person all around, rec following

Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajilo - who has arguably the best track record of predicting AI progress, predicts the coming couple years. He's not optimistic.

IMO trve counterculture tries to push multiple correlated swinging cultural pendulums as close to the ideal, "correct" center positions as possible, if that makes sense. Can be an eternal struggle because they love to swing wildly, & the "centers" are hard to aim for and to see, and can even shift.

If you not only feel, but WELCOME the feeling of joy at the extreme suffering of your outgroup or you ENCOURAGE it in others, it's a very reliable signal that your moral compass is trash, according to understanding of morals that makes sense to me Hold me accountable if I'm not consistent w this 🤝

You vs pfp

I might have fucked up 🤔 In more than one way Got something to think about today, I guess

Don't judge the player, judge the game VS Judge the player by the kind of game they enable 🤔

Hello profile visitor! 😁 Please be aware that if you: • broadly disagree with me and what I'm about • would be willing to *non-aggressively* engage with me to offer me your perspective on where we diverge I'd SUPER-APPRECIATE your follow!

I have earned exactly one block afaik and it was for having a disgusting pfp Wouldn't change the pfp even if it resulted in half of bisky blocking me though 😛

That's funny af! 😂 But I would honestly pay for a pretty expensive subscription for an "Against you" tab that instead highlighted the best arguments against my current beliefs.

FINE YOU WIN BLUESKY I'LL GO DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE GEEZ 😒

*tumbleweed*

Anybody would be up for some music exchange poasting? I'd like to hear what music y'all like. Especially if not mainstream, but I'm fine with anything.

What would you guys think of the practice of taking screenshots and reposting here the best thought-starting or interesting material one finds on Twitter? 🤔 I want AT Proto to succeed... but honestly not skilled enough to produce constant stream of interesting thoughts by myself to make that happen

Fuck kegan 3, all my homies hate kegan 3

Give me a few examples of tribes that have more of an ingrained culture of actively inviting viewchanging criticism than 2023 EA does... ...and I'll probably feel at least less irritated if you decide to throw the "cult" label at them. (Rats don't count.)

Negative headspace today 😐 Just want to stop trying to drain the ocean of shit with my tiny bucket, go "fuck it, I quit", and sit back and laugh as it all spirals into whatever - as it would either way Feels like there's not nearly enough people who really care to make this work 🤷‍♂️

😩 I don't know, like How about we just don't bully anyone as a rule because that's shitty behavior and because a culture that celebrates bullying has a tendency to empower the very worst people and ideas Just saying, you know?

If I ask you to tell me or signal to me *explicitly* if you don't want to interact with me, and I superduper promise no hard feelings if you do... and yet you don't: I don't feel like you can blame me if I keep interacting with you. And yet I just stopped interacting with someone *just in case*.

Concept: Profile Review Exchange Pair up with someone -- ideally someone with a worldview that's sufficiently different from yours, but whom you can still trust to be tactful and tolerant of your differences... ...and go through each other's posts, leaving replies where you disagree.

What users are you grateful to for contributing a lot of value to your Bluesky experience?

I wanted to connect with some people here through the music that makes me emotional. So today I started making a Spotify playlist of such songs, thinking there would be, like, no more than 10 that really qualified... ...but turns out there's ~4 hours of music that qualifies. 😅 Where do I start?