Rubi Hudson
@undo_hubris
PhD student at @UofT developing AI alignment theory. Ecclesiastes 7:16 violator. Heavily tattooed. My blog: http://crossingtherubicon.substack.com
flies do a remarkable amount of flying. it shouldn't be a surprise that bees do a remarkable amount of being
There’s a story of Varadhan’s defense. Some old guy he didn’t know was sitting in the back and started asking very difficult questions and he was getting annoyed. After, he asks his advisor, who the hell was that? “Oh, I forgot to tell you I invited him. That was Kolmogorov.”
This is what I’m gonna do if someone asks me a question I don’t know the answer to at my dissertation defense
To visualize a 14-dimensional space, simply visualize a 3-D space and then have it change in 11-D time
A classic
Borges wrote on the evolving metaphor of God as a perfect sphere to understand humanity's relationship with the infinite. The modern incarnation of this is clearly a superintelligence, expanding in all directions at the speed of light.
Have we done the optimal packing of 9 squares, when one of them is 8/9ths the size of the rest?

The best Black Mirror episode is Striking Vipers, because it's neither a blunt "Tech Bad" OR "Tech Good", but rather a point that current notions of sexuality and gender are not robust to technological change
I enjoy black mirror but someone should consider funding a show that’s optimistic about tech instead
Many people know that rotisseries chickens can be cheaper than raw chickens, since grocery stores use the ones approaching their best before date, but few realize this can also apply to fruit trays being cheaper than whole fruits
The odd one out contains small shreds of palladium
Love this puzzle
In terms of breaking someone's life down into sections, I think nonades perform much better than decades
In graph theory, the tree-likeness of a graph is called its "arboricity". The conceptually opposite concept of "anarboricity" was invented in Ann Arbor, MI.
You're letting alt baddies distract you from doing alignment research? Buddy, you're worried about the wrong shegoths.