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<p><em>author: niplav, created: 2019-07-06, modified: 2024-06-23, language: english, status: in progress, importance: 5, confidence: log</em></p>
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<p><strong>A collection of contributions to other projects.</strong></p>
</blockquote><div class="toc"><div class="toc-title">Contents</div><ul><li><a href="#Texts">Texts</a><ul><li><a href="#Contributions_to_Wikis">Contributions to Wikis</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Gwernnet">Gwern.net</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#reducingsufferingorg_and_Other_Writing_by_Tomasik">reducing-suffering.org and Other Writing by Tomasik</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Other">Other</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li><li><a href="#Programming">Programming</a><ul><li><a href="#Klong">Klong</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div>
<h1 id="Contributions"><a class="hanchor" href="#Contributions">Contributions</a></h1>
<h2 id="Texts"><a class="hanchor" href="#Texts">Texts</a></h2>
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<h3 id="Contributions_to_Wikis"><a class="hanchor" href="#Contributions_to_Wikis">Contributions to Wikis</a></h3>
<ol>
<li>Contributions to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Niplav">Wikipedia</a>: Probably the most important things I've ever written; another brick in the Great Pyramid. Only possibly eclipsed by my writing ending up in the training corpus of some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_model">foundation model</a>.</li>
<li>Contributions to <a href="https://arbital.com/p/niplavyushtun/">Arbital</a></li>
<li>Contributions to the <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/users/niplav">LessWrong Tags Portal</a></li>
</ol>
<h3 id="Gwernnet"><a class="hanchor" href="#Gwernnet">Gwern.net</a></h3>
<ol>
<li>“Ordinary Life Improvements” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Notes#ordinary-life-improvements">Gwern 2019a</a>
<ol>
<li>In the section "Ordinary Life Improvements" the first sentence read "[It can be hard to see the gradual improvement of most goods over time]{,smallcaps}, but I think one way to get a handle on them is to look". The comma before "smallcaps" was misplaced.</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation: Causal Nets Cause Common Confounding” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Causality">Gwern 2019b</a>
<ol>
<li>The wikipedia link for social engineering went to <code>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)</code>, but it was intended to go to <code>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(political_science)</code>
2.. A period '.' was missing after "And we can draw on all sorts of knowledge to do better³"</li>
<li>With "(despite increases in marijuana use not followed by any schizophrenia increases / hormone replacement therapy correlates with mortality reduction in women so it definitely helps and doesn’t hurt” etc." -> there was a missing parenthesis</li>
<li>"surely this observations" -> should be "surely this observation"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Embryo selection for intelligence” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection">Gwern 2018</a>
<ol>
<li>"The maxima is ~281" -> should be "maximum"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Life Extension Cost-Benefits” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Longevity">Gwern 2019c</a>
<ol>
<li>"To go into some more detail about the dosing issue, ne of the more recent meta-analyses to discuss dose in connection with all-cause mortality" -> "ne" should be "one"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“The Melancholy of Subculture Society” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society">Gwern 2019d</a>
<ol>
<li>"they seem the lowerf the more they insist that they are" -> "lowerf" should probably be "lower"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Banner Ads Considered Harmful” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Ads">Gwern 2020</a>
<ol>
<li>"or visual web ads are more less intrusive than audio" -> "or visual web ads are less intrusive than audio"</li>
<li>"then that suggests that eliminating ads entirely (going from 11% to 0%) to 0%" -> the second "0%" shouldn't be there</li>
<li>"However, I believe it would be safe to say that the <em>n</em>s for the" -> malcompiled markdown for "<em>n</em>s"</li>
<li>"from any section andnotjust from the top news and video" -> in quote should probably be "and not just"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Replication">Gwern 2019e</a>
<ol>
<li>"QUestionable Research Findings" -> "Questionable Research Findings"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Open Questions” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Questions">Gwern 2021a</a>
<ol>
<li>"she doesn’t fit the usual fake profile of existing only like paper like the" -> should be "only on paper"</li>
<li>"you can cross them with just about other" -> missing word "any"</li>
<li>"best/worst out of 1000 healthy peoplem" -> typo "peoplem"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Internet Search Tips” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Search">Gwern 2022</a>
<ol>
<li>"a good reason—tt may actually contain the fulltext hidden" -> should be "it may actually"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity">Gwern 2017</a>
<ol>
<li>"demonstrated in such o exhaustive detail that the present writer" -> stray "o"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Prediction Markets” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Prediction-markets">Gwern 2019f</a>
<ol>
<li>In the paragraph "I shorted 10 at 18% since I thought the true odds are more like" -> suddenly switched tense from past to present</li>
<li>"which is misleading and even technically interpreted, would be torpedoed by Zerocoin" -> missing "if" between "even" and "technically"</li>
<li>Header in the table for personal bets was broken, "My P B" and "et Position R" and "esult"</li>
<li>From "everyone" downward in the table the date offered/expiration cells were broken</li>
<li>"when I speculated on the identity of Mike Darwin‘s patron (above, ’Notes’)" -> it's now below</li>
<li>List of heuristics started at 2, not at 1 (the one after "When we begin deciding what probability to give the prediction")</li>
<li>"industry over the period from 2010 to 2010" -> maybe one of those numbers should be different</li>
<li>"he had ~410 billion in 2000 but fell to 300 million" -> shouldn't be "~410 billion", Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_S._Walker">says</a> "In 2000, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion"</li>
<li>"Page & Brin; while I generally get a utopian Singulitarian vibe off them and their projects and they seem to like publicizing their works" -> the "while" wasn't resolved</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“The Existential Risk of Math Errors” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/The-Existential-Risk-of-Mathematical-Error">Gwern 2019g</a>
<ol>
<li>"it not being written out because it would be tedious too³⁷, then" -> "too" should be "to" here</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Leprechaun Hunting & Citogenesis” <a href="https://www.gwern.net/Leprechauns">Gwern 2021b</a>
<ol>
<li>"especially from unreliable resources2." -> the "2" should probably be a "²"</li>
<li>"Š igut et al 2017:" should be "Šigut et al 2017:"</li>
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<h3 id="reducingsufferingorg_and_Other_Writing_by_Tomasik"><a class="hanchor" href="#reducingsufferingorg_and_Other_Writing_by_Tomasik">reducing-suffering.org and Other Writing by Tomasik</a></h3>
<ol>
<li> “Why Activists Should Consider Making Lots of Money” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/why-activists-should-consider-making-lots-of-money/">Tomasik 2016a</a>
<ol>
<li>""Replaceability by Paul Christiano" was missing a quote</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Vegans Should Not Eat Insects: A Reply to Fischer” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/vegans-should-not-eat-insects-a-reply-to-fischer-2016/">Tomasik 2017a</a>
<ol>
<li>"Urban composters promote slow temperature composting" -> "slow" should be "low" (or [sic])</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Applied Welfare Biology and Why Wild-Animal Advocates Should Focus on Not Spreading Nature” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/applied-welfare-biology-wild-animal-advocates-focus-spreading-nature/">Tomasik 2018a</a>
<ol>
<li>"The content of this section has moved to an upcoming article, which should be online by Nov./Dec. 2017." -> probably means <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/food-waste">this article</a>, or at least something <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/#Food_scraps">in this section</a>.</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“How Wild-Caught Fishing Affects Wild-Animal Suffering” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/wild-caught-fishing-affects-wild-animal-suffering/">Tomasik 2017b</a>
<ol>
<li>"fewer higher trohic levels" -> "fewer higher trophic levels"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Should Fishing Opponents Be Happy about Overfishing?” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/should-fishing-opponents-be-happy-about-overfishing/">Tomasik 2016b</a>
<ol>
<li>"to the detrmiment" -> "to the detriment"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“How Cattle Grazing Affects Insect Populations on Pasture Fields” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/how-cattle-grazing-affects-pasture-productivity/">Tomasik 2019</a>
<ol>
<li>"Early seral stages are usually marked by rapid growth and biomass biomass accumulation" -> biomass was doubled, possibly [sic]</li>
<li>"Yet, many have not reached the decertified stage" -> [sic], should probably be "desertified"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“How Rainforest Beef Production Affects Wild-Animal Suffering” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/how-rainforest-beef-production-affects-wild-animal-suffering/">Tomasik 2017c</a>
<ol>
<li>"Strictly comparing cow vs. insect neurons, we get something on the order of 10⁵ cow-years of suffering per insect-year of suffering." -> should be the other way around</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Scenarios for Very Long-Term Impacts of Climate Change on Wild-Animal Suffering” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/scenarios-for-very-long-term-impacts-of-climate-change-on-wild-animal-suffering/">Tomasik 2016c</a>
<ol>
<li>"I'll discount wild animals t years into the future by a probabilistic factor t^(-k) for k in (‑∞, 0]. To avoid having this curve explode near t = 0, I cap the value of this discount at 1 for t < 1. I choose k = -0.1" -> Typo, I think he wanted to say that k=0.1, since the '-' is already in the equation</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Microorganisms Created by Wastewater-Treatment Systems” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/microorganisms-wastewater-treatment/">Tomasik 2017d</a>
<ol>
<li> "This means too much too many 'nutrients' are being released back into the ecosystem, perhaps a stream." -> "too much too many" probably was a [sic]</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Dissolving Confusion about Consciousness” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/dissolving-confusion-about-consciousness/">Tomasik 2017e</a>
<ol>
<li>"In opposition to property dualism, Eliezer Yudkowsky writes" -> I always understood that quote to be about epiphenomenalism, not property dualism (although I guess one could argue that they are the same)
11.“The Many Fallacies of Dualism” <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/the-many-fallacies-of-dualism/">Tomasik 2017f</a></li>
<li> "scentific" -> "scientific"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“The Eliminativist Approach to Consciousness” <a href="https://longtermrisk.org/the-eliminativist-approach-to-consciousness/">Tomasik 2018d</a>
<ol>
<li>"thing (dis)being valued, consciousness" -> move "(dis)" one word forward</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum Project” <a href="https://foundational-research.org/differential-intellectual-progress-as-a-positive-sum-project/">Tomasik 2015</a>.
<ol>
<li>Fixed a typo where in the section "Transhumanism" of the pdf version, the text "Transhumanists recognize the importance of thinking about the future ahead of time." was repeated.</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<h3 id="Other"><a class="hanchor" href="#Other">Other</a></h3>
<ol>
<li>“Empirical evidence for the proposition that production based on exchange value has collapsed” <a href="https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/empirical-evidence-for-the-proposition-that-production-based-on-exchange-value-has-collapsed/#comment-10324">Jehu 2018</a>.
<ol>
<li>Fixed a typo where with "The inflation of the of wages from 1970 to 1980" the author meant "The inflation of wages from 1970 to 1980".</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Urbit: A Solid-State Interpreter” <a href="https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf">Yarvin et al. 2016</a>.
<ol>
<li>Fixed a typo on p. 17 where in "treats b and c is formulas", "is" should have been be "as".</li>
</ol></li>
<li>“Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law” <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04585">Manheim & Garrabrant 2019</a>
<ol>
<li>p. 1: "which notes there are" -> missing "that", "optimizationpower" -> should be two separate words</li>
<li>p. 2: "is a measaure" -> should be "measure"</li>
<li>p. 4: "defferent" -> "different"</li>
<li>p. 8: "acheive" -> "achieve"</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Grand Futures
<ol>
<li>See <a href="./grand.html">here</a>.</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<h2 id="Programming"><a class="hanchor" href="#Programming">Programming</a></h2>
<h3 id="Klong"><a class="hanchor" href="#Klong">Klong</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://t3x.org/klong/index.html">Klong, A Simple Array Language</a>
(see its <a href="http://t3x.org/klong/changes.html">Change Log</a>).</p>
<ul>
<li>Wrote a faster shuffling and primality check functions</li>
<li>Inspired a timing and process clock function</li>
<li>Fixed a bug in the implementation of correlation</li>
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