Make All the Characters Awesome   
Eliezer: So to generalize that, let’s talk about the principle of “Make All the Characters Awesome.” This was an explicit process as I was envisioning the story, where I thought, for each character, how can I make this character awesome?
Take Crabbe and Goyle, for instance. I had an explicit process of flipping through various ideas, like, “Okay. Can I have them be like the Secret Masterminds who are running Draco from behind the scenes? No, because then Draco's not awesome.” 
“Can they be Secret Masterminds running all of Slytherin from behind the scenes? No, because that doesn't really fit.”
“Could they be Those Two Bad Guys, as TVTropes named the trope? I think this trope is used in Pulp Fiction and maybe in Neverwhere, if I’m remembering the correct Neil Gaiman novel. Anyway, so I'm like, “How about if there's Those Two Bad Guys?” And I thought, “Eh, it doesn't quite fit. It's been done before. It's a little arbitrary. Why is this trope showing up here?” 
And then I thought, “No, no, see, Crabbe and Goyle saw plays with Those Two Bad Guys as kids, and that's who they think they're supposed to be!” And then I was like, “Alright, this is adequately awesome.” And then I could stop trying to figure out how to make those two characters awesome and move on to the next character.
 
Gretta: Let’s do one more.
 
Eliezer: Sure. How about Luna Lovegood?
A fundamental fact about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is, it's not quite set in the world of canon, it's set in the world of fan fiction. And almost every fan fiction out there makes Luna Lovegood awesome. So this wasn’t just me making every character awesome, this was a required element. 
But HPMOR is set in Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, and Luna is younger than Harry, so she’s not even enrolled at Hogwarts yet.
So I put a lot of effort into figuring out any way that she could be onscreen at all and awesome.
I landed on having her write all the Quibbler headlines. Had we ever made it to the epilogue, she would've been onscreen and even more awesome.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FY697dJJv9Fq3PaTd/hpmor-the-probably-untold-lore

• Memory Retention in Frozen Organisms: Encouragingly, there is evidence that information encoded in the brain can survive cryopreservation. A 2015 study demonstrated that nematode worms (C. elegans) retained learned behaviors after being vitrified and re-warmed. Worms trained to associate a smell with food still responded to that odor after recovery from cryopreservation, indicating that their neural memory traces were not erased by the process . This implies that synaptic changes underlying memory can endure vitrification in a simple animal model, supporting the idea that a human brain’s memories could likewise remain intact if its structure is well-preserved.
• Organ Vitrification and Revival: Outside the brain, progress in organ cryopreservation also bolsters cryonics plausibility. Researchers have vitrified whole organs and then successfully revived them with function, a key step toward “reversible” freezing. Notably, a rabbit kidney vitrified with cryoprotectant was later transplanted into a rabbit, restoring life-sustaining renal function for weeks . More recently (2023), scientists vitrified rat kidneys and used an innovative nanowarming technique – heating the organ rapidly and uniformly via nanoparticles in the tissue – to rewarm without crystallization or cracking, enabling successful transplantation. The reanimated kidneys functioned normally in rats after long-term cryogenic storage . This is the first repeated, peer-reviewed demonstration of a vital organ being cryopreserved and revived to full function, marking a major milestone on the road to reversible cryopreservation .
• Revival of Brain Tissue Samples: Just this year, a team in Germany revived preserved brain tissue, offering a proof-of-concept for restoring neural function after cryopreservation. They optimized a vitrification protocol for mouse hippocampal slices (brain tissue) using a cocktail of cryoprotectants and fast cooling to avoid ice. Critically, after rewarming, the brain slices not only appeared intact but also regained electrophysiological function: they showed normal electrical activity and even long-term potentiation (LTP), a memory-related neural process . This is the first time adult brain tissue has been cryopreserved and then shown to resume functional activity . While these were small slices (hundreds of microns thick) and not a whole brain, it demonstrates reversible cryopreservation on a tissue level – a remarkable technical advance.

Mood

Why do I even care about the long term?

if markets are efficient, who is shorting MOEX on a nuclear war threats?

just arrived. any guesses where?

https://recordcrash.substack.com/p/book-review-avant-garde-autopilot
AGARES review with some great Alexander Wales writers career overview!

I posted nothing about Barca trip because i’m having such a blast that I just have no time to post anything

so I wish yall that, be happy.

Days since the last emotional breakdown: 0.

I will bulldoze through every obstacly standing in my way to happiness.
I will only allow the world to be unfair as long as it is to my advantages.
I will not stop until I stand at the very peak of whatever mountain my gaze lands upon.
I will shape the universe to my will and tear up the stars if it needs to be done.
I will not stop until I am satisfied with what I achieved and reached my potential.
I will not be an NPC in my own story, rest be damned.

This is my mantra and I will repeat it until it becomes the Truth.
Behold.

https://youtu.be/Bm3YWNgpgP0
Someone in the comments said:
"He knows.
They know he knows.
He knows they know he knows.”
This is wrong tho, actual truth is more like:
"He knows.
They are 90% sure he knows.
He knows they’re not 100% sure he knows so he is banking on them hoping he doesn’t know (because what other choice do they have?)."

He makes sure to give them outs however ridiculous they are, he doesn’t want them to get to the 100%, that would make situation harder to control.

You will see this shot in memes for the next 15 years

SAM ALTMAN:
“A kid born today will never be smarter than AI ever. And a kid born today, by the time that kid understands the way the world works, will just always be used to an incredibly fast rate of things improving and discovering new science. They’ll just, they will never know any other world. It will seem totally natural. It will seem unthinkable and stone age that we used to use computers or phones or any kind of technology that was not way smarter than we were. We will think how bad those people of the 2020s had it.”