Comment by Bolverk (reinmar-bielau) on Daniel Kokotajlo's Shortform · 2025-03-12T17:12:40.543Z · LW · GW

My guess is that air is too violent and diverse compared to something like ocean. A neutral buoyancy organism wouldn't calmly float, it would be buffeted around by wind and smashed against ground. And there's no "surface of the air" to anchor itself.

Comment by Bolverk (reinmar-bielau) on I got dysentery so you don’t have to · 2024-11-01T06:58:39.692Z · LW · GW

Sequence 1 length:3 

Sequence 2 length:6 

Alignment length: 6 

Identity: 3/6 (50.00%) 

Similarity: 3/6 (50.00%) 

Gaps: 3/6 (50.00%)

---AGC
   |||
AGCAGC

Like this. Difference between lengths is considered non-matching.

https://en.vectorbuilder.com/tool/sequence-alignment.html

Comment by Bolverk (reinmar-bielau) on My hour of memoryless lucidity · 2024-05-24T05:13:46.932Z · LW · GW

I get a similar effect if sleep deprived long enough. A sense of operating on autopilot and doing things before thinking of them.