vivianimbriotis | Sept. 5, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
It is a little-known fact that gods live and die on worship. Zeus, for instance, had been dead for a long time now. Some American flies a kite, and someone in a white coat mutters something about electrons and air currents, and all the magic flees from the lightning bolts - and with it, the bearded father of Mount Olympus goes “pop”.
But whenever a kid really, really likes the scenes from Disney’s Hercules with Zeus in them, he cracks an eye and gives them a little static shock out of spite before discorporating again.
But for many humans, the creation of new human life, the act of reproducing and bringing into being a new consciousness, still holds an ineffable sacredness; Mother Venus, goddess of fertility and childbirth and progeny lived, perched on the last bit of the firmament that hadn’t given way to stratosphere. There she sat, picking petals off a mile-wide flower and humming a little tune.
And in the Year of Our Lord (and HE had enough worshippers to be able to give her some, Venus though grumpily) 2017, Venus decided it was past time for her to elect a Chosen One. She had just enough divine power left to her, after all. And it was a good investment - the worship that arose around a Chose One empowered a god like nothing else.
She chose a young boy named Chad.
Venus blessed Chad with virility, with a rugged masculine beauty, with strength, and with such ethereal traits of wit and charm as he would need to fulfil her purpose. What human could resist him? What earthly being could avoid his draw? She blessed him until her divine power until barely a sip remained - a long-term, low-risk investment.
Venus was a fragment now, a mere gust of breeze on Chad’s brow. She knew her work would be rewarded soon. Chad was seventeen, nearing adulthood, and he’d been talking with a lovely girl named Stacey. He was enamoured, and her likewise, the precious lovebirds. Venus would have smiled fondly if she’d still had the strength to manifest lips. They were in love, that wild first-love that grips a person and hurls them into adulthood, into parenthood, into the creation of a new life - that special kind of sacredness that would elevate her to new heights of power and renown among the gods.
On his eighteenth birthday, Chad bought four packs of condoms, and the gust of wind that was Venus went “pop”.
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Goodhart’s law is a concept originally from economics, but now applied to policy-making in general, AI safety, and any other field that tries to optimise a thing. “Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure,” or in its original formulation, “Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” If you begin optimising for something that has historically correlated with what you really want, you might find that the relationship between them breaks down.
Mid-twenties lost cause.
Trapped in a shrinking cube.
Bounded on the whimsy on the left and analysis on the right.
Bounded by mathematics behind me and medicine in front of me.
Bounded by words above me and raw logic below.
Will be satisfied when I have a fairytale romance, literally save the entire world, and write the perfect koan.
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