That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they’re ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.
Fred Clark (www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who’s been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn’t consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.
This is a slightly emotional response off the back of a discussion with a heavily TESCREAList family member recently. Which concluded with his belief there are a very small number of humans with incredible information processing abilities that know the real truth about humanity’s future. He knows I hate Yudkowsky, I know he...
My general assumption is that ADHD is both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed but I’m generally chill about it and not a gatekeeper. But the recent shortages and delays have me a little more on edge about it.
I might be anhedonic because I’ve been using methylphenidate for ADHD since 1992, but I’ve always been somewhat anhedonic. To paraphrase Maria Bamford “Some people really love life. I’ve always been on the fence.” The question “what do you do for fun” has always been a bit difficult for me.
Of course it’s also hard to find pleasure in many things if you can’t stay with them long enough for the pleasure to really develop.
I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but “better alertness than you get from caffeine”. And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they’re burning the candle at both ends.
As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.
To really test this you’d probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they’re well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a 90 minute lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)
First, let me say that what broke me from the herd at lesswrong was specifically the calls for AI pauses. That somehow ‘rationalists’ are so certain advanced AI will kill everyone in the future (pDoom = 100%!) that they need to commit any violent act needed to stop AI from being developed....
The thing about AI designing and building robots is that making physical things is vastly more expensive than pooping out six-fingered portrait jpegs. All that trial-and-error learning would not come cheap. Even if the AI were controlling CNC machining centers.
There’s no guarantee that the AI would have access to enough parts and materials to be able to be trained to a level of sufficient competence.
Someone please set up a “GrimesHouseboatAI” account with appropriate tweets, sort of Marvin the Android if he were stuck in a Minneapolis impound yard for 15 years, and also dumb.
Some meta-analyses do kinda have the vibe of collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, combining weak studies and claiming a strong result. (Case in point: some of the bogus studies of ivermectin etc for covid). Not all of them, but if you’re not working in a field (and good at evaluating methods etc) you probably should wait for someone in the field to evaluate meta-analyses in the field.
It’s probably more true if you include disabilities that you may not be considering. Acquired hearing loss, blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa, chronic back pain, etc. I find it very hard to believe that a person who lost their vision in an industrial accident wouldn’t leap at a chance to have their vision back. And obviously not all policies to reduce the incidence of disabilities are about eugenics. OSHA isn’t a eugenics program. Vitamin K shots and eye ointment for newborns reduce disability without being eugenics. I assume even blind disability activists don’t think babies should be put at risk of easily avoidable blindness.
“The 12 Wildest Things I Learned as a Nightlife Concierge in Ibiza
Between €69,000 Champagne and feral party crashers, private yachts and helicopter flights, hangover IVs and “naked houses,” just one week managing wealthy clients pushed our writer to the brink of exhaustion.”
I suspect that was simply Singer’s nod to religious opposition to voluntary contraception and he wasn’t necessarily suggesting that the things you list are viable options.
To what extent did Eliezer Yudkowsky invent the Effective Altruist movement? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
I was wondering if someone here has a better idea of how EA developed in its early days than I do....
Yud on brevity being the soul of wit (nitter.net)
Flashback time:...
Humble EY can move goalposts in long format. (twitter.com)
Nitter link...
Are we more fixated on individual "genius" vs collectivism than at any other point in history?
This is a slightly emotional response off the back of a discussion with a heavily TESCREAList family member recently. Which concluded with his belief there are a very small number of humans with incredible information processing abilities that know the real truth about humanity’s future. He knows I hate Yudkowsky, I know he...
that time Scott told the rationalists how adderall would turn them into geniuses of finance and even named specific rationalists he thought should get into adderall (slatestarcodex.com)
this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they’re idiots, of course....
Raining Man - 70,000 trapped by mud at Burning Man 2023. Pray for the techbros (www.sfgate.com)
Calling for indefinite moratorium on lab-grown meat development
Consider muscles....
I am extremely curious what the general take around here is on the Singulairty
First, let me say that what broke me from the herd at lesswrong was specifically the calls for AI pauses. That somehow ‘rationalists’ are so certain advanced AI will kill everyone in the future (pDoom = 100%!) that they need to commit any violent act needed to stop AI from being developed....
The Controversial Future of Genetic Testing (www.youtube.com)
How far are parents willing to go to give their children the best chance at life?...
LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (www.lesswrong.com)
this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong (www.lesswrong.com)
Grimes sitting there with two phones trying for 200 likes (twitter.com)
Yud goes full seed oil-ist (nitter.net)
I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander (old.reddit.com)
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)
Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.