ChristianKl

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ChristianKl 28 May 2024 10:59 UTC
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on: Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan
The United States is more partisan overall than most other countries, but it is not an outlier. There are other countries with similar levels of overall partisanship,^[5] but almost no partisanship in their support for environmentalism: France^[6] and South Korea.^[7] There is no correlation between overall partisanship and partisanship in environmentalism.^[8]

Interestingly, both France and South Korea are notable for their atomic power plants. Knowing the direction of causation is seldom easy, but maybe anti-nuclear activism turned the issue partisan?

ChristianKl 28 May 2024 0:14 UTC
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on: How to get nerds fascinated about mysterious chronic illness research?
It seems to me that studying the condition of an individual person is qualitatively different than studying a cluster of mysterious conditions in general.

To study a particular person, you actually need one nearby and have a relationship with them that helps you studying them. This sort of relationship management is not what the stereotypical nerd wants to do.

When it comes to studying a cluster a cluster of mysterious conditions in general you come to topics like Chronic Lyme Disease. If you study it you see that there’s a community that believes that there’s such a thing and at the same time the mainstream establishment that doesn’t believe that Chronic Lyme Disease is a thing.
Social reward for solving it: Many people currently alive would be extremely grateful to have this problem solved. I believe the social reward would be much more direct and gratifying compared to most other hobby projects one could take on.
Solving a mysterious health issue that mainstream medicine doesn’t solve means advocating alternative medicine treatments. In many cases, this has more social costs than social rewards even if the treatment helps some people.

ChristianKl 26 May 2024 12:58 UTC
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in reply to: Jacob G-W’s comment on: Building intuition with spaced repetition systems
If you want proposal for a lifestreaming session, I’m currently starting lifting weights again and I would be curious how you convert the guide by Prof. Michael Israetel from the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqKj7LwU2RukxJbBHi9BtEuYYKm9UqQQ into Anki cards.

ChristianKl 26 May 2024 10:39 UTC
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in reply to: cubefox’s comment on: What should the norms around AI voices be?
So I am unsure why OpenAI decided to give GPT-4o such a “flirty” voice, as this is basically the same as using emojis.
Maybe, the more safety-minded people who advocated a more conservative approach lost power within OpenAI.

ChristianKl 25 May 2024 8:22 UTC
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in reply to: quetzal_rainbow’s comment on: What should the norms around AI voices be?
I don’t believe in a clear distinction between interactions that are attacks and interactions that are not attacks. When a politician asks people to vote for him so that he can have power, he’s not engaging in “attacks” but if he wins he still gets power. Some of the things a politician says are more manipulative than others.
I think that AGI’s are more likely able to justify to themselves by engaging in power-seeking behavior that’s about simply being very persuasive then to justify misleading people by faking voices, so I’m more worried about them wielding power in ways that are easier to rationalize.

[Question] What should the norms around AI voices be?

ChristianKl25 May 2024 6:29 UTC

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ChristianKl 24 May 2024 21:30 UTC
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in reply to: simeon_c’s comment on: simeon_c’s Shortform
When I was first seeing this post it had 0 karma and −8 disagree votes. It’s unclear to me why. Kelsey Piper is a rationalist so it’s quite plausible that she did see the discussion and was partly motivated by it. Can anyone who disagrees with simeon’s comment argue their position?

ChristianKl 23 May 2024 12:52 UTC
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on: What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?
To add from the recent fiasco about Scarlett Johansson:
(1) We are concerned about people developing emotional attachments to our agents
(2) We picked a voice to make it easier for people to develop emotional attachments to our agents.

ChristianKl 22 May 2024 21:32 UTC
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on: Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson
OpenAI previously argued that they called ChatGPT ChatGPT and not a name like Siri, Cortana, or Alexa to help the user be aware that they are talking to an AI instead of a regular human. Sam Altman argued that this is a safety thing that they do. It likely reduces people falling in love with the AI and thus doing things that the AI tells them that aren’t a good idea.
Making the choice to use a celebrity choice like Scarlett Johansson violated that safety principle that OpenAI previously professed to have.
While this isn’t the most important safety principle, if they violate safety principles they profess to have for shallow reasons that makes it unlikely they will stick to any more important safety principle when there actually a huge inventive to break the safety principle.
Scarlett says:
He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al.
If that’s true, then OpenAI wants to essentially emotionally manipulate people to be less cautious with AI than they would be naturally inclined to be.

[Question] Should we be concerned about eating too much soy?

ChristianKl22 May 2024 12:53 UTC

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ChristianKl 13 May 2024 14:00 UTC
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on: Beware unfinished bridges
Bike lanes don’t only exist to get people from point A to point B. They also exist to provide an outlet for biking as a recreational activity.
I would trust decisions based on empiric measurements of usage of the bike lanes a lot over your analysis when it comes to justifying decisions by cities.

ChristianKl 13 May 2024 13:39 UTC
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on: Benefitial habits/personal rules with very minimal tradeoffs?
“Always close my door with the key in the lock.”
It prevents me from closing the door without having my keys on me.

ChristianKl 12 May 2024 13:06 UTC
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in reply to: lukehmiles’s comment on: ChristianKl’s Shortform
That’s certainly also an option. I personally found for myself, that I feel intuitively less drawn to NaCl+KCl than to NaCl + K2CO3 (I have both at home).
Most supplements that have mixes of electrolytes don’t seem to use KCl and so would give you relatively less chloride than the NaCl+KCl mix.

ChristianKl 11 May 2024 17:40 UTC
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in reply to: Lorxus’s comment on: ChristianKl’s Shortform
In addition to that from my perspective, I think that if every day of the year you consume the same amount of potassium you (as a typical office worker) likely consume either too much or too little on some days.

ChristianKl 11 May 2024 15:14 UTC
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on: ChristianKl’s Shortform
While I still don’t feel like I understand electrolytes as well as I would like to, I become more convinced that supplementing potassium when one engages in activities that produce sweating is worthwhile.

Over the last year I started using potassium carbonate like a spice and whether or not it feels tasty depends a lot on how much I was sweating in the day before the meal.

Giving that summer comes up, if you aren’t already supplementing electrolytes for those days that are warm enough to make you sweat, I recommend you to get some potassium carbonate and experiment with it. It’s worth noting that you need relatively tiny amounts, so if you start experimenting with it start really low as it’s easy too put too much into the food and make the food taste bad.

Supplementing sweat out electrolytes seem to reduce the feeling of being drained from the summer heat.

ChristianKl 9 May 2024 12:13 UTC
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in reply to: Ben’s comment on: Designing for a single purpose
These days companies frequently buy back shares because they can do that without having to pay taxes for that.

ChristianKl 9 May 2024 10:28 UTC
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in reply to: Algon’s comment on: Designing for a single purpose
It seems to me like many of those business conglomerates are privately held. The stock market seems to prefer if businesses parts that have no synergy with the main business get sold off.
On the stock market it’s easy for capital owners to diversify their assets. When companies are privately held building such business conglomerates might be the way to diversify.

ChristianKl 6 May 2024 21:42 UTC
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on: GDP per capita in 2050
Survival vs self-expression: Survival values prioritize security over liberty. Those with survival values tend to be more homophobic, uninterested in political action, distrustful of outsiders, and less happy. As people transition from industrial to knowledge societies, their sense of agency increases and they move towards self-expression values.
To me, the empiric status of that claim feels quite unclear. Is that your personal opinion? Is it a general pattern for which there’s existing data?

ChristianKl 6 May 2024 21:33 UTC
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in reply to: lc’s comment on: lc’s Shortform
Most companies don’t threaten their employees with physical violence. According to another Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour, that seems to happen at Boeing.
Being a defense contractor, I would expect Boeing corporate to have better relationships with the kind of people you would hire for such a task than corporations.

ChristianKl 6 May 2024 21:18 UTC
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in reply to: habryka’s comment on: Habryka’s Shortform Feed
Poisoning someone with MRSA infection seems possible but if that’s what happened it’s capabilities that are not easily available. If such a thing would happen in another case, people would likely speak about nation-state capabilities.

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