If the procrastinator is a perfectionist who would otherwise work far past the point of diminishing returns, postponing until the last minute is a way of timeboxing. If you know you would spend 5 hrs on something that you could get to 90% (of your standard) in 1 hr, better to start 1 hr before the deadline, or you’ll end up wasting 4 hrs.
Alex A
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Alex A’s Shortform
When training for motorsport, how do you learn where the limit is when there is such a high cost for failing by going over the limit? Crashing is expensive and getting critically injured could put you out of the game for life.
Yes, I think it’s chunking to compress information. You group similar events together, and only remember a distinct instance if something extraordinary happens (for instance, a spider crawls onto your toothbrush).
From my observation, memories, even of recent events, are not even that linear. They focus primarily on the novel information, and the gaps are connected by either the fungible/chunked memories or the reasoning you were referring to. The upshot is that if you have novel events separated by a lot of mundanity, you may remember them out of sequence (and remember them prioritized by importance or novelty). I find this often when trying to recall my dreams.
After doing track-back meditation a few times, I noticed that my memories of habitual activities have a different, more vague feeling than unique events. It seems like in addition to logically filling in the gaps (which I noticed as well), memories of repeated unchanging actions are stored as essentially fungible.
RE: the board’s vague language in their initial statement
Smart people who have an objective of accumulating and keeping control—who are skilled at persuasion and manipulation —will often leave little trace of wrongdoing. They’re optimizing for alibis and plausible deniability. Being around them and trying to collaborate with them is frustrating. If you’re self-aware enough, you can recognize that your contributions are being twisted, that your voice is going unheard, and that critical information is being withheld from you, but it’s not easy. And when you try to bring up concerns, they are very good at convincing you that those concerns are actually your fault.
I can see a world where the board was able to recognize that Sam’s behaviors did not align with OpenAI’s mission, while not having a smoking gun example to pin him on. Being unskilled politicians with only a single lever to push (who were probably morally opposed to other political tactics) the board did the only thing they could think of, after trying to get Sam to listen to their concerns. Did it play out well? No.
It’s clear that EA has a problem with placing people who are immature at politics in key political positions. I also believe there may be a misalignment in objectives between the politically skilled members of EA and the rest of us—politically skilled members may be withholding political advice/training from others out of fear that they will be outmaneuvered by those they advise. This ends up working against the movement as a whole.
Deception Chess: Game #1
I’m about 1000 ELO on chess.com and would be interested in playing as A. I play regularly, but haven’t had formal training or studied seriously. I’d be free weekdays after 7 pm ET.
I’ve got a few thoughts from both work in the film industry and on projects involving grow lights. TL;DR I would still recommend film-specific lights over grow lights.
Spectrum
While grow lights are “full spectrum”, they are optimized for plant growth, boosting certain color ranges while neglecting others. While farmers may work with grow lights for extended periods of time, their comfort is not the priority. Film lights are closer, as they are designed to look and feel like natural lighting (more so than even the convenient/cheap lighting that individuals and companies can purchase for daily use. This is demonstrated especially by the notoriously bad quality of commercial fluorescent lights). More importantly though, film lights are optimized for aesthetic control. Plants are there to grow. Farmers are there to do their job. Actors are there to look pretty.
If charts help, this is how a grow light compares to film lights of various types. The Skypanels are industry standard for extremely bright ambient light (and are then shaped and colored with light control)--the science LEDs are designed specifically for control, and allow you to make detailed adjustments to the spectra.
Diffusion
If you are in a group house with multiple lumenators, it’s probably worth purchasing a full diffusion roll. These can be cut to size. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1774322-REG/lee_filters_216rc1_24_x_25_filter.html There are different qualities and gradations of diffusion (some with fancy names like “opal frost”). If you are living with something every day, I would recommend doing tests to see which of these sparks joy. But B&H and Adorama are good starting places for this.
Surface Area
The larger the surface area the light is going through, the softer it will be, and I would argue, the more pleasant to live with. To me, the obvious “more dakka” solution is to try to create a full wall of light instead of having a small point source. What I’ve done on music videos before. One technique for this is a “book light” where a light is directed toward a bounce board (reflective white surface) and then bounced through curtain of diffusion.
One setup I use frequently that gets maybe 80% there is to set up tube lights (like these, though they may not be powerful enough for this purpose) on a stand behind a sheer white or off-white curtain. A curtain with a light behind it gives a nice natural look, and is already diffused, and the tube form factor will naturally spread out the light more than a panel form factor.
Heat and Power
There’s no way getting around this one with film lights. Film sets are hot. LEDs have made this much better than the old days of tungsten lighting, but MUAs will nearly always go in between takes and wipe sweat off of actors’ faces. Film sets do not optimize for physical comfort (especially when you consider ACs and fans go off during takes). I think there’s a definite gap in the market for extremely high powered lights for indoor use that use the same kind of cooling technology as grow lights.
My Personal Solution
Take this all with a grain of salt. I don’t use lumenators; I live in the Southwest where we get 80% sunny days, and I have large windows that I frequently have to black out because I get eye strain due to glare!