Alex Hollow
Deconfusing Regret
[Book Review] Evolution of Sex
[Question] Is there any writing about prompt engineering for humans?
Pack a travel bathroom bag
Decision-Making Training for Software Engineering
Playing Without Affordances
The general lesson is that understanding the thing directly is better than understanding someone else’s explanation of the thing.
This is a massive misread of the article. The benefit of lifting is the feeling of joy in the merely material, and of transforming the feeling of being embodied from a feeling of trappedness to a feeling of capabilities being granted to you.
Until I’d gained some muscle, I didn’t know that getting out of bed shouldn’t actually feel like much, physically, or that walking up a bunch of stairs shouldn’t tire you out, or that carrying groceries around shouldn’t be onerous. I felt cursed by the necessity of occupying space while shuffling around this mortal coil. And now I do not. Moreover, I no longer feel that I need some special justification for existing, because simply residing in the material is now a privilege.
The first time I moved apartments after I started seriously lifting, I enjoyed it. I had always suffered while moving before lifting, ending up sore and tired and cranky, but after lifting, I didn’t feel any negatives.
This post is excellent. The airplane runway metaphor hit home for me and I think it will help me explain my worries about exponential growth to other people more clearly than graphs, so thanks for writing it up!
I really enjoyed reading this, and learning about the symmetries between electron shells and nuclear/proton shells. It wasn’t clear to me why the nuclear waste in concrete is safe to hug—from a quick google, apparently all matter blocks gamma radiation, and concrete is made out of matter. Concrete is typically used because it is cheap and dense, and often “heavy concrete” made with dense industrial waste material (fly ash, slag, etc) is used for radiation shield. source
Hi—I like this post and I’m glad you were able to put 60% of the value of a book into a table! One question I had—you say that IVF costs $12k and surrogacy costs $100k, but also that surrogacy is only $20k more than IVF? That doesn’t add up to me.
Also, sperm/egg donation are usually you getting paid to give those things, which help you have children technically. But those children are probably not being raised by you, so a lot of the benefits you cite, like playing with grandchildren, might be smaller for children created with donated gametes than children you bear and raise yourself.
Narrow Roads of Gene Land Volume 2: Evolution of Sex by W. D. Hamilton claims to cover this topic, and I just got a copy. I plan on reading and writing a book review, because I suspect that Hamilton has some good theories that LW would be interested in, given this post and recent interest in the evolution of sex.
Hi—looks like you did a relative link (https://www.lesswrong.com/capital-gains-in-agi-big.png) but you want this absolute link instead: https://www.jefftk.com/capital-gains-in-agi-big.png
Paper Review: Mathematical Truth
Get your gun license
I like this post’s idea, and reversing the causal arrow. Most people think that life philosophy causes life outcome, so they look for the right life philosophy, but if it were the opposite you should be chasing the life outcome, and then you will end up with the life philosophy.
I don’t get the first two paragraphs at all, though. Are you trying to say that Sapphire was doing something that everyone could learn how to do, but disguised it behind a mystic pretense, and that was bad? I don’t think I fully get how it ties into the rest of the post (although I haven’t seen the show, so I may be missing something).
If you don’t like doing all the non-programming work that running your own company entails, you might prefer a annoying job that still only requires programming over starting your own company.
It feels like an important metric is “karma per view” or “karma per read” or “karma per user-minute-looking-at-text” something similar. Currently, we can’t gauge that, and so when someone who gives a strong prior that their post will be worth reading posts, that post will get more views which means more upvotes even if they have a similar “karma per read”.
EDIT: EY’s post loaded the second I posted this, but I promise it was an independent invention