My point was not specifically that people up north eat an animal based diet but that ALL people everywhere do. We have been hunter gatherer for a couple of hundred thousands years, and farmers for a couple of thousands. To me it makes sense to look at what hunter gathers today eat (i know its not a perfect proxy but better than observing what people eat at McDonalds). As you can see, ALL present hunter gatherers eat animal foods, and they eat a lot of it. We need fat and protein, they are essential for us. Carbs are not.
“An alternate explanation could imply that people who live in the tundra do end up aging faster as a result of actual deficiencies.”
Do people age faster up north due to deficiencies? What is you source for that?
Anders Lindström
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I am amazed how “they” managed to dupe almost everyone with the idea that humans are “made” to eat diets based almost solely on grains and tubers (high glycemic index) and that animal foods (glycemic index = 0) was never meant for us. Some food for thought:
(Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523070582)
It would be much appreciated and very interesting if the moderation/editor team here at LessWrong could share their perceptions on how frequently AI is currently being used for posts and comments.
Your “Intrigue → Denial → Appreciation → Denial 2 → Fear”—cycle really hits the spot. I will filter future comments from AI pundit through this lens.
Thank you for an excellent post.
The results and studies discussed in the post further validate a feeling I have had about longevity for some time: that there is not much a person living a “normal” life with decent eating, exercise, social, and sleeping habits can do to significantly extend their lifespan. There is no silver bullet that, from a reasonably “normal” health baseline, can routinely give you 5 or 10 extra years, let alone 1 or 2 years.In this regard, current science has failed, and I think the whole longevity research community needs to reassess the way forward. No matter how much pill-swallowing, cold-bath-taking, HIIT-training, and sleep-optimizing they (we) do, it does not really work.
I wonder, in the aftermath of the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, how this will affect future possibilities of performing a ‘Yudkowskyan strike’ on datacenters. Will this effectively drive advanced AI development underground to nuclear and bunker bomb proof locations?
The book will probably be a treat to read, but since “someone” (Open AI, Anthropic, Google, META et al.) apparently WILL build “it” everyone WILL die. Oh well, we had a good run I guess.
Design of the frontpage: No. I am fan of the white clean design with the occasional AI generated image. The current iteration reduces readability a lot.
“Employees at OpenAI believed…” — do you mean Sam Altman and the board?
If this information is accurate, it speaks volumes about how flawed their alignment predictions might also be. If a company with vast resources and insider access like OpenAI can’t predict the capabilities of competing firms (a relatively simple problem with objectively knowable answers), how can we expect them to predict the behavior of advanced AI models, where the unknowns are far greater and often unknowable?
Since a lot of people disagree with this, please tell me what a score of 100% mean or say 50% or 37%? I am not writing this to provoke, I am genuinely interested to know.
Feedback: I really like the breakdown of each companies stance on safety, but please skíp the percentage numbers. Its just silly to give a score based on guesswork.
Brace for impact. Everyone with a desk job should start to plan for alternative exit strategies.
Angry that doctors had spent years teaching her to delay treatment by dismissing her concerns.
Sorry for your loss, but thank you for reminding us how precious life is.
The quoted sentence from your post is I believe the main reasons why doctors (doctors not surgeons) will be one of the first high-status professions to be replaced by AI in a couple of years . If you can just get comprehensive blood work done (you could draw blood in a drop-in booth in a mall and send to a lab) and my some pictures taken of your body and then have a conversation with an AI about the symptoms you experience, the need to go to a psychical grumpy stressed doctor is no more needed or even something you would like to do when you will get much much better and consistent results from the AI doctor who treat you with respect and dignity and do no check his or her watch every minute.
And should we still think that a mere text message could increase yields for the hundreds of millions who work in farming?
Maybe. If you can use your phone to take photos of soil samples for image analysis paired with data which crop you intent to grow and weather data, why would it be far fetched to assume that an AI could give not you good advice on irrigation and fertilizers etc via text messages?
Body doubling / coworking; this doesn’t work for everyone, but I find that this robustly lowers the activation energy costs and reduces distractions.
I have found that for me a simple pomodoro timer (25min work/5 minute break) fixes a lot of procrastination issues / distractions. It’s weird how that little timer can make me focus and make me feel responsible to not let my mind wander.
Thank you! The backstory to this is that I have been confused about how there can be so many fake/scam profiles on social media platforms when it should be very easy to detect them with the AI systems they have in place. Both the profile nancygonzalez8451097 and jeffyoung9385500 are “real”. These profiles actually liked one of my photos on Instagram. That gave me the idea to write this story.
The first part of the story is describing what kind of justifications Instagram’s anomaly detection systems must have made to accept nancygonzalez8451097 registration and existence. If nancygonzalez8451097 actually existed, what kind of life would she have led that would have matched what she have put in her profile, and this is one possible life (with a lot of strange coincidences and oddities) that she could have led
The second part of the story is how I see a team meeting at Instagram going down, like that Mark need to be completely out of touch with reality (which he probably is not, which is the great paradox here) to let all these fake/scam profiles roam freely on Instagram and not be willing to do anything about it.I hope my thoughts makes it easier to understand? This is a failure in it self. A story should be able to stand on its own without explanations.
Short story: Who is nancygonzalez8451097
The main reason for developing AI in the first place is to make possible what the headline says: “AI-enabled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power”.
AI-enabled coups are a feature, not a bug.
How about the culture in catholic countries were gays are mistreated and that the culture “demand” young men to to find a wife and get married? One way to opt out of marriage and condemnation for being gay, with your honor intact and that you do not have to reveal your preferences, is to go into priesthood.
Yes, sometimes they are slow, other times they are fast. A private effort to build a nuke or go to the moon in the time frames they did would not have been possible. AFAIK the assumption that Chinese AI development is government directed everyone agrees to, but for some very strange reason people like to think that US AI is directed by a group of quirky nerds that wants to save the world and just happens to get their hands on a MASSIVE amount of compute (worth billions upon billions of dollars). Imagine when the government gets to hear what these nerds are up to in a couple of years...
IF there is any truth to how important the race to AGI/ASI is to win.THEN governments are the key-players in those races.
Of course hunter gatherers eat/ate carbs, but they did not base their diets on grains and beans. Fruits and berries “wants” to get eaten. But… how long is the fruit and berry season? A few months if you are lucky. The rest of the time animal foods is pretty much the only thing available. Sure you can chew on the occasional root, but how many calories will that give you?
My stance is that more animal foods in peoples diets would reverse some of the damage from the high carb ultraprocessed foods in peoples diets. I live in Sweden. The recommended weekly red meat consumption is 350grams. That is like one or two meals. To me that recommendation is madness when you look a insulin resistance and diabetes numbers. People need to get a bigger share of their energy from protein and fat, not less.