Agreed on all counts. Do you add extracts to your whipped cream? I usually do a few drops of both vanilla and almond extract, but cinnamon or strawberry or raspberry extract are also really good.
I find in most cake or quick bread recipes I can get away with cutting sugar by up to ~half, especially if I put it in a food processor first to make it finer. If you use brown or coconut sugar, that helps preserve the moisture retention and caramelization effects while making the flavor more complex.
This seems highly dependent on how much that manyfacturing and deployment effort continues to require humans at all, in any numbers.
I asked Claude this (naturally). It said, basically, that most possible interventions don’t transfer well. It recommended pre-forming plans/intentions, using precommitment systems like Beeminder, aerobic exercise, good sleep, and mindfulness practice. As far as how it can help, it said this is secondary to the biological constraints, but it can help you structure your environment to better keep in mind the things that will help you make good choices (list checklists and analyzing situations and considerations), it can help you do pre-mortems and post-mortems, and it can serve as a decision/reflection log with feedback.
As usual, that depends what you mean by “me.” According to the earring itself, this is not true.
Beyond the psychology: it’s hard for me to imagine “succeeding” at getting a good outcome from AI without having some semblance of a positive vision of what success could even mean. Avoiding a long list of failure modes notoriously, in the best case, mostly just pushes you into a failure mode you didn’t anticipate.
Fair enough. Still, the industrial/organizational psychologists will be happy to tell you that, as far as they can determine, even the most competent humans are never perfect at anything, including tasks vastly simpler than this, regardless of the stakes involved.
Bayes points aside, outside view, there’s a reason so many human works of fiction center on a betrayal of stated commitments in the face of sufficient perceived reasons. Sometimes as the world literally burns.
But we are uncertain whether humans will be perfect at auditing
It makes me sad that many people seem to, in fact, be uncertain about this and think it’s actually a plausible possibility.
I’ve been told, though I don’t know in any real detail, that sleep is the period where muscle protein synthesis can most outpace breakdown, so this directionally aligns with the kind of thing I’d be curious and cautious about. Whereas cardio is more about using existing muscles and ensuring adequate energy and oxygen supply and blood flow and things like that.
IDK about any other kinds of screen, or anyone else’s eyes, but my laptop screen is mostly unusable in more than maybe 500 lux brightness, maybe less. Which is annoying, because work is when I want the most light.
Preferred brightness is also a big difference between me and my wife, since she likes much dimmer lighting than I do.
Interesting about the fluoride. This all makes sense—AFAIK the US is an outlier on having lots of high profile lawsuits about things.
FWIW you can buy regular non-iodized salt in US supermarkets. You need it for things like pickling and canning, since iodine causes some sort of problems (I’m not sure of the details).
I don’t speak German, so I can’t tell if the German has different connotations than the English. But in general, on technical or obscure matters, unless someone is either in the Rationalist sphere or else a very competent expert in a very specific area, it’s usually prudent to interpret claims that there is no evidence as claims that the person doesn’t know of any evidence unless they specifically claim to have seriously looked, and not found any, quite recently.
Also, IDK how medical practice in Germany (if that’s where you are) differs from the US, but in the US doctors are expected to mostly stick to best practices arrived at by people and institutions that aren’t themselves. They’re allowed to diverge from that based on their own professional judgment, and sometimes do, but it opens them up to more risk of liability, so many are hesitant to do so. I see that, too, as an impediment to personalized medicine.
Correct. I agree.
“I don’t know” is actually a pretty good response when your doctor doesn’t know. No human can know all the medicine, that’s not what the “talk to your doctor first” advice is supposed to be about. If you want to talk to someone who specifically knows, or get your doctor to specifically learn, that’s going to cost you quite a lot more than a normal doctor visit.
In other words: your doctor can try to help keep you from screwing up too badly and obviously. They can tell you if what your doing is far outside the bounds of Normal Standard of Care, or if there are specific things they happen to know that make it a bad idea for you or in general, or if there are specific things you should be looking out for in terms of negative effects. But modern medical care, as normally practiced, is not actually capable of the level of personalized medicine you’re asking for.
Addition on reaching the end of the post: Every once in a while, there’s a little beacon of sanity and hope.
Pulling out all the stops to mislead.
I notice that this fragment lacks a subject, and there is thus a trivial way to make it technically true. Far more true than it could be otherwise, really.
Note that Dean’s is also a fully general argument that humans cannot cause human extinction. That should be a sufficient reason to reject it.
I would think so.
Personal anecdote: There’s a Cerave moisturizer creme I buy that sometimes comes in a pack of two equal weight jars, one with a screw top amd one with a pump top. The pump only lets you get about half out. I use the other one and then switch the tops.
Great review, agreed on almost all counts. I haven’t read the book, but it sounds like its author is either missing or ignoring some basic background facts and historical context (which, admittedly, is pretty normal).
I think the value of Socrates made a lot more sense to me after a few things I learned later.
1) I read Three Worlds Collide and met the Xenopsychologist. If Socrates was (one of) the first, he was also the least, the worst, the weakest. We can know things, and he knew that, but the people of his time thought we could and did know things in ways we couldn’t and didn’t and don’t, and that needed to be corrected before we made progress. You’d be an idiot to try to learn physics directly from Newton or astronomy from Ptolemy, too.
2) We mostly know Socrates through Plato, writing after Socrates’ death, as you say. Plato definitely* thought we could know things, without even looking at them in reality. And the further in time he got from Socrates’ death, so did his Socrates. I expect we’d have a different impression is the Dialogues has been written by Aristotle. Later dialogues should be read, I think, as mostly Plato using Socrates as a mouthpiece for his own theories. At the time, this would have had the benefit that being dead, his psyche (soul) was no longer bound by his mortal nous or the effects of the river Lethe.
3) The English words for Knowledge and Wisdom are less precise than the Greek ones. Socrates was deemed by the Oracle to have the most sophos of any mortal, while Socrates claimed to have none. But sophos is theoretical wisdom from first principles and ultimate causes, which the Greeks believed only the gods could possess. If anything we moderns would agree with that, except we also doubt the gods. Socrates made no claims about lacking episteme or logos or techne or even metis and nous. When he disparaged his own memory, he was talking about mneme in the context of detailed arguments. He did not claim to lack anamnesis or aletheia. And in the later dialogues when Socrates is portrayed by Plato as having and providing sophos, it feels to me more like the Iliad’s invocation of the muse Mnemosyne, or in this case Apollo, to speak through a mortal. This is why Socrates claimed to be so pious—he believed it was an Apollo-given mission to remind the people of Athens that they all lacked the sophos of the gods. Or rather, that was Plato’s defense of him, a kind of ironic rejection of the trumped-up politically-motivated charges against him. In other words, he really was a gadfly annoying those in charge.
Basically, Socrates correctly pointed out one of the limits of human understanding, in a way that offended the powerful. It fell to later generations to piece together what knowing and understanding even are or can be, and hero worship doesn’t help.
Ooh that’s a great idea!
Depending on the brand of cream, I find if I don’t add some sort of flavoring it ends up tasting like butter