Austin Weisgrau

• Austin Weisgrau 22 Jul 2026 23:23 UTC

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  in reply to: David Gross’s comment on: My Weirdest Experience

  Same! This was becoming an increasingly common theme, to the point where I was having long in-dream discussions with friends attempting to evaluate reliably if I was dreaming—nearly always concluding that I was not dreaming. This started to disturb me a bit and I decided to stop this inquiry, which worked.

• Austin Weisgrau 10 Apr 2026 4:59 UTC

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  on: The effects of caf­feine con­sump­tion do not de­cay with a ~5 hour half-life

  From the above we might tentatively guess that paraxanthine is 1.5-2x as potent a stimulant as caffeine, while noting that measurements seem to be all over the place. This is in contrast to my subjective experience so far, where an equal dose of paraxanthine feels similar or weaker than caffeine.

  Isn’t the point that a dose of caffeine is actually metabolized as a dose of caffeine PLUS paraxanthine metabolites? So you never actually experience caffeine by itself, and can’t really compare the two directly, although you can definitely model it modulo the rate of metabolism.

• Austin Weisgrau 15 Feb 2026 17:15 UTC

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  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: It Takes Two Parac­eta­mol?

  2g of Tylenol is an overdose. Surprisingly small overdoses can lead to fatal liver failure.

• Austin Weisgrau 13 Nov 2025 2:01 UTC

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  in reply to: skolemizer’s comment on: Hu­man Values ≠ Goodness

  I would strongly agree with this critique, the characterization of goodness as memetics is severely under theorized, memeticity is a superficial aspect and there is a deeper structure worth considering.

• Austin Weisgrau 22 Oct 2025 16:54 UTC

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  on: Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems

  For trivial problems, remembering you have them and that they are solvable is most of the magic here. My friend got me doing this on simple fix problems specifically and within a few weeks I had fixed a variety of super annoying things that had bothered me for years and each required about $2 to fix. A broken drain catch, no good bottle to water my plants, not having hair ties, missing a gasket. Problem solving has escalated from there.

• Austin Weisgrau 8 May 2025 21:47 UTC

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  in reply to: Julian Bradshaw’s comment on: Ori­ent­ing Toward Wizard Power

  And, at risk of quashing OP’s admirable spirit, a more “robust” toothbrush would exacerbate the relevant harms