Hi, I’m Beck. For credibility, Eliezer once said I was chosen by the Food Gods. The following is on the pareto frontier of delicious, easy condiments and is robust to change (but not the most healthy).
Chipotle Mayo:
(<5 min prep)
ingredients:
2 cups good quality mayo (Hellman’s is a classic)
1-2 minced chipotles in adobo *
1-2 pinch (ground toasted) cumin
1⁄2 teaspoon (smoked) paprika
1. combine ingredients
2. eat with things (potatoes, roast vegetables, meats...)
* small cans are available in the hispanic section of most US grocery stores, use a couple of chilis (and their sauce) at a time then keep the rest in the fridge for whatever you want to be made delicious, smokey and spicy (maybe more mayo))
Beckeck
Jumping in here in what i hope is a prosocial way. I assert as hypothesis that the two of you currently disagree about what level of meta the conversation is/should-be at, and each feels that the other has an obligation to meet them at their level, and this has turned up the heat a lot.
maybe there is a more oblique angle then this currently heated one?
This is as much a nitpick with Zvi’s article as with this one, but french food just seems hard to find because its easy to misidentify. french technique is the bedrock of american food—both as the history of fine dining(/haute cuisine) routes directly through french chefs, restaurants, systems, and techniques and as french food has been repurposed into american food.
Some examples: mayonnaise, the delicate, challenging-to-make emulsion of flavored fats and vinegars,controversially a mother sauce* becomes ‘mayo’ the white stuff that goes on sandwiches; charcuterie becomes the deli isle; boeuf bourguignon becomes stew.
so in your example you can probably (haven’t researched the restaurant, but from general knowledge as a processional chef) count at least the “new american” restaurant as french as “new american” is the (new(ish)) American take on a fine dining tradition that comes from france. ‘Chef’ just means ‘chief’ in french (like the military rank or the man in charge) and comes from the brigade system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_de_cuisine)
((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_mother_sauces) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcDk-JcAnOw )
not an expert, but I think life is an existence proof for the power of nanotech, even if the specifics of a grey goo scenario seem less than likely possible. Trees turn sunlight and air into wood, ribosomes build peptides and proteins, and while current generation models of protein folding are a ways from having generative capacity, it’s unclear how many breakthroughs are between humanity and that general/generative capacity.
If it’s the case that the game theory here is correct I’m sad why it can’t be simply explained as such, if the game theory here isn’t correct I’m sad it’s curated.
link to the essay if/when you write it?
“Gemma think that objective function and its implications through. At all.2”
*doesn’t
given this notional use case (and the relative inexperience of the implied user), I think its even more important to (as Gunnar mentioned) contextualize this advice as to whom its for, and how they should use it.
doing that properly would take more than i have for this at the moment, but i’d appreciate epistemic tagging regarding things like;
this only could work at a new/small scale (for reasons including because the cost of keeping everyone 100% context scales with org size and because benefits don’t)
that strategy has to fit the employees you have, and this sort of strategy constrains the type of person you can hire to those who would fit it (which is a cost to be considered, not a fatal flaw).
“ARC (they just changed names to METR, but I will call them ARC for this post)”—almost but not quite—
ARC Evals (the evaluation of frontier models people, led by Beth Barnes, with Paul on board/ advising) has become METR, ARC (alignment research center, doing big brain math and heuristic arguments, led by Paul) remains ARC.
typo: “Gugguk” should be “Gigguk”
some places to look (with hope that others might add theirs):
Moneyball (the book, the movie lacks detail but gets some of the spirit)
fivethirtyeight’s methodology articles on their various sports/+ models (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-our-raptor-metric-works/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirtyeight-2020-primary-model-works/)
probably a bunch of articles from grantland (which is archived but available, but i lack titles off the top of my head)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_analytics
zvi’s sports betting articles
in lieu of writing nothing instead, informally -
hey, good list! i wonder if you’ve read much of the recent history of sabermetrics, which to me is the modern equivalent (in that it’s a history of bunch of nerds and some people who wanted to be rich who actualized statistical modeling at the frontier of the applied science)?
know ” sentence needs an ending
First, Writing things so you know them seems valuable.
Second, Fwiw In my struggles with depression, I’ve found physical habits to be the easiest route to something better. When you don’t know what to do but need to do something, go for a walk/hike/jog and let your brain sync up with your body a little, burn some calories to regain some hunger, and deserve some the tiredness you may already feel.
I barely assed the exercise but like/liked this.
For (graph comfortable) me i found the graphs* to cleanly get me to some subset of the relevant frames/questions/narratives.
if i’d written the post, a version of the final chart would have been first (or at least near). i have various other thoughts on that level which feel both like quibbles and like significant differences in how you and i (or an agent and another agent) carryout the moment to moment cognition of an attempting to be rational agent.
*except the green bar graph, which i could just guess at meanings for.
plus one for “stop worrying about what people will say in response so much, get the actual information out there, stop being afraid.”
see also Anna Salamon’s takes on ‘not doing PR’ that someone else might find and link?
Good video, even if I’m don’t quite agree with the superlative. I suspect that the festival film this video is about (this YouTube is a Pete Whitaker behind the scenes https://youtu.be/pDCSzC7PJBg) will be better, and also I’m excited for the full 3d/ vr films that should be coming out soon (here is Alex honold doing the behind the scenes thing https://youtu.be/dy4jGZ—gre)
I think clever duplication of human intelligence is plenty sufficient for general superhuman capacity in the important sense (wherein I mean something like ‘it has capacities such that would be extincion causing if (it believes) minimizing its loss function is achieved by turning off humanity (which could turn it off/ start other (proto-)agis)’).
for one, I don’t think humanity is that robust in the status quo, and 2, a team of internally aligned (because copies) human level intelligence capable of graduate level biology seems plenty existentially scary.
″ football, hockey, rugby, boxing, kick-boxing and MMA to be amongst the worst sports for this stuff.” - - I’m not up to date on the current literature but I’m pretty sure this list is rather wrong. I don’t remember all the details of the study I do remember (and I don’t have time for a lit review) but in it women’s high school soccer actually had the highest concussion rate (idk if it was per participant season or hour or per game minute or...).
to confirm what Vitor said, it’s the logistics companies not the port that had a rules change:
“The rule change does not apply to terminals at the Port of Long Beach, which routinely stack containers up to six high. Many media reports over the weekend didn’t make a distinction between the port and inland zone, making it appear the port had new authority to increase vertical storage.”
- https://www.freightwaves.com/news/city-of-long-beach-allows-logistics-companies-to-stack-containers-higher