I took it. A bit sad that it’s shorter than the last one.
ChristianKl
Karma: 32,226
Orexin and the quest for more waking hours
Dominic Cummings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Silicon Valley
[Question] What happened to the OpenPhil OpenAI board seat?
[Question] Why aren’t we all using Taffix?
Academic Rationality Research
We got what’s needed for COVID-19 vaccination completely wrong
I don’t really understand what Zoe went through, just reading her post (although I have talked with other ex-Leverage people about the events). You don’t understand what I went through, either. It was really, really psychologically disturbing. I sound paranoid writing what I wrote, but this paranoia affected so many people.
It would have probably better if you would have focused on your experience and drop all of the talk about Zoe from this post. That would make it easier for the reader to just take the information value from your experience.
I think that your post is still valuable information but that added narrative layer makes it harder to interact with then it would have been if it would have been focused more on your experience.
[Question] Why did no LessWrong discourse on gain of function research develop in 2013/2014?
It’s been a while since I looked into Stampi, but from what I remember Claudio Stampi optimizes for the performance during a race and makes statements about what’s optimal for the race environment. As far as I remember Stampi does not advocate that the sailors go down to those low amounts of sleep outside of their racing conditions. In most sports, the behavior that’s optimal for maximum sports performance is not the behavior that’s optimal for long-term health.
Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning
It seems to me like in the case of Leverage, them working 75 hours per week reduced the time the could have used to use Reason to conclude that they are in a system that’s bad for them.
That’s very different from someone having a few conversation with Vassar and then adopting a new belief and spending a lot of the time reasoning about that alone and the belief being stable without being embedded into a strong enviroment that makes independent thought hard because it keeps people busy.
A cult in it’s nature is a social institution and not just a meme that someone can pass around via having a few conversations.
Given the decision on a cap in length I think it might be worthwhile to do a second LW Lifestyle and Values survey in addition to the census. At best with half a year of distance to the census.
Stupid Questions October 2020
I do appreciate the account being public. At the same time I would have liked more details about the experiences.
Saying “there was a consent issue” is one level of abstraction over a straight recounting of experience. There’s a huge difference between kissing someone with whom you are in mutual love without asking them for permission for it and rape in sense of the criminal code.
Having an account of what happened exactly would be useful to put the incident into practice.
Language models can generate superior text compared to their input
Fauci’s Emails and the Lab Leak Hypothesis
The point of writing an ad like that is to be appealing to people who would fit the job and not be appealing to people who wouldn’t.
Given what the post said about the NDA that people signed when leaving, it seems to me like explictely releasing people from that NDA (maybe with a provision to anonymize names of other people) would be very helpful for having a productive discussion that can integrate the experiences of many people into public knowledge and create a shared understanding of what happened.