or have a weekly minimum that’s greater than the daily minimum x7
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Personal example: back when I was working as a data scientist at various startups, my mother would tell me to wear a suit when interviewing. And I would be like “Mom you do not get it, that would absolutely tank my chances of getting hired except at companies so bad I don’t want to work there, the only people who wear a suit for an interview in tech are the people who don’t think they can cut it on their technical skills and the people hiring know this”. I had the skills. I was definitely playing the winners’ bracket in that particular game. Throwing in something like a suit, the sort of signal used in the losers’ bracket, would have been a terrible move.
This seems more like “your mom is wrong about what the correct interview outfit is” than “you escaped the game”. There are lots of outfits that would cost you points in start-up interviews; some people are lucky enough to have their tastes formed by the same pressures and feel like it’s natural, others have to learn the same way people have to wear a suit.
The MATS acceptance rate was 33% in Summer 2022 (the first program with open applications) and decreased to 4.3% (in terms of first-stage applicants; ~7% if you only count those who completed all stages) in Summer 2025. Similarly, our mentor acceptance rate decreased from 100% in Summer 2022 to 27% for the upcoming Winter 2026 Program.
This is not counter-evidence to the accusation that scholar quality has been going downhill unless you add in several other assumptions.
I’m dying to know… If you lack the “appreciate long term relationship” receptor, why did you stay in a relationship for 10 years?
One of the reasons it’s hard to take the possibility of blatant lies into account is that it would just be so very inconvenient, and also boring.
Feeling called out by this relatable content.
My impression is 7 is neutral, so this isn’t very good. I’m surprised and view this as a huge lost opportunity.
Do you have data on how valuable writers find the feedback they get from peers or mentors? Do people who get a little tend to want more?
There is essentially never going to be anything to see on your phone that can’t wait ten minutes.
This just isn’t true. I’ve had medical emergencies and supported friends through emergencies where someone really did need to pick up right away. They’re rare, but you do need a system that can handle them.
Because it’s the body’s natural reaction to calorie deficits.
occasionally, but it doesn’t scratch the same itch for me. I’ve enjoyed as ANW moved away from the climbing-type obstacles and towards the gymnast/acrobat type obstacles. The climbing ones never look effortless.
I like Ninja Warrior, a sport that is functionally an obstacle course for insane gymnasts. Every time I watch, I notice how much easier it is to be good at things. It’s not just that good technique needs less strength for a given move. It’s that arm strength gets you off obstacles faster, which conserves precious finger strength.. Ninjas that are good at linking moves conserve momentum instead of needing to rebuild it, further saving upper body and finger strength.
E.g. Max vs. Taylor in the finals (start at 12:48). Keep in mind that Taylor is the top contender for best female ninja, so she’s not suffering from technique issues.
Or take Hades, a beat-em-up in which you receive power-ups throughout the game. Some of the powerups make you better at hurting enemies, some give you more hit points. Sometimes you get a choice of power-up. If you’re constantly being hit, you want the hit points. But if you’re good enough at dodging you don’t need them and can get an offensive power instead, which will let you kill enemies faster and get hit even less.
I appreciate your thoughtfulness in creating a separate feed
If you have a bad reaction to mRNA covid vaccines, consider getting the Novavax vaccine, which is a traditional subunit vaccine. Moderna knocks me out for a day and triggers some autoimmune symptoms, but Novavax just gives me a slightly sore arm.
Some people think drugs like retatrutide have an effect on motivation [...]
Is there a reason you frame this as motivation and not energy? There’s a solid mechanistic reason to expect more energy.
I mix cricket, whey, or liver powder into smoothies. You don’t need a lot to 80⁄20 the benefits.
Your own screenshot shows that pescatarians do better than vegans (not statistically significant, but neither is the difference between vegans and omnivores). And if you break it down by sex (and continue to ignore statistical significance), veganism is the worst choice for women after unconstrained omnivorism
More of my opinion of this study here.
“Rocks for jocks” isn’t a stereotype because geology is easy. It’s a stereotype because rocks are heavy and field sites are far away.
My sense is that for almost all funders, money is viewed as an input with which to save souls, rather than a terminal goal like it is for VCs. Which isn’t to say there aren’t financial abuses, but they genuinely feel like a departure from form, rather than especially obvious cases of something everyone is doing.
With non-denominational churches, funders can’t sack the planter, they can just decline future funding. It’s not impossible they could fund a hostile takeover, but early church plants are such cults of personality with so little in assets that it wouldn’t really make sense to do so- you’d rather just found another planter who can start his own cult of personality (who might buy the sound system off a failed plant). As churches get bigger there will generally be a board who might have the power to fire the pastor, and denominational churches are either subject to control by the denomination or have a board with firing power from the beginning.
what are you noticing that smells like LLM? I only skimmed, but I didn’t see anything that tripped my radar, and lawyer talk can sound a lot like LLM talk.
Back in 2020, @Raemon gave me some extremely good advice.
@johnswentworth had left some comments on a post of mine that I found extremely frustrating and counterproductive. At the time I had no idea about his body of work, so he was just some annoying guy. Ray, who did know who John was and thought he was doing important work, told me:
Which didn’t mean I had to heal the rift with John in particular, but if I was going to make that a policy then I would need to give up on my goal of having real impact.
John and I did a video call, and it went well. He pointed out a major flaw in my post, I impressed him by immediately updating once he pointed it out. I still think his original comments displayed status dynamics while sneering at them, and find that frustrating, but Ray was right that not all factual corrections will be delivered in pleasing forms.