Is $15k a year typical for car insurance? In the UK it’s a few hundred dollars a year at most unless you’re a very young or very risky driver.
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Rather than ‘zero sum’ I’ve heard it referred to as a positional good.
‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’ must be one of the lindiest posts on here. Well done @jsalvatier!
Thank you—this is the comment I was going to write.
Bartender at my local place wearing a loose-fitting charcoal suit (think Father John Misty): painfully cool. Robert from Industry wearing a black suit on his first day at an investment bank: totally out of place (“get a new suit, you look like fucking Neo”).
Nit: scaling up RL by 100x and inference by 10,000x would be a 1:3 OOM ratio I think
Or nicotine spray (like Nicorette QuickMist).
I get “invite invalid” when I follow the link.
I have often wondered if having a “no complaining” experiment would be similarly useful.
Sahil has been up to things.
This links to a sequence where the most recent post is 7 months old—so I don’t really understand the context (and I still don’t know who Sahil is). Can it be made clearer?
Sentience is absolutely the thing that matters here. My thermostat can respond to changes in its environment but that does not make it a moral patient.
Sorry but none of these things remotely imply that plants are conscious any more than an amaoeba is conscious (responding to external stimuli, chemotaxis, etc). Citation very much needed for “plants can learn things”.
I would have thought this would do the majority of the work and is the lowest-suffering way to do it by far.
such that suicide should be legal if
Isn’t suicide already legal in most places?
People seemed keen in taking part in a remote Inkhaven. I’ll put together a loose community and run a tontine—to be split between those who post every day of November. Express interest here.
Do you have thoughts on naming/branding? Happy to find my own name but if you’d prefer I can also label at as a sort of remote Inkhaven type of thing.
Great, thanks!
Any interest in a remote Inkhaven?
EDIT: express interest here
I love the idea of Inkhaven but don’t have the cash (and am not super interested in becoming a fancy writer/researcher, but would like to write better). What about an online version—would also run during the month of November so could cadge some of the Inkhaven tailwind, but would be free and online-only.
You’d have a community of likeminded people all trying to do the same thing. We could set up a tontine; everyone chips in $50 or something and then if you’ve posted one thing a day for the full month you split the pool at the end.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1015958423001392 suggests that bright light might be causing the effect, not UV.
That’s an interesting paper! Although it seems a bit confounded—“Because eyes of mice and of human volunteers were not covered, we cannot exclude the possibility that solar/UV radiation to the eye affected the observed sexual behavior.” Which would be interesting if true, suggesting that just being outside and getting UV light in the eyes would be the thing to do. I guess you note this at the end of your first comment.
What do you think about the potential skin aging effects of UV vs the potential health benefits?
Could LLM psychiatrists be better than meat ones?
[Not medical advice, obviously]
I had a call with my psychiatrist – the first one in about a year; I hadn’t really felt the need to see him until then – and we spoke for a scant ten minutes. I gave a one-minute description of how I was feeling, and he fiddled with the dose of a mood stabiliser I take and that was it.
No attempt to dig deeper into how I was feeling, or give me a standard questionnaire like the PHQ-9 or MADRS which would have given a numerical idea of how I was doing over time. The session cost £150 for ten minutes.
I wondered if an LLM couldn’t do a better job than this guy.
So I went and downloaded a copy of the Maudsley and shoved it into a Claude project. (It’s over 900 pages, so I trimmed the PDF to just the ~150 pages on depression first.) I gave it custom instructions to ensure it always checked and referenced the Maudsley guidelines.
Here is it dismantling some common myths (Opus 4.5):
User: how long does it take antidepressants to start working in depression?
User: what’s the evidence for pushing escitalopram to doses higher than 20mg? search online as well.
Certainly it seems like, if not a replacement for a traditional psychiatrist, an LLM + a copy of the Maudsley is very good foil for classical care.