Does it make sense to reach out to Bryan Johnson (Venmo founder and creator of a large YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanJohnson) to ask for funding for LessWrong? It just occurred to me that his interests seem very aligned with ours, and he might see value in supporting the community.
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GPDR
Since I have seen this typo twice, please change it to GDPR.
That was a fascinating post, thanks for writing it!
if brute force doesn’t solve your problem, then you are not using enough.
Stealing that!
Although not much, I have donated 10$. I hope you will find some generours sponsors that are able financially support Lightcone!
They obviously can’t see the sign
Actually, that is a common misconception. Most “blind” people are not fully blind (based on a few google searches only 10-15% are fully blind) and can make out rough shapes and objects. They could be able to identify a rectangular sign, but might not be able to recognize the written symbols and thus the Braille is helpful.
Elon Musk talked to Lex Fridman for 8 hours about various topics.
Actually, he talked with Musk a bit over an hour and then talked to various people from Neuralink.
I was refering specifically to the CFAR workshop in Prague. The remote event location was bought with SBF funds and without any income, doing further renovations / paying staff etc. was impossible. I think its still in limbo, since I haven’t heard any news in the past few months.
I am pretty sure the common source was the CFAR workshops, that have unfortunately been discontinued. There was an experimental run in Europe as well (in Prague), but due to the Sam Bankman Fried fiasco, most of the funding has been pulled.
I am unsure about the point of this post (maybe this series in its entirety). While I usually skim most of your posts and read sections I am interested in, I have not read a single section here. What do you aim to achieve with this series?
In case its mainly for your own benefit (to organize your thoughts / mark down important info), could you add a disclaimer or a TLDR with the main information for others?
I recommend Keepass, but you might have different requirements.
This video serves as a good comparison of your options and on this website you can find a list of recommendation for password managers and other privacy/security tools.
I really appreciate this post!
measuring my immune system response
This seems to be the main issue in this discussion. Especially if one does not experience strong symptoms, its hard to determine what effect different levels and duration of exposure have on ones body.
IgA and IgG seem to be good indicators, but their correlation to cancer and other risk factors is poorly understood. Also, I personally am getting tested once a year for those metrics, but that would be not nearly enough to check my response to specific restaurant visits I am doing.
but not worry about cross contamination
I don’t like the phrasing of this conclusion. While I do think its okay to risk some amount of cross contamination once in a while, there are certain risks you should not take from a risk/benefit analysis standpoint. For example, I will never eat gluten free pizza that is prepared in the same area as normal pizza, or eat anything that comes from the same fryer as gluten containing foods. On the other hand I will eat at Chipotle, even though some cross contamination could occur. Also, I base a lot of my judgement on the conversation with the waiter or reviews on Find Me GlutenFree.
I have not experienced strong symptoms from accidentally being exposed to gluten, but when I was diagnosed, my intestinal damage was assessed at Marsh IIIC. As far as I am aware, there seems to be no clear correlation between sensitivity and any other metrics.
On another point, avoiding long-term inflamation seems key in minimizing negative health outcomes. That means, its less harmful to accidentally eat a medium dose of gluten every once in a while compared to being exposed to trace amounts a lot.
The rate of rape in prison is almost 5% per year
The link doesn’t go to the correct place.
George Mack on how to spot high agency people
The link appears to be going somewhere different than intended.
Finished the survey! I really liked it, some unexpected questions in there. I am excited for the results.
I am very interested in this project. Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate full-time, but I would like to join / visit for one week in October.
I am eager to contribute in any capacity I can during my visit, be it brainstorming, contributing ideas, or assisting a team with their project.
I really enjoyed the story of the Daguerreotype. However I would disagree that ChatGPT is currently at that state. I find it broadly useful for a bunch of tasks and have been making heavy use of it (and other LLMs) for years now. Starting with GPT 3.5 and onwards it seems to be more akin to modern photography than to the Daguerreotype.
Edit: Since I have gotten quite a few disagreements, I would like to know why. Firing of a quick question and asking a follow up is so much faster than googling or using wikipedia / combing through reddit threads most of the time. Also its an amazing learning partner, when you want to dabble with something that you have little expertise in. Of course its not perfect, but it seems clearly not in the “We have not yet figured out how to make LLMs useful” state.