Jayson_Virissimo

• Jayson_Virissimo 24 Sep 2020 18:54 UTC

  8 points

  on: The ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity’s lo­ca­tion problem

  Mati_Roy makes the case for Phoenix here.

  Full Dis­clo­sure: I’m in Phoenix.

• Jayson_Virissimo 10 Sep 2020 6:55 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: shminux’s comment on: Les­lie’s Firing Squad Can’t Save The Fine-Tun­ing Argument

  A similar “mea­sure func­tion is non-nor­mal­iz­able” ar­gu­ment is made at length in McGrew, T., McGrew, L., & Vestrup, E. (2001). Prob­a­bil­ities and the Fine-Tun­ing Ar­gu­ment: A Scep­ti­cal View. Mind, 110(440), 1027-1037.

• Jayson_Virissimo 19 Jul 2020 5:59 UTC

  4 points

  on: Open & Wel­come Thread—July 2020

  I’ve been work­ing on an in­ter­ac­tive flash card app to sup­ple­ment clas­si­cal home­school­ing called Boethius. It uses a spaced-rep­e­ti­tion al­gorithm to econ­o­mize on the stu­dents time and cur­rently has ex­er­cises for (Latin) gram­mar, ar­ith­metic, and as­tron­omy.

  Let me know what you think!

• Jayson_Virissimo 12 Jul 2020 23:28 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: romeostevensit’s comment on: Science eats its young

  Do you hap­pen to know where he dis­cusses this idea?

• Jayson_Virissimo 3 Jul 2020 4:06 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Suspended Reason’s comment on: Si­tu­at­ing LessWrong in con­tem­po­rary philos­o­phy: An in­ter­view with Jon Livengood

  Good call, I’ll link to it from the poll.

• Jayson_Virissimo 1 Jul 2020 20:02 UTC

  11 points

  on: Si­tu­at­ing LessWrong in con­tem­po­rary philos­o­phy: An in­ter­view with Jon Livengood

  Sus­pended Rea­son: you may find this philos­o­phy poll of LWers from 8 years ago in­ter­est­ing. The poll re­sults no longer ren­der (as of the 2.0 re­boot of LW), but the raw data can be found in this git repo.

• Jayson_Virissimo 14 Apr 2020 20:41 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: Jim­ran­domh’s Short­form Posts

  Ah, yes: their head­line is very mis­lead­ing then! It cur­rently reads “The coro­n­avirus did not es­cape from a lab. Here’s how we know.”

  I’ll shoot the ed­i­tor an email and see if they can cor­rect it.

  EDIT: Here’s me com­plain­ing about the head­line on Twit­ter.

• Jayson_Virissimo 14 Apr 2020 20:30 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: jimrandomh’s comment on: Jim­ran­domh’s Short­form Posts

  Not sure if you have seen this yet, but they con­clude:

  Our analy­ses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a lab­o­ra­tory con­struct or a pur­pose­fully ma­nipu­lated virus...

  Are they as­sum­ing a false premise or mak­ing an er­ror in rea­son­ing some­where?

• Jayson_Virissimo 30 Mar 2020 21:00 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: waveman’s comment on: Why Tel­ling Peo­ple They Don’t Need Masks Backfired

  No, ly­ing seems to have a short term cost as well, since in the places where mask wear­ing is en­couraged peo­ple are cre­at­ing home­made masks (and donat­ing their N95s to hos­pi­tals).

• Jayson_Virissimo 27 Mar 2020 5:03 UTC

  4 points

  on: Where can we donate time and money to avert coro­n­avirus deaths?

  flat­ten­the­curve.com is an in­for­ma­tional web­site about the coro­n­avirus with (as of this com­ment) over one mil­lion vis­i­tors. It has since be­come open source and is hosted on GitHub here.

  Con­sider con­tribut­ing to the pro­ject.

  See here for a suc­cess­ful in­ter­ac­tion in­volv­ing the re­moval of an anti-mask wear­ing sec­tion (par­tially in­spired by in­for­ma­tion ob­tained here on LessWrong).

• Jayson_Virissimo 27 Mar 2020 4:42 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: Where can we donate time and money to avert coro­n­avirus deaths?

  Whoops, I already cre­ated an­other “an­swer”. Thanks, did not know about that fea­ture.

• Jayson_Virissimo 27 Mar 2020 0:17 UTC

  4 points

  on: Where can we donate time and money to avert coro­n­avirus deaths?

  My co-worker and her hus­band, par­tially backed by my cur­rent em­ployer, have mod­ified the de­sign of a de­vice in­vented in Taiwan for re­duc­ing the ex­po­sure of ER doc­tors/​nurses to COVID-19. If you have ba­sic fabri­ca­tion skills you can build your own us­ing the in­struc­tions here or else donate here to help them man­u­fac­ture more to ship to hos­pi­tals already on their wait­ing list.

  EDIT: Sig­nal boosted by @RealSexyCy­borg here.

• Jayson_Virissimo 27 Mar 2020 0:16 UTC

  2 points

  on: Where can we donate time and money to avert coro­n­avirus deaths?

  My co-worker and her hus­band, par­tially backed by my cur­rent em­ployer, have mod­ified the de­sign of a de­vice in­vented in Taiwan for re­duc­ing the ex­po­sure of ER doc­tors/​nurses to COVID-19. If you have ba­sic fabri­ca­tion skills you can build your own us­ing the in­struc­tions here or else donate here to help them man­u­fac­ture more to ship to hos­pi­tals already on their wait­ing list.

  EDIT: I meant this to be a new an­swer, not a com­ment.

• Jayson_Virissimo 22 Mar 2020 4:26 UTC

  8 points

  on: Why Tel­ling Peo­ple They Don’t Need Masks Backfired

  I’ve been try­ing to get flat­ten­the­curve.com to re­move their anti-mask sec­tion here, but it’s been stalled for 5 days now.

  EDIT: They merged my anti-mask sec­tion re­moval. We are col­lab­o­rat­ing on a pro-mask sec­tion now.

  EDIT2: There is now a pro-mask sec­tion.

• Jayson_Virissimo 10 Mar 2020 0:23 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: Cred­i­bil­ity of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

  I’ve been away for some time. Any idea what posts he’s talk­ing about here?

• Jayson_Virissimo 9 Mar 2020 23:36 UTC

  9 points

  in reply to: jmh’s comment on: Cred­i­bil­ity of the CDC on SARS-CoV-2

  The ad­minis­tra­tion re­futes the claim.

  I think we should say “the ad­minis­tra­tion de­nies the claim”.

• Jayson_Virissimo 9 Mar 2020 3:35 UTC

  14 points

  on: Coron­avirus Open Thread

  I’ve been keep­ing notes on corona virus risk re­duc­tion tac­tics and turned some of them into a web­page to share with my fam­ily and friends. The idea to to make them as quickly ac­tion­able/​un­der­stand­able as pos­si­ble. This is the pretty ver­sion, but you can con­tribute here.

  I’m very in­ter­ested in crit­i­cal feed­back, in­clud­ing if any of these tac­tics are likely to be harm­ful/​in­effec­tive or if I’m miss­ing any­thing high-value/​low-cost.

• Jayson_Virissimo 4 Mar 2020 0:26 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Ben Pace’s comment on: How to fly safely right now?

  Un­clear how to get some­thing small enough to go through se­cu­rity. Per­haps it can be bought in the air­port though?

  Liquids that are in con­tain­ers that are 100ml (3.4 ounces) or less are al­lowed past se­cu­rity check­points in Europe and North Amer­ica, so look for a hand-san­i­tizer bot­tle that meets that crite­rion. Here is some ev­i­dence for this claim.

• Jayson_Virissimo 2 Jun 2019 20:43 UTC

  9 points

  on: What is the ev­i­dence for pro­duc­tivity benefits of weightlift­ing?

  There is some in­di­rect ev­i­dence that weightlift­ing im­proves pro­duc­tivity, as­sum­ing that cog­ni­tion is an im­por­tant de­ter­mi­nate of pro­duc­tivity.

  For ex­am­ple, a re­cent meta-study, Lift­ing cog­ni­tion: a meta-anal­y­sis of effects of re­sis­tance ex­er­cise on cog­ni­tion by Jon-Fred­er­ick Lan­dri­gan, Tyler Bell, Michael Crowe, Olivio J. Clay, Daniel Mir­man, re­ports that:

  Re­sults re­vealed pos­i­tive effects of re­sis­tance train­ing on com­pos­ite cog­ni­tive scores (SMD 0.71, 95% CI 0.30-1.12), screen­ing mea­sures of cog­ni­tive im­pair­ment (SMD 1.28, 95% CI 0.39-2.18), and ex­ec­u­tive func­tions (SMD 0.39, 95% CI 0.04-0.74), but no effect on mea­sures of work­ing mem­ory (SMD 0.151, 95% CI - 0.21 to 0.51).

• Jayson_Virissimo 21 Apr 2019 4:31 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Original_Seeing’s comment on: Rest Days vs Re­cov­ery Days

  Satur­day seems to be the canon­i­cal an­swer, but opinions vary.