If someone spent 100 hours of close interaction with Julia or Dan or Kenzie, I would expect them to have zero negative effects and to have had a great time.
If someone spent 100 hours of close interaction with Anna or Val or Pete, I would want to make absolutely sure they had lots of resources available to them just in case (those three being much more head-melty and having a much wider spread of impacts on people)
As a complete outsider who stumbled upon this post and thread, I find it surprising and concerning that there’s anyone at MIRI/CFAR with whom spending a few weeks might be dangerous, mental-health-wise.
Would “Anna or Val or Pete” (I don’t know who these people are) object to your statement above? If not, I’d hope they’re concerned about how they are negatively affecting people around them and are working to change that. If they have this effect somewhat consistently, then the onus is probably on them to adjust their behavior.
Perhaps some clarification is needed here—unless the intended and likely readers are insiders who will have more context than me.
(Edited to make top quote include more of the original text—per Duncan’s request)
The average cortical neuron firing rate is much lower than this.[0] You might have meant maximum rather than average—or am I misunderstanding?
[0] https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20energy%20budget,around%200.16%20times%20per%20second.