Finishing my Master degree in Biology, so I can move to PhD on an aging-related topic. In other words, working on reducing the existential risk to my own existence.
If you want immortality, you gotta do it yourself.
Finishing my Master degree in Biology, so I can move to PhD on an aging-related topic. In other words, working on reducing the existential risk to my own existence.
If you want immortality, you gotta do it yourself.
We investigate with a cross-sectional study, looking at proto-rationalists versus experienced rationalists. Define proto-rationalists as those respondents to the Less Wrong survey who indicate they have been in the community for less than six months and have zero karma (usually indicative of never having posted a comment). And define experienced rationalists as those respondents to the Less Wrong survey who indicate they have been in the community for over two years and have >1000 karma (usually indicative of having written many well-received posts).
This is an incredibly bad definition of a rationalist. What you actually research here are people who fit into the mainstream of LW.
Example 1: “After a 2-year-old mouse is rejuvenated to allow 3 years of additional life, society will realize that human rejuvenation is possible, turn against deathism as the prospect of lifespan / healthspan extension starts to seem real, and demand a huge Manhattan Project to get it done.”
A quick and dirty Google search reveals:
Cost of Manhattan Project in 2012 dollars: 30 billion
Pharma R&D budget in 2012: 70 billion
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/biopharmas-top-rd-spenders-2012
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-manhattan-project/
Me—atheist, egoist, libertarian—I’m lucky if one person out of 20 won’t think I’m the devil if I’m open about my opinions. I weep for the discomfort she feels when my existence impinges on her awareness.
Are you ever in physical danger because of your opinions?
I use timeless decision theory, so I don’t need time.
I also use brainless decision theory...
Don’t do it!
In my experience, the vast majority of advice is either too vague or too trivial.
But sometimes you stumble upon magic. Stuff like Anki. Or HIIT.
And this is why you should ask your future girlfriend/fiance/wife’s opinion about having children.
Oh boy.
What are some of the tastiest foods in history?
Then go somewhere else. Duh. :-)
You can’t. You need money to repair your ship, and only ninjas hire in this economy...
Hmmm. I suspects it depends on the circumstances. If you are a (male) pirate and you want a pirate girlfriend, but the only females in your immediate surroundings are ninjas, you will not find their constant discussions of surikens and stealthy assasinations enjoyable, when you only want to talk about muskets and ship-boardings.
Link to the paper: libgen.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1016%2Fj.cell.2013.11.037
It’s all fun and games until you need to get MRI and your fingers burst into flames.
Then it’s just fun.
I discovered a method to find if you are getting enough sleep, one that seems so trivial in hindsight it’s a wonder how I never thought about it or encountered it before.
Basically, if your alarm clock wakes you up, you are sleep deprived.
P.S. Oh, and I’m new here, so hello everybody.
At present time, I do 12 sets of 20 seconds work and 20 seconds rest, alternating between push-ups and squats (2 set of squats, 1 of push-ups). When I started, a bit more than a year ago, I did 6 sets. I average 14 squats and 12 push-ups in a set. 20⁄20 is different from the Tabata protocol, which advocates 20⁄10, but I found that one too hard. I may start lowering the rest time at some point.
HIIT is amazing for me in a sense that, just like Anki, it became a habit I enjoy doing (~3 times a week) AND it led to a significant body changes (less fat, more muscle).
For the record, I have to note some confounders:
During the time I began HIIT, I also gradually changed my diet. Nothing fancy, I just lowered the amount of carbohydrates I eat by cutting down bread and pasta and stopping putting sugar in my coffee.
I don’t only do HIIT. After HIIT, which takes about 15 minutes, including stretches, I also do some core exercises (planks, bird-dogs, glut-bridges, leg-raises etc.). Those take another 20-30 minutes. The advantage of the whole thing is that I can do it in my room, no hassle of going to the gym required.
To conclude, I can’t say that I recommend this workout for some deep reasons. I just found something that worked for me. You are free to try.
Repeating my post from the last open thread, for better visibility:
I want to study probability and statistics in a deeper way than the Probability and Statistics course I had to take in the university. The problem is, my mathematical education isn’t very good (on the level of Calculus 101). I’m not afraid of math, but so far all the books I could find are either about pure application, with barely any explanations, or they start with a lot of assumptions about my knowledge and introduce reams of unfamiliar notation.
I want a deeper understanding of the basic concepts. Like, mean is an indicator of the central tendency of a sample. Intuitively, it makes sense. But why this particular formula of sum/n? You can apply all kinds of mathematical stuff to the sample. And it’s even worse with variance...
Any ideas how to proceed?
“Concern trolling is frequently banned in feminist communities.”
It may help if you consider the possibility that some feminist communities do not exist for the sake of rational dispassionate and balanced discussion of feminism. Rather, a feminist community may be a meeting place for the members of a feminist movement of some kind, which exists to achieve its goals. Like any other political movement.
TL;DR. LW is not the real world. In the real world, arguments are always soldiers (even if you pretend them not to be), discussion requires resources, and resources are finite.
I want to study probability and statistics in a deeper way than the Probability and Statistics course I had to take in the university. The problem is, my mathematical education isn’t very good (on the level of Calculus 101). I’m not afraid of math, but so far all the books I could find are either about pure application, with barely any explanations, or they start with a lot of assumptions about my knowledge and introduce reams of unfamiliar notation.
I want a deeper understanding of the basic concepts. Like, mean is an indicator of the central tendency of a sample. Intuitively, it makes sense. But why this particular formula of sum/n? You can apply all kinds of mathematical stuff to the sample. And it’s even worse with variance...
Any ideas how to proceed?
The old tired counterargument: nobody colonized Earth’s cloud-tops yet, and they sure are easier to get to.
Also, if you have the means to colonize Venus, you don’t need to colonize Venus anymore. The ship that took you to Venus is a better place to live in that the colony.
They think we aren’t conflicted, precious. We hate them! We hate them forever!
:-)