Mati_Roy(Mati Roy)

• Mati_Roy 29 May 2020 10:55 UTC

  2 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ist sites worth archiv­ing?

  long live Gw­ern!

• Mati_Roy 26 May 2020 0:07 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: romeostevensit’s comment on: What as­pects of the world emo­tion­ally both­ers you on an im­me­di­ate per­sonal level on a daily ba­sis?

  can you elab­o­rate? I feel like I might be miss­ing what the metaphor is refer­ring to

• Mati_Roy 26 May 2020 0:04 UTC

  4 points

  on: A Taijitu sym­bol for Moloch and Slack

  I like sym­bols!

  I see Moloch as Speed /​ Ac­cel­er­a­tion, and it’s com­ple­ment as Direc­tion /​ Align­ment; so not quiet the same way as you de­scribed.

• Mati_Roy 23 May 2020 8:56 UTC

  2 points

  on: Is tak­ing ba­copa good for life ex­ten­sion?

  from my notes here (fol­low link for lat­est ver­sion): https://​​coda.io/​​@mati-roy/​​pub­lic-notes/​​con­sider-ba­copa-36

  • https://​​ex­am­ine.com/​​sup­ple­ments/​​ba­copa-mon­nieri/​​

  Re­lated heuristics

  • https://​​www.nick­bostrom.com/​​evolu­tion.pdf

  • https://​​www.gw­ern.net/​​Drug-heuristics

  Rele­vant to this, ba­copa may re­duce male fer­til­ity: https://​​ex­am­ine.com/​​sup­ple­ments/​​ba­copa-mon­nieri/​​re­search/​​#in­ter­ac­tions-with-sex­u­al­ity\\_male-fertility

  ev­i­dence (just 1 study on mice) that ba­copa re­duces sperm count should re­duce your prob­a­bil­ity that it will have other harm­ful effects ac­cord­ing to the above heuris­tics AFAIU

  h/​t anonymous

[Question] Is tak­ing ba­copa good for life ex­ten­sion?

• Mati_Roy 22 May 2020 6:28 UTC

  4 points

  on: What as­pects of the world emo­tion­ally both­ers you on an im­me­di­ate per­sonal level on a daily ba­sis?

  • bad norms on or­ga­niz­ing information

  • for­get­ting my dreams

[Question] What as­pects of the world emo­tion­ally both­ers you on an im­me­di­ate per­sonal level on a daily ba­sis?

• Mati_Roy 20 May 2020 4:29 UTC

  1 point

  on: What so­cial trig­ger-ac­tion plans did you im­ple­ment?

  Trig­ger: Think of a so­cial prob­lem Ac­tion: Think if a lo­cal so­cial norm could fix this; if so, ex­plic­itly pro­pose the so­cial norms to the lo­cal group

• Mati_Roy 20 May 2020 0:52 UTC

  1 point

  on: What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

  In the OP, I in­vited peo­ple to sub­mit an­swers anony­mously to be pub­lished here.

  Some­one sub­mit­ted:

  Pure self­ish­ness, in my case. I see kids as a bur­den, not a bless­ing. No doubt these are val­ues picked up from my par­ents, but they are strong enough to over­ride my biolog­i­cal and so­cial pro­gram­ming. Your mileage may vary.

• Mati_Roy 20 May 2020 0:08 UTC

  7 points

  in reply to: Mati_Roy’s comment on: Cry­on­ics?

  new up­date:

  The COVID-19 pan­demic has cre­ated many challenges for the prac­tice of cry­on­ics. Al­cor re­mains com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing cry­op­reser­va­tion when needed. How­ever Al­cor mem­bers should be aware of limi­ta­tions dur­ing the pan­demic. If you are hos­pi­tal­ized, cry­on­ics per­son­nel de­ployed for standby ser­vices might not be al­lowed to visit you in­side the hos­pi­tal. Elec­tronic con­tact with care providers and your fam­ily will in­stead be re­lied upon for con­di­tion up­dates. Prompt ac­cess to be­gin cry­on­ics sta­bi­liza­tion pro­ce­dures af­ter le­gal death may not be pos­si­ble in hos­pi­tals. Al­cor or its con­trac­tor part­ners will ne­go­ti­ate for fastest pos­si­ble ac­cess to be­gin pro­ce­dures. If you be­come ter­mi­nally ill, home hos­pice care or care at a co­op­er­at­ing hos­pice fa­cil­ity is recom­mended to per­mit faster cry­on­ics re­sponse than hos­pi­tal care. Since the best care is pos­si­ble near Al­cor, Al­cor will con­tinue to fi­nan­cially as­sist ter­mi­nal mem­bers with re­lo­ca­tion to Scotts­dale, Ari­zona.

  Due to loss of ser­vice from con­tract sur­geons dur­ing the pan­demic, and due to con­cern about cir­cu­lat­ing large vol­umes of in­fec­tious fluid with po­ten­tial gen­er­a­tion of air­borne droplets dur­ing mix­ing, Al­cor will not be us­ing its nor­mal cry­opro­tec­tant per­fu­sion ma­chines dur­ing the pan­demic. Al­cor will in­stead use the pro­ce­dure Field Cry­opro­tec­tant Per­fu­sion FCP. In FCP, only the head is per­fused with vit­rifi­ca­tion solu­tion via the carotid ar­ter­ies us­ing a sim­plified per­fu­sion pro­ce­dure in which no fluids are re­cir­cu­lated. This pro­ce­dure means that dur­ing the pan­demic, whole body cry­on­ics pa­tients will be cry­op­re­served with­out re­ceiv­ing any chem­i­cal pro­tec­tion from freez­ing in­jury be­low the neck. Whether FCP will be performed in the field, as its name sug­gests, or in Al­cor’s fa­cil­ity will de­pend upon lo­gis­tics and sur­geon availa­bil­ity on a case-by-case ba­sis. Fur­ther pre­cau­tions will ap­ply to cases known to be pos­i­tive for the virus that causes COVID-19. For COVID-19 cases, ini­tial sta­bi­liza­tion in ice will be limited to an ab­bre­vi­ated list of an­ti­co­ag­u­lant and other med­i­ca­tions cir­cu­lated by sev­eral min­utes of chest com­pres­sions with the head cov­ered to pre­vent ex­haled breath from en­ter­ing the room.

  Th­ese re­stric­tions may change as per­son­nel gain more ex­pe­rience do­ing cases with scrupu­lous in­fec­tion con­trol pro­ce­dures, if per­fu­sion ma­chine de­sign changes are made, and if nor­mal sur­gi­cal ser­vice dur­ing the pan­demic can be se­cured. Al­cor will work on all these prob­lems at the same time that it does a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of all in­fec­tion con­trol pro­ce­dures to en­sure a safe baseline of op­er­a­tions dur­ing a highly con­ta­gious res­pi­ra­tory virus pan­demic. If vac­cine de­vel­op­ment takes longer than ex­pected, there will be even greater efforts to safely re­turn to nor­mal prac­tices by 2021. How­ever, these are the limi­ta­tions that Al­cor is cur­rently op­er­at­ing un­der. This tem­po­rary “fall back” po­si­tion is nec­es­sary for the safety and con­tinued availa­bil­ity of the limited num­ber of spe­cial­ized per­son­nel whom Al­cor has available to provide cry­on­ics care for ev­ery­one dur­ing these ex­traor­di­nary times.

• Mati_Roy 19 May 2020 19:50 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: bfinn’s comment on: 162 benefits of coronavirus

  makes sense!:)

[link] Biosta­sis /​ Cry­op­reser­va­tion Sur­vey 2020

• Mati_Roy 16 May 2020 7:13 UTC

  1 point

  on: The EMH Aten’t Dead

  nitpick

  The EMH is the only the­ory that grows stronger with ev­ery at­tack against it.

  Any an­tifrag­ile sys­tems is like this

  EtA: Although I guess it’s ex­tremely (perfectly?) anti-frag­ile.

• Mati_Roy 16 May 2020 6:53 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

  Thanks a lot for your an­swer!

  Women get the op­por­tu­nity to ob­serve the mas­sive im­pact of hor­monal changes on their minds.

  This makes me think, maybe this change de­stroys part of one’s identity

• Mati_Roy 15 May 2020 18:11 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: bfinn’s comment on: 162 benefits of coronavirus

  I reread and I think it’s pretty good ac­tu­ally :)

  But here are some com­ments:

  • I would put a ques­tion mark on UBI (not sure if good), ex­er­cise (not sure we do more; ex.: gym are closed)

  • men­tal health (some have re­ported >3x more calls at a Disaster Distress Hel­pline, and I think more suicides)

  • un­sure about re­la­tion­ship im­prove­ment (I’ve heard higher rate of di­vorce; al­though you do men­tion it, but not sure what you mean with +/​-), also anec­do­tal ev­i­dence of fam­ily fight­ing over not re­act­ing to the coro­n­avirus properly

  • un­sure about re­dis­tri­bu­tion of wealth to younger gen­er­a­tions (maybe that re­duces to­tal amount of in­vest­ments and so in­creases the econ­omy’s time dis­count?)

• Mati_Roy 15 May 2020 3:55 UTC

  2 points

  on: What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

  The only thing I found on LessWrong about this: Re­view: Selfish Rea­sons to Have More Kids

[Question] What was your rea­son­ing for de­cid­ing whether to raise chil­dren?

• Mati_Roy 15 May 2020 0:58 UTC

  2 points

  on: 162 benefits of coronavirus

  I dis­agree all of those are benefits, * shrug *

• Mati_Roy 13 May 2020 23:43 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Mati_Roy’s comment on: What are ar­ti­cles on “lifel­og­ging as life ex­ten­sion”?

  the lack of a “modal im­mor­tal­ity” tag is also why I asked What in­for­ma­tion on (or rele­vant to) modal im­mor­tal­ity do you recom­mend?

• Mati_Roy 13 May 2020 23:39 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: What are ar­ti­cles on “lifel­og­ging as life ex­ten­sion”?

  (strongly up­voted)

  1. Awe­some, thank you! I don’t want to push my luck, but I would love a “lifel­og­ging” tag as well. The lack of those two tags is the rea­son I asked this ques­tion ^_^

  2. Thanks for the clar­ifi­ca­tions. I was hes­i­tant about my vol­ume of con­tent, so it’s good to know. I think I agree with your think­ing!:)