I cannot distinguish this from GPT-3. Is it just me?
Richard_Kennaway
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Untangling the multiple negatives, this says that there is at most a 1% chance that the administration had foreknowledge or involvement. Is that what you intended?
Now spoilered.
Added (reversed).
“SELF-SACRIFICE
IS A VIRTUE”
And a few others. There are now 127 Insanity Wolf memes there, and one Sean Bean.
Tl;dr for last two comments:
Know your limits.
Expand your limits.
I have been having some thoughts on supererogation (that there are morally praiseworthy actions that are not morally obligatory) and scrupulosity (a dysfunctional obsession with doing good), but not to any conclusion. In the course of it I was inspired to make a few memes. Here is The Insanity Wolf Sanity Check. Take the content warning at the top seriously. There is some strong stuff here.
It is a page of anti-advice, rahom, as one would call it in Láadan, in sections relating to EA, morality, AGI, and a few other topics. The device of placing these in the mouth of Insanity Wolf is inspired by Eliezer’s Cognitive Trope Therapy.
Thank you for writing this. Having read both your writings and Eliezer’s, and many of the books listed, the story is as I expected it to be, but it is good to see the history laid out.
Kegan levels lend themselves to being used like one of those irregular verbs, like “I am strong minded, you are stubborn, he is a pig-headed fool.”
“I am Kegan level 5, you are stuck on Kegan level 4, and all those dreadful normies and muggles around us are Kegan 3 or worse.”
Is there any limit on the number of invites a member can give out?
What we all want to know, of course, is whether Ludwig’s recent paper (which treats only the galactic rotation curve) stands up.
Note that he is not proposing a new theory, only applying standard GR, and claiming to do so correctly for the first time.
The real question isn’t about kidneys though: what happens when autonomous driving becomes widespread? Our supply of organs will effectively dry up.
Have autonomous vehicles crash at a rate adjusted to meet the demand for transplants.
A full discussion of the many reasons not to grab the nearest, very demanding idea that currently seems compelling to you, and to make extreme sacrifices for its sake, is beyond the scope of this post.
I would like to read such a post. I’ve never seen a philosopher make a serious effort to argue against totalitarian ethics.
My own response is to ignore anything that sounds like Insanity Wolf, but that isn’t an argument.
I’ve watched some of Vervaeke’s lectures, but they just seem to go on and on without ever reaching whatever his goal is. Likewise Jordan Peterson. Having just read through Valentine’s document (mainly the lecture summaries, rather than the detailed notes), I am still disappointed. Vervaeke just breaks off at the end, just as it seemed it might get interesting. It goes to lecture 26, the last of which suggests there are more to come. I look forward to summaries of them, but more with hope than with expectation.
100(1-1/e) = 63.2°
Feed the red clay past the blue clay a little at a time.
Do you know Lewis Carroll’s Pillow Problems?
They also document the fact that the multimodality allows for “typographic attacks”, where labeling an item with a particular text causes the network to misclassify the item as an instance of the text.
“These are not the droids you are looking for.”
I think the main difference between UK and US hot water systems is the pressure. They both involve pre-heating a tank. In the UK it’s common for the hot water tank to be at atmospheric pressure, so the pressure at your hot taps is from the height of the tank above them. In the US, the hot water system is more usually sealed and at mains pressure.
I notice that Taffix is no longer available on Amazon co uk. It’s still available on eBay co uk for around twice what it was on Amazon.
Possibly this one?
As far as I can make out from internet browsing, the ingredient that does the work is hypromellose (short for hydroxypropyl methylcellulose). It’s a cellulose compound whose powder, in humid conditions, takes up water and turns into a gel. This gel on the inside of your nose forms a barrier against infection.
I am not a chemist, pharmacist, or doctor, but here are my best guesses for the functions of the other ingredients. Benzalkonium chloride is a surfactant, which might help the hypro form a gel layer, and also an antimicrobial agent. I do not know if it would affect viruses. Citric acid + sodium citrate might be a buffer against pH changes. Or perhaps an anti-caking agent. I would guess that the menthol is to give a pleasant sensation, and so you can “feel it working”.
Being in the UK I can order Taffix from Amazon co uk, though I’m not sure I will, as there appears to be a far cheaper product that does the same thing. That is “Nasaleze Cold & Flu Blocker”, which is also mainly hypromellose. Another hypromellose product is “Vicks First Defence Nasal Spray”. Those products make no mention of Covid, so it’s possible that the Very Serious People have not yet noticed that they should be stopping people from buying them. There is also “Nasaleze Travel – Germ and Virus Prevention”, but I can’t see how it differs from the other Nasaleze. Same price, same ingredients.
Prices: As of today, Taffix is £51.99 for 1000mg. Nasaleze Cold & Flu Blocker is £8.95 for 800mg, less than a quarter the price of Taffix. The Vicks is a liquid, not a powder, but the price is £6 for 15ml of 1% hypro = 150mg, more than three times the cost of Nasaleze. Given that these are all basically the same thing, it looks like what you’re paying extra for with Taffix is the field-testing against Covid. As for how many doses these represent, the Nasaleze says that the 800mg bottle is 30 days supply, but that would depend on how often you use it.
Obviously, these only protect against infection through the nasal tissues, and do not affect the result of breathing viruses into the lungs. I have not seen any information about which route is more important.
I have ordered the Nasaleze; it should arrive tomorrow.
If I edited it, I’m not sure there would be anything left. :)