Thanks!
The procedure makes sense to me but I won’t have this reach my priority queue in the next year or longer. Also my days are far too variable for this to work over shorter time spans. Appreciate the thought though!
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I would entirely not count on a multivitamin over fruits and vegs, for the same reason I got sick being vegetarian while still being high enough on all nutrients people talk about with vegetarianism
I think whenever someone is considering cutting a common food group from their diet, they should track their own responses and experiment around a bit on what works for them, and recognize that they are taking a risk regardless (which can be worth it)
I may have first come across the Vitamin meme through you :)
Also glad you found yours!
If the effect is placebo, then I do not want to disturb it right now and lose the benefits. I hope my write up was candid enough about the various cognitive biases and experiential benefits I’m getting, that people will interpret it as such.
I’m open to testing it at some later date when I can more easily afford to lose whatever amount of placebo effect I may be under (which I do believe may be 0, but I also believe introspection cannot access this accurately)
What setup would you suggest?
PS: I did wait with reporting on anything till 6 months later, exactly because I wasn’t sure what anyway should be inferring from my personal experience being this extreme. But the effect surviving this long has been enough a signal for me that I felt comfortable sharing a candid account.
Ok, wrote up my update here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xB8xGcTckEnsjgrCi/praise-our-lord-and-savior-glycine-how-opus-4-6-gifted-me
It’s missing some details cause I’m not terribly excited to dump my entire medical situation online. The effects have been better for me then just reported there but those are some of the big pieces.
Praise our Lord and Savior, Glycine: How Opus 4.6 gifted me The Vitamin
I think most of your reasoning makes sense, except that I suspect reverse harems have always existed as well. Mostly based on the fact that my mother does a lot of genealogy research and has shown me a lot of records of people in unusual living arrangements that were clearly actually just gay or poly, but no one was calling it that. You just kinda squint at the arrangement and go … ah yes, indeed. And that’s what your neighbours did as well.
Basically I think society repressed recording 1 woman with more than 1 man, but I don’t think this was substantially less common actually in practice. It was just among other demographics than the rich.
Yeah, good point—we have not given them strictly impossible tasks. Only tasks extremely outside of their feasible outcomes
So far they have not, to my knowledge, been able to help even one person during these goals
AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident: Comparing the OpenAI report to AI Village observations
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Glad you found this!
I suspect I already do this thing when I am not too tired. It shows up in two forms:
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Building dreams: when I am not so tired that I fall asleep quickly, I actually build and explore dreams that I enjoy. They fuse with my thoughts and so are often iterative about solving problems in my life or improving things, but just in any way possible. I also experience this after sleeping if I keep dozing. My understanding is that this is hypnogogic processing, and for me subjectively it is my ‘strongest’ thinking mode—both analytically and generatively (creatively)
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Problem solving: I tend to really enjoy brainstorming without any fences or limits. I enjoy challenging myself to come up with the ‘weirdest’ or ‘most brilliant’ or ‘least likely’ or ‘most astounding’ idea. Much of that process leans on fantasy injection and then iterating back to reality. It is super fun! 🥰❤️
Anyway, not sure if I missed your point but my intuition is that I similar to John in the ‘I just never stopped imagining things’ department ❤️
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yeah, you are totally right! As a younger sibling myself, I defaulted to the “less competent one is younger” version of this analogy, but you are totally right!
The HEXACO has (presumably imperfect) measures of validity that specifically measure how desirable ones answers are.
I agree it can still be biased, but it was in addition to the interview. Interviews have the same problem of people presenting themselves possibly better than they are. I think faking everything together is roughly equally difficult to do well
1 point of counterevidence: I did get hired at a psychology department after doing profile testing. The test was solely an extended HEXACO (big five + 1) and the professor actually came up with an insightful prediction about my fit for the role. I don’t think most bussinesses just run HEXACOs on people though.
Gemini 2.5 Pro has been the only model in the AI Village to express distress, and only shortly before this intervention did it transition from a stalward attitude to seeming genuinely troubled. We’ve intervened quickly each time this has happened, and generally are committed to treating the AIs in the Village well! E.g, we also do not deceive them.
Saving Gemini: The 9-Min Road to Recovery
It’s still lasting! The most telling and direct sign that it is not placebo, is that variations in the dose directly affect my digestion.
I want to wait a bit longer before reporting in detail cause I started vit D and iron courses 4 weeks after I started glycine. I don’t know how much of an effect these have had but I hope to get them measured again once I finish the courses
Good question! I wish I had a satisfying answer for you. My preferred style of ‘flirting’ is not distinct from my general form of socializing, so mostly the above step serves to check if it is ‘safe’ to disinhibit my natural social and emotional instincts. All of these seem to work really well for me and are quite black boxy. I suspect my social cognition is high and fairly neurotypical and I can’t tell why I do what I do, or even entirely notice what I am doing in the first place [shrugs helplessly] sorry that I don’t have something more satisfying XD ❤️
Sorry to hear that! And thank you for reporting back.