Nate Soares says there will be some collaboration between OpenAI and MIRI:
https://intelligence.org/2015/12/11/openai-and-other-news/
Nate Soares says there will be some collaboration between OpenAI and MIRI:
https://intelligence.org/2015/12/11/openai-and-other-news/
It’s old news but I recently came across this article and found it quite cheerful.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/slow-but-steady/
I liked this part:
“Participants were also given an attention check. For this, participants were shown a list of activities (e.g., biking, reading) directly below the following instructions: “Below is a list of leisure activities. If you are reading this, please choose the “other” box below and type in ‘I read the instructions’”. This attention check proved rather difficult with 35.4% of the sample failing (N = 99). However, the results were similar if these participants were excluded. We therefore retained the full data set.”
I like this very much. Did the game work in practice as you describe in the example?
I know you are now an employee of Signal but, well, this comment reads so much like an advert that I had trouble focusing on what you say.
You were “disillusioned with traditional education” and once you tried out this new program, you were “amazed at the speed with which you were learning” and “astounded by progress you had made in just a few hours”, in boldface, no less! And that’s before we got to the redundancy and hyperboles.
I know I should be trying to be #LessWrongMoreNice, but your review really should be taken with a grain of salt.
LessWrongMoreNice is now my favourite hashtag.
When will be the next LessWrong census and who will run it?
You might still want your children to live rather than die.
Being around here has made me think that I know everything interesting about the world and suppressed my excitement and joy from many minor things I could do. I also feel like my sense of wonder diminished. As I write this, I am a little unhappy, and in a period of depression, but I had similar feelings, if less intense, even before this period.
I was wondering whether you have any advice on how to restore this; or even better, how to “forget” as much rationality and transhumanism as possible (if not actually forgetting, then at least “to think and feel as I did before I read the Sequences”)?
Is there a European alternative for a MealSquares-like product, i.e. one that is eaten, not drunk?
You are awesome.
I understand that the quantum physics sequence is controversial even within LessWrong.
Generally, though, all of the sequences could benefit from annotations.
We’re consequentialists here, so I get all the credit for it even if it wasn’t much effort, right?
^^
To the question, the average age is 27.6; the average level of study is a completed Bachelor’s degree.
Do any of you do anything nontraditional to improve your health/longevity? What I’m thinking about is radical lifestyle changes, such as using dozens of supplements like Kurzweil or mixing one’s lunch out of raw ingredients like Bostrom, or avoiding all car travel and similar stuff, not exercise.
How likely am I to die from taking SSRI’s?
This review says:
In conclusion, this review suggests the need for caution in the use of SSRI therapy, particularly among patients with other risk factors for bleeding and those taking NSAIDs. The estimated rate of hospitalization for upper GI bleeding in the US during the 1990s was ∼ 155 per 100,000 population per year [46]. The data examined suggests that the risk of GI bleeding may be increased 2 – 4-fold in patients taking SSRIs and 3 – 12-fold when combined with NSAIDs. However, one must recognise that the incidence of upper GI bleeding increases with age. As such, the risk/benefit profile of these compounds could be influenced by the patient’s age and other co-morbid conditions.
on which I performed calculations like this:
It’s a 4-fold increase with 155 per 100.000 population getting hospitalized for bleeding by any cause
Bleeding has a 30% mortality rate
The increase of chance in death is +0.001395 per year
Which is 1395 micromorts per year
Which seems like a lot, for just one sideeffect of SSRI’s. Would somebody please check my calculation to see whether I haven’t made a major error?
One thing I’ve neglected is that GI bleeding appears to occur more with the elderly and its mortality rate rises sharply with age, but I haven’t found any good data on that. Does anybody have some experience with this?
I’m suffering from a recurring depression (in my 4th depressive period now) which apparently often responds well to SSRI’s, but I’m still not sure how much of a risk it is.
IANAL, but I’m not requesting medical advice, just help with math.
Since I now don’t have any unmet material needs and what needs I do have are mostly Steam wallet funds which my family doesn’t like to provide, I also suggested they donate to a charity in my name.
They refused. Their argument was along the lines of “no, I don’t want to help other people, I want to give something that will make you happy”. But since they don’t want to give me video games, making me happy is probably not really what they want to do.
I guess I’ll just make a December donation off my own funds instead.
I’m not sure I would trust that calculator. I’m not used to US units so I put in 84kg (my weight) and it said “with that BMI you can’t be alive” so I put in 840 thinking maybe it wants the first decimal as well. Now I realize it wanted pounds. And for this, 840lbs, it also outputed 70 years.
I’m not sure where the calculator gets its data from.
When I switched dentists three years ago, the new dentist claimed to have found several issues during initial check-in and also said that my wisdom teeth need to be torn out as soon as possible. So I have that experience as well. Although, since then, she never complained about anything even though my flossing routine worsened considerably.
I have taken the survey.