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I thought they were calling me a flying Minecraft pig https://aether.fandom.com/wiki/Phyg
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It’s hard but not impossible to put 10k hours of deliberate practice into a hobby
I’ve made this decision offline a long time ago.
Lol idk why people get the impression that I’m relying on LW for career advice.
I’m not.
What’s a symptom?
I really don’t want to entertain this “you’re in a cult” stuff.
It’s not very relevant to the post, and it’s not very intellectually engaging either. I’ve dedicated enough cycles to this stuff.
To be more specific, I think that EAs are severely overconfident in our ability to gauge people’s potential, and that we often say things that create a sort of… memetic vibe that encourages this thinking.
I think in general having memes that lead to incorrect object level beliefs is bad, and there’s a case to be made that how EAs talk about people contributes to this.
Upvoted. I think these are legitimate critiques of my post. I feel strongly that most people can improve significantly more than anticipated. This is largely because most people do not try very hard to self improve.
Yeah, this really sucks. I still think having more people try and fail is preferable to telling people to not try.
Consider that I have carefully thought about this for a long time, and that I’m not going to completely override my reasoning and ape the heuristic “if internet stranger thinks I’m in a cult then I’m in a cult.”
Oh man.
I am not overly concerned about regulations. The research can always be done in friendly jurisdictions. I don’t suppose the US would charge people for conducting clinical trials abroad (which are legal in the country where they were performed).
Places I agree with you:
The trials can be risky, and it can be hard (but not impossible) to get approval for one.
It’s likely that the link between DYT1 and IQ doesn’t exist.
It can be almost impossible to get US approval
Places I potentially disagree with you:
I predict that it’s possible to come to a robust theory on how dystonia and IQ is linked prior to experimentation.
I believe that difficulty of US approval is not blocking.
I believe that interested funders definitely exist
I do not anticipate issues with hiring researchers
Edit: I would be interested in how risky we exactly expect the trials to be, and what we can do to reduce this risk.
Thank you.
I’d like to note that my “opt out of Petrov day” checkbox has not been removed from my user settings, contrary to what I had expected based on your previous post.
Thank you, very helpful. ;)
Most people in the Bay Area rationalist community are not financially limited on classes, books, and intelligence-enhancing drugs.
I’ve never met someone who told me they didn’t take modafinil because they couldn’t afford it.
Oh I support increasing the karma cutoff.
I do think that running such an exercise is valuable, if only because it allows us to learn things about our community.
Opted out. Also, IQ?
Edit: ah I get it now
It’s an exercise in collective adequacy.
Any updates on this?