It’s mostly worthless so far, because while creatine has been used by a fair number of psychologists, apparently psychologists have sworn an solemn oath “confusion to all gwerns!”—no two of these psychologists can agree on: what tests to run (30+ unique measures out of like 10 experiments!); how many grams to administer (total or per day); what kind of creatine to use (monohydrate vs CEE); whether to test the young or elderly, the omnivores vs vegetarian; or whether to publish the research as a paper, a patent, or not at all. (I know of at least one experiment with a null result which did not get published.) Oy vey.
So now I’m waiting on the unpublished experiments, waiting for a reply from the lead author on the German patent, and hoping Hammett will tell me more about his in-progress creatine experiments.
Now I am working on annotating all the allusions, and waiting for a copy of New Legends with the original novella “Radiance” to arrive so I can read it and see if I need to transcribe that.
I have been doing a little experiment with Hacker News where I submit one gwern.net page a day. It’s gone quite well so far (I believe each one has reached the main page); in reverse order:
I wouldn’t worry too much. So far the colonies have almost never achieved the density needed to develop sentience and take over in any single human host.
working on a meta-analysis of creatine & intelligence.
It’s mostly worthless so far, because while creatine has been used by a fair number of psychologists, apparently psychologists have sworn an solemn oath “confusion to all gwerns!”—no two of these psychologists can agree on: what tests to run (30+ unique measures out of like 10 experiments!); how many grams to administer (total or per day); what kind of creatine to use (monohydrate vs CEE); whether to test the young or elderly, the omnivores vs vegetarian; or whether to publish the research as a paper, a patent, or not at all. (I know of at least one experiment with a null result which did not get published.) Oy vey.
So now I’m waiting on the unpublished experiments, waiting for a reply from the lead author on the German patent, and hoping Hammett will tell me more about his in-progress creatine experiments.
I have finished my transcription of Radiance.
Now I am working on annotating all the allusions, and waiting for a copy of New Legends with the original novella “Radiance” to arrive so I can read it and see if I need to transcribe that.
I have been doing a little experiment with Hacker News where I submit one
gwern.netpage a day. It’s gone quite well so far (I believe each one has reached the main page); in reverse order:Conscientiousness and online education
DNB meta-analysis
Bitcoin is Worse is Better
Spaced repetition
Nicotine
Iodine
Google Alerts
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I wouldn’t worry too much. So far the colonies have almost never achieved the density needed to develop sentience and take over in any single human host.
I’m assuming he has a policy of precommitment to cooperate with copies and simulations of himself.