For a concrete example, consider Devansh. Devansh came to me last year and said something to the effect of, “Hey, wait, it sounds like you think Eliezer does a sort of alignment-idea-generation that nobody else does, and he’s limited here by his unusually low stamina, but I can think of a bunch of medical tests that you haven’t run, are you an idiot or something?” And I was like, “Yes, definitely, please run them, do you need money”.
What sort of tests might these be, can you say? Eliezer is certainly not the only one with “low stamina” problems, and if there are medical tests to run that he wouldn’t already have had done, I’d like to know about them!
Relatedly on “obviously dropping the ball”: has Eliezer tried harder stimulants? With his P(doom) & timelines, there’s relatively little downside to this done in reasonable quantities I think. Seems very likely to help with fatigue
From what I’ve read, main warning would be to get harder blocks on whatever sidetracks eliezer (e.g. use friends to limit access, have a child lock given to a trusted person, etc)
What sort of tests might these be, can you say? Eliezer is certainly not the only one with “low stamina” problems, and if there are medical tests to run that he wouldn’t already have had done, I’d like to know about them!
This list is quite good—https://mecfsroadmap.altervista.org/ Feel free to DM me if you want to chat more.
Me too! Is there a list somewhere of ‘tests to run in case of fatigue/low energy’?
There is thyroid, diabetes, anaemia, sleep apnoea, and....
Relatedly on “obviously dropping the ball”: has Eliezer tried harder stimulants? With his P(doom) & timelines, there’s relatively little downside to this done in reasonable quantities I think. Seems very likely to help with fatigue
From what I’ve read, main warning would be to get harder blocks on whatever sidetracks eliezer (e.g. use friends to limit access, have a child lock given to a trusted person, etc)
@devansh