Like, the one from youtube. But not the sexy model one. I do modeling, but it’s all on a computer.
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The reason I can think this would work, is because maybe there are a lot of floating Neurotransmitters that enzymes can’t catch in time that are binding to random synapses. Then, if you decrease the density of the brain, a floating neurotransmitter has further to travel before starting a random reaction. Totally possible I’m missing something.
This is a very interesting question. I have not interacted with anything Tuplamancy since I was a teen. But I imagine it’s mostly doing something in language centers. But then… Idk. I need to think about this more.
If you’d like an explanation from Claude that starts quite basic and builds up, I have had great success with the following phrase as a “Style” in app, no changes necessary.
“Wait, start from the baseline and work your way up to the explanation”
The Compliment Sandwich 🥪 aka: How to criticize a normie without making them upset.
Perhaps a silly question, but does the recent “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs” paper, imply that people calling a model good or bad online results in a self fulfilling prophecy?
e.g.
Bob Says “Alice.ai is bad”
Alice.ai is trained on this data
The next iteration of Alice.ai will think of itself as worse than if Bob had never made that comment. This results in Alice.ai creating bad outputs
Those bad outputs push Charlie over a threshold and Charlie says “Alice.ai is bad”
Loop
Edit: Oops, I didn’t realize Alice.ai was a real site. Though it’s got a pretty art style, so I’ll keep it in here.
Feels weird to be linking to a video on LW. But you’ve just gotta watch this It’s brilliant.
Create educational content to sway opinions of large voting demographics. Especially when you can successfully signal that you are a part of that demographic.
Do what Zvi is doing but for a lower IQ audience
Form organisations in your local area
Try your best to avoid making AI a culture war
Stay grounded
I think this post points at something quite important. I might suggest adding a TLDR at the top, because the implication section is most valuable, but gets buried.
Anyhow, strong upvote from me.
Not sure yet. I haven’t had the opportunity to try it out. I expect it’ll be cut down as I use it, for friction avoiding purposes. I’ll update in a week if I’ve found anything interesting.
Haha! I did the exact same thing. I have a Claude project that makes templates for me draft one up. It’s a much longer version of yours. I think I’ll probably steal the one you made instead. But, I’ll post this here in case anyone wants a longer version.
type: think-faster created: <% tp.date.now(“YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm”) %> tags: [think-faster, reflection] aliases: [“TF-<% tp.date.now(“YYYYMMDD-HHmm”) %>”] situation: “” duration: 5 # minutes spent on reflection difficulty: 3 # 1-5 scale
Think it Faster—Quick Reflection
[!info] Situation What happened? Brief description of the situation or problem that took longer than ideal to solve.
Part 1: Analysis
[!note] Actual Steps Taken
[!tip] Optimal Path What would be the minimum necessary steps to solve this?
Key Insights
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Wasted Motion: What steps could have been skipped?
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Missed Opportunities: What clues or approaches did I overlook?
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Required Skills: What capabilities would have helped?
Part 2: Future Application
[!question] Pattern Recognition Where else might this lesson apply?
Past:
Future:
Next Week:
Action Plan
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Immediate Action: What can I do right now?
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Trigger Setup: When should I remember this lesson?
When I feel [emotion/situation]
During [activity/context]
Before starting [task type]
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Success Prediction: How confident am I this will help? (
/10)Confidence:
Why:
Quick Wins
[!important] Key Takeaway The single most important insight from this reflection:
Review Prompts
[ ] Did I identify the true bottleneck?
[ ] Is my action plan specific enough?
[ ] Have I set clear triggers for future application?
[ ] Could this insight generalize to other areas?
[!note] Related Notes Previous similar situations: [[]] Related principles: [[]] Skills to develop: [[]]
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I just finished up a semester of head and neck anatomy. I went into it for the neuroscience, not expecting much from the other topics. I had a similar experience to you, finding many interesting things that are helpful in my day to day.
I found the Hyoid bone especially interesting. I remember my first time seeing it on a model skeleton and thinking “hu, someone attached an extra mandible to this guy… and it’s just floating. That’s weird.”
I then had my mind blown seeing it in a cadaver.
Side bar: If you ever get the chance to go into an anatomy lab and explore the cadavers I highly recommend. Take what they say about eating and hydrating before going in seriously. ~every 2 weeks someone fainted and banged their head on a metal table.
The other key takeaway for me was learning about the cranial nerves. Then having the realisation that mine have probably been compromised in some way. (Perhaps COVID?). Which has left me with the humorous and sometimes useful Specific Anosmia of not being able to smell farts.
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Reading the Manga Guide to statistics has been great for Anki cards. Easy image occlusion cards that make reviewing more fun.
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I wish I liked cells at work more. Still, I was able to explain where blood comes from to a kid yesterday because of things I learned in that show.
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We seem to have overlapping interests. So I’d like to recommend “Curious” by Lily Serna.
Perhaps it isn’t applicable to you. But it took me a day to read, and I added 100s of Anki cards derived from it.
Lily is famous for doing mental math super quickly, and the final section of the book is just a bunch of the tricks she uses clearly written out. With a bit of thought, these tricks combine into more powerful mental movements that have sped up my mental calculations quite a bit.
The rest of the book is cool math trivia and life hacks. Very fun, a bit simplistic.
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I’m enjoying these media reviews, excited for the next one!
Sex is fun and awesome. Though it doesn’t feel fun and awesome to have sex all day everyday. You could probably do transhuman meth and make sex fun all the time. But a Pleasure Cube/Super Happy scenario makes me sad.
I’m also wondering who you’re talking about when you say “most people” here? I have the opposite model of most people.
//This Comment contains references to self harm.
This idea is a little crazy, but… You could use a TAP that punishes you every time you open the app.
Trigger: I just clicked the Twitter Icon
Action: Bite my arm until it hurts
Biting is an example, But you could also:
Have your phone auto-play fingernails on a chalkboard sound
Slap yourself
Punch your knee
Just have the action be closing the app immediately
Flick yourself in the nose
I’d recommend reading the Hammer Time Sequence post on TAPS. Specifically, the part about setting a Yoda Timer and practicing it for 5 minutes.
[Question] Where should one post to get into the training data?
For those who live alone, one option for the phone password is to make it an Antimeme.
Randomly generate a long random string
Mix in some novel Unicode characters that you’ll have to remember the names of so that you can google
Write it down somewhere inconvenient
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It seems to link to many things. And might be a bit too much for just a comment. But here are some key concepts from mostly psych that I think link to why sleeping on a problem makes it easier.
Learning is assumed to take place over a 24hr span
Mice developing ‘Maze Neurons’ when learning a maze
People who are woken mid-sleep and self report dreaming about a problem they’ve tried to solve, do better the next day than people who are woken and don’t report dreaming about the problem
If I boil it down, I have two hypotheses that could both be true.
When you dream about a problem you’re brain is formulating ideas that can help you solve it. All you have to do the next day is try again and those ideas will become available to you as if you had just ‘had an idea’
Sleeping on a problem breaks it up into more manageable chunks that you can better manipulate in working memory the next time you try to solve it.
There are other things that happen during sleep that will just make every problem easier to solve the next day. For example:
Cleaning up chemical ‘garbage’ that collects in your brain during the day.
Forgetting things that the brain doesn’t think you have a use for
Resetting/reducing your emotions. (If you’re stressed about a new problem, you’ll find it easier to solve it when you’re less stressed.)
Hard agree. I think sleeping on a problem is underrated. But even though I think that, I still fall into the failure of “I don’t get it. I must be dumb or something”.
While many of the review requirements aren’t applicable to this writing. It doesn’t lessen the impact it has.
This is a horror I would like to avoid. I think Sci-fi of this sort helps to prevent that future. This is something my non-technical Mother could understand. Something I could show people to explain the worst.
I will think of this post as the future goes on. I am desperately trying to make this story one that we look back on and laugh at. “What silly worries” we’ll say. “How naive.”
A LW LLM I would like is a “What post was the one where Eliezer talks about logic or maybe algebra or something? I think it might have been in Plane Crash but idk?”
Sometime I hit a roadblock in my thinking because I’m trying to remember a specific LW post that talks about a skill I’m currently trying to practice. It’s quite flow breaking to try and search the normal way. Current LLMs aren’t up to the task and Hallucinate LW posts every time I do it.
I’ve been trying to reduce my writing and note taking into shorthand. Haven’t taken good time out of my schedule to practice this yet though.
I think chunking probably has large effects on how quickly you can think things. Purposely trying to chunk concepts for an hour a day may lead to something interesting.
Also relates to Chain of Symbol (CoS) in LLMs.
Sorry for commenting on so many of your comments, but they’re very interesting to me.