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Lucie Philippon
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Building Communities Beyond the Bay
Earlier discussion on LW on zinc lozenges effectiveness mentioned that other flavorings which make it taste nice actually prevent the zinc effect.
From this comment by philh (quite a chain of quotes haha):
According to a podcast that seemed like the host knew what he was talking about, you also need the lozenges to not contain any additional ingredients that might make them taste nice, like vitamin C. (If it tastes nice, the zinc isn’t binding in the right place. Bad taste doesn’t mean it’s working, but good taste means it’s not.) As of a few years ago, that brand of lozenge was apparently the only one on the market that would work. More info: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/un2fgBad4uqqwm9sH/is-this-info-on-zinc-lozenges-accurate
That’s why the peppermint zinc acetate lozenge from Life Extension is the recommended one. So your only other option might be somehow finding unflavored zinc lozenges, which might taste even worse? Not sure where that might be available
It seems that @Czynski changed the structure of the website and that entries are now stored in this folder.
Maybe you could DM him?
Paris ACX Meetup January 2025
See the thread here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5n2ZQcbc7r4R8mvqc/the-lightcone-is-nothing-without-its-people?commentId=Tmra55pcMKahHyBcn
Does not look possible to have tax deductibility in France, no matter the indirection
Just got confirmation from Effektiv Spenden (with Mieux Donner input) that having this “fiscal sponsorship” setup does not change anything to whether a foreign org can receive tax-deductible donations from France.
Seems that no amount of indirection can enable Lightcone to be tax-deductible in France, short of actually having operations in France.
For now, it’s still unclear whether donations will be tax-deductible in France. I’ll contact Effektiv Spenden to check.
“Making nodes in one’s head” → probably meant knots?
TL;DR: This post gave me two extremely useful handles to talk about a kind of internal struggle I’ve been grappling with for as long as I’ve been in the EA community.
This post seemed obviously true when I read it and I started reusing the concept in conversations, but it did not lead to a lot of internal changes. However, a few months later, having completely forgotten this post, I started practicing self therapy using Internal Family Systems, and then I uncovered a large conflict which after multiple sessions seemed to map really well to the two archetypes described in this post. I’m confident having read this post then made my progress substantially faster in untangling my mental mess.
I read Would You Work Harder In The Least Convenient Possible World? a year later, and it felt like a natural extension of this post, where Humo and Robutil map to Bob and Alice. Replacing guilt and Replacing fear seem related too; some sort of guide on how to get one’s Robutil to accept that guilt and fear are not viable tools.
In the same vein, another guide I’ve been read which fits well into the “helping Humo and Robutil work together” is Introspect by Visakan.
(I only discovered this post in 2024, so I’m less sure it will stand the test of time for me)
This post is up there with The God of Humanity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians as the posts that contributed the most to making me confront the conflict between wanting to live a good life and wanting to make the future go well.
I read this post while struggling half burnt out on a policy job, having lost touch with the fire that drove me to AI safety in the first place, and this imaginary dialogue brought back this fire I had initially found while reading HPMOR. I knew then that I could take no other choice than to move forward and continue fighting as hard as I could. Realizing that probably contributed ~25% of my productivity of the past two months.
I support the content note at the start. My fear based motivation has interacted badly with this urge to make the future go well, and led me into a cycle of burn out and demotivation. I wish there was a post that would help me make sense of how to stop shooting myself in the foot when I care so much.
I’d love a follow-up dialogue where instead of replying “I just kind of don’t really want to work harder.”, Bob instead replied:
Bob: Part of my soul does want to follow your call, to work hard. I tried to do so in the past and badly burnt out. I’m afraid that if I take that as a goal again, I’ll predictably end up burnt out and end up doing less than right now, so I’ve been protecting myself by not doing too hard. I now know that I won’t ever be satisfied just doing my 10%, but I don’t know how to proceed. What would you do in my place?
Update: Seems definitely not possible to get tax deduction in France for an American organisation.
This post from Don Efficace, the organisation which was trying to set up EA regranting in France, explains what are the constraints for the French tax deduction: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jWhFmavJ9cE2zE585/procedure-to-allow-donations-to-european-organizations-to-be
My bad, I mistook Mieux Donner for an older organisation that was trying to setup this.
I checked online, and it does not seem that it’s possible to get the deduction for non-profits outside the EU even through a proxy, except if their action is related to France or is humanitarian.
Source: https://www.centre-francais-fondations.org/dons-transnationaux/
Completed! It was really fun. Thanks for the question to give appreciation to another LWer :)
I’d love to donate to Lightcone ~5K€ next year, but as long as it’s not tax-deductible in France I’ll keep to French AI safety orgs as the French non-profit donation tax break is stupidly good: it can basically triple the donation amount and reduce income tax to 0.
I know that Mieux Donner, a new French effective giving org, is acting as French tax-deductible front for a number of EA organisations. I’ll contact them to check whether they could forward a donation to Lightcone and give an update under this comment.
I find that by focusing on the legs of the dancer, I managed to see it oscillating: half-turn clockwise then half-turn counterclockwise with the feet towards the front. However, this always break when I start looking at the arms. Interesting
I’m currently doing the Rethink Wellbeing IFS Course, and it’s given me so much understanding of myself so quickly with no diminishing returns in sight yet, that it felt like the perfect time to apply More Dakka.
Therefore, I’ve used this list to generate ideas of how to apply More Dakka to my internal exploration, and found 30 strategies that sound super helpful :)
Makes sense! Someone yesterday mistakenly read it as the date of the event, so this confusion seems to happen.
When I’m looking at the date, it says 10th November 2023, but underneath it says 27th September. Seems like a bug
Thanks for the feedback! It made more sense as en event title. I’ll edit it