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• ogeNov 21, 2021, 5:09 PM

  1 point

  on: The su­per­abun­dance of knowl­edge and its sub­se­quent di­vi­sion—Some remarks

  It’d be nice to have even a sentence-long summary at the end. There are interesting nuggets but I can’t find a justified call-to-action.

• ogeNov 20, 2021, 2:43 AM

  4 points

  on: Am­bi­tious Altru­is­tic Soft­ware Eng­ineer­ing Efforts: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Benefits

  Props for emphasizing that a lot of these projects are “tech bundled with services”.

  I believe that all software projects are in fact, “tech bundled with services” since the software will need upkeep in order to stay relevant to its users. Of course, I’m biased since I’d love to own one such project.

• ogeNov 10, 2021, 11:34 PM

  1 point

  on: Self-ed­u­ca­tion best practices

  Thanks for asking this question. If you do start the reading programme, I hope you’ll post your plans and progress so I can follow along.

• ogeNov 2, 2021, 7:07 PM

  1 point

  on: Tran­script: “You Should Read HPMOR”

  Grinnellian, wut wut. [nnadioge] ’06 on plans.

• ogeSep 27, 2021, 3:55 PM

  2 points

  on: How to mea­sure (hu­man) im­pact?

  Off the top of my head: perhaps interact with a clique of people for a pre-determined time like a year, then ask them in multiple ways (anonymous feedback form, face-to-face convos etc.) what your impact was.

• ogeSep 10, 2021, 9:41 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: Darmani’s comment on: The Best Soft­ware For Every Need

  Just out of curiosity: what kinds of binaries do you need to reverse-engineer on a regular basis?

• ogeAug 29, 2021, 11:14 AM

  1 point

  on: Train­ing My Friend to Cook

  Could you please put the takeaways at the top of the article, as a tldr?

• ogeJul 13, 2021, 10:09 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: gwern’s comment on: You should ask for a third-party au­dit of your cryopreservation

  I don’t know. Alcor offered to send my agents the post-mortem CT scan, but haven’t gotten back about biopsies.

• ogeJul 13, 2021, 9:52 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Josh Jacobson’s comment on: You should ask for a third-party au­dit of your cryopreservation

  I think we agree that a safe audit would be desirable. We differ in thinking that the toxicity of ASC is a dealbreaker. Is this accurate?

  The most detailed studies of the brain today, which show the locations of dozens of memory-related proteins, are done using aldehydes (the A in ASC) so I hope to be revived as an emulation; I have little hope that my physical body can be rewarmed as is partly because of the difficulty of getting cryoprotectant to every part of the brain.

  Come to think of it, if you could be preserved pre-mortem in a territory where that is legal, and then had your body preserved at −135 °C (ABOVE liquid nitrogen temperature and above the temp at which cracks form in the brain), then the body might be viable into the future...

• ogeJul 8, 2021, 10:43 PM

  −2 points

  in reply to: Josh Jacobson’s comment on: You should ask for a third-party au­dit of your cryopreservation

  Cryopreservation causes lots of damage, always. What would this show?

  Cryopreservation doesn’t have to cause damage. For instance, Aldehyde Stabilized Cryopreservation (on pigs) doesn’t https://​​doi.org/​​10.1016/​​j.cryobiol.2015.09.003

  Brain biopsies, especially by cryo staff, sound dangerous.

  Brain biopsies are performed in hospitals e.g. during brain cancer diagnostics. They should not be dangerous to perform

  Is there any indication that cryo companies would comply with this? What would associated costs be?

  I don’t know.

You should ask for a third-party au­dit of your cryopreservation

• ogeJun 24, 2021, 3:55 PM

  4 points

  on: Two non-ob­vi­ous les­sons from micro­covid.org

  Seconding the point to, save myself and then export the program thereof to the rest of the world.

• ogeJun 9, 2021, 3:22 PM

  2 points

  on: Bad names make you open the box

  One model for choosing good names:

  (1) selecting the concepts to include in the name, (2) choosing the words to represent each concept, and (3) constructing a name using these words.

  “How Developers Choose Names” (2021) by Feitelson et al. https://​​arxiv.org/​​abs/​​2103.07487

• ogeMay 30, 2021, 10:13 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: Adele Lopez’s comment on: Wrist Update

  Hey Adele, could you please summarize (or link to) the exercises that helped you? I’m having wrist problems as well and I’ve found that cycling through a wide range of exercises helps

• ogeMay 2, 2021, 9:02 PM

  1 point

  on: How do you so­licit feed­back effec­tively?

  Hey Raj, I don’t know you and you may DM me to have a conversation after which I can provide feedback.

• ogeApr 4, 2021, 3:39 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Chris_Leong’s comment on: What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

  It looks like Singer subscribes to the maxim, “Give until you’re unable to take care of yourself and your loved ones.”

  I like this framing better than the drowning child analogy since the trigger for the action pattern of giving is well-defined. Thanks for pointing this article out, Chris_Leong.

• ogeApr 2, 2021, 8:38 AM

  3 points

  on: 2 in­no­va­tive life ex­ten­sion ap­proaches us­ing cry­on­ics technology

  Props for writing up these out-of-the-box ideas. Hemispherectomies especially. I wonder how risky the procedure is.

I’m a 19-year-old Ter­mi­nal Pa­tient. Med­i­cal Brain Preser­va­tion Should not be Difficult to Dis­cuss or Adopt

Up­dat­ing the Roadmap to Whole Brain Emu­la­tion Part 6: NEURAL MODELING—Pa­tient Spe­cific Selec­tion, Fit­ting and Validation

A sum­mary re­view on The Age of Em