Peter Wildeford

Karma: 4,168

Peter Wildeford Mar 21, 2020, 1:22 AM
2 points
in reply to: habryka’s comment on: Is the coronavirus the most important thing to be focusing on right now?
This is a good answer.

Peter Wildeford Mar 21, 2020, 1:19 AM
7 points
on: Is the coronavirus the most important thing to be focusing on right now?
Not really an answer, but a statement and a question—I imagine this is literally the least neglected issue in the world right now. How much does that affect the calculus? How much should we defer to people with more domain expertise?

Peter Wildeford Dec 29, 2019, 5:27 PM
3 points
on: What is your recommended statistics textbook for a beginner?
Introduction to Statistical Learning

Peter Wildeford Dec 6, 2019, 2:58 PM
4 points
on: Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
This paper also seems helpful: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.11118.pdf

Peter Wildeford Oct 18, 2019, 7:53 PM
3 points
in reply to: Mati_Roy’s comment on: Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!
Answered here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YAwLfgwhg7opp3rTp/please-take-the-2019-ea-survey#G8Hn64AEyh3uMY2SG

Peter Wildeford Oct 15, 2019, 4:53 PM
2 points
on: Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!
The EA Survey is closing today! Please take! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EAS2019LW

Peter Wildeford Oct 1, 2019, 1:43 AM
2 points
in reply to: Ben Pace’s comment on: Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!
Thanks!

Peter Wildeford Sep 26, 2019, 9:37 PM
13 points
in reply to: DanielFilan’s comment on: Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019
It could also be on the list of pros, depending on how one uses LW.

Peter Wildeford Sep 26, 2019, 6:08 PM
6 points
in reply to: jefftk’s comment on: Honoring Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2019
Are you offering to take donations in exchange for pressing the button or not pressing the button?

Peter Wildeford May 6, 2019, 3:47 AM
3 points
on: The why and how of daily updates
What happens if you don’t check off everything for the day?

Peter Wildeford Jul 10, 2018, 5:42 AM
2 points
on: The reverse job
This sounds fairly similar to being on a board of a non-profit.

Peter Wildeford Dec 11, 2017, 7:56 AM
3 points
on: Success and Fail Rates of Monthly Policies
Nice post. I’d be curious to hear what all the monthly themes were.

Peter Wildeford Sep 26, 2017, 3:22 AM
0 points
on: My simple hack for increased alertness and improved cognitive functioning: very bright light
Does anyone know if there are links to purchase some of this online?

Peter Wildeford Sep 26, 2017, 2:15 AM
2 points
in reply to: Unnamed’s comment on: Voting Weight Discussion
I don’t think so. The second equation is negative infinity for karma = 0, which seems not right.

Peter Wildeford Sep 26, 2017, 2:13 AM
3 points
in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: Voting Weight Discussion
That makes sense. On a mostly unrelated note, is there any way to get notified when someone replies to my comment?

Peter Wildeford Sep 25, 2017, 6:57 AM
5 points
on: Test post
Tbis appeared on https://www.lesserwrong.com/daily

Peter Wildeford Sep 23, 2017, 5:21 PM
3 points
on: Voting Weight Discussion
My karma from the old LessWrong did not port over. Is this normal?

Peter Wildeford Sep 6, 2017, 6:44 AM
0 points
in reply to: RitaFay’s comment on: Initial Thoughts on Personally Finding a High-Impact Career
Yes. I ultimately chose to go into programming. You can see how the story unfolds here:

http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/i-now-have-approximately-five-career-categories/ http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/comparing-across-my-five-career-categories/ http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/my-careers-conversation-with-holden-karnofsky/ http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/my-conversation-with-satvik-beri/ http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/my-case-study-i-mostly-finished-choosing-between-careers/ https://80000hours.org/2014/10/update-on-peters-career-story/

Peter Wildeford 25 Aug 2017 20:14 UTC
0 points
on: Ten small life improvements
Have you thought about Vimium instead of Karabiner?

Peter Wildeford 25 Apr 2017 2:09 UTC
6 points
in reply to: fubarobfusco’s comment on: The 2017 Effective Altruism Survey—Please Take!
Thanks for the feedback.

I added a paragraph to above saying: “We’re also using this as a way to build up the online EA community, such as featuring people on a global map of EAs and with a list of EA Profiles. This way more people can learn about the EA community. We will ask you in the survey if you would like to join us, but you do not have to opt-in and you will be opted-out by default.”