I feel, and XiXiDu seems to agree, that his posts require a disclaimer or official counterarguments. I feel it’s appropriate to point out that someone has made collecting and spreading every negative aspect of a community they can find into a major part of their life.
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So MIRI and LW are no longer a focus for you going forward?
Note XiXiDu preserves every potential negative aspect of the MIRI and LW community and is a biased source lacking context and positive examples.
Note XiXiDu preserves every potential negative aspect of the MIRI and LW community and is a biased source lacking context and positive examples.
Skin reacts to light, too.
tl;dr: buy Index Funds, like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, because money can be turned into a great many utilons after holding it for a long time.
The FAQ addresses Crohn’s Disease: “more data needed”.
https://faq.soylent.me/hc/en-us/articles/200838449-Will-Soylent-help-my-Crohns-or-IBS-
It also has a full list of ingredients.
https://faq.soylent.me/hc/en-us/articles/200789315-Soylent-1-0-Nutrition
One thing from the link above that I didn’t previously know: “The Soylent recipe is based on the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and is approved as a food by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).” (emphasis theirs)
No agreement. It’s a polarizing topic, even here.
No reason to apologize. It’s a good time for another thread, since it’s actually out now.
Previous discussions on LW:
Here’s my review of Soylent and a taskification of how I use it.
Pros:
Much easier than cooking or even fast food, when transportation costs are taken into account
Much more nutritionally complete than fast food or processed sugar-foods
Relatively cheap
Tastes neutral or slightly sweet
Cons:
Sometimes sticks to the back of my throat
Can give foul smelling gas
Can cause headaches
Can cause nausea
Texture of high pulp orange juice
Doesn’t have the daily allowance of sodium
Preparation Process:
Place Takeya pitcher on counter with top off
Rip off top of Soylent bag
Squeeze top of Soylent bag down to a circular shape that fits in the pitcher
Place top of bag in pitcher and tilt
Squeeze and press on bag until all powder is in pitcher
Add 1⁄4 tsp to 1 tsp of salt, depending on taste and sodium cravings. I use Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt.
Add warm water to pitcher to the edge of the container
Put top on and shake vigorously
Open top, careful not to drip remnants
Add oil from oil jar and more warm water to edge of the container
Put on top and shake vigorously
Place pitcher in refrigerator
Consumption process:
Pour Soylent into 8oz glass—I use Bermioli Rocco glasses recommended by TheWirecutter
Alternatively, pour Soylent into 16oz Thermos, such as the Thermos Nissan
If still warm, put in 1 ice cube
Sip or chug as needed
Consume lots of additional water
Immediately upon finishing a glass, add a dash of water, swirl it around, drink remnants, and then rinse glass
Notes:
Do not put water in pitcher before Soylent powder, as it’s easy to put in too much water, and the Soylent won’t fit.
Warm water mixes more easily with the Soylent
Soylent tastes better when chilled
Soylent dries out into a very hard, crusty residue which is difficult to clean, so stray droplets are a nuisance
I pledged to continue donating $1,000 per month.
I also convinced a friend to donate for the first time.
Who cares about whether a decision taken years ago was sensible, or slightly-wrong-but-within-reason, or wrong-but-only-in-hindsight, etc. ?
XiXiDu cares about every Eliezer potential-mistake.
Forum drama is noise, not signal.
I didn’t realize the grand prize was based on daily unique donors until I got the ‘urgent’ email. I got my dad to chip in $10, too. Looks like the other leading organization has more friends and family.
My apologies, I won’t be able to make it. Work unexpectedly kept me up until 3am, and my body punished me with sleep.
I’ll be coming.
Jon’s what I call normal-smart. He spends most of his time watching TV, mainly US news programs, and they’re quite destructive to rational thinking, even if the purpose is for comedic fodder and to discover hypocrisy. He’s very tech averse, letting the guests he has on the show come in with information he might use, trusting (quite good) intuition to fit things into reality. As such, I like to use him as an example of what more normal people feel about tech / geek issues.
Every time he has one of these debates, I really want to sit down as moderator so I can translate each side, since they often talk past each other. Alas, it’s a very time restricted format, and I’ve only seen him fact check on the fly once (Google, Wikipedia).
The number thing was at least partly a joke, along the lines of “bigger than 10 doesn’t make much sense to me”—scope insensitivity humor. I’ve done similar before.
I donated $5000 today and continue my $1000 monthly donations.