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Man, I’m reading the first volume of The GULAG Archipelago and that talk about murder is just sickening.
Plus if the saddle is higher, you sit more hinged, which decreases air resistance and thus makes riding easier. If that makes your rear hurt, get a different saddle, such as https://sqlab-usa.com/collections/saddles/products/602-m-d-active-saddle.
Here’s a guide for setting up a bicycle correctly: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/360/setting-up-riding-position-bike-fitting/ They do it the way I do it and I’ver never had knee problems from riding a bike.
(Just thought: Another reason for knee pain might be riding with knees collapsed inwards.)
I like it the way it is!
My (less eloquent and less informed) take:
Dear Ms. Tam,
I’m one of the readers of Scott Alexander’s blog and I kindly ask you not to publish his real name. He has laid out his rationale in his only remaining blog post and Zvi Mowshovitz has already sent you a much more eloquent appeal than the one I’m writing. No doubt, many other readers of Scott’s blog have sent your their – hopefully polite – opinion about the matter.
I have little to add but the reminder that becoming a public figure makes life difficult. Tim Ferriss wrote about this recently:
https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
You ought not to force this on people who neither deserve (through evil deeds) nor want it.
Scott is an honest blogger who wants to keep his peace. Please don’t take it away from him.
Respectfully,
Richard Möhn
Thanks for letting me know! In response, I’ve added a link to Linda Linsefors’ calendar at the top of the article. I hope that is useful enough to you. Her calendar is focused on online events, but these days almost everything is online anyway. Also, she wrote that she might make a calendar for in-person events once we vanquish Covid.
How to make a predicted AI alignment event/meeting calendar
Thanks for adding your thoughts! I agree, it would have made sense to become an ML engineer just somewhere. I don’t remember why I dismissed that possibility at the time. NB: If I had not dismissed it, I would still have needed to get my head set straight about the job requirements, by talking to an engineer or researcher at a company. Daniel Ziegler described a good way of doing this on the 80,000 Hours Podcast, which is summarized in ML engineering for AI safety & robustness: a Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering the field. Danny Hernandez expanded on that in a useful way in Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress.
After I left AI alignment, I thought about spending three months polishing my ML skills, then applying for ML engineering jobs, so that I could return to AI alignment later. – Exactly what you’re suggesting, only four years late. :-) – But given the Covid chaos and my income risk aversion, I decided to stick to my guns and get a software engineering job as soon as possible. Luckily, I ended up with a high-impact one, although on in x-risk.
Final note on why I think it was bad for me to try to get hired: It used to take me up to a week to get out an application, which distracted mightily from research work.
Sounds good! For me, it was detrimental to focus on intended-for-public projects early on. It would probably have been better to build my understanding and knowledge, which you also appear to be aiming at.
If I can help you with anything or answer questions, let me know. In general, it’s good to talk with experienced and successful people and I would suggest attending some of the now-virtual conferences to do that. – EAGxVirtual or events on this calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=Y2wxanRxMW80anNpcnJsMWdlaHE1a3BpanNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
Not sure. There are other differences, too. – In the way the keys respond, and the fact that on a piano key you have much more freedom in choosing a convenient place for your finger. – This could all lead to less crampiness. So again, talking to an expert is the best bet. I’ve had good experiences with online PT consultations for weightlifting-related aches and pains.
Okay, that speaks against my hypothesis.
In the past, mandolin and piano haven’t hurt my wrists. I haven’t got my mandolin out yet, and from the small amount of piano playing I’ve tried it’s not clear to me yet whether it’s a problem.
Hypothesis: When you learned playing piano, you learned proper technique for pushing the keys. That’s why it’s easy on your wrists. In contrast, when you type on a keyboard, you do it with improper technique (ulnar and dorsal deviation/hand bent out and up) and that puts more stress on your wrists.
People on FB have suggested seeing a PT, which I agree with. – When there is pain, sometimes it makes sense to strengthen tissues rather than using them less and less. A PT can also root out some confusions about the human body being frail. – Additionally, I would suggest seeing a psychotherapist, because they can help with working through worries about losing your earning ability.
Same experience here. I’ve written about it in A cognitive intervention for wrist pain.
Stopped updating the Prediced AI alignment event/meeting calendar, as apparently there is no interest in it and I’ve left AI alignment.
I thought if I read enough examples of macros and practice writing powerful ones (not just that custom
condI mentioned), I will start seeing possible applications. You appear to have a different opinion. Anyway, I think I would get your point if I explored more more real world macro-enabled code.Practical Common Lisp book is extremely impractical in 2020 but I feel it demonstrates high-level Lisp programming better through its use of extremely dense code.
I have read The Joy of Clojure, which imbued me with some good Lisp spirit. And I’ve moved Practical Common Lisp up on my reading list above On Lisp and Let Over Lambda, thanks to your brief review.
make the lower levels into a language layer
Good reminder. I think I’ve done something like that here: https://github.com/rmoehn/jursey/blob/master/test/clarification-swallows.repl
Thanks for the detailed reply!
The real challenge is knowing what to write, not how to write it.
Yeah, this is the difficult thing for me. I’ve written extensions of basic forms like
cond. But I haven’t yet had an insight like: ‘this is a problem I can solve much more elegantly with macros than with plain functional code’.Maybe a way to get there would be to dive back into On Lisp (http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html) or Let Over Lambda (https://letoverlambda.com/). Although, if you know of no good books, maybe these don’t suffice either. :-)
Updated the Prediced AI alignment event/meeting calendar.
Main changes:
Events in the first half of this year moved to cyberspace due to COVID-19.
Including Web Technical AI Safety Unconference.
The paper submission deadline for WAISE is now public.
I’m curious why implementing the hyperparameter search in Python would have been prohibitively expensive, but wasn’t in Hy. For context: I’m familiar with Clojure (which inspired Hy) and macros.
And I would like to know where you learned that sort of meta-programming.
Cardboard and plastic: Tottori Prefecture goes low-tech to protect officials from COVID-19
This made my day.
Cheap, low-tech prevention measures.
‘“I hope this system will send out a message that even Tottori, where no infections have been reported yet, is being very vigilant.”’ – Yes!
I want Tottori spirit everywhere.
When I look at the bottom of https://www.lesswrong.com/s/EmDuGeRw749sD3GKd/p/6fMvGoyy3kgnonRNM, it says:
And when I look at the bottom of this article (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hjEaZgyQ2iprDhkg8/security-amplification), it says:
Since the articles’ text indicates that they’re part of the sequence, one might think that they should be listed in the overview.
I might have had reasons to write the above based on the articles’ contents, but I don’t remember those.