tadrinth

• tadrinthJun 13, 2022, 10:11 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: SarahNibs’s comment on: On A List of Lethalities

  I’d be interested to know how many people flunked out of that internship because they couldn’t pick it up, and to what extent people were pre-selected for the internship based on some estimate of their ability to pick it up.

• tadrinthJun 13, 2022, 10:08 PM

  8 points

  in reply to: Razied’s comment on: On A List of Lethalities

  This would mean that a hypothetical AI “uniformly” gaining capability on all axes would beat us at math long before it beats us at deception.

  I’m pretty skeptical of this as an assumption.

  If you want an AI to output a useful design for an aligned AI, that design has to be secure, because an aligned-but-insecure AI is not stably aligned, it could be hacked. Ergo, your oracle AI must be using a security mindset at superhuman levels of intelligence. Otherwise the textbook you’ll get out will be beautiful, logical, coherent, and insecure. I don’t see how you could make an AI which has that level of security mindset and isn’t superhumanly capable of deception.

• tadrinthJan 28, 2019, 5:43 PM

  11 points

  0

  on: Build­ing up to an In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems model

  I’ve been attempting to use IFS for years without having read much more than brief summaries of it. This post put me on a much firmer footing with it and I was able to much more clearly categorize a bunch of things that have been happening over the past six months or so. Then over the weekend I had a low-level background internal screaming going on, and while my first couple rounds of attempts at resolving it only helped a little, I was finally able to isolate the issue and fix what turned out to be a massive misalignment. I have not felt this aligned in years.

  So thank you very, very much for writing this.

• tadrinthSep 29, 2017, 6:44 PM

  3 points

  on: Good­hart’s Imperius

  For the specific case of weighing yourself, could you create a scale that only gives the positive reward, not the negative one? Like, it only tells you your weight if it’s lower than yesterday, or better yet if the trend in your weight is downward over the past week? Maybe it displays a cheerful message and plays a soothing sound when you weigh yourself, and it emails you later at random if you’ve been losing weight.

[Recom­men­da­tion] Steven Uni­verse & cryonics

• tadrinthApr 19, 2016, 2:09 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: RowanE’s comment on: Pos­i­tivity Thread :)

  My fiance likes it, supposedly it’s been very true to the original manga. It might just be better than the original dub.

• tadrinthFeb 10, 2016, 7:39 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: entirelyuseless’s comment on: The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion’s Small Mam­malian Brain Prize won

  At this point, I won’t be confident that i’ve been successfully preserved until ultra high resolution electron micrographs of my brain are in Amazon’s S3 storage, replicated across multiple regions. Any storage that doesn’t have redundancy doesn’t count as safe.

• tadrinthSep 17, 2014, 3:38 AM

  19 points

  in reply to: ITakeBets’s comment on: Open thread, Septem­ber 15-21, 2014

  Is Austin on the list? I work at a not-evil tech startup called SchoolAdmin that does school admissions software for a mix of public/​private/​charter schools. We’re not hiring devs right now, but that might possibly change since we have a product manager coming in October. The company is REALLY not evil; we’ve had three different people come down with mental or physical health issues, and the president’s mantra has been ‘your job is to get better’ in every case.

  I could possibly also offer a place to crash, I’ve got a futon, a study it could be moved to, and already have cats.

• tadrinthAug 19, 2013, 6:53 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: RolfAndreassen’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

  Body armor only protects against weak curses like Somnium that are standard first year hexes. Stupefy, which is castable by first years, is not blocked by armor.

• tadrinthAug 19, 2013, 6:42 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: Larks’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

  He got Lucius to agree to proposed next steps which we don’t know about and secured an alliance with House Malfoy.

  Also, when he added the bit about exonerating House Malfoy, he showed Lucious one wording, then wrote down his original wording. He might have changed something important, and Lucius might not have noticed.

• tadrinthMay 22, 2013, 5:38 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: RomeoStevens’s comment on: [LINK] Soylent crowdfunding

  Any chance you can refactor your recipe to replace bananas with something that keeps better? Otherwise, I was pretty pleased with it.

• tadrinthApr 17, 2013, 1:14 AM

  2 points

  on: Soylent Orange—Whole food open source soylent

  I just made my first batch of this and it was pretty decent. Not amazing, but definitely palatable. I had one big cup in place of dinner; I expected to want more but it was surprisingly filling. I started with the base recipe and added a scoop of vanilla whey protein, plus about a quarter cup of frozen chopped spinach.

  I was expecting to have more issues with storing or measuring out the frozen OJ concentrate, but I just opened it, scooped some out with a spoon, put the lid back on, and stood it up in my freezer.

• tadrinthMar 8, 2013, 5:20 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Crux’s comment on: Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

  I finally started brushing regularly when I finally tried an electric toothbrush and began brushing immediately after I showered at night.

• tadrinthFeb 24, 2013, 10:51 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: beriukay’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

  I tried Metamucil packets a while back to help alleviate side effects of the antidepressants I was on, and the trick with those was to drink them reasonably quickly after you added water, before they turned into gel. With the single-serving packets, you could try adding the fiber right before drinking.

• tadrinthFeb 24, 2013, 6:00 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: beriukay’s comment on: Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

  I was browsing through discussions of that blog post on reddit, and someone pointed out that his formula has inadequate fiber. One batch has 1500ish calories from macronutrients (carbs/​protein/​fat), and only 5g of fiber. The daily recommended intake for fiber is 38g per day for an adult male, so if you’re only consuming Soylent, you’ll want to increase the fiber per batch dramatically.

• tadrinthJul 17, 2012, 7:10 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Sabiola’s comment on: Less Wrong Product & Ser­vice Recommendations

  It works great. I mentioned wanting a standing desk to my boss when I started a month ago, a couple of other people expressed interest, and he bought four of them, including one to use himself. It sits on the desk that’s built into my cubicle, my laptop sits on the shelf, and the monitor sits on top. The boss had to send someone to IKEA to get another four.

  We might need to get higher cubicle walls, though.

• tadrinthJun 26, 2012, 7:13 PM

  7 points

  on: Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 6/​25/​12

  Switched to a standing desk at work. I have one at home and I mentioned the idea to my boss. He eventually found a post where the right $22 at IKEA lets you build a desk → standing desk converter. It’s basically an end table with a shelf screwed to the side; since you are making the screw holes yourself, the shelf is at whatever height is ideal for you. He decided to try it out also, along with a few other people, so we shall see how the grand experiment goes.

  It’s been a few hours and I have already discovered that standing for long periods in tennis shoes is not quite the same as standing barefoot. If I don’t adapt, I may need to buy new shoes.

• tadrinthJun 7, 2012, 5:23 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: David Althaus’s comment on: Have you changed your mind lately? On what?

  I was on an SSRI so I’m not sure any of my experience is actually relevant to bupropion.

  If your depression has an obvious cause, fix that instead. I was depressed because of grad school, and I got better when I graduated.

• tadrinthJun 6, 2012, 8:30 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: David Althaus’s comment on: Have you changed your mind lately? On what?

  Are you sure you’re not just building up a resistance/​dependence? I tried anti-depressants but they eventually stopped really doing anything, I believe somewhere between 6 months to a year after starting them. I think resistance is pretty common.

  Also, most anti-depressants take a while to kick in, so I suspect any day-to-day dosage changes are going to be more about withdrawal symptoms than anything else.

• tadrinthApr 12, 2012, 12:32 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Velorien’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 15, chap­ter 84

  Yeah, memory is fallible as hell. This is why I love having conversation logs and why I have contemplated trying to figure out a way to log my entire life (so I could do that for real conversations as well).