tadrinth

Karma: 201

tadrinth 13 Jun 2022 22:11 UTC
2 points
in reply to: SarahSrinivasan’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.

tadrinth 13 Jun 2022 22:08 UTC
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.

tadrinth 28 Jan 2019 17:43 UTC
11 points
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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.

tadrinth 29 Sep 2017 18:44 UTC
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.

tadrinth 19 Apr 2016 14:09 UTC
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.

tadrinth 10 Feb 2016 19:39 UTC
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.

tadrinth 17 Sep 2014 3:38 UTC
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.

tadrinth 19 Aug 2013 18:53 UTC
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.

tadrinth 19 Aug 2013 18:42 UTC
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.

tadrinth 22 May 2013 5:38 UTC
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.

tadrinth 17 Apr 2013 1:14 UTC
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.

tadrinth 8 Mar 2013 5:20 UTC
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.

tadrinth 24 Feb 2013 22:51 UTC
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.

tadrinth 24 Feb 2013 18:00 UTC
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.

tadrinth 17 Jul 2012 19:10 UTC
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.

tadrinth 26 Jun 2012 19:13 UTC
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.

tadrinth 7 Jun 2012 17:23 UTC
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.

tadrinth 6 Jun 2012 20:30 UTC
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.

tadrinth 12 Apr 2012 0:32 UTC
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).

tadrinth 12 Apr 2012 0:31 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Velorien’s comment on: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84
It takes her a few seconds to remember the Asch Conformity Experiment and that was a long enough delay to be frightening.