jamesdmiller

I have been taking Rapamycin for 19 weeks and NR and Metformin (for anti-aging) for much longer and I can't see any difference. I'm 50+. I generally, however, feel excellent, as well as I remember when I was younger so long as I have gotten lots of sleep and don't have a cold. When I'm sick or tired I feel much worse than I did, however.

Thanks!

Hanson doesn't think (2) and (3) follow because of the possibility of panspermia. It's possible that our galaxy is the only one in a billion light years that has given rise to life, but there could, because of panspermia, skill be a high probability that a planet in our galaxy outside our solar system has life. See this podcast Hanson did with me: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521

Children with hyperlexia can often learn to read before they are two. I personally knew a children who before the age of two was reading.

But if I travel for 45 years at 1-g doesn't the largest scale of the universe become significant to my travels?

Does the expansion of the universe reduce how much you have to slow down if you wish to land on a very distant planet?

Yes, if it's aliens or a 1 in 10,000 glitch it's the glitch. But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.

HBO should email everyone to give us all the choice of whether to get an apology email.

The ability to break the Enigma code might qualify. German scientists, I think, considered it unbreakable.

I think because of the expansion of the universe, you don't have to decelerate as much if you travel to far away galaxies.

By this logic, the military would have started vaccinating their troops for COVID by March 2020.

Infinity makes decision making really weird since infinity + 1 is the same as infinity so if you are going to be tortured for infinity years it wouldn't be irrational to volunteer to be tortured for an extra year.

Let's say that across the multiverse all versions of you are going to collectively live for 1 billion years. Unfortunately, some versions of you will be tortured and let's assume that collectively you will be tortured for 10,000 years meaning that the measure your torture is 10,000 / 1 billion. But if you sign up for cryonics you most likely only get brought back in a world that has cured death and isn't evil. If many versions of you do sign up for cryonics say you live collectively for 2 billion years and are only tortured for 11,000 of these years so the measure of you being tortured is 11,000/ 2 billion.

Cryonics (I'm signed up with Alcor) can reduce the measure of you being tortured. Assume a multiverse where some versions of you are going to be tortured for a long time. If you sign up for cryonics, if you get brought back most likely you won't get tortured and so this might reduce the percent of you across the multiverse that is not being tortured.

The endgame is to figure out the least cost sustainable measures of getting R0<1 until we have a vaccine or treatment safe enough for people in high risk groups to take.

We must never forget him so we keep in mind that genius can be used in support of evil.

Where do they put it? Wouldn't this require the total biomass of the rainforest to be continually increasing?

How common is it for a federal inmate on suicide watch to commit suicide? What's the Bayesian prior?

I can recall memories easily, but I don't see pictures of them.

I dream but don't daydream. Some with aphantasia say they don't seem imagines in their dreams.

Bicameralism seemed a lot sillier to me before I found out I had aphantasia (lack of a mind's eye), and most people see imaginary images while awake. Hearing the voices of imaginary gods doesn't seem all the different from seeing false images.

If it were legal, do you think that the power company should cut off electricity to Crowder?

"IQ tests simply are not used at any scale that would be required to study such a correlation" I think you are wrong about this. There are a huge number of social scientists who study IQ. Also, IQ tests are very frequently given to children, and to everyone who wants to join the U.S. military.

If you care about what college someone graduated from, you care about something highly correlated with IQ. Indeed, part of the reason why elite colleges are able to command such high prices is that, as you mention, we rarely use formal IQ tests when evaluating people and so graduating from an elite college is the best way that high IQ individuals can signal intelligence.

"He only attacks people who are powerful enough to be able to handle it." He was attacking people who politely participated in that Twitter exchange including me, an obscure college professor. Yes, knowing Taleb I wouldn't have challenged him unless I was ready to be insulted, but still I very much doubt that he looked me up to see how powerful or emotionally stable I was.

I'm the author and I am completely serious. The part you mention is to foreshadow my arguing that Trump should pull the trigger.

If a Google employee ever does get punched in the face by a fellow employee, he could use this line in a lawsuit alleging that Google has created a hostile workplace. A jury might not see this line as hyperbole. It was inconsiderate for this former senior Google employee to put his company in legal jeopardy.

People have suggested that the manifesto's author is autistic. If this is true, then it is very possible that if you are not familiar with how autistics' think you will not be able to judge his mental state based on the emotional tone of his writing.

Meta-Forms teaches problem solving. You have to guess the arrangement of objects in a 3 by 3 grid based on clues such as two circles are next to each other, and no red objects are next to each other. https://smile.amazon.com/FoxMind-5512646-Metaforms-Games/dp/...

This document will eventually be released if for no other reason then discovery in a lawsuit alleging Google has a hostile work environment.