David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
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I must be one of the world's loneliest inventors. I invented
- a keyboard almost no one uses but me.
- a language that only I speak
- programming languages that only I write code in
- code libraries that only I use
All these were meant for wide circulation. But nobody cares.
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RT @AlecStapp
The Green Revolution in one chart
Food abundance is very good and underrated
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RT @SmartUACat
Enemy captured Sil train station NW of Soledar.
Enemy likely captured Klishchiivka.
If enemy is able to cross the road 5 km north, we'll be talking about operational encirclement of Bakhmut.
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On the plus side, the main thread is more moderate. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kuqgJDPF6nfscSZsZ/thread-for-discussing-bostrom-s-email-and-apology
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Starting to wonder if I should be an "ea" rather than an "EA".
The community is nasty sometimes. And not just, in this case, to Nick Bostrom, but to anyone who questions the nastiness being directed at him.
It's depressing. And looks a lot like value drift.
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It's called Swanson's law, but the more general phenomenon is called Wright's law: the more of something you build, the cheaper it gets.
Conversely if we stop building stuff (e.g. nuclear reactors) they get more expensive.
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RT @_HannahRitchie
Cost of solar PV modules, per Watt 📉
In 1975: $115
In 2021: $0.27
That's 425 times lower.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices?yScale=log
https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1614277784725229573
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RT @Gerashchenko_en
"I won't hide it - it's nice!"
Propagandists excitedly comment the rocket strike into a residential building in Dnipro.
25 people confirmed dead in the strike, 73 injured, 43 are missing in Dnipro as of now.
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Ukrainian drama: Ukrainian vlogger Dadydov hates Ukrainian vlogger Arestovich. I don't know what to make of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9v0F3SQ5no
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RT @SmartUACat
Latest update on Dnipro.
At least 5 dead, 39 injured (7 of which are children).
The youngest is 3 years old. A 9 year old girl is in serious condition
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RT @hausfath
A few year back we were joking that climate skeptics would soon be saying “no warming since 2016”. Now they actually are.
In reality, short term variability can make you over interpret pauses or accelerations in what’s a pretty clear trend: https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no-global-warming-has-not-paused-over-the-past-eight-years/
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Plus, Russia invaded in February. Farmers had time to increase their planned crop of staples — assuming that was possible and they were paying attention?
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Anyway, I find it interesting that studies show coffee decreasing amounts of dementia/PD risk factors...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cns.12684
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36361750/
...but that when I Googled ways to lower Alzheimer's risks, I looked at 4 sites and none of them mentioned caffeine or coffee.
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Also "The risk of dementia in PD is about 1.7- to 5.9-times higher compared to controls" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.748096/full
However, no one seems to be talking about whether there is an increased risk of Parkinson's after a Dementia diagnosis. Does PD tend to happen before AD somehow?
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Under 2% of elderly have Parkinson's: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8848182/
WHO: 5–8% of people of people aged 60 or older have dementia: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/elderly-dementia-symptoms
But "at least 75% of PD patients who survive for more than 10 years will develop dementia": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19733364/
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Is there a correlation between Parkinson's disease and Alzheimers/dementia? Google doesn't directly have the answer, but it seems that the answer is yes:
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I would've blamed Russia for hurting the global wheat supply with its invasion, but... it is a bit odd how the price of everything else seemed to rise just as much as the price of wheat https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-conspiracy-to-inflate-food-prices-is-real-its-time-to-rethink/
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RT @HopfJames
An informative article about nuclear's situation. I found this graph showing construction times vs. year to be interesting. It shows short (~ 5 yr) construction times for initial demo reactors and the first batch of GW-scale reactors that followed. 1/
https://www.powermag.com/being-pro-nuclear-wont-be-enough-heres-why/
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RT @Meaningness
Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science
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RT @CollinBurns4
How can we figure out if what a language model says is true, even when human evaluators can’t easily tell?
We show (http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827) that we can identify whether text is true or false directly from a model’s *unlabeled activations*. 🧵
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RT @TrentTelenko
This is the single most important piece of data in this @wartranslated 🧵
The Russian objective in the attacks on Kyiv isn't terror. It is just a "side benefit."
The RFAF objective is suppression of air defenses (SEAD) by running AFU out of surface to air missiles!
SEAD🧵
1/ https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1582163794608152576
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- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
