gavin leech @gl@schelling.pt
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Joined Dec 2022
What happens on the average day?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rXYW9GPsmwZYu3doX/what-happens-on-the-average-day
best EA Forum posts of 2022
I am fine with the hour I spent setting this up even though Twitter has recovered after the footgun: this account allowed me to again tell a hundred people that I think they are cool and worth hearing, and was told the same back.
(I was on here in 2017 because I viewed Twitter as the Big Hate Machine. Which it is, but it is also the world's finest scientific discussion venue.)
I belatedly learn that the bag needs some Kwells (hyoscine, powerful antinausea) though
Best twenty quid I spent all year was a bag of travel meds. also helped 3 unprepared friends from migraine etc. Conceivably, the loperamide could save a life if you're with poorly infants.
Added the marvellous cough suppressant ACC and antacids to this:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LJw98jjiZDBKiZxKB/jetlag-nausea-and-diarrhea-are-largely-optional
odd that global medicine shortages aren't a bigger story (right now, bupropion and semaglutide)
got myself a christmas present by ordering books to my mam's house in april and completely utterly forgetting about them. like finding twenty quid in your pocket. pure grace.
gavin leech
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I feel like this is true for lots of kinds of conversations and not just tech interviews.
People are correctly pointing out that, if you dig into the logic of basically anything, it falls apart, but that's also generally true of actual humans, even experts.
Sure, https://twitter.com/YossiKreinin/status/1599114477022064640 is ridiculous, but have you tried asking an expert coach on almost any topic why you should do X? I think the level of reasoning is fairly similar to what Yossi observes ChatGPT doing.
papers of the year
not a lie; a fitfully aspiring truth.
"math is not a castle built on a bedrock of unshakeable foundations. Math is rather a collective codification of intuitions squeezed into formal frames in the best way possible... the ‘crisis in foundations’ didn’t really matter: what broke was the frame"
https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/mathematicians-dont-care-about-foundations/
Epigram for mechanistic interpretability:
"We are now writing algorithms we cannot read. That makes this a unique moment in history, in that we are subject to the ideas and actions of [something with a] human origin, but without [even potential] human oversight."
- Kevin Slavin
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