Morendil comments on Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis - Less Wrong

29 Post author: AnnaSalamon 01 December 2009 01:42AM

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Comment author: Morendil 02 December 2009 07:20:45PM 2 points [-]

I've sent an email your way. Given that email has become a slightly unreliable medium, thanks to the arms race between Spam and Bayesian (and other) countermeasures, I'd appreciate an acknowledge (even if just to say "got it"), here or via email.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 02 December 2009 09:35:32PM 5 points [-]

Thanks for the heads up. Oddly enough, it was sitting in the spam filter on my SIAI account (without making it through forwarding to my gmail account, where I was checking the spam filter). Yours was the only message caught in the SIAI spam filter, out of 19 who emailed so far in response to this post.

Did you have special reason to expect to be caught in a spam filter?

Comment author: Morendil 02 December 2009 10:08:26PM 3 points [-]

It happens every so often to email people send me, so I periodically check the spam folder on Gmail; by symmetry I assume it happens to email I send. It's more likely to occur on a first contact, too. And last, I spent a fair bit of time composing that email, getting over the diffidence you're accurately assuming.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 03 December 2009 01:29:27AM *  5 points [-]

your handle sounds like a brand name drug ;) e.g. paxil

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2009 07:54:28AM 0 points [-]

I wonder how long I can expect to wait before receiving a response. I sent my email on Wednesday, by the way.

Comment author: SilasBarta 07 December 2009 04:02:46PM 1 point [-]

So you want to know f(x) := P(will receive a response|have not received a response in x days) for values of x from 0 to say, 7?

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 07 December 2009 06:16:08AM 1 point [-]

I'm sorry; I still haven't responded to many of them. Somewhere in the 1-3 days range for an initial response, probably.

Comment author: Morendil 05 December 2009 09:11:19AM 0 points [-]

I suggest you reply to the parent (Anna's) comment, that will show up in her inbox.