juliawise

I work at the Centre for Effective Altruism as a contact person for the EA community. I read a lot of LessWrong around 2011 but am not up to date on whatever is happening now.

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If you like this post, you might like the game https://flora.metazooa.com/ where you guess a plant by narrowing down its taxonomy. 

Jeff did it by burning a set number of matches to ash in the room, and testing the particulates with an air quality monitor. https://www.jefftk.com/p/testing-air-purifiers

juliawise132

And "goal factoring" is a technique for figuring out what you actually want and different ways to get there. 

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>As a community we produce more way more breastmilk than we can use!
This doesn't really seem right to me; or at least it relies on mothers' volunteer work to pump, sterilize, and store their milk. If you actually need to get rid of extra milk, pumping and dumping is way easier than keeping the milk clean and cold. And if you have an oversupply, pumping a lot is how to continue having an oversupply.

This is sort of like claims that we could produce lots of vegetables if everyone turned their front yard into a miniature farm and spent their spare time doing subsistence agriculture; technically true but not how most people want to spend their time.

Other health claims: breastfeeding slightly reduces risk of breast cancer in the mother and increases chance of colorectal cancer and breast cancer in the child.

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We've done the local public school, yes. More thoughts here: https://juliawise.net/school-your-mileage-may-vary/

Generally they're opposed to using toys not as intended. It is kinda dicey given they can't easily see if anyone is at the bottom of the slide, but the worst that happens is someone gets knocked over.

True. The "arm fracture" one on the Victoria chart seems pretty concrete, though.

I didn't read it all, but a couple thoughts:
Betadine is a brand name for a povidone iodine product - they're not different things.
Robitussin DM has both an expectorant (seems good) and a cough suppressant.  A cough suppressant might not be what you want if you want the gunk to get out of your lungs. If there's a "productive" cough I'd think it's better to just cough.

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