"nancygonzalez8451097." Her fingers moved swiftly across the phone's virtual keyboard as she filled in the username. Mimin Schuman was 19 years old and had owned a smartphone since she was 11. Mimin only used her phone to occasionally call a friend, check the map for a store location, or text...
My point was not specifically that people up north eat an animal based diet but that ALL people everywhere do. We have been hunter gatherer for a couple of hundred thousands years, and farmers for a couple of thousands. To me it makes sense to look at what hunter gathers today eat (i know its not a perfect proxy but better than observing what people eat at McDonalds). As you can see, ALL present hunter gatherers eat animal foods, and they eat a lot of it. We need fat and protein, they are essential for us. Carbs are not.
"An alternate explanation could imply that people who live in the tundra do end up aging faster as a result of actual deficiencies."
Do people age faster up north due to deficiencies? What is you source for that?
I am amazed how "they" managed to dupe almost everyone with the idea that humans are "made" to eat diets based almost solely on grains and tubers (high glycemic index) and that animal foods (glycemic index = 0) was never meant for us. Some food for thought:
(Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523070582)
It would be much appreciated and very interesting if the moderation/editor team here at LessWrong could share their perceptions on how frequently AI is currently being used for posts and comments.
Your "Intrigue -> Denial -> Appreciation -> Denial 2 -> Fear" - cycle really hits the spot. I will filter future comments from AI pundit through this lens.
Thank you for an excellent post.
The results and studies discussed in the post further validate a feeling I have had about longevity for some time: that there is not much a person living a "normal" life with decent eating, exercise, social, and sleeping habits can do to significantly extend their lifespan. There is no silver bullet that, from a reasonably "normal" health baseline, can routinely give you 5 or 10 extra years, let alone 1 or 2 years.
In this regard, current science has failed, and I think the whole longevity research community needs to reassess the way forward. No matter how much pill-swallowing, cold-bath-taking, HIIT-training, and sleep-optimizing they (we) do, it does not really work.
I wonder, in the aftermath of the US bombing of Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, how this will affect future possibilities of performing a 'Yudkowskyan strike' on datacenters. Will this effectively drive advanced AI development underground to nuclear and bunker bomb proof locations?
The book will probably be a treat to read, but since "someone" (Open AI, Anthropic, Google, META et al.) apparently WILL build "it" everyone WILL die. Oh well, we had a good run I guess.
Design of the frontpage: No. I am fan of the white clean design with the occasional AI generated image. The current iteration reduces readability a lot.
“Employees at OpenAI believed…” — do you mean Sam Altman and the board?
If this information is accurate, it speaks volumes about how flawed their alignment predictions might also be. If a company with vast resources and insider access like OpenAI can’t predict the capabilities of competing firms (a relatively simple problem with objectively knowable answers), how can we expect them to predict the behavior of advanced AI models, where the unknowns are far greater and often unknowable?
Since a lot of people disagree with this, please tell me what a score of 100% mean or say 50% or 37%? I am not writing this to provoke, I am genuinely interested to know.
"nancygonzalez8451097." Her fingers moved swiftly across the phone's virtual keyboard as she filled in the username. Mimin Schuman was 19 years old and had owned a smartphone since she was 11. Mimin only used her phone to occasionally call a friend, check the map for a store location, or text Mom that she would be late for dinner. She had never understood why anyone would want an Instagram account. She had always thought social media was just for fake people living made-up lives. But today, Mimin had changed her mind. The comment she had received two days ago from a woman heading home from pilates class had initially unsettled her, but this... (read 1332 more words →)
Come for the game theory, stay for the slot machines...
Oh, April 1st.
With AI's rapid advancements in research and writing capabilities, in what year do you think thesis writing will cease to be required for most BS and MS students? (I.e., effectively being abandoned as a measure of academic proficiency)
I would like to ask for a favor—a favor for humanity. As the AI rivalry between the US and China has reached new heights in recent days, I urge all parties to prioritize alignment over advancement. Please. We, humanity, are counting on your good judgment.
I suppose the $500 Billion AI infrastructure program just announced can lay to rest all speculations that AGI/ASI is NOT a government directed project.
When you predict (either personally or publicly) future dates of AI milestones do you:
Assume some version of Moore's "law" e.g. exponential growth.
Or
Assume some near term computing gains e.g. quantum computing, doubly exponential growth.
I am so thrilled! Daylight saving time got me to experience (kind of) the sleeping beauty problem first hand.
Last night we in Sweden changed our clocks back one hour at 03.00 to 02.00 and went from “summertime” to the dreaded “wintertime”. It’s dreaded because we know what follows with it, ice storms and polar bears in the streets...
Anyways, I woke up in the middle of the night and I reached for my phone to check what time it was. It was 02.50. Then it struck me. Am I experiencing the first 02.50 or the second 02.50 this night, i.e. have I first slept to 03, then the clock have changed back to... (read more)
Congratulations to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield!
I wonder if Roko's basilisk will spare the Nobel prize committee now: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/
Now when AGI seems to arrive in the near term (2-5 years) and ASI is possibly 5-10 years away (i.e. a few thousand days), what do you personally think will help you stay relevant and in demand? What do you read/watch/study/practice? What skills are you focusing on to sharpen? What "plan B" and "plan C" do you have? What field of work/study would you recommend others to steer away from ASAP?
Asking for a friend...
Of course hunter gatherers eat/ate carbs, but they did not base their diets on grains and beans. Fruits and berries "wants" to get eaten. But... how long is the fruit and berry season? A few months if you are lucky. The rest of the time animal foods is pretty much the only thing available. Sure you can chew on the occasional root, but how many calories will that give you?
My stance is that more animal foods in peoples diets would reverse some of the damage from the high carb ultraprocessed foods in peoples diets. I live in Sweden. The recommended weekly red meat consumption is 350grams. That is like one or two meals. To me that recommendation is madness when you look a insulin resistance and diabetes numbers. People need to get a bigger share of their energy from protein and fat, not less.