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Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery

rayalez6y30

Do you guys ever have meetups in English? Do you know if anyone in Moscow does?

3Slava Matyukhin6y

Yes! We have an English club each Saturday at 5 PM.

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

rayalez6y10

Thanks, Ill try zink again, and one day get around to doung blood test.

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

rayalez6y20

I think insomnia starts gradually and progressively gets worse after a few days, maybe a week, my hypothesis was that D3 was building up, apparently it has a very long half life. I took about 2000-3000 IU, it's not that much, right?

I didn't try K2 supplement, but I've just googled and turns out spinach and kale have a lot of K, and I eat a lot of those.

8Sasha Mayer6y

K2 you cannot get from spinach or kale. Only from fermented natto, cabage but mostly from animal fat in brie and gouda cheese, organ meats, eggs, butter, milk and meat but ONLY from grass fed animals (K1 transforms to K2 when animals eat grass). Brie and Gouda could be from milk that is not from grass fed animals since in these 2 types of cheese bacteria produces the K2.

3ChristianKl6y

Whether something is a lot depends on your baseline. Mainstream researchers would say that's a lot as it's 250% of the RDA of D3. From my perspective it however isn't a lot. Spinach and kale contain K1 and not K2. You could still be K2 deficient if you get a lot of K2. Vitamin A is also plausible but given that too much Vitamin A is bad (on average Vitamin A supplements increase the death rate) I wouldn't supplement it in a targeted way without blood tests.

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

rayalez6y10

I used to take calcium-magnesium-zink supplement, not sure if it was durig the time I took D3. Could lack of zink be an issue, should I try it?

I don't know if I need it, never took the blood test, I tried it based on all the artiles about how good it is and how most people are deficient in it. Also I live in a cold climate and definitely don't go out enough, so I don't get a lot of sunlight.

I took D3 with light breakfast, in the morning.

3Elo6y

I don't know. (maybe Christiankl can comment here) Zinc has been a factor for me. Maybe get a blood test?

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

rayalez6y30

Thank you for a great post!

Taking a D3 supplement, even in small amounts, seems to cause a horrible insomnia for me. I have problems with sleep even without it, but on D3 it gets a lot worse, I sleep like 3 hours per night. I'm like 80-90% sure it's D3, when I take it it gets worse, a few days after I stop it gets better.

Do you have any ideas on what could cause this and how could I fix it? I already take magnesium and choline, and I take D3 in the morning, but that don't seem to help much. Melatonin doesn't do anything, it gets me to sleep in the evening, but then I wake up anyway.

2squirrel5y

I learned the hard way to ONLY take D3 in the mornings. Otherwise if I wait it causes sleeplessness.

1Un Ariete6y

Non lichen based D3 supplements have been found to contain toxic levels of D3 per pill. 200000ius per pill instead of 2000iu. It's in the scientific literature. Insomnia is due to D3 inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis and the production of PGD2, which induces sleep.

1adam demirel6y

What time did you take it? D3 is a strong cellular modulator of our clock genes https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/new-research-finds-activated-vitamin-d-regulates-genes-involved-in-the-circadian-rhythm/

3Elo6y

Have you ever taken zinc. Are you sure you need vit D? Are you taking d with or without food?

3ChristianKl6y

How fast do you get the insomnia after taking a supplement? What do you mean with small amounts? Do you take K2?

Value Arbitrage

rayalez8y70

Hey, everyone! My first post here. Just testing out this awesome platform. Curious to see where it goes.

How AI/AGI/Consciousness works - my layman theory

rayalez8y00

Thank you for your reply!

For a long time, the way ANNs work kinda made sense to me, and seemed to map nicely onto my (shallow) understanding of how human brain works. But I could never imagine how could the values/drives/desires be implemented in terms of ANN.

The idea that you can just quantify something you want as a metric, feed it as an input, and see if the output is closer to what we want is new to me. It was a little epiphany, that seems to make sense, so it prompted me to write this post.

Evolutionary, I guess human/animal utility function would be s... (read more)

2Viliam8y

In real life, the problem with metrics is that if you don't make it perfectly right (which is difficult), you can easily get something useless, often even actively harmful. And yet, metrics often are useful in real life. You generally want to measure things. You need to know how much money you have, and it is better to know in detail the structure of your incomes and expenses. If you want to e.g. exercise regularly or stop eating chocolate, keeping a log of which days you exercised or avoided the chocolate is often a good first step. Thus we find ourselves in a paradox that we need good metrics, but we need to remember that they are mere approximations of reality, lest we start optimizing for the metrics at the expense of the real things. (Good advice for a human, not very useful for constructing the AI.) Yes, the "utility" of evolution is not the same as that of the evolved human. Sometimes following your impulse can make you unhappy and still on average increase your fitness, for example jealousy. (Jealous people are made less happy by the idea that their partners might be cheating on them. But feeling this discomfort and guarding one's partner increases the reproductive fitness in average.) I mean, yes, finding out that despite your suspicions your partner does not cheat on you makes you more happy (or less unhappy) than finding out that they actually do. But not worrying about the possibility would make you even more happy. Humans are instinctively not even happiness maximizers.

On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

rayalez8y130

I am working on a project with this purpose, and I think you will find it interesting:

http://metamind.pro

It is intended to be a community for intelligent discussion about rationality and related subjects. It is still a beta version, and has not launched yet, but after seeing this topic, I have decided to share it with you now.

It is based on the open source platform that I'm building:

https://github.com/raymestalez/nexus

This platform will address most of the issues discussed in this thread. It can be used both like a publishing/discussion platform, and as a ... (read more)

On the importance of Less Wrong, or another single conversational locus

rayalez8y00

I am working on a project with the similar purpose, and I think you will find it interesting:

http://metamind.pro

If you find it interesting and can offer some feedback - I would really appreciate it!

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Revitalizing Less Wrong seems like a lost purpose, but here are some other ideas

rayalez9y30

Hey, everyone! Author of rationalfiction.io here.

I am actively building and improving our website, and I would be happy to offer it as a new platform for LW community, if there's interest.

I can take care of the hosting, and build all the necessary features.

I've been thinking about creating a LW-like website for a while now, but I wasn't sure that it will work. After reading this post I have decided that I'm going launch and see where it goes.

If there's any ideas or suggestions about how such platform can be improved or what features we'll need - let's di... (read more)

rationalfiction.io - publish, discover, and discuss rational fiction

rayalez9y00

Thanks!
It works well on my iPad, haven't tested it on the phones yet. I will.
There are links to author's RSS feed in the post footer and on the profile pages.

Is there a reason you don't want to use the site? I'd appreciate any feedback or ideas on how I can make it better.

0root9y

Mainly because I don't read rational fictions. I can't call myself even sufficiently rational so the whole point of a rationalfic would be lost on me. I've read HPMOR. It was nice. I just felt that I've missed something on a different level because it seems (to me) to have a large amount of praise.

Monthly Bragging Thread April 2016

rayalez9y20

In startups, it is so called "MVP" - minimal viable product, a simplest version that you can show users to get some feedback and see if it works. It is the first step to building a startup.

To me it's a pretty huge accomplishment, I'm really proud of myself =) Most of the work went not into coding the website, but into figuring out what it is. I needed a thing that would be valuable, and that I would be excited to work on for the following few years.

A competent programmer could probably create something like that in a week, but because I'm just l... (read more)

Monthly Bragging Thread April 2016

rayalez9y100

I've launched the first version of my startup, lumiverse:

http://lumiverse.io

I want lumiverse to become the perfect place for people to publish, discover and discuss great educational videos. I want to build a friendly and intelligent community, make it easy for video creators to find an audience, and make it easy for viewers to discover awesome videos.

I also have finaly made the first few episodes of Orange Mind - my video series about rationality.

0RowanE9y

Guy who doesn't know much about startups here - "launched the first version" and "want [it] to become" sound indicative of something more "outline of a novel" - can you elaborate on how big of an accomplishment it was to get it off the ground in the first place?

A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk

rayalez10y-20

I'm new to the subject, so I'm sorry if the following is obvious or completely wrong, but the comment left by Eliezer doesn't seem like something that would be written by a smart person who is trying to suppress information. I seriously doubt that EY didn't know about Streisand effect.

However the comment does seem like something that would be written by a smart person who is trying to create a meme or promote his blog.

In HPMOR characters give each other advice "to understand a plot, assume that what happened was the intended result, and look at who ... (read more)

7Ben Pace10y

No worries about being wrong. But I definitely think you're overestimating Eliezer, and humanity in general. Thinking that calling someone an idiot for doing something stupid, and then deleting their post, would cause a massive blow up of epic proportions, is sometng you can really only predict in hindsight.

8Rob Bensinger10y

The line goes "to fathom a strange plot, one technique was to look at what ended up happening, assume it was the intended result, and ask who benefited". But in the real world strange secret complicated Machiavellian plots are pretty rare, and successful strange secret complicated Machiavellian plots are even rarer. So I'd be wary of applying this rule to explain big once-off events outside of fiction. (Even to HPMoR's author!) I agree Eliezer didn't seem to be trying very hard to suppress information. I think that's probably just because he's a human, and humans get angry when they see other humans defecting from a (perceived) social norm, and anger plus time pressure causes hasty dumb decisions. I don't think this is super complicated. Though I hope he'd have acted differently if he thought the infohazard risk was really severe, as opposed to just not-vanishingly-small.

0MarsColony_in10years10y

Perhaps this did generate some traffic, but LessWrong doesn't have adds. And any publicity this generated was bad publicity, since Roko's argument was far too weird to be taken seriously by almost anyone. It doesn't look like anyone benefited. Eliezer made an ass of himself. I would guess that he was rather rushed at the time.

October 2015 Media Thread

rayalez10y00

It's hard to be more specific. I just love comedy very much and it is the best I've ever seen(besides Community). It's on the level of Louis CK, and, in my personal opinion, RaM compared to other comedies is what Breaking Bad is compared to other drama.

There's no point in explaining it too deeply. Most of the episodes are officially available for free here. Watch the first 3, and then you'll either like it or not.

October 2015 Media Thread

rayalez10y60

Rick and Morty season 2 is absolutely brilliant and hilarious. If you guys haven't watched it - you should, it's amazing.

4lmm10y

Maybe be more specific/detailed?

0Artaxerxes10y

I was fairly unimpressed by the first few episodes of season 1, is season 2 significantly better?

What is your rationalist backstory?

rayalez10y00

I think that ability to understand is a part of being clever. So is knowing a lot of things, and being able to come up with unusual ideas, and being able to focus on a task for a long time, and ability to achieve goals, and many other things.

I want to create a startup.

And I also want to write awesome fiction(Rationalist sci-fi comedy. Something like Rick and Morty meets HPMOR).

What is your rationalist backstory?

rayalez10y00

I disagree. My drive to "be clever" has nothing to do with my intelligence compared to other people, it's just about my desire to push my understanding of the universe, mastery of my skills, and creativity as far as I can. I love knowing things, understanding things, and being able to create things. And being good at it is what matters to me the most. At least this is what 'being clever' means to me.

Other people are just examples of what's possible, or of what I should avoid. I really don't care whether I appear smarter than them, it is just abou... (read more)

0Lumifer10y

Maslow would probably call that "self-actualization". The desire to understand is quite different from the desire to be clever, at least as I understand these words. What kind of things do you want to create?

What is your rationalist backstory?

rayalez10y40

I have always loved intelligence and creativity. When I was about 12 years old, I have discovered 3D computer graphics, and got addicted to it - learning, understanding, and creating things was the most fun thing I have ever experienced.

As I got older, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I want out of life and what are my values. After thinking for a long time and reading books like "Atlas Shrugged" and "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", I have identified that "being clever" is my main drive in life, my mai... (read more)

1Lumifer10y

"Being clever" is not a goal. It's just the state where you are (or you look) smarter than people around you. That doesn't seem to be a worthwhile aim in life.