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Future Whey, sold in Australia by Bulk Nutrients. One small correction: it also has extra BCAAs mixed in (the idea being a large surplus of BCAAs signals muscle protein synthesis more strongly)
You can get a generic EAA powder in other markets, it's just not clear to the typical consumer that it counts as a protein powder.
Hello, u/Adhiraj and I independently did some research and the only good source of methionine we found is brazil nuts, which of course you probably don't want to eat much of since they can give you selenium poisoning.
The conventional wisdom is to just eat more protein to compensate for the poor amino acid balance, but you're going to be eating a lot, so I prefer to supplement methionine.
I have adding methionine in meals I cook and adding it to the plant based protein powder I use, precisely measuring how much I add. You can get individual amino acid supplements from iHerb and some larger health food shops.
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Some thoughts as someone who has been eating plant-based for the past year and who thinks about the ethics constantly for fun:
There's an analogy being drawn between the power of a hypothetical advanced alien civilization and the power of a superintelligent AI. If you agree that the hypothetical AI would be more powerful, and that an alien civilization capable of travelling to Earth would be a threat, then it follows that superintelligent AI is a threat.
I think most people here are in agreement that AI poses a huge risk, but are differ on how likely it is that we're all going to die. A 20% chance we're all going to die is very much worth trying to mitigate sensibly, and the OP says still it's worth trying to mitigate a 99.9999% chance of human extinction in a similarly level-headed manner (even if the mechanics of doing the work are slightly different at that point).
Given how long it took me to conclude whether these were Eliezer's true thoughts or a representation of his predicted thoughts in a somewhat probable future, I'm not sure whether I'd use the label "candid" to describe the post, at least without qualification.
While the post does contain a genuinely useful way of framing near-hopeless situations and a nuanced and relatively terse lesson in practical ethics, I would describe the post as an extremely next-level play in terms of its broader purpose (and leave it at that).
I think I'm more motivated by the thought that I am going to die soon, any children I might have in the future will die soon, my family, my friends, and their children are going to die soon, and any QALYs I think I'm buying are around 40% as valuable as I thought, more than undoing the income tax deduction I get for them.
It seems like wrangling my ADHD brain into looking for way to prevent catastrophe could be more worthwhile than working a high-paid job I can currently hyper-focus on (and probably more virtuous, too), unless I find that the probability of success is literally 0% despite what I think I know about Bayesian reasoning, in which case I'll probably go into art or something.
Why the interest in a Dutch translation? Virtually every well-educated native Dutch speaker is also able to speak and read English very well and (low confidence in the following suggestion) there might even be a broad preference for the original English for non-fiction works on technical topics amongst native Dutch speakers.
Is it just for completeness since the publisher is going to produce a Dutch translation of the book regardless?