All of Haotian's Comments + Replies
Whether an individual develops schizophrenia, obesity, diabetes, or autism depends more on their genes (and epi-genome) than it does on any other factor.
Would appreciate a source for this assertion.
Agreed with respect to better way to teach maths. However, noting that teaching like this requires students who want to learn like this which is almost always going to be the minority. For folks interested/enjoy this perspective, I encourage you to read A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart.
The intended use case was a sounding board for rationality related questions. Imagine "Ask The Rabbi" but for LW users. I sourced the documents from the community's "Best of" collection and the model is instructed to reference specific chunks in its answer. No air purifier articles were in the original set, but it's an interesting question so I have added them to the set:
Good on you for hosting and & congrats to the winners! I've been working on an AI for epistemics tool of my own—a RAG system for LW articles. I plan to use it to get an on demand rationalist perspective. Dropping the link here if anyone wants to try but if you do please be sensible!
Yes. I have copied my shortform here in its entirety:
...LessWrong, is this rational? I wrote a reply to Elizabeth's open bid for answers to her research questions in good faith. She replies not with anything substantive, but to claim it is written with AI. I'm happy for her to disagree with my answer, but flagging a difference in style to suggest low quality is not what I thought this community was supposed to be about. Cynically, one could suggest she doesn't want to make good on her offer ... For the record, I wrote it late at night and ran the respon
I have posted this and following the advice of lesswrong members will clarify, the research was performed by me entirely late at night and passed through an LLM for readability.
You can view the original here, I believe it fulfils your criteria for being credible suggestions:
Before:
Aspirin is a credible better candidate than Tamiflu. First off safety profile because you need to weigh up risks and benefits. Short term usage (what you're interested in for acute viral infections) is associated with GI upset, but only marginally more than placebo. Th...
Thank you for your comment. I will highlight specifically which parts are my opinion in the future.
Before:
Aspirin is a credible better candidate than Tamiflu. First off safety profile because you need to weigh up risks and benefits. Short term usage (what you're interested in for acute viral infections) is associated with GI upset, but only marginally more than placebo. There are of course other considerations that should be taken into account, but for the majority of users short term usage of aspirin is safe. Special note here about the association with aspirin and Reye's syndrome in children, the incidence of this is extremely low, but it is wort...
To me, since LessWrong has a smart community that attracts people with high standards and integrity, by default if you (a median LW commenter) write your considered opinion about something, I take that very seriously and assume that it's much, much more likely to be useful than an LLM's opinion.
So if you post a comment that looks like an LLM wrote it, and you don't explain which parts were the LLM's opinion and which parts were your opinion, then that makes it difficult to use it. And if there's a norm of posting comments that are partly unmarked LLM opini...
For the record, I wrote it late at night and ran the response through an LLM to improve readability for her benefit.
This is IMO generally considered bad form on LW. Please clearly mark whether an LLM was involved in writing a comment, if the final content is not something that genuinely reflects your own voice and writing style and you hold it to the same standard as your own writing. Like, it's OK to iterate on a paragraph or two with an LLM without marking that super prominently, but if you have a whole comment which clearly is a straightforward copy-paste from an LLM, that should get you downvoted (and banned if you do it repeatedly).
“Xofluza is more effective than Tamiflu but I can’t find anywhere to buy it online”
- Both drugs are prescription-only medications so you would need a valid prescription to access it. Telehealth would suffice for prescription and online pharmacies can home deliver.
If I get more time later today I will update this comment.
I would update positively on your belief that gargling improved absorption. Route of administration is an extremely undervalued consideration by clinicians and patients when prescribing medication. Oral medication via pills need to pass through many more layers (GI tract, first pass metabolism in the liver) before it reaches your circulation by then effects can be greatly diluted. This has implications for pill design because manufactures need to coat it with excipients and coatings to 'deliver the package' so to speak. The understanding is that patients g...
Thank you for your comment. I get what you mean. I predict with the increasingly intelligence and adoption of AI, that technical skills will become lower valued, whereas the creativity/generativity/coordination skills you refer to will take their place. I draw a comparison to how being able to "code a website" infers downtrending levels of skill today compared to 10 years ago, 20 years ... etc.
Agreed with respect to easier articulation of concepts. You may get most of the cognitive benefit in this exercise by simply familiarising yourself with Chinese idioms.