JhanicManifold
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JhanicManifold
1yr ago
oh, I was a bit confused by those questions, I answered yes for the physics ones because I took grad courses in those subjects. Was the expectation that rats would say they "know how to design nanotechnology" from just reading the sequences or something?
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
yep, got a 25.38 score, which makes me HighRat too
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
Do you think it would be worth getting on PEDs?
It might be, if you estimate that increases in your social desirability would do more for your happiness than the decreases from possible steroid side-effects. If you start taking steroids, you better do a shit-ton of research first on endocrinology, maybe freeze your sperm before you do this if you really want kids later on (you can still have kids, but you need what's called a "post-cycle therapy" to make your body restart producing testosterone on your own). And be aware that once you start steroids, you're basically committing yourself to a lifetime of TRT. Be aware that you could get enlarged organs, really fucking bad acne on your body, small testicles, high blood pressure, weird mood swings, etc. But it still might be worth it for you.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
Unless you squat truly tiny amounts, your form with a broomstick and your form with your real 5RM weight will be completely different. Last time I tried squatting with a broomstick I fell backwards and couldn't go down to anything close to my usual depth. I'd suggest filming yourself again with your real working weight.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
Yes, I've changed my personality quite a bit over the years. One other thing that I was very surprised by is just how much being jacked affords you social leeway. I've been losing weight recently, slowly revealing the muscles I've built over the past 8 years of gym training, and I can literally perceive the difference in social treatment that each additional 10lbs lost makes. I'm planning on writing a longer post on that once I get to where I want to be.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
I don't think it matters as long as you don't buy really large quantities with the intention of selling them.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
You can laugh at me if we're all still alive in 2033 if the reason we're still alive is that AI safety turned out to be a nothingburger. To give a sense of how ridiculous progress has been, the start of the deep learning revolution was in 2012, 11 years ago now...
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
"I see my car is heading towards a cliff, once I start to fall, either I die an inevitable relatively painless death, or I survive. The first option is not worth thinking about, therefore I should plan for the second..."
You're right that AI safety rules won't stop a 10000 IQ machine from killing us if it wants to... But the whole point of AI safety is making it not want to kill us, just like you shouldn't drive over cliffs.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
That mostly depends on how LLMs end up doing on scientific discovery. If they end up being shit at it, then I agree with you, but if they don't, we get the land of milk and honey (or the one of bone and dust) pretty quickly.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
The physical earth is not black.
...right, that's not what the "black-body spectrum" refers to. All macroscopic objects at finite temperature emit radiation with a temperature-dependent spectrum that we call "black body radiation". The human body, coffee mugs, hot steel rods, etc. are all very far from black in color, yet the radiation they emit is all extremely well predicted by the black body spectrum.
In fact, the greenhouse effect is basically just saying that a blacker earth would be hotter, and a more reflective earth would be cooler. If the earth is very reflective, only a small portion of the sun's rays will be absorbed, so the earth's surface will radiate heat until it gets to a temperature where the absorbed energy is equal to the black-body emitted energy. Same thing in reverse if the earth starts absorbing a greater fraction of the sun's energy.
Please study more high school physics before proclaiming you've found a glaring error in a century-old physics phenomenon.
Climate change might not be happening, and even if it is happening it might very well basically be a nothingburger for human civilisation... but these have nothing to do with the rock-solid fundamental physics of the greenhouse effect.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
I think instead of reading the documentation of libraries I'd try to read the main books on the theory, but only reading the first part of every chapter and very lightly skimming the rest, doing none of the exercises. Like, you understand what an integral is within like 30 minutes of having the problem stated to you, and the best ressources to be introduced to the problem are still the textbooks, they just happen to come with hundreds of pages you don't need. When I first learned ML I just spent 2 days reading Murphy's 2012 book without worrying about any of the details, I just wanted to get a small introduction to literally every method so that I could get a sort of mental picture of the entire field.
The problem with only knowing the theory so shallowly is that you're kind of brittle to modifications and expansions of the problem statement. Like, how would you solve the following problem: you have a company that has an industrial process with 10 free parameters, and they have a yield function F(x) : R^10 -> R that they want to maximize, but the exact physics if the process is unknown or very complicated. Each trial run to compute F(x) costs 1 million dollars (and of course F(x) has some unknown variance), so so far they only have around 30 data points {x_i, F(x_i)}. Your job is to advise them on how to pick the next point x_i to try in order to maximize their profits (which increase with yield, but decrease with additional suboptimal trials). And what if F(x) is nonstationary? Maybe the machines degrade over time, and the optimal parameters change...
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
For optimization the most used textbooks is Nocedal's "Numerical Optimization", which proves most results. For operations research Hillier and Lieberman's "Introduction to Operations Research" is what you need, really big book that basically covers the whole field in moderate depth and can be used as a launching pad to search for more info, the math requirements are lower here than for Nocedal.
Good luck!
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
ah, true, having high SMV does seem to reduce the cringe factor of all your comments, there is no real escape from the "step 1: be attractive, step 2: don't be unattractive" meme. There's no real solution apart from going to the gym.
yes, you will have to lie for those conversations, or say stuff like "only pain will come out of this discussion, I don't want to know your past, and you don't want to know mine". Also increase your SMV so that no one would actually expect you to be a virgin. Go to the gym, get good clothes, haircut, etc. etc.
Or:
Her: "Do you have a girlfriend?"
You: "well, it kind of depends on your definition... but I don't kiss-and-tell smirk "
You haven't exactly said you did or didn't have a girlfriend, and now you're letting her imagine wild scenarios on her own. Mystery is always more useful than just saying the truth.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
if anything hardcore meditation made me way more sensitive to noise, especially after retreats or very long sessions. It's just that it also gave me the tools to be okay with discomfort, so it's kind of 50-50 here.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
I have a hard time believing that diet efficacy is much greater than zero given that a large percentage of people diet and obesity is only increasing. Is it possible for dieting to have negative efficacy? Perhaps.
It might be the case that the obesity rates would be increasing even faster if people weren't dieting. In this scenario whatever bad stuff is causing obesity is steadily increasing with time, and dieting is working against the bad stuff, just not fast enough.
There will be no better return on hours spent studying in your entire academic career than for the hours you spend preparing for the SAT. You should prepare as if a substantial portion of your future depends on it... because it does.
edit: to be explicit, you should be fucking breathing, drinking and eating SAT practice exams from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to sleep, from now until the day of your exam.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
The stuff that actually works is minoxidil, finasteride, and scalp needling (don't use a derma roller, use a needling pen like this ). All of these only stave off the shedding, you have to continue treatment indefinitely if you want to keep your hair. I'd suggest starting with some combination of minoxidil+needling until the point where you feel confident enough to just go bald.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
I have to say, it's incredible how well semaglutide is working for me. Literally the only effect I notice is a massive decrease in general hunger and a massive increase in how full I feel after every meal, with no side-effects that I can notice. No more desire to go buy chocolate bars each time I pass by a convenience store. No more finishing a 12 incher from subway and still looking for stuff to eat. No more going to sleep hungry. The other day at subway I finished half of my sandwich and was absolutely amazed to find out that I didn't especially want to eat the second half. To be clear, I still get hungry, it's just that my hunger levels now automatically lead to me eating 2000 calories per day, instead of my old 3500.
I'm simultaneously amazed that I finally found the solution that I've been looking for, and angry at the prevalent "willpower hypothesis of weight loss" that I've been exposed to my whole life. I spent a decade trying to diet with difficulty set on nightmare mode, and now that my hunger signalling seems to have been reset to normal levels, I realise just how trivial it is to be skinny for people with normal hunger levels. All the people who teased me in high school didn't somehow have more willpower than me, they were fucking playing on easy mode!
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
If you're in canada, you can just order shrooms online, though you'll have to pay by interac transfer bank-to-bank. They will arrive, and they will be real and effective. If you want to precisely dose shrooms, blend them into very small bits, then use a milligram scale to measure and make a shroom tea. That's how I do it anyway. For other psychedelics, another good source is https://my.indiamart.com/, though if you search directly on the website you won't find them, you need to go on google, and do a specific site search like "site: indiamart.com ketamine", and you'll find this close to the top links, which is just straight up a vial of ketamine. I've bought lots of stuff from indiamark, including blood pressure medications, a long-term supply of antibiotics for my disaster prep bag, semaglutide, modafinil, etc. and they've all made it past the canadian border safe and sound, and were completely effective as far as I can see, though I didn't test them in a lab.
To minimize legal risk you can also get stuff like 1P-LSD, which is different enough from LSD as to be in a legal gray area, but still a pretty potent psychedelic.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
Pinging @JhanicManifold.
Lol, I guess I have been writing a lot about how to get various psychedelics, peptides, and semaglutide.
JhanicManifold
1yr ago
I assume that the website you're getting it from is a compounding pharmacy.
Oh it's nothing so official. I don't have a prescription for semaglutide, so I've had to find sources that don't ask for it, the chinese website I linked is one such source. If you press "contact" on that website and send a message to the guy, he'll send you a whatsapp phone number, though which you chat with him about what you want, I bought 10 vials of 2mg semaglutide. Payment is through a payment processor like moneygram or wise, but in the end these are just middlemen which also accept credit cards (though there are some annoying verifications you have to go through, I had to send a picture of my drivers license).
I took a picture of what actually arrived, inside sealed packaging depicting some sort of chinese female-targeted face mask (so it better evades customs), you can see in the background the other 9 flasks.
To reconstitute it, you need to buy bacteriostatic water (I bought it from here, no need for prescription or anything). You need 2 different syringe types, the first one I use is a 1ml syringe to draw up water from the bac-water bottle and reconstitute the solution, and a second 0.3ml insulin syringe I use to actually inject. Most of the complexity of doing this water manipulation is being aware that drawing up water creates a vacuum in the bottle, so when you draw up 0.25ml in your insulin syringe, you first need to inject 0.25ml of air inside the bottle to maintain the same end-pressure. You need to also buy alcohol prep pads to clean every surface that the needle will touch (the top of all bottles, and the skin) about a minute before the needle goes in.
Semaglutide is a lot more stable than other peptides at room temperature, in lyophilized form at room temperature there was basically no degradation after a month, which means that you can keep it for a while in that form without risk. Reconstituted it's also stable at room temp for a few weeks.
Now onto the effects and protocol:
First, the main effects: this stuff has a massive, just massive dose-dependent effect on appetite. In my default state, I need to eat around 3500 calories (at my current 230lbs, around 27% body fat level) not to feel hungry going to bed. Semaglutide at the 1mg/week level made that drop to needing 2200 calories to feel completely satiated at the end of the day. It both seems to cause food to stay in my stomach longer, and cause hormone signalling to make my brain not crave food. I've lost 2 to 3 lbs per week over the past month following my current 2000cal/day diet. I did not notice any other effects apart from appetite suppression and very, very slight and infrequent nausea. I'd suggest to have a formal diet plan if you want to lose weight, and semaglutide will make it effortless for you to stick with it.
I started not with the injectable version, but with the oral version of semaglutide called Rybelsus (which I got without prescription from indiamart). The oral version has much lower bioavailability, so you need to take it everyday in the morning on an empty stomach with max 100ml of water and wait at least 30min before eating anything else, otherwise the absorption is shit. The recommendation is to start with the 3mg/day version for a month, then upgrade to 7mg/day for a month, then again to 14mg/day, at which point you can switch to an equivalent injectable dose of 0.5mg/week (this shows just how badly semaglutide is absorbed in the gut). The important thing to know is that semaglutide has a half-life of a whole week, so the equilibrium point of a 1mg/week dose is really 2mg flowing in your blood, which you get to after about a month at the same dose.
I didn't follow the recommended dosing, I did 10 days at 3mg oral, then 10 days at 7mg oral, then 2 weeks at 0.5ml/week injectable, then 2 more weeks at 1.0ml/week injectable. The whole point of going up slowly is to prevent gastrointestinal side-effects, which are by far the most reported side-effects in trials. I didn't get much stomach disruption, but I did notice that I got it more with the injectable than the oral, so I think it's the sudden spikes of semaglutide that are to blame, this made me switch to a 3x/week injection with smaller amounts, and it seems to have solved it. Insulin needle injections are nothing like the intramuscular vaccines or anything, the needle is absolutely tiny and doesn't hurt at all, like, me pinching my leg fat to create a suitable injection site hurts more than the needle going in.
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JhanicManifold
1yr ago
Yeah that's what I thought too, but they super-duper promise they accounted for confounders:
We perform a preregistered analysis of multimodal imaging data from the UK Biobank (UKB)42,43,44, which controls for numerous potential confounds.
Maybe the question should've been "have you read Drexler's Nanosystems and understood all the math?", because "nanotechnology" isn't exactly as well defined as something like quantum mechanics.
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