The personal web page of Benjamin Weinstein-Raun.
This post was originally published on LessWrong . This is a synthesis of many facts I’ve learned over the last few years, mainly about metabolism and exercise, 1 that have helped me become much healthier, and might help you. It’s focused mainly on “basic” models that, in my opinion, high school health class ought to cover (though mine emphatically did not). Because of various personality diso ……
A man walked down the road, heedless of the beggers asking him to change. He sat down at a place where he could sip a hot drink, and rest. Next down the road came Jack Rabbit, lean and lithe and fierce. Jack Rabbit carried a staff made of ash wood, and he swung it as he walked. The man was afraid of Jack Rabbit. The staff was beautiful. It was just the right length, and heavy. Jack Rabbit swung it…
A personal touchstone that has felt salient as I’ve engaged with glosso over the last few months, is the extent to which some people seem “weird” / “off-distribution”. There are all kinds of personality typing / psychometrics systems. Ways of clustering people, or decomposing personalities into axes. I think that there are some people, maybe even most people, who are “well-described” by their…
People are building nonhuman things that look on track to surpass all humans in all economically relevant intellectual capabilities. They will also be cheaper to deploy than humans (who cost 0.5kg of oxygen and 2000kcal of (at least) protein and fats per day, plus a laundry list of micronutrients, and need to be kept within some pretty specific conditions in order to be productive; all told on the…
I have a few slightly unorthodox takes about health. Sometimes people want to know about them even though my actual health should probably not inspire much confidence. So here they are. Teeth I think it’s good to use a vibrating toothbrush. I use one of the cheapest Sonicare brushes (the 4100). It cost $30 and has lasted me a couple years so far. The first time I went to the dentist for a cleaning…
Yesterday as I drove from Berkeley to San Diego, I listened to the audiobook “The Power of Now”, by Eckhart Tolle. 1 I felt deeply drawn to several aspects of the book, which rang true to me and felt extremely promising as frames to adopt in my life. Here are some notes I took after I had finished the book: There is no choice in when to be or what’s here. The only choices are in what to attend to,…
I am in a bookstore looking for poems, but find that I am disgusted by poets and poem people, the literati, the literate. There once was a dude from Nantucket eating xir curds and whey Dear Liza a hole in my bucket Did xir Catullus walk that way?