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Thoughts I had while reading your comment

with absolutely no indication of neuroticism

Indirect lessons from human alignment

On doing what evolution wants us to do

So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂

You face certain challenges

Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?

An essay that may or may not reach a firm conclusion

Does creatine make you smarter?

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

Pseudpocalypse

Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.

Life with hazard ratios

How to discount your expectations

Blink if you’re human

Or human-ish

The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism

Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”?

(Yes, but.)

What’s with all the slide decks?

a polycausal theory

You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller

acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

I quit drinking for a year

out of spite

LLMs predict my coffee

Why not benchmark with physical experiments?

The modern formatting addiction in writing

thinking and bluffing

Maybe there’s a pattern here?

Inventors and impacts

Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different

ratios will be ratios

Why read novels?

best life in category of achievable lives

Good if make prior after data instead of before

because truth is many

Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities

an uncontrollable need

Underrated reasons to be thankful V

even more

Make product worse, get money

It's so easy

Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts

Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?

Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine

Links and comments

Will the explainer post go extinct?

yeah probably

Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments

let me tell you a story about aliens

Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples

valid blog topics that I have used for blog purposes

Dear PendingKetchup

Some comments on your comment

You can try to like stuff

it offers lessons on your nature

I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion

I was persuaded