Okay, so, reporting back! Here's what I did

1. boiled for about 8 minutes
2. left to sit in the colander for a few minutes
3. shaken in colander on your advice to rough up the surface
4. placed into an iron skillet along with olive oil and herbs
5. fried while stirring frequently for maybe 20 minutes (not super exact, I didn't time this part)

And... despite some issues, they were very nearly the best potatoes I've ever made! Perfectly soft and melty inside, better than the best outcome I've had with the regular frying method. Not quite crisped enough on the outside, but that's because I made a mistake and ignored Opus's advice to put the spices in at the end. (Because the spices were in there from the start, I had to take the potatoes out of the pan before they were really done crisping, otherwise the spices would have burned.) But ohh the insides were so good, I was snacking on them while I prepared the rest of the food.

I'll try again tomorrow and see how big a difference fixing the spices makes.

I don't cook a lot of meat but this post inspired me to try applying this to potatoes. My current process for making herb fried potatoes is

1. dice them
2. cold water rinse
3. toss with olive oil and dried herbs
4. fry in iron skillet for half an hour, stirring frequently

this produces highly variable results, often over-charring the outsides by the time the inside is cooked. sometimes it comes out amazing, with the outside dark brown and the insides cooked and the herbs not burned but beyond "lower heat, stir more", I haven't been able to figure out what I was doing wrong.

After talking to opus about this a bit, I'm going to try boiling them (to cook the insides), then frying (to cook the outside). Hopefully this works more reliably than my current method (and maybe even faster too!)

I'll report back tomorrow when my potatoes arrive.

I can't believe she flipped out over room 5 (the cold war sim) but not room 2 (the primitivist sim).

ChatGPT and Claude are both happily accessing Substack articles for me, including my own. If that ever changes, remember that there is a mirror on WordPress and another on LessWrong.

Lesswrong blocks AI, although it's only a soft block through robots.txt. Try loading this article in Claude.ai with the built in web search and you'll see.

This might technically be true, and yet my experience has been consistently that higher resolution is always better. Perhaps this is just because, in the real world, higher resolution automatically implies a higher filesize (bitrate)?

(My actual strategy is "get the largest file you can at 4K, which seems to work pretty well.)

I model myself as a multiagent system, and I can do the IFS thing, and I have the Observer thing...

... but I've never thought of this as truly being multi threaded. At best I have two threads, tops, and they're clearly sharing resources in some confusing way. A lot of the time I'm effectively single threaded unless someone decides to grab some compute and interrupt me with it, or if I'm doing something that's very pure on one kind of resource.

When I'm drawing, it's very easy for me to pay attention to song lyrics, for example. Other tasks, like programming, consume all available compute and I become programmer-datawitch to the exclusion of all else until I'm done or interrupted. Writing this comment is somewhere in between, but I can't write and hold an internal conversation, sort of... most of the "writing" compute is being used here and what's left is only enough for another to interject and call me out for being slightly inaccurate. When I tried being hypnotized once, it worked on one thread and not the other, and the second thread snapped me out of it. When I'm angry it's often easy to notice that it's not useful to be angry and set it aside, but sometimes it's not.

I can follow multiple text convos at once, but only by swapping between them - trying to follow a text and a voice convo overwhelms me immediately. I can barely talk and type at the same time, and it often leads to wires getting crossed.

Being able to listen to five convos simultaneously seems like magic, I'm deeply envious.

So, I'm trans and ace and sex averse, so this is probably pretty idiosyncratic but...

From the inside, some people I click with and flirt relentlessly with. It's vaguely described by the phrase "escalating reciprocity", where the game is to match and escalate slightly above your partners level. You can be pretty direct or subtle, it doesn't really matter as long as you're synced to the other person's intensity.

Mostly it's a S1 thing; I've never tried to be good at flirting or master it so I don't even have a very good understandijg of what my S1 is picking up on when I say "intensity". It's definitely not just physical touch; most of my flirting happens online.

I tend to feel safer flirting when I know there's no chance of sex, but I am told that most people prefer to flirt when there is the chance of sex, and some have even said that's the entire point.

If I find someone I click with this way, and I wasn't ace and thus cared enough to optimize I can totally see this being a pathway to sex with an investment of a few hours. (More than yours, but a lot better than the baseline hundreds of hours.) With drugs it would probably improve even further, although it's hard to say as I generally don't do drugs and have a hard time predicting how that affects things.

I'm not sure how much difference culture makes (straight culture vs trans girl rationalist) here but it might be a lot?

Oh, I see, that makes sense. And yeah the navbar issue in particular is one I've struggled with before.

(Thank you for answering.)

This is only temporary, and although I would obviously click A, I can't help but wonder what "round two" might involve, in this game where millions of dollars are casually being handed out.

And more importantly, I would argue that once you've made a million dollars off a game you have for all intents and purposes won because now you have enormous resources to leverage in the real world, the one that matters. So the cost of losing (limited) game-leverage is fine, because you have gained so much in the game you actually care about.

they almost certainly aren't going to change, so we can toss them into a long-lived cache and not worry about it.

I'm almost certainly missing something here but...

Since the sequences aren't going to change (frequently? ever?), why not cache/prerender the whole page, or at least use nextjs's revalidate feature to cache all the fetched data? It wouldn't matter so much that the page is slow to fetch everything if it only happens periodically in the background to update the cache, and user requests are served from the cache?