I didn't read it but trust your assessment that Is Being Sexy For Your Homies was very male-POV. I also agree that LW is male-skewed in general. But I don't think (the way you describe) Being Sexy is representative of the way LW is male-skewed. I think it's more accurate to say most posts (but not Being Sexy) are aiming for some aspect X, and X tends to appeal to men more than women.
Some things in the cluster of X: systematizing, high-decoupling, math-ey.
I loved the old mealsquares but have been very disappointed in version 2.0. They're similar to Tend bars, nutritionally dense but not filling.
are you correcting for the year the test was taken? The SAT grading has shifted dramatically over time.
A conversation I had in 2021
Them: Man I wish I could do X, it's so much more valuable then what I'm doing right now, but I can't.
Me: But could you though?
I'd forgotten this, but in 2023 they came up to thank me because they were doing X, were pleased with the choice, and assigned me some credit for it. I've heard other people spontaneously praise project X, without knowing I'd been involved in any way.
It's also very common for seeing someone at a conference to move them along the path of hiring me. Rarely from 0-> hired, but maybe from 0-> idea, or from "been meaning to"->hired, or something in the middle.
short answer: no. Possibly because of hepcidin.
I'm having trouble parsing but I think the first point is about the mutation rate in humans? I don't expect that to be informative about flu virus except as a floor.
This post was hard for me to read. A few months after I wrote it I developed medical issues that are still ongoing and really sapped my ability to work. Right now I feel on the precipice of developing Large Scale Ambitions, and that I'd probably have taken the plunge to something bigger if I'd hadn't gotten so sick for so long.
On the other hand, I spent the past 2 years trying to dramatically reform Effective Altruism. I expected to quit in May but got sucked back in via my work with Timothy TL. I didn't think of this as ambitious, but looking back I do find it ridiculous that I thought I would succeed, which is kind of like ambition except I'm not having any fun with it.
I remain really happy with the "dear self" format. Most advice is advice to your past self anyway, and it's nice to be straightforward about it. It avoids friction with people very different from me, because they can't argue that that they know better for me personally.
I like the balance I struck between treating social motivations as real and important, and encouraging people to look beyond them.
You might also enjoy my twitter thread on Frying Pan Agency, where you start with small actions like fixing a wobbly frying pan handle and work your way up.
Still no answer to "how do you tell when to release subpar work and when to keep improving?”. I have a sense I should be working on my ceiling and not my floor right now, but don't know how.
Thank you for the explanation.
Is there a reason you deflected when I originally asked about AI assistance? To me that's a much bigger deal than the AI assistance itself.
Just pushes the trust problem down a level. Lots of recruiting firms advertise positions that don't exist so that they have resumes "just in case"