I haven’t, but I’ll take a look. I appreciate the recommendation!

I wouldn’t say I have a good grasp on Nutrition either. But spent a bit of time last year making sure I could parry any uncomfortable comments about my nutrition my family might make because of my veganism.

It seems the main thing is B12. Even the hard core vegan types, who don’t want to give an inch to the “other side”will admit this one is necessary. That makes me believe it really is.

What I’ll say in this next paragraph might be very wrong. If someone sees this and can call me on anything I’m wrong about, I’d love that.

Before going vegan I took fish oil. That’s because I’d heard Omega 3 was “beneficial for brain function”. That carried over when I went vegan, but I mostly ate walnuts as my source. Then I learnt that there are 3 Omega 3 Acids. (I should have noticed my confusion about that “3”, but I was not a rationalist at the time). I then learnt that ALA gets converted into EPA or another chemical. So by skipping ALA and going straight to DHA you potentially don’t lose anything.

Looking back on this, I think when I’m nearing the end of my current DHA supply I might need to take another look at Omega 3 and its functions. Something about it still feels a little off.

I’d like to see people who are more informed than I am have a conversation about this. Maybe at Less.online?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zAqqeXcau9y2yiJdi/can-we-build-a-better-public-doublecrux

Only bc I’m vegan. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be supplementing it.

I wish I could say I had a more accurate model. But my understanding doesn’t go deeper than DHA = Myelin = Faster processing

Was this purely a question? Or is there something I should look into here?

This seems incredibly interesting to me. Googling “White-boarding techniques” only gives me results about digitally shared idea spaces. Is this what you’re referring to? I’d love to hear more on this topic.

That’s an important point I neglected. I mean something like “the top LW post on the list would have the most links from other LW posts”

For example, I’d expect “More Dakka” would be high up on the list. Since it is mentioned in LW posts quite often.

Maybe I could even write a sequence on this?

Note to self, write a post about the novel akrasia solutions I thought up before becoming a rationalist.

• Figuring out how to want to want to do things
• Personalised advertising of Things I Wanted to Want to Do
• What I do when all else fails

Oh, it’s nothing exciting. Here are the changes I’ve made since last time.

• Started taking longer morning walks and doing yoga
• No Tv of YouTube, so that the guitar is like a super stimuli
• Taking DHA algae powder instead of relying on walnuts for ALA, that converts to EPA, that converts to DHA and forms myelin sheaths in the brain
• Spaced repetition
• playing before bed
• not cramming practice sessions. Instead playing for 20-30 minutes at a time.

This was interesting for me. I’m currently learning the guitar and am torn between continuing or not. It is fun, but there is only a certain amount I can use my hands before I get RSI on any given day.

Besides for figuring out the limits of my hands, which has helped some with developing a better stretching routine. I haven’t had any major improvements in my life because of it.

I did notice that I learned much quicker than I have in the past when I’ve tried to learn instruments. Which tells me that my current character build optimisation towards learning and memory is working. That was a good data point to update on.

It sounds like you’re having a lot of fun though, and your brain sees music differently to mine. I hope it continues to be rewarding for a long time!