What advice/concrete instructions would a future superintelligence send down to me that would completely transform my life

This is tricky, because there is a tradeoff between how good the advice is, and your ability to use it properly.

When I thought about an advice I could give (using some kind of time machine) to my younger self, I thought "but there is little chance that my younger self would interpret these instructions correctly". It would be cheating to post the entire Sequences. I am not sure if I could make a useful extract, especially one that cannot be easily misinterpreted by a teenager.

So similarly, if suddenly a portal opened and my older (post-Signularity?) self gave me some good advice, I would probably start screaming: "I need more details!"

Why is the number of different vegetables not exploding?

Map vs territory: are we really missing new vegetables, or only new names for vegetables? I mean, are there some things that we just call "adjective1 X" and "adjective2 X" because they appeared relatively recently, but we would have separate names "X" and "Y" for them if they appeared millennia ago?

I mean, who decides that red / yellow / green bell pepper are considered the same kind of vegetable, or white / yellow / red / purple raddish, but e.g. broccoli and cauliflower are considered different vegetables?

How exactly did we bootstrap ourselves to smaller and smaller computer hardware?

Not sure I understand the question. We started with big. But if you try making things faster, you are limited by the speed of light (or electricity) in you circuits. These days, with gigahertz speeds, it's literally centimeters. Though I am not sure whether this was the actually the first reason for computers getting smaller.

In my opinion it's pretty good, especially for a first post on a philosophical topic.

people in those cultures seem to just come to value beauty less

Is it "less" in the sense that their standards simply got higher and shifted the beauty curve, or in the sense of diminishing returns? Not sure I could operationalize this, but intuitively it feels like there is a difference between:

• this person (beautiful by other country's standard) seems repulsively ugly to me
• this person seems pretty, but so are most people, so I am looking also for some other traits

what is the unit of measurement of beauty?

Dollars per hour on OnlyFans?

This seems similar to politics. In theory, I would like a politician who is able to change their mind. In practice, if the politician changed their mind after election, about something that made me vote for them, in a way that I don't agree with (that's practically guaranteed, unless I changed my mind in the same way at the same time), I would feel betrayed.

There are other parts of my life that have taken large hits because of this project.

Yeah, "doing something" and "doing something sustainably" are two different things. I think there is some hope that with enough practice you get more efficient; or that if you get enough subscribers to generate an income, you could use that income to outsource some other time-consuming parts of your life.

The former is about your skills, but to increase your chances at the latter, you also need to promote yourself -- the easiest way is to create accounts at various social networks, and share links to your posts.

I do 'feel' I have gotten better at communicating ideas clearly, and spotting mistakes in my communications

That's amazing!

I basically require ambient music to inspire my writing.

Download the good ones.

New love is wonderful kindling for ideas. Even if your ideas don't seem to relate to love at all.

I suspect this is a general rule: if you feel that your life is on a good way, you can put more energy into your projects; otherwise your energy and attention are spent worrying about things.

I do not yet know if I will continue to post a blog post every two days, after this ends.

Perhaps once a week would be more sustainable? My first idea was to suggest every other month, but regularity is probably better for creating an audience.

I guess they do get some lessons at Inkhaven -- and if any of them is reading this: describing those lessons for the rest of us would be a simple way to meet your daily quota. ;)

I am not an expert, but if I tried to give some advice, I would try this:

1) Train your inner LLM. Choose a blogger you want to emulate. Read three of their articles. Then try to write something in the same style. Don't worry about the content, even if it is factually incorrect or whatever; it just has to look right. Compare the texts, notice the differences, try again. You could use an AI to point out the differences in style.

2) Think about different genres of writing, such as an essay, a manual, a poem, a political call; and try to write each of them. Again, an AI can generate the list for you.

3) Generally, you can ask AI to give you critique. It probably helps if it doesn't know that the texts are yours. You do not have to follow the advice if you disagree.

If one sentence from another article is relevant, it seems better to copy the sentence (and add a link to the context) than expect the reader to find the relevant sentence for themselves.

I hope you don't mind

Feel free. (This also applies to everyone else who is considering posting their blogging marathon history.)

coming up with post ideas was a slog when I was constrained by only 24 hours for research and multiple drafts

Yeah, 24 hours for research and writing are a harsh limit. I don't have a problem coming up on the spot with 30 topics I would like to write about, but each of them seems to require more than a day.

• simple manuals for software for children, something I hope could one day be used at computer science lessons: graphic editors, music editors, video editors, introductions to programming -- with one article per software, and using the recommendations from AlternativeTo, this is at least dozen articles; but I would have to install the software first, get familiar with it, and maybe decide against promoting this specific software, so I would have to install and learn more than one program a day
• following my existing "how to make computer games in Java" tutorials: a snake game (interactive animated), a shooting game (collisions, particles), a platform jumping game (platforms, various simple algorithms for enemies), a tower defense game (local menu: buying, upgrading), an RPG game (maps, dialogs, scripted events) -- but this would take a lot of time; I want to always include a demo
• math lessons for elementary and middle school students -- maybe five or ten topics, the math is not a problem, but I would have to think about the right way to explain it, and good exercises to use
• introducing the Czech tradition of constructivist math education ("the Hejný method") to English-speaking audience, because the current texts written in English on this topic are too abstract and fail to explain how it really works, so I would show specific lessons and explain why they are like that
• some crazy nerdy topics: my attempt to reverse engineer the Vlak (train) DOS game; a 100% walkthrough of Eye of the Beholder with maps and all puzzles explained

Trying to do any of this in one day (especially with a penalty for failure to meet the deadline) would feel like an unbearable compromise on quality. I understand that in some sense this is intentional -- the purpose of the blogging marathon is not to write highest possible quality; it is specifically to produce quantity. Because if you have the internal drive for quality, this exercise can help you overcome some mental blocks, and then you will find your own way which includes both high quality and a greater quantity than you had before.

Perhaps a smart approach would be to make a new pseudonymous blog for the purpose of the marathon, write the low-quality articles there, and when the marathon is over, rewrite them to the desired quality on your official blog. Threat the marathon content as a prototype that you will later throw away.

That can't be the entire answer. If the situation was merely: "There is a person much smarter than Eliezer in approximately the same dimensions, let's call them Eliezer2, but Eliezer is incapable of understanding that Eliezer2 is smarter than him because he judges smartness by similarity of opinion", we still could see things such as Eliezer2 creating LessWrong2, starting a Rationality2 movement, etc. But there is no such thing.

This is about multidimensionality. It is not a problem to beat Eliezer in one specific dimension. It is a problem to find someone who could replace him, i.e. who would be comparable to him in all relevant dimensions.

This is not about scale or about bragging. You can have multiple people (actually the entire point is that there are many such people) who couldn't replace each other, like e.g. Eliezer couldn't replace Steve Jobs at Steve-Jobs-tasks, but also Steve Jobs couldn't replace Eliezer at Eliezer-tasks. You lose one of those people (to an accident, or simply to old age), the world loses something.

This is counter-intuitive from certain perspective, because you would expect that among the eight billions, there certainly must be someone very close to Eliezer or Steve Jobs only younger, who could easily replace them. But it doesn't work that way, because of the multidimensionality. You can find many people who are just as impressive or even more, but you can't find good replacements.