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Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible

If anyone is interested, I'm working on conducting small-scale, informal random and controlled trials for various nootropics that improve neuroplasticity and IQ, from dihexa to anthocyanin. The medicine I want to test has documented effects, but I want to gather more data on what mental subskills they improve performance on the most and how strong the effect is.

In order to aid recruitment, every participant will get to take the intervention, just in a staggered order.

I have several people who've agreed to participate. However, I've paused the initiative to focus on other projects. Let me know if you want to take over as lead researcher! The mesh will thank you.

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         group 1     group 2     group 3  
phase 1:active       control     control
phase 2:control      control     active
phase 3:control      active      active
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Operations research (such as queuing theory) can be viewed as a branch of complex systems theory that has a track record of paying rent by yielding practical results in supply chain and military logistics management

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Queuing theory: Benefits of operating at 60% capacity

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Related to Slack. Related to Lean Manufacturing, aka JIT Manufacturing.

TL;DR A successful task-based system should sometimes be idle, like 40% of worker ants.

Doing tasks quickly is essential for producing value in many systems. For software teams, delivering a feature gives valuable insight into user needs, which can improve future feature quality. For supply chains, faster delivery releases capital for reinvestment. However, the relationship between capacity utilized and service time is exponential, as shown by the diagram below.

Stochastic arrivals mean it's better to sometimes have idle capacity, so that the system is quickly ready for when tasks arrive in droves.

A heuristic we can derive from queuing theory is that the optimal balance between... (read more)

Researchers and writers can apply for proxy access to the GPT-3.5 base model (code-davinci-002)

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AI safety researchers and creative writers can apply for proxied access to the GPT-3.5 base model through, also known as code-davinci-002.

Publicly available base models include "davinci-002" (the text-davinci-xxx models are not base models) and cohere's "xlarge" model.

I recommend interacting with language models using janus' loom. One such implementation of it by parafactual is Loomsidian. In brief, the Loom is a tool for generating multiple continuations of a prompt and organizing them in a tree. The Loom babbles, and you prune its continuations. It allows for creative exploration of questions with multiple answers.

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Queuing theory: Benefits of operating at 60% capacity

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Queuing theory: Benefits of operating at 60% capacity

Researchers and writers can apply for proxy access to the GPT-3.5 base model (code-davinci-002)

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Rapid Coordination Field Manual