"I'm uncomfortable being in the same company of invited author guests as Cremieux... I do not want to be a special guest at the same event he's a special guest at."

Reading between the lines, it seems the crux might be that you don't want to risk the reputational consequences of being featured alongside Cremieux as an Invited Author? (correct me if I'm wrong!)

If that's the case, would you attend if the organizers removed your handle from the public list of invitees? Or would you still not want to attend as a regular guest as long as he's distinguished as an Invited Author?

yes, I've been subscribed since December and no emails, checked spam too :)

I fiddled with it some more and it looks like the "You need to verify your email address to enable email notifications." field might not be updating. I've verified a couple times, reaching the "Your email has been verified" screen, but the instruction to send a verification link persists on refresh. Maybe that's the issue?

I double checked my notification settings and everything seems in order. I have "Posts/events in groups I'm subscribed to" set to notify me on-site and by email

"If you'd like to get notified of future events, you can subscribe to our meetup below to get an email whenever we add another one."

fwiw I'm subscribed and I haven't received any emails. I tried verifying my email and fiddling with notification settings and haven't been able to fix it

"We'll probably display this until the New Year"

I'd guess plenty are planning to donate after Jan 1st for tax reasons, so perhaps best to keep highlighting the donation drive through the first week of Jan.

Also I donated $1,000. Lightcone's works have brought me a lot of direction and personal value over the years, so I'm happy I'm able to lend some support now

At least in California, pay-for-use toilets are uncommon in part because they're illegal

I'd add the best in class drug testing resource: sending a sample to https://drugsdata.org/

GC/MS equipment can distinguish hundreds of substances and report all present, even trace contaminants. Far superior to at-home reagent kits or test strips.

More generally, I find it troubling that you relegated drug testing resources to an appendix, and there only linked to weak at-home kits and a lab providing infrared spectroscopy (much less sensitive than GC/MS). Relatedly, your description of street ketamine as "usually pretty pure" comes off as flippant. It makes me feel you don't have the reader's safety in mind, which in turn makes me trust your recommendations much less.

I read his thesis as

1. FB use reduces the effectiveness of AI safety researchers and
2. the techniques in the CFAR handbook can help people resist attention hijacking schemes like FB, therefore
3. a FB group for EAs is a high leverage place to spread the CFAR handbook

I got an Email that said it will be Dec 17th

Has a date been set for the 2022 event? Wondering if I'll be in the bay day-of or traveling for Christmas

I tried to sketch a toy problem with tune-able “factorizability”

Draw n samples each from two equivariant normal distributions with different means a and b. The task is to estimate the median of the 2n combined samples.

If a << b it factorizes completely - the network just needs to estimate max(A) and min(B) and in the last step output their midpoint. As we move a and b closer together more and more comparisons across A and B are important for accuracy, so the problem is partially factorizable. When a = b the problem doesn’t (naively) factorize at all.

(I assume small enough neural networks can’t find the fancy recursive solution*, so the circuit complexity will behave like the number of comparisons in the naive algorithm.)

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians