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8Elizabeth's Shortform
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21FTX, Golden Geese, and The Widow’s Mite
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44Ketamine part 2: What do in vitro studies tell us about safety?
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226Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus
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40Podcast: Lincoln Quirk from Wave
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25Ketamine Part 1: Dosing
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25What do you Want out of Literature Reviews?
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67Literature Review: Risks of MDMA
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21Ivan Gayton: A Right and a Duty
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79Bandwidth Rules Everything Around Me: Oliver Habryka on OpenPhil and GoodVentures
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83How people use LLMs
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30 Days of Retatrutide
Elizabeth5d20

Some people think drugs like retatrutide have an effect on motivation [...]

 

Is there a reason you frame this as motivation and not energy? There's a solid mechanistic reason to expect more energy.

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Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming
Elizabeth6d30

I mix cricket, whey, or liver powder into smoothies. You don't need a lot to 80/20 the benefits. 

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Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming
Elizabeth10d214

Your own screenshot shows that  pescatarians do better than vegans (not statistically significant, but neither is the difference between vegans and omnivores). And if you break it down by sex (and continue to ignore statistical significance), veganism is the worst choice for women after unconstrained omnivorism

 

More of my opinion of this study here.

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Elizabeth's Shortform
Elizabeth12d160

"Rocks for jocks" isn't a stereotype because geology is easy. It's a stereotype because rocks are heavy and field sites are far away. 

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Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus
Elizabeth12d30

My sense is that for almost all funders, money is viewed as an input with which to save souls, rather than a terminal goal like it is for VCs. Which isn't to say there aren't financial abuses, but they genuinely feel like a departure from form, rather than especially obvious cases of something everyone is doing. 

With non-denominational churches, funders can't sack the planter, they can just decline future funding. It's not impossible they could fund a hostile takeover, but early church plants are such cults of personality with so little in assets that it wouldn't really make sense to do so- you'd rather just found another planter who can start his own cult of personality (who might buy the sound system off a failed plant). As churches get bigger there will generally be a board who might have the power to fire the pastor, and denominational churches are either subject to control by the denomination or have a board with firing power from the beginning. 

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The Problem with Defining an "AGI Ban" by Outcome (a lawyer's take).
Elizabeth14d*1110

what are you noticing that smells like LLM? I only skimmed, but I didn't see anything that tripped my radar, and lawyer talk can sound a lot like LLM talk.

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Elizabeth's Shortform
Elizabeth16d20

sure, but the fact that that's a really reasonable algorithm would not have saved the co-workers from the consequences of merging with the probably-predatory company, in the world where the company didn't happen to have an employee with the perfect anecdote. 

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Elizabeth's Shortform
Elizabeth17d9951

Listening to people demand more specifics from If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies gives me a similar feeling to when a friend’s start-up was considering a merger.

Friend got a bad feeling about this because the other company clearly had different goals, was more sophisticated than them, and had an opportunistic vibe. Friend didn't know how specifically other company would screw them, but that was part of the point- their company wasn't sophisticated enough to defend themselves from the other one.

Friend fought a miserable battle with their coworkers over this. They were called chicken little because they couldn’t explain their threat model, until another employee stepped in with a story of how they'd been outmaneuvered at a previous company in exactly the way friend feared but couldn't describe. Suddenly, co-workers came around on the issue. They ultimately decided against the merger.

“They’ll be so much smarter I can’t describe how they’ll beat us” can feel like a shitty argument because it’s hard to disprove, but sometimes it’s true. The debate has to be about whether a specific They will actually be that smart.

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Does My Appearance Primarily Matter for a Romantic Partner?
Answer by ElizabethSep 15, 2025*124

It will help get early dates, but it also sets a tone for what they should expect in the future. 

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johnswentworth's Shortform
Elizabeth23d106

if the problem is with the receptor, taking more won't make a difference

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