It's motivating to work alongside others—but hard to do if you're working independently. Flock lets you share your todo list with friends so you can see what each other is working on in real-time. The basic idea: you manage your daily tasks, set an intention for the day, and see...
A new strain of Covid - "Covid-19 mink variant" or "Cluster 5" - has been circulating in Denmark. The Danish PM announced that twelve people are confirmed infected by the virus; Denmark has ordered the destruction of all of the country's 15million+ mink. Denmark has now imposed local lockdowns to...
IME even those with rich in-person relationships can spend hours a day scrolling. It's a sort of universal opiate.
To pick on a couple of the institutions you mentioned:
I see AoA as being mostly orthogonal to what CFAR is doing. I imagine AoA can help you become unstuck in relationships, be more honest in your dealings with others, be more comfortable with uncomfortable emotions, etc. I think this could help you become more rational in certain domains where self-knowledge/introspection is the blocker; like, if you're doing a pro/con list on whether you should break up with your partner then you're probably ignoring the bigger emotional fact that given you are making a pro/con list you should probably just break up (to give a clichéd example).
But I'm not sure it really teaches... (read more)
This was a fun quiz. I'd not come across it before!
(I ended up with high scores on both indices, but higher on the second subscore (leadership and confidence) which surprised me a little. Overall I scored 249, which Claude reckons based on the chart they provide is about +1.5 SD among extraverts.)
It's motivating to work alongside others—but hard to do if you're working independently. Flock lets you share your todo list with friends so you can see what each other is working on in real-time.
The basic idea: you manage your daily tasks, set an intention for the day, and see a live feed of what your friends are working on and completing. It scratches the same itch as co-working or body doubling, but asynchronously and from anywhere.
I've been using it while working on independent projects during my sabbatical, and seeing friends making progress genuinely helps me stay focused. It draws inspiration from the collaboration features in Intend, which some of you may know.
The... (read more)
Could LLM psychiatrists be better than meat ones?
[Not medical advice, obviously]
I had a call with my psychiatrist – the first one in about a year; I hadn’t really felt the need to see him until then – and we spoke for a scant ten minutes. I gave a one-minute description of how I was feeling, and he fiddled with the dose of a mood stabiliser I take and that was it.
No attempt to dig deeper into how I was feeling, or give me a standard questionnaire like the PHQ-9 or MADRS which would have given a numerical idea of how I was doing over time. The session cost £150 for ten minutes.
I... (read 437 more words →)
Is $15k a year typical for car insurance? In the UK it's a few hundred dollars a year at most unless you're a very young or very risky driver.
‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’ must be one of the lindiest posts on here. Well done @jsalvatier!
Thank you - this is the comment I was going to write.
Bartender at my local place wearing a loose-fitting charcoal suit (think Father John Misty): painfully cool. Robert from Industry wearing a black suit on his first day at an investment bank: totally out of place (“get a new suit, you look like fucking Neo”).
Nit: scaling up RL by 100x and inference by 10,000x would be a 1:3 OOM ratio I think
People seemed keen in taking part in a remote Inkhaven. I'll put together a loose community and run a tontine - to be split between those who post every day of November. Express interest here.
Any interest in a remote Inkhaven?
EDIT: express interest here
I love the idea of Inkhaven but don't have the cash (and am not super interested in becoming a fancy writer/researcher, but would like to write better). What about an online version - would also run during the month of November so could cadge some of the Inkhaven tailwind, but would be free and online-only.
You'd have a community of likeminded people all trying to do the same thing. We could set up a tontine; everyone chips in $50 or something and then if you've posted one thing a day for the full month you split the pool at the end.
A new strain of Covid - "Covid-19 mink variant" or "Cluster 5" - has been circulating in Denmark. The Danish PM announced that twelve people are confirmed infected by the virus; Denmark has ordered the destruction of all of the country's 15million+ mink. Denmark has now imposed local lockdowns to stop the spread of the virus.
While there's no evidence that the virus causes worse disease than other strains of coronavirus, two Danish officials have suggested that the mutant is unlikely to respond to the Covid vaccines currently in development.
I'm struggling to find any more information about the new strain. Keen to know if people have thoughts on this; at first glance this has the potential to undermine all the efforts to create a vaccine and build (limited) herd immunity thus far.
I've sometimes wondered if what can loosely be called "pickup" or "daygame" (read: talking to strangers in the day to strike up romantic connections with them) might be anti-depressive. My instinct is that you need to be in a good mood first to attempt such a thing but it's possible it's actually a big mood booster – even just offering someone a compliment and moving on.