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If you have energy for this, I think it would be insanely helpful!

Thanks for writing this. I think it's all correct and appropriately nuanced, and as always I like your writing style. (To me this shouldn't be hard to talk about, although I guess I'm a fairly recent vegan convert and haven't been sucked into whatever bubble you're responding to!)

Thanks for doing this! These results may affect my supplementation strategy.

My recent blood tests (unrelated to this blog post) -- if you have any thoughts on them let me know, I'd be curious what your threshold for low-but-not-clinical is.

  • Hemoglobin - 14.8 g/dL
  • Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy - 32.7 ng/mL
  • Vitamin B12 - 537 pg/mL

(I have other results I can send you privately if you want, from comp metabolic panel + cbc + lipid panel + D + B12; but didn't think to ask for iron. Is it worth going back to ask for this? or might iron be under a name I don't recognize?)

I'm vegan and have been solidly for > 1 year. Generally feel good, no particular fatigue except sleepiness after I eat carbs for lunch. I supplement B12, omega-3 EPA+DHA algae oil, creatine and occasional D3 gummies.

Tim Urban's new book, What's Our Problem, is out as of yesterday. I've started reading it and it's good so far, and very applicable to rationality training. waitbutwhy.com

Excited about this!

Points of feedback:

  1. I don't like to have to scroll my screen horizontally to read the comment. (I notice there's a lot of perfectly good unused white space on the left side; comments would probably fit horizontally if you pushed everything to the left!)
  2. Sometimes when you mouse over the side-comment icon, it tries to scroll the page to make the comment readable. This is very surprising and makes me lose my place.
  3. Hovering over the icon makes the comment appear briefly. If I then want to scroll in order to read the comment, there seems to be no way to 'stay hovered' -- I have to click and toggle it, to make the comment stick around so I can actually read it. (This plus being forced to scroll the screen makes the hover feature kind of useless.)

Overall, feeling optimistic though, and will probably use this.

I think your argument is wrong, but interestingly so. I think DL is probably doing symbolic reasoning of a sort, and it sounds like you think it is not (because it makes errors?)

Do you think humans do symbolic reasoning? If so, why do humans make errors? Why do you think a DL system won't be able to eventually correct its errors in the same way humans do?

My hypothesis is that DL systems are doing a sort of fuzzy finite-depth symbolic reasoning -- it has capacity to understand the productions at a surface level and can apply them (subject to contextual clues, in an error-prone way) step by step, but once you ask for sufficient depth it will get confused and fail. Unlike humans, feedforward neural nets can't think for longer and churn step by step yet; but if someone were to figure out a way to build a looping option into the architecture then I won't be surprised to see DL systems which can go a lot further on symbolic reasoning than they currently do.

What is Pop Warner in this context? I have googled it and it sounds like he was one of the founders of modern American football, but I don't understand what it is in contrast to. Is there some other (presumably safer) ruleset?

(Inside-of-door-posted hotel room prices are called "rack rates" and nobody actually pays those. This is definitely a miscommunication.)

I am guilty of being a zero-to-one, rather than one-to-many, type person. It seems far easier and more interesting to me, to create new forms of progress of any sort, rather than convincing people to adopt better ideas.

I guess the project of convincing people seems hard? Like, if I come up with something awesome that's new, it seems easier to get it into people's hands, rather than taking an existing thing which people have already rejected and telling them "hey this is actually cool, let's look again".

All that said, I do find this idea-space intriguing partly thanks to this post - it makes me want to think of ways of doing more one-to-many type stuff. I've been recently drawn into living in DC and I think the DC effective altruism folks are much more on the one-to-many side of the world.

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