There's sort of a general "digestive issues are the root of all anxiety/evil" thread I've seen pop up in a bunch of rationalist-adjacent spaces:
I'm curious if there's any synthesis / study / general theory of this.
As my own datapoint, I've had pretty bad digestive issues, trouble eating, and ahedonia for a while. I recently got to do a natural experiment when I accidentally left my milk out. Since I've cut milk, I've felt much better (though not perfect) on all counts. So I'm probably lactose intolerant (though I never really noticed a correlation between my symptoms and milk consumption).
Probably worth checking if there are any easy fixes to your digestive issues if you have them.
cure Eliezer's chronic fatigue so he can actually attempt to
grant humanity a couple more bits of information-theoretic dignitysave the world
Possibly relevant: I know someone who had chronic fatigue syndrome which largely disappeared after she had her first child. I could possibly put her in contact with Eliezer or someone working on the problem.
[Meta] The jump from Distinct Configurations to Collapse Postulates in the Quantum Physics and Many Worlds sequence is a bit much - I don't think the assertiveness of Collapse Postulates is justified without a full explanation of how many worlds explains things. I'd recommend adding at least On Being Decoherent in between.
I am a first year CS PhD student at Cornell, and interested (though not currently working on it). I will DM you.
Personal data point: I tried this last night, and had 4 vivid and intense nightmares. This is not a usual experience for me.