dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I've had a journey on this issue. I was getting charlie horses in both fucking legs while hiking. Turned out it was caused by creatine.
My doctor was pretty stumped by this but some meathead suggested I'm not hydrating enough and the creatine worsens it because it pulls so much water into muscles.
Anyway I stopped taking creatine but had other signals I wasn't hydrating enough: I would run with a group and be the only one feeling like shit on the longer runs even though we were training the same.
I figured out I have a very hard time staying hydrated (I'm in my 40s). I just never feel thirsty at all. I basically have to force myself to remember to drink any water, and need to go out of my way to strap bottles of water with an eighth of a teaspoon of salt in them to a vest when I go for runs.
Much better overall now that I'm deliberately hydrating, but damn is it tedious.
btw if you feel one coming on in your leg sit down and grab your toes with your hand and try to extend your leg completely, essentially pulling your toes back and stretching your calf out. It often provides immediate relief without lingering soreness.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I'm pretty sure that Walker book about sleep was an info hazard that made everyone needlessly miserable about their sleep quality the last 7(?) years. Worse he was accused of academic misconduct for blatantly misrepresenting a graph (among other things) and nobody did anything.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I would do almost anything to not have to go to a phone store again and I am having a bad fucking day if I'm there and this guy would so get me to flip out on him if he said that.
Good on you for not losing your cool while your family is there.
The owner was brought to tears during a 3 1/2 meeting with the community because she said she could not keep the lights on anymore and they're deep in the red and they have to have some KN95 optional nights and she just received hostile reactions. That's kind of hard to believe and maybe that's the hit piece part. But I guess I could kind of believe anti-capitalists don't appreciate math.
Maybe I'm nit picking. I'm a bit sympathetic to him but I wouldn't say it out loud and expect not to be cancelled. It's very not benign.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
cancelling people for benign shit (recently DHH
He posts repeatedly about white ethnonationalism. Is that benign? I'm not sure that's in the Overton window.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Hey I don't want to begrudge you your beliefs but I think you'd find the LessWrong umbrella of subcultures to be much more receptive to Fat Tony arguments than most intellectual communities. It's almost our defining feature.
But they ended up with this ridiculous result and no one is convinced.
I thought he convinced a panel of judges?
Fat Tony is a heuristic. If you have no ability to ask any other questions or investigate yourself or don't have the time to check, it's pretty good. But it's not an irrefutable argument.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Eh, I'm pretty sure the endgame is a handful of hive intelligences and the only distinction an individual human offers is a very particular set of high level value inputs.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Locally it made what I wanted to say clearer, in those 5% of places where I was just struggling, for the benefit of the reader.
Globally it gave the AI hysterical a small piece to bite off and choke on and cause a scene.
So it was a loss.
Clearly next time I need to run it through Pangram and iterate until I score 0. Until mid 2027 when it won't matter anymore aside from a few neo-Luddite corners.
I'm also aware of the Root Claim debate which I've encountered as a wall of text and like 30 hours of videos. I'd love an explanation of why this debate matters, but my tendency is to dismiss it as a gish gallop.
I think the reason it matters is because COVID origin skeptics find stories that sound good to them and they stop there, while the guy who won that first root claim debate didn't suffer from Too Good to Check and exhaustively investigated them and found they were nothingburgers.
(I'm saying why they matter, not that I've weighed the arguments. I'm too burnt out on COVID to read about it anymore)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
I presume you meant to say TRT? HRT is to fix female problems.
Men that want to be more womanly go on HRT, e.g. trans.
Men that want to be more manly go on TRT.
I clearly failed to estimate how triggered the world is on this topic. The essay was about an LLM driven rewrite of a software module btw. Should not be controversial.
Am I going to stop using AI assistance? No. I'm just going to do a better job of concealing it next time.
Nothing has been gained. In software it's mostly accepted in professional circles that AI was used. In writing people are still trying to resist ✊🏻
I'm fairly butthurt on this topic because while I think AI writing is not better than the best humans at writing, at the moment, it can at least get the point across.
I wrote an essay a few months ago that took about 4 days. I had 2 human friends review it. I made sure to handle drive by criticisms and anticipate other objections.
Some parts of my essay didn't flow nicely so I asked Claude for a suggestion on those. In some places I did use Claude's suggestion, verbatim. This had an obvious AI tell but it was genuinely better than the way I phrased it. Nevertheless 95% of the essay was my artisan human typing.
Boom, essay ruined. Some anti slop warrior came by and accused me of having no respect for the people who have to read it, derailing the conversation
The only reason I even used Claude is because I was trying to produce a serious work and I didn't have an editor handy. Fuck me.
Anyway, I understand people are irked by completely phoned in comments or articles or emails but the AI detectives are their own online cancer.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
I walked into a barber shop in Pittsburgh once. I was the only non-black person. There was a group there just hanging out. They paused their conversation for like 3 minutes after I sat down and then got back to it.
The levels of shooting the shit they were doing was unmatched. I wish I could say more but I ... didn't even understand what they were talking about(??)
All of the other times I've been to a barber shop I only end up talking to the barber, they're usually pretty empty.
I tried wandering into the barber shop by my house and they asked me to make an appointment. Like what. An appointment for a place with a barber pole outside? Wack.
yes that is what I have done for about ten years now
my elderly parents on the other hand ..
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