I'm co-hosting a new podcast called Rock Docs: A Podcast About Movies About Music. If you're into music &/or movies, you might enjoy it. Teaser out now, first episode of season 1 comes out 10/26. Twitter & IG: @RockDocsPod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-docs/id1588316475
I've decided to give what I write the broad label of eschatology. But I'm trying to expand it vertically to encompass secular stuff like x-risks, and vertically to encompass things like the end of nations, ideologies, and cultures. (So yes, The Singularity counts).
If you ever listened to the Slate Star Codex Podcast I was the voice of that until Solenoid Entity took it over.
It grew quite a bit beyond the original brief to include proper multi-monitor support and customisation in a way I've not seen done- you can configure it with the physical positions of your monitors to give the impression of a single, giant screen. Plus I'm going to keep updating it as I find doing this sort of thing fun.
I have been told that people who "don't typically like this sort of thing" like this thing, so give it a try.
It's a rational take on romance, vampires, and relationships, with worldbuilding and a fantasy creature that has been read as an AI. It is a lot more accessible to people, particularly women, than things like HPMoR.
We have a new preprint on the psychology of extremist ideology online. It uses the last ten years of the RedPill Reddit group to look at how people join and integrate into the worldview.
One of our major findings is the role of behavioral modification (self-help, addiction, etc) in the early stages, vs explanation adoption (“Neoreaction”, pseudo evo psych), etc.
Another interesting finding is the key role of status concerns. This matches findings in qualitative studies of offline versions of these groups, as well as men convicted of domestic violence, and school shooters.
I've set up a website to explain/demystify/debullshit papers in Medical AI. We're explaining how the tech works as well as its limitations and biases. https://explainthispaper.com
Writers always welcome- drop us an email if you're interested.
Deals with the implications of human brains being computers. Typical posts include essays
- implications of predictive processing on concepts like agency (“free will” makes sense as “accumulation of evidence for the prior ‘I can accomplish my goals’)
- computation carried out at cultural and civilizational levels (war is a consensus algorithm)
To celebrate the release in two weeks of __Perhaps The Stars__, the fourth and final novel in Ada Palmer's __Terra Ignota__ science fiction series, I have made a website for my fan-made board game based on the franchise. We are accepting applicants to join us in playtesting on Tabletop Simulator through Steam.
This is based on a science fiction novel that is weirder than Dune. The characters all use "they" pronouns or are genderfluid. The year 2545 considers all views on religion (both pro and con) to be unacceptable in polite company.
I'd like to think we cover a lot of interesting topics in The Discourse, but with an unusual focus on drilling down into the depths of the issue and getting the right experts to talk about their areas.
My podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521. I mostly have discussions with Greg Cochran. Our Scott once wrote "First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right – there are too many of these people to name, but Scott Aaronson highlights “Bill Gates, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham, Greg Cochran, Robin Hanson, Sarah Constantin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nicholas Christakis.” None of these people (except Greg Cochran) are domain experts, and none of them (except Greg Cochran) have creepy oracular powers."
We are half way through our Kickstarter for our Cthulhu Mythos RPG, ‘Weird of Hali, which is an alternative for everything you think you know about the world of HP Lovecraft.
My friend who is a journalist in Munich has recently started a blog where she writes about urban planning, building codes, local politics and the like. I thought this might be interesting for some of you. Maybe if you have always wondered why there are no skyscrapers in Munich: https://theschlafgang.substack.com/
If you're a startup founder, consider a serious executive coach/consultant who understands the startup world.
I will be the one person you can be transparent with --who has no direct skin in your game-- neither equity, employment nor a board member.
Try a (free) introductory session!
Visit https://Beyondetter.io . While you're there, subscribe to the blog, or contact me to submit your own article on leadership, strategy or organizational scale and change for inclusion in our 5000 plus, biweekly mailing.
I'm looking for business strategy /materials science / metals people / industrial sales people for www.graphmatech.com.
We're working on fixing one small part of global excessive use of earth's resources.
Results: 40% more conductive copper. The composite metal is stronger, tougher, and has better thermal conduction as well. 28% less copper to conduct the same amount of electricity. Could be useful when the world electrifies.
Silver/graphene switches that are as conductive as the theoretical max of pure silver. That's better than real life pure silver switches.
Steel that's 30% more thermally conductive.
etc.
Yes, we have patents.
Our cheap, bulk graphene comes mostly from China, some from Europe.
We're scaling up our upcycling process from spent lithium - ion batteries to graphene.
But so far, only 3D printing / Hipping results. Small projects with huge industrial companies for tailored materials. Those projects take lots of calendar time. What are we doing wrong? What can we do better?
We add about 2 kilos of functionalized graphene per ton of metal powder. Yes, unit economics work. well.
My law firm renders legal advice on a broad range of subjects of interest to very, very smart people, including tax and estate planning, asset protection and intellectual property. We do litigation, too, although we mostly help smart people avoid it.
I write detailed book reviews, as well as posts about economics, philosophy, effective altruism, jazz and films. One of the posts I'm most proud of was about antidepressants: https://samenright.com/2021/06/09/book-review-lost-connections/. I get featured sometimes on Marginal Revolution. Hope you enjoy.
I'm taking a break from programming to make some art, and am open to commissions for oil paintings. Some samples are here: art.scyy.fi
I'm fondest of multipanel paintings that take up space interestingly (see first image), which I haven't seen much of in the wild even though I think it looks great.
Learn how to become a person with more honesty, courage, self-control, respect for others, piety, loyalty, compassion, wisdom, temperance, fitness, sincerity, justice, industriousness, duty, prudence, know-how, honor, moderation, patience, care, attention, amiability, simplicity, forgiveness, integrity, humility, hope, good temper, fairness, endurance, benevolence, ambition, perseverance, kindness, frugality, dignity, courtesy, chastity, judgment, and/or gratitude... and more when I can find the time to research & write.
The new season of Hi-Phi Nation will begin with a mini-series on the life and works of David Kellogg Lewis, one of the great philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. The series will be released beginning October 16th, 2021, subscribe or follow now to get all episodes. www.hiphination.org.
I have recently moved my long-running blog over to substack. I've been writing mostly about forecasting and modeling covid. I occasionally write about various other topics, including travel, linguistics, education, politics, social issues, and other issues which fall broadly into the social sciences.
My latest post is about a statistical technique called the "synthetic control model" - a way of conducting a quasi-controlled "experiment" using data from multiple groups to build a predictive model that acts as a control group in situations where a real control group is unavailable.
The case study for the post is a model of a covid wave in Georgia (the country) which I argue shows that the country's lack of timely intervention resulted in one of the world's highest covid waves. I've taken the model from a report by other researchers who came to a different conclusion - that the cause of the excess cases and deaths was an election held in 2020. I think the technique is worth looking at whether you end up agreeing with my conclusions or those of the original authors - or disagreeing with both.
For something completely different, this post is a series of vignettes about the five languages I use and/or encounter on a daily basis, living as an expat and a parent of multilingual children.
I recently met a fellow called "Benjamin the Dream Wizard" on Twitter - he does a dream interpretation podcast and we're going to collaborate in the near future.
“Conversations in Critical Psychiatry" is my interview series for Psychiatric Times that explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo.
I'm interested in collaboratively homesteading somewhere out west, probably Colorado or Washington.
To me that means pooling financial resources to buy land where a small number of people are interested in building homesteads and also hopefully building a small community of people who would support each other.
I have a non trivial amount of my own resources ready to devote to this project.
I'm a PhD student in computational neuroscientist with a background in cognitive science and I'm writing about things like developmental neuroscience, AI Safety, large language models & digital people over at my Substack: https://universalprior.substack.com/
I imagine there could be a lot of overlap of interests between people reading Scott's work and what I write (although I'm by far not as funny or as much of a generalist)
I can take a pro bono (no-fee) client at my law practice, which focuses on patents, trademarks, and open source software. Good candidates include open source projects or charities that have IP questions or issues. If you know someone, hit me up!
Have you used an MRI machine to image the thymus gland before and are interested in trying to replicate those images using a cheaper device? Ping me
Are you a good radiologist that wants to look at 3x scans and give a non-legally binding opinion? Ping me (unrelated to above, paid via paypal/card/bitcoin and requested rate)
Are you a digital nomad considering teaming up with people to travel to various places? Ping me
Are you interested in an engineer, community management or marketing job at a company building open source machine learning tools that play well with databases? Ping me
I'm a freelance editor specializing in science fiction and fantasy; I've worked with a number of other fiction genres, and occasionally interesting non-fiction, but that's my core specialty. I have a slightly odd pricing pattern: I don't charge for hours, I charge for (500-word) pages ($2-$8/page, depending on how much editing is required - $2 is "a little polishing", $8 is "one page took me half an hour"), so it's easy for me to tell you the exact price as soon as I've received the document. I also have a 5-free-pages offer; if you have never hired me before, send me the first five pages (2,500 words) of whatever you want edited, and I will edit and return them for free. This lets you see what you'll be getting, and also allows me to tell you what pricing category the work falls into. Second and later passes are half price. For more information please see my website (http://arpistaediting.com/) - I know it's running slowly at the moment, sorry about that.
I am a grad student studying epidemiology, and am looking for EA (preferably biosecurity) related researcher or organizations to do a Practicum (basically an internship) or a Capstone (thesis or some other project with an end result). I'm linking to a google sheet of some ideas that I've brainstormed so far, but many of my ideas are limited to the school I go to and the researchers I've come into contact with. I have experience in research and research design, as well as R, SAS, and some Python. I would be very willing to travel- please, if you have ideas, either comment below or update my google sheet. Thanks!!
PSA: if you’re looking for a side job, it will likely never in our lifetimes be easier of get hired at a restaurant than it is now. In my area (HCOL) places are offering $8-15/hour PLUS TIPS, even with zero experience and limited availability.
I'm a science fiction writer who does a substack that sends original stories and sci fi culture directly to your email, once a week. Here's a link to my latest story:
I'm a leadership coach, and I love working with Rationalist and Rationalist-adjacent clients. I'm here to help you think clearly about how to be effective in complex, messy human systems. www.presencetree.com
I've had an interest in private cryptocurrency for a while now, especially Monero and ZCash. When I saw a post by an acquaintance of mine, Joshua Goldbard, talking about the technology behind MobileCoin, I recognized instantly that it was an important achievement. (Josh is the founder). They've used a similar signing protocol to Monero for private transactions, but replaced proof-of-work with Stellar Consensus Protocol. This means that transactions complete within five seconds, with the same privacy protections and very small fees.
After experimenting with the project for a few weeks, and contributing some open source software to it, I was hired as a contractor, then later as a full-time employee.
We've been integrated into Signal messenger, although U.S. release is still not ready yet. I'm really excited for this project, so please check it out:
The Lost War: Historical reenactors are flung into a fantasy world where they must struggle to survive amid monsters who regard them as prey . . . or worse. Not least among their problems is trying to cooperate while organized for playing pretend, not real problems.
I'm a digital artist and painter based in Brooklyn, NY. I've got a new selection of limited edition prints and NFTs which are being shown this Friday, October 8th at a group show in Williamsburg. In addition to the conventional art, there will be immersive digital experiences, live music, and an open bar. Tickets can be found here: https://www.themynt.io/event-details/influences-friday-ticket
Do you like Stephen King novels, and the Dark Tower specifically? Check out Kingslingers, a Dark Tower close reading podcast! It's a readalong format, so you can read the books along with the podcast and not worry that we'll spoil future information. Currently in Season 2, we are reading all the other King novels with Dark Tower connections: https://www.doofmedia.com/kingslingers/
Are you a big reader in general? Check out our monthly livestreamed book club. We have covered over 40 books, including many SFF classics you may be familiar with, though we also read literary fiction. This month we're reading Ancillary Justice. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCW6KR4MVOXbdi8iG72oCwOHCBDMyY7RL
Hi! Your invited to come see my art and maybe do a little holiday shopping at ArtFair 14C at the Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey Nov. 12-14. Go to my website at https://www.margaretwithers.com/upcoming-exhibits-/view/2719357/0/5241554 for information and a link to some comp tickets for the event. Send me an email if you have any questions about my art! I hope to meet you there!
The blog exists in what could be described as the rationalist adjacent adjacent space, with some occasional deep dives and general philosophy stuff. I've been pretty hard on Scott in the past there, although I think I've probably just about worked that out of my system.
Bright, shy, old-fashioned girl seeks bright, interesting boy. Purpose: matrimony. (Or rather, courting hopefully, if compatible, leading to matrimony.) Not poly, not interested in casual sex. For more information, see OKCupid profile (https://www.okcupid.com/profile/17435752182960911079/) or email rebeccaanne3 at gmail dot com.
Hey, so I work for Truffle, we make blockchain development tools, primarily focused on Ethereum; I figure a few people here have likely heard of us so I thought this would be a good place to post this.
I should post here more, I guess I'll start with dating preferences. I'm a man in my early 30's in NJ open to a woman. I'm interested in any kind of relationship -- that means friends, too! -- and odds are that you're smarter than me, because it seems like everybody here is! Like, dang.
Feel free to message me if you're a guy, too. I'm not interested in men, but I love to conversate and learn.
Hi Folks, I've been doing a lot of photography lately and am interested in gigs or specific requests. Last time I posted I had fun helping some get some images they wanted, so I thought I'd post again. I mostly do wildlife, but I'm happy to attempt to photograph whatever you want. You can check out a partial portfolio and contact info at drethelin.com
I'm also interested in longer term projects if anyone is looking for a photojournalist or wildlife photographer to accompany them for something. I can also do some videography but I'm much less practiced at that.
I’m the founder of Science is WEIRD, a company that helps hungry kids fall in love with ALL the sciences.
We do live, hyper-interactive classes with kids on four continents (and counting) — with the biggest fraction in the Valley. We specialize in 2e kids: more than half are gifted/talented; more than half are also ADHD.
Each lesson is a riddle wrapped in a game; the class works together to solve it. The teacher facilitates the fast-paced discussion, and drops hints (metaphors, images, stories, etc).
These… aren’t typical science classes. We use a mundane topic (we just finished our “Crows are Weird” month) to unveil big ideas —
* taxons vs. clades (Linnaeus vs. Darwin)
* endothermy vs. exothermy (and why it matters that birds are dinosaurs)
* sexual selection and monogamy in birds
* the difference between reptiles and mammals (it’s probably not what you think)
* the adaptiveness of intelligence
* the social lives of crows (more complex than anyone would guess)
If those sound dull, I promise they’re FASCINATING (and that the classes are maximally goofy). Along the way, kids learn some of the most wonderfully odd things, and each lesson crescendos with an insight that turns their conceptual world upside down.
Classes meet twice a week (but some of our families stream them to watch later).
Throughout this year, we’ll plunge into other disciplines: dirt (chemistry), the Moon (astronomy), onions (botany), hills (geology), mushrooms (mycology), nuclear power (physics), neurodiversity (psychology), and mosquitoes (zoology, again).
I’d be happy to offer a free month of “Dirt is Weird” (which starts next week) to anyone in the ACX community — just use the code “ACX” at the checkout.
I'm a Software Engineer with 9 years of experience and I'm looking for work either in Chicago or remote. I've mostly worked in JVM languages, though Clojure is my favorite. I strongly believe in ownership of the entire lifecycle of services (development, testing, operations) and am well versed in k8s. I have a passion for search and continuous improvement. My most recent project was speeding up an ETL job from 43 hours to 10 hours (though sadly we can't move it from Akka-Streams to Spark since it's expected to be sunset in a year).
You can contact me at `{My Name} . b . mcg at gmail` (replace My Name the name from my substack profile).
I have a blog ( https://sablegm.substack.com ) about analyzing tabletop RPGs in general and DnD specifically from a rationalist-ish perspective, which might be interesting to people here. Core topics involve analyzing group dynamics, core GM skills, advice on setting construction, and whatever else I feel like writing.
Most recently, I've been doing a sequence of posts on de- and then re- constructing DnD magic. Goals are partly to help people resolve what happens when magic is used in a-typical ways, partly to solidify worldbuilding, partly to write down my own thoughts about magic. I numbered the posts, but I think so far they can be read mostly independently of one another:
I'm gradually turning the ideas from fifteen years of blog posts into chapters for a book or books. As I finish the draft for each section, I web it for comments. I am trying, in the first draft, to use almost all of my blog posts, so expect to end up with more material than I actually want to include, so it would be particularly useful if commenters could tell me what chapters, or sections within chapters, I ought to drop, which I definitely ought not to drop.
Four sections are already up. I am almost finished with the economics section, which will probably be the longest, and expect to web it shortly.
Not really a shill, but looking to hire a doctor or medical professional to do a few hours of research to decide if a particular medical procedure is legitimate or not. Email me at maksym.morawski@gmail.com
I have written three novels, one published by Baen, two self published. One of the comments I get on Amazon is that my characters are too rational, so people here might enjoy them. _Harald_ was marketed as fantasy but is really a historical novel with invented history and geography — no magic, elves, dwarves, etc. _Salamander_ and its sequel _Brothers_ are fantasies. The setting is about fifty years after the magical equivalent of Newton, who started the process of converting magic from a craft to a science.
None of them is a political polemic, all reflect in various ways my world view as both a libertarian and an economist.
Currently, as a side hustle, I'm building an online platform for creating or joining campaigns for collective action in adversarial situations - using concepts like Assurance Contracts to solve game-theoretic coordination problems.
Think “Kickstarter,” but instead of crowdfunding products, it’s for safely recruiting and organizing participants for any project that requires a group effort, like workplace organizing, whistleblowing, open letters, direct action, formation of parallel institutions, etc.
I know this is not an entirely novel concept - many of the underlying principles have been validated by other successful platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Change.org, and The Point, (before it pivoted to become Groupon).
Unlike those other platforms, my focus is not fundraising or self-expression, but the formation and enablement of group coordination for specific collective actions in the real world. The aim is to increase the expected value of organizing around concealed preferences by lowering the courage requirements for taking action (from heroic to average) and reducing individual actors’ risks (from potentially catastrophic to marginal).
To preemptively address some common points of feedback:
- Spartacus will prohibit any campaign encouraging illegal actions or violence of any kind.
The app will have several mechanisms built in to abate the risk of trolls, spammers, or bad faith actors sabotaging or gaming the system.
- The explicit ideological position of the app is one of J.S Mill style liberal pluralism, and it will be defended as such. It will be politically agnostic. Both “blue” and “red” campaigns will be equally welcome. That said, campaign curation will strike for balance to try to avoid the app taking on a partisan valence. Also, absolutely no Nazis.
Project Status:
I’m currently looking to recruit people for proof of concept and beta testing.
I’d also love to connect with the following sorts of people in general:
Anyone with a strong social science background who wants to be involved and/or offer input.
Anyone who thinks they might be a potential user of the app, and/or has an idea for a good use case.
Anyone who wants to support this project through signal boosting online.
Hanging With History is a podcast focused on a very roundabout explanation/investigation of the causes of the Great Enrichment, Industrial Revolution.
The perspective is mainly libertarian/conservative/rationalist history and economics.
Unfortunately, the first 60 episodes have sort of a folksy tone that many people find annoying. Still if you like your English history with economics and philosophy you might enjoy it. The current episode is on the Nine Years War/War of the Grand Alliance and the origins of the War of the Spanish Succession.
If you enjoyed my Orwell review in the ACX contest, and are interested in rationalist-ish book reviews of a wide range of stuff, ranging from classic novels to contemporary self-help and nonfiction, that's what I'm doing over at my blog, https://whimsi.substack.com/p/book-review-the-emperor. Right now I've got write ups on Kafka, Kapuscinski, and comments responding to my Orwell review. Next review will likely be on David Cullen's 'Columbine'.
I'm working on a new language for web development called Argil. It's very early in the process but the goal of the language is to remove redundancy from the development process and decrease development time.
I am a qualified and experienced counsellor and psychotherapist trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and incorporating other modalities including elements of Positive Psychology, Compassion Focussed Therapy and Mindfulness.
I provide evidence based techniques for managing stress and anxiety and more effective methods of self motivating than self criticism. I remind my clients how to be a good friend to themselves and more, to cherish and celebrate themselves (without becoming narcissists). It’s the magic switch that makes you automatically raise your inner thermostat setting to allow more of the good stuff into your life and to recognise and end any self sabotaging behaviour.
I have space for 2 more clients at the moment, so have a look at my website, read the reviews by previous clients and contact me for a free initial meeting if what you read resonates with you. I am based in the U.K. and work internationally on Zoom.
It's designed by a bunch of mathematicians and it's about turning beans into monsters. It's cute, it's challenging, and the main character has a pet bunny.
The demo is available until October 11 and we're releasing the full game later this year. The demo is Windows only, but the full game will likely also have Mac and Linux versions. If you like puzzle games, give it a try!
I'm working on building a product that makes it easier for dev teams to deploy new product features, gather high quality data from those product features, and optimize those features through A/B tests or machine learning models. My co-founders and I are looking to show engineers and/or product managers what we've been working on and get feedback. You can either email me at christina at causallabs dot io or you can set up time to talk with us here: https://book.vimcal.com/p/Csz2aDmxgSBXyyTH.
I will note that our product is particularly useful for folks working in building online machine learning models. That's what we worked on together in our previous jobs, so that's generally been top of mind for us in designing the product. I'd say the capsule summary for ML folks specifically is: "get the training data you need without ever writing another ETL + deploy your models without waiting on engineering."
I want to connect with psychiatrists interested in working in the ketamine space. My two partners and I are concerned about some of the trends we're seeing of sending medications home for people to essentially do on their own (e.g. Mindbloom, My Ketamine Home). Doesn't feel responsible to have people undergo their first psychedelic experiences essentially on their own. On the other hand, many people aren't interested or ready for bull-blown ketamine assisted psychotherapy. We're interested in bridging that gap by training somatic therapists, massage therapists, and other folks to be responsible sitters and to help with preparation and integration. We're interested in finding a psychiatrist partner to develop this project. Would love to connect if that's you!
I go over the history of broadcast copyright law, and how some weird implications of legal loopholes induced cable providers to waste exabytes of storage, pumping over a million tons of co2 into the air every year.
Book review of another work from James C. Scott (of Seeing Like a State fame). This one focuses on the subversive strategies deployed by the oppressed. Plenty of neat historical anecdotes if you're into that sort of thing.
schlaugh.com is a social media website where you get to post at most once a day. It's not mine, but I happily remind people it exists at irregular intervals.
It is low-traffic and low-tech (metaphorically speaking, it's run by one chap out of his basement); you may have to fight it a little sometimes. Post markup is in an HTML derivate, for example. But it's a nice, quiet corner of the internet, and the 24 hour interval makes debates not nearly as hot-headed as they would be elsewhere.
Presently most schlusers (the community likes tacking "sch" onto various words, so here I am, giving you a taste of that) use the site as a journal plus a little low-frequency social interaction.
"So, I signed up. Where's the content? Where do I find other people?" You find other people by them linking you to their schlaugh profiles, or because they made a post using a tag you follow. The closest thing to a "public" stream is the tag "milkshake", for historic reasons. This sort of thing is covered by the site FAQ, though, which is both enlightening and amusing to read.
"Does this have anything to do with rationality?" No, not really.
"Why should I join?" Maybe you're tired of Facebook, Twitter, et al. Maybe you're just curious. In any case, I don't think there's much of a 'should' about it. Personally, I tried it out of curiosity and stayed for the company, as well as for the useful habit of writing a little bit every day, which has e.g. helped me combat feelings of 'but I didn't get anything done today', clobbering myself over the head with large lists of things I did in fact do.
If you are into investment research, have some hands-on experience in some real business, and are a great writer we might be able to use (and level-up your skills) over at IPO Candy. You can see what we do at ipocandy.com and you can send me an email if you get fired up (kris@).
Woman seeking human for romance etc! Serious relationship preferred, but also open to friendship.
Strong preferences:
- I’m open to all genders, but people capable of siring kids are preferred (ie cis men or pre-transition trans women — I’m a cis woman).
- My age (32), +/-5 years.
- I like people who are very honest and very kind. Smart is cool or whatever, but compassion, integrity, and grace are a lot more important to me.
Dealbreakers:
- Must want to have children (I have none, but would like them in the next few years)
- Must be okay with living in New England long-term (I’m currently in Boston)
Bonus points if you’re:
- An effective altruist
- An atheist
- Mostly or entirely sober (I’m an occasional social drinker, but that’s it)
- Interested in group houses / communal living
- Monogamous (I’m kinda sorta open to poly with people who do it extremely carefully, but I mostly prefer not to add that complexity to my life)
- Someone who likes other people + likes being alive
More about me: I’m a tall software engineer who lives in a group house with my childhood best friend. I like reading, cooking, hanging out with my siblings and niblings, solving riddles and word games, learning to juggle, starting and not finishing knitting projects, and (some) board games.
If you want to introduce yourself, you can email me at rip.my.inbox at gmail. No need to send anything too long — I’d prefer to meet up in person rather than go through a ton of back-and-forth online.
(If you want ideas, you could introduce yourself with any of the following:
- a link to your blog / Reddit profile
- a book recommendation
- a link to your favorite Wikipedia article
- a link to a dating profile
- a project you’ve done or code you’ve written
- a controversial opinion you have
- an unappealing fact about yourself
- a good riddle
- a bad riddle
- any of the above, but ciphered)
Thanks for reading all this!
PS: I’m taking a few months off dating, (until December / January), so I may not respond to emails for a bit. Just putting this out there now because the classified posts don’t come around that often!
I evaluate grants for the the Near ecosystem. We're enthusiastic about stuff that can be done with DAOs, Prediction markets, NFTs and more. If you need a bouncing board, I'll be glad to help you sort out an idea. It's very easy for me to hand out grants in the 10-20k USD range right now to anyone remotely qualified, if that's you, you might like to apply.
You are welcome to buy some prints/coasters/magnets from the site, if you feel like it (I get a shiny nickel for each purchase made !), but what I'm really looking for is some kind of brutal yet actionable critique. Talent can't be taught, obviously, but perhaps I could improve my skill at least a little.
Are you bored, now that Scott's traveling? Do you want to read something interesting, especially some interesting fiction?
Well, I'm writing stories and I could really use helpful comments and criticism on them, and I see opportunities for what economists call 'gains from trade'.
I think I'm well above average as writers go, and, in particular, well above average at writing intelligent, reasonable characters taking actions for motives that make sense. (Also at superpowered fight scenes.) If anyone's interested in signing up as an alpha reader for my fiction, I'm happy to add you to my mailing list - I just finished a new story for the EA contest, and I'd like to get some feedback on it before I submit it. If you're bored and looking for something to read, we can help each other out!
I can get endorsements from David and Rebecca Friedman, but they're relatives of mine and so potentially highly biased.
My E-mail address is (rot13) nrilyzne@tznvy.pbz; send me a message or give me your E-mail address, and I'd be happy to send you a link!
Bisexual polyamorous guy in his late 20s seeking romantic partners, friends, co-hackers, and possibly you :D
current location: Lisbon, soon (january 2022) SF
More about me: I'm a cryptographic engineer originally from California; I've been living outside of the US for a couple of years, soon to be returning for a six-month experimental stint in SF.
Identity constructions: I claim to value honesty, intellectual curiosity, self reflection, love, community creation, and first-principles thinking above other things. I'm tend extraverted. The better part of my energy goes toward learning and building projects, participating in crypto and open-source communities, and in creating real-world communities. I'm an advocate for privacy and alternative communities/lifestyle practices.
Religion: I was raised Episcopal Christian; I discarded that tradition about ten years ago, though I maintain a respect for some religious practices.
Sex and romance: Growing up, I didn't have positive romantic role models. I now internally frame all encounters as social with capacity to become romantic later if it feels right (usually after several times hanging out or extended correspondence). I currently live with a partner who is also polyamorous. Am switch, enjoy kink. I'd like kids one day, probably not in the next 5-10 years.
Health: very active, do yoga, run, climb. Semi-regularly go through meditation phases. Reduced meat diet, drink occassionally, enjoy psychedelics and other drugs too.
Three of my favorite books are East of Eden, The Diamond Age, and Sirens of Titan. I tend to read 25-30 books a year, lots of sci-fi, programming-related stuff, economics, and philosophy.
A plausibly unappealing thing about me is that I'm limited in my capacity for empathy, particularly toward people who fall outside my ingroups. I sometimes practice growing my capacity for empathy and love.
I work at Zoba, a startup building optimization software for the cities of the future. Right now we help micromobility operators decide how to allocate their fleets to better serve users and generate more revenue. We're growing rapidly, both in the sense of "new products" and "new people."
Check out https://www.zoba.com/careers for job postings. We've got openings in software engineering, data science, machine learning, economics, semi-technical roles in operations (e.g. consulting background is a nice match), sales, customer success, marketing, ...
Hi everyone, I work a day job as a TEFL teacher but I'd really like to find work as an illustrator. I work in various styles. If you have something you'd like me to illustrate (paid),please contact me and I'll happily consider it.
On SSC, Scott wrote a post about Puritan spotting, and one of the items to look for was someone starting a religion. Scott asked where these people have gone. Well, fear not, because Oa has called me out of the wilderness to start a new religion: The Way. Broadly speaking, we Wayfarers believe in Enlightenment values like tolerance and use of the scientific method, but also find value in community, ritual, and well, religion. I bring up these points and more in the introductory post on the substack that I hope will serve to expand and support the soon-to-be community of Wayfarers: https://windingway.substack.com/p/introduction
As I think I suggested last time, this would work better if it were in fact classified, and it's quite easy to do. When you put it up, make a set of top level comments: Jobs, Blogs and Books, Looking for Work, Dating, ... . Ask each person to post his ad as a reply to the appropriate top level comment.
I do a FREE LIVE weekly 40-min science chat and acoustic singalong on Zoom under the nom d'espace of 'Super blurry astronaut' – mostly on a Thursday but this week's was Wednesday on the theme of 'Nobel sentiments', to celebrate this week’s Nobel prizes.
Given the Medicine awards, it was truly sensational, so 🎸 Touch me 🙌🏾 Sensual world 💃🏻 Tender 😘 Feeling good 👼🏼 I wanna hold your hand 🐙 etc.
Every Monday, I post the details on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PatrickEasterbunny as well as various mostly UK-based science communication networks, and folk share ideas for songs and general chat.
I don't know if this counts as shilling, but in for a penny...
Best regards,
Patrick
Nature NEWS 04 October 2021
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who discovered biology of senses
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian share the award for identifying receptors that allow the body’s cells to sense temperature and touch.
Two researchers who discovered the molecular basis for our ability to sense temperature and touch have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Physiologist David Julius at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) used capsaicin — the compound that gives chilli peppers their gustatory kick — to track down a protein called TRPV1 that responds to painful heat.
Molecular neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, identified receptors in skin and other organs that respond to mechanical forces, such as those generated by touch and pressure.
I write a blog, https://www.navalgazing.net/, about naval history and technology. It started in the comments at SSC and has now been running for nearly four years. I've looked at everything from the basic technical aspects of battleship design to overviews of warship development to an in-depth look at the Falklands War.
My new book, "Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World," pulls six leadership lessons from complexity science. I believe these lessons can help leaders deal with increasing complexity in their public and private lives. My goal: readers gain a gut-level understanding that most of life takes place in organized systems where no one is in control - and thus leaders should seek influence, rather than control. https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Out-Control-Emergent-Leadership-ebook/dp/B09G4V4WLZ/
I write logic puzzles sometimes: https://primepuzzles.wordpress.com/ I enjoy external constraints and writing puzzles for people who actually want to solve them, so if anyone wants to "commission" a puzzle like these (for free), just give me some rules to work with (e.g. what type of puzzle? do you want the clues to spell your name or something? etc) and I'll give it a shot. (I am guessing there will be 0-2 takers; I may have to re-evaluate this plan if there are many more.)
Don't know if anyone will still see this, but I translate Russian to English, with particular emphasis on scientific papers. If interested, email this gmail: ebtranslationsetc
I work on Copilot (copilot.github.com), an AI-powered programming assistant that can write code for you. We're currently hiring developers with experience/interest in developer tools as well as ML engineers and more. If you'd like to help shape the future of AI-assisted programming (and make it safe and human-aligned), send your resume to mtaran@github.com. It's a bonus that GitHub is remote-first, hiring all over the world, and the team is awesome to work with!
I build stuff from LEGO bricks - mostly small models that look well on a bookshelf. I'm mostly interested in sci-fi themes, with some builds based on works of fiction in the genre. You can see most of my creations here: https://linktr.ee/john.carter (choose your preferred platform), including instructions for several of them.
I do commissions, so if you're interested in having custom designed LEGO model contact me at john.carter.workshop [at gmail]. I can deliver either a finished model, or instructions and list of required parts and help you order parts yourself (the second is preferable if you're based outside of EU).
So I'm at sea trying to get my book in front of the right kinds of readers. I'll spare you the litany of frustrations, but I really think many readers here would be interested in it. It's called "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers and Algorithmic Matchmakers" https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intimacy-Virtual-Algorithmic-Matchmakers/dp/0231200943
It considers what happens when evolved human nature has to operate in a world of robotics, VR and artificial intelligence. I'd obviously like people to buy it, and to post about it on social media etc. Even more, however, if you have a podcast/youtube/blog, I'm always up for interviews - there's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about it.
Not sure if anybody's still looking at this thread, but: the startup I work for is looking for more software engineers. It's a smart, friendly, collaborative team trying to revolutionize software testing -- I personally have grown more as an engineer here than everywhere else I've worked at put together. We have more than a few ACX/MR/Money Stuff readers, and come from a variety of political viewpoints and academic/career backgrounds.
The catch is that we *really* don't want engineers working remote when we don't have to, so you have to be willing to relocate to Northern Virginia (Metro DC) and join our fully-vaccinated office.
We're not extremely picky about your tech specialization (most of us work on a variety of fairly-different projects over our time here), but we're definitely most enthusiastic about senior-ish people right now.
I'm an interview coach and a general career/executive coach. I work with a fair few folks in (especially) tech to improve communication skills and help people to sell themselves. Free 15-min consultation to see if it's a good fit. https://www.smithinterviewcoaching.com/
We are working on governance protocol design, which is a bit like designing a new tiny nation, and we are seeking new teammates to help with that design process. This is a long-term, patient project, which requires careful and extended thinking about intricate mechanisms, political coordination, credit assignment, and other such topics. Thus, we need people capable of precise thinking, with very long attention spans, at least in this domain. We don't have a job ad up for this role since we don't expect to find anyone for it online, but this community is a bit different. Pay for this role is significant, as it is very important and we value it highly.
We're also hiring in many other domains: engineering, design, strategy, filmmaking, and recruiting, for example.
Reserve is a cryptocurrency project. We have a stablecoin protocol on Ethereum, and a mobile app for using our USD stablecoin in Venezuela, Argentina, and Colombia. The app has 50k active users (100k weekly app visitors, but 50k we count as financially active), and we are aiming to get past 100k by end of year. Over the last few months we've scaled our team to handle customer support – eng+product is still only 16 people, but total team is 160. The project is complicated, risky, and stressful, and since earlier this year when we began concretely serving a meaningful number of people who are dealing with hyperinflation, it's become pretty rewarding as well.
It's not about tech or futurism or AI or psychology or rationality.
It's about my life as a winemaker-turned-distiller with blended senses (a weird variant of auditory-olfactory synesthesia). Check it out if you're interested in neurodiversity, and if you like reading other people's personal stories :) www.chromaticaromatic.com
In other news, I'm doing monthly online wine and beer tastings via zoom with a synethesia theme. I co-host with Sean Day, president of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists, and Scientists. We get together, talk about synesthesia, and taste beverages following a theme. The ticket is $35, all proceeds go to fund the Synesthesia Society of Africa, and it's limited to eight people. Neurotypical people are always welcome. If you think this would be fun and interesting, please reply to this post and I'll hook you up.
Hello! I'm writing about play-and-earn and play-to-earn game design on Metaversus. If you're interested to learn more, I think this is a great place to start.
Dear all, my name is Thomas Prosser and I'm a politics academic at Cardiff University in the UK. In my Substack, I write about politics from a heterodox perspective, avoiding groupthink. I do so with reference to theories of institutions, values and ideology, these being areas of academic expertise. My influences include Scott Alexander, Ronald Inglehart, Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan. Here's the link: https://thomasprosser.substack.com/
Please check it out! It's free and I'm always so grateful for subscribers :-)
I'm co-hosting a new podcast called Rock Docs: A Podcast About Movies About Music. If you're into music &/or movies, you might enjoy it. Teaser out now, first episode of season 1 comes out 10/26. Twitter & IG: @RockDocsPod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-docs/id1588316475
My blog/podcast:
wearenotsaved.com
I've decided to give what I write the broad label of eschatology. But I'm trying to expand it vertically to encompass secular stuff like x-risks, and vertically to encompass things like the end of nations, ideologies, and cultures. (So yes, The Singularity counts).
If you ever listened to the Slate Star Codex Podcast I was the voice of that until Solenoid Entity took it over.
My lockdown project was to learn C++ and OpenGL properly, so I started writing some generative art screensavers with OpenFrameworks. I've put the result- The Jean-Paul Software Screen Explosion- on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631280/The_JeanPaul_Software_Screen_Explosion/
It grew quite a bit beyond the original brief to include proper multi-monitor support and customisation in a way I've not seen done- you can configure it with the physical positions of your monitors to give the impression of a single, giant screen. Plus I'm going to keep updating it as I find doing this sort of thing fun.
£4, PC only, get it while it's hot.
I've written a 140,000 word vampire romance novel: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13710744/chapters/31496223
I have been told that people who "don't typically like this sort of thing" like this thing, so give it a try.
It's a rational take on romance, vampires, and relationships, with worldbuilding and a fantasy creature that has been read as an AI. It is a lot more accessible to people, particularly women, than things like HPMoR.
If you want to read me selling it in long-form, check this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/p4j8ll/rthfcrom_vampire_flower_language_epilogue_all/h8z1olx/
Would greatly appreciate constructive criticism, praise, and/or further questions.
https://anjel.blog/
My new blog, which covers subjects that people here might find interesting.
We have a new preprint on the psychology of extremist ideology online. It uses the last ten years of the RedPill Reddit group to look at how people join and integrate into the worldview.
One of our major findings is the role of behavioral modification (self-help, addiction, etc) in the early stages, vs explanation adoption (“Neoreaction”, pseudo evo psych), etc.
Another interesting finding is the key role of status concerns. This matches findings in qualitative studies of offline versions of these groups, as well as men convicted of domestic violence, and school shooters.
Comments very welcome. It’s at https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00626
I've set up a website to explain/demystify/debullshit papers in Medical AI. We're explaining how the tech works as well as its limitations and biases. https://explainthispaper.com
Writers always welcome- drop us an email if you're interested.
Fare more poetic than rational: bartkus.substack.com
My blog:
https://apxhard.com/
Deals with the implications of human brains being computers. Typical posts include essays
- implications of predictive processing on concepts like agency (“free will” makes sense as “accumulation of evidence for the prior ‘I can accomplish my goals’)
- computation carried out at cultural and civilizational levels (war is a consensus algorithm)
As well as occasional poetry and short stories.
New publication I'm involved in:
The Classical Futurist: A vision of the future inspired by classical antiquity.
https://classicalfuturist.com/
If anyone's interested in learning about computational biology, I have a Youtube channel with tutorials on it, mostly in Python:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCti8KSLHdoVd7K0VZwUZk_g
Stasha.dev - makes it easy to curate and share content
To celebrate the release in two weeks of __Perhaps The Stars__, the fourth and final novel in Ada Palmer's __Terra Ignota__ science fiction series, I have made a website for my fan-made board game based on the franchise. We are accepting applicants to join us in playtesting on Tabletop Simulator through Steam.
https://dreadedmajority.games/
This is based on a science fiction novel that is weirder than Dune. The characters all use "they" pronouns or are genderfluid. The year 2545 considers all views on religion (both pro and con) to be unacceptable in polite company.
Check out the Neoliberal Podcast!
It's a podcast on policy and politics from a neoliberal perspective. We've done interviews with
* Nobel Prize winning economists - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-neoliberal/kidney-matching-ft-dr-alvin-S7shLNOA1FJ/
* Pulitzer Prize winning journalists - https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-uighur-genocide-ft-megha-rajagopalan-alison-killing/id1390384827?i=1000509494674&l=en
* Rationalist favorites like Julia Galef - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scout-mindset-ft-julia-galef/id1390384827?i=1000523003248
I'd like to think we cover a lot of interesting topics in The Discourse, but with an unusual focus on drilling down into the depths of the issue and getting the right experts to talk about their areas.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scout-mindset-ft-julia-galef/id1390384827?i=1000523003248
My podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521. I mostly have discussions with Greg Cochran. Our Scott once wrote "First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right – there are too many of these people to name, but Scott Aaronson highlights “Bill Gates, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham, Greg Cochran, Robin Hanson, Sarah Constantin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nicholas Christakis.” None of these people (except Greg Cochran) are domain experts, and none of them (except Greg Cochran) have creepy oracular powers."
I run an indie yarn business. All of our products are made from undyed, naturally colored fibers.
https://gothfarmyarn.com/shop/
We are half way through our Kickstarter for our Cthulhu Mythos RPG, ‘Weird of Hali, which is an alternative for everything you think you know about the world of HP Lovecraft.
Check it out here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aeongames/weird-of-hali-rpg
My friend who is a journalist in Munich has recently started a blog where she writes about urban planning, building codes, local politics and the like. I thought this might be interesting for some of you. Maybe if you have always wondered why there are no skyscrapers in Munich: https://theschlafgang.substack.com/
rollkit.net - a complete supplement kit for when you take MDMA. Based off of u/MisterYouAreSoDumb and rollsafe.org's recommendations.
If you're a startup founder, consider a serious executive coach/consultant who understands the startup world.
I will be the one person you can be transparent with --who has no direct skin in your game-- neither equity, employment nor a board member.
Try a (free) introductory session!
Visit https://Beyondetter.io . While you're there, subscribe to the blog, or contact me to submit your own article on leadership, strategy or organizational scale and change for inclusion in our 5000 plus, biweekly mailing.
I'm looking for business strategy /materials science / metals people / industrial sales people for www.graphmatech.com.
We're working on fixing one small part of global excessive use of earth's resources.
Results: 40% more conductive copper. The composite metal is stronger, tougher, and has better thermal conduction as well. 28% less copper to conduct the same amount of electricity. Could be useful when the world electrifies.
Silver/graphene switches that are as conductive as the theoretical max of pure silver. That's better than real life pure silver switches.
Steel that's 30% more thermally conductive.
etc.
Yes, we have patents.
Our cheap, bulk graphene comes mostly from China, some from Europe.
We're scaling up our upcycling process from spent lithium - ion batteries to graphene.
But so far, only 3D printing / Hipping results. Small projects with huge industrial companies for tailored materials. Those projects take lots of calendar time. What are we doing wrong? What can we do better?
We add about 2 kilos of functionalized graphene per ton of metal powder. Yes, unit economics work. well.
I'm jane@walerud.com.
My law firm renders legal advice on a broad range of subjects of interest to very, very smart people, including tax and estate planning, asset protection and intellectual property. We do litigation, too, although we mostly help smart people avoid it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbmiller/
My blog: https://samenright.com/
I write detailed book reviews, as well as posts about economics, philosophy, effective altruism, jazz and films. One of the posts I'm most proud of was about antidepressants: https://samenright.com/2021/06/09/book-review-lost-connections/. I get featured sometimes on Marginal Revolution. Hope you enjoy.
I'm taking a break from programming to make some art, and am open to commissions for oil paintings. Some samples are here: art.scyy.fi
I'm fondest of multipanel paintings that take up space interestingly (see first image), which I haven't seen much of in the wild even though I think it looks great.
I'm composing a sequence of LW posts on the human virtues and how to strengthen them, here: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/xqgwpmwDYsn8osoje
Learn how to become a person with more honesty, courage, self-control, respect for others, piety, loyalty, compassion, wisdom, temperance, fitness, sincerity, justice, industriousness, duty, prudence, know-how, honor, moderation, patience, care, attention, amiability, simplicity, forgiveness, integrity, humility, hope, good temper, fairness, endurance, benevolence, ambition, perseverance, kindness, frugality, dignity, courtesy, chastity, judgment, and/or gratitude... and more when I can find the time to research & write.
I'd appreciate your feedback & corrections.
The new season of Hi-Phi Nation will begin with a mini-series on the life and works of David Kellogg Lewis, one of the great philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. The series will be released beginning October 16th, 2021, subscribe or follow now to get all episodes. www.hiphination.org.
I wrote a short story on nested simulations: https://markmywords.substack.com/p/short-fiction-the-infinite-drop
I have recently moved my long-running blog over to substack. I've been writing mostly about forecasting and modeling covid. I occasionally write about various other topics, including travel, linguistics, education, politics, social issues, and other issues which fall broadly into the social sciences.
https://nealzupancic.substack.com/
My latest post is about a statistical technique called the "synthetic control model" - a way of conducting a quasi-controlled "experiment" using data from multiple groups to build a predictive model that acts as a control group in situations where a real control group is unavailable.
The case study for the post is a model of a covid wave in Georgia (the country) which I argue shows that the country's lack of timely intervention resulted in one of the world's highest covid waves. I've taken the model from a report by other researchers who came to a different conclusion - that the cause of the excess cases and deaths was an election held in 2020. I think the technique is worth looking at whether you end up agreeing with my conclusions or those of the original authors - or disagreeing with both.
https://nealzupancic.substack.com/p/elections-covid-and-synthetic-control
For something completely different, this post is a series of vignettes about the five languages I use and/or encounter on a daily basis, living as an expat and a parent of multilingual children.
https://nealzupancic.substack.com/p/life-in-five-languages
Feedback and comments always appreciated!
I make 3D digital art, and I often like to depict imagery from my dreams: https://www.instagram.com/patrickdfarley_art/
I recently met a fellow called "Benjamin the Dream Wizard" on Twitter - he does a dream interpretation podcast and we're going to collaborate in the near future.
I made some videos explaining the basics of economics:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gideonmagnus/videos
For more materials, see my website:
www.gideonmagnus.com
“Conversations in Critical Psychiatry" is my interview series for Psychiatric Times that explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo.
https://awaisaftab.blogspot.com/2019/12/conversations-in-critical-psychiatry.html
Sorry Scott, but I beat you to it -- GHB: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. https://existential-vertigo.com/ghb-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
All jokes aside, GHB is a fascinating drug and I think it warrants more professional/scientific/medicinal research.
I'm interested in collaboratively homesteading somewhere out west, probably Colorado or Washington.
To me that means pooling financial resources to buy land where a small number of people are interested in building homesteads and also hopefully building a small community of people who would support each other.
I have a non trivial amount of my own resources ready to devote to this project.
Feel free to reach out at andrew.n.max@protonmail.com
I'm a PhD student in computational neuroscientist with a background in cognitive science and I'm writing about things like developmental neuroscience, AI Safety, large language models & digital people over at my Substack: https://universalprior.substack.com/
I imagine there could be a lot of overlap of interests between people reading Scott's work and what I write (although I'm by far not as funny or as much of a generalist)
I can take a pro bono (no-fee) client at my law practice, which focuses on patents, trademarks, and open source software. Good candidates include open source projects or charities that have IP questions or issues. If you know someone, hit me up!
https://www.borderstoneip.com/
Have you used an MRI machine to image the thymus gland before and are interested in trying to replicate those images using a cheaper device? Ping me
Are you a good radiologist that wants to look at 3x scans and give a non-legally binding opinion? Ping me (unrelated to above, paid via paypal/card/bitcoin and requested rate)
Are you a digital nomad considering teaming up with people to travel to various places? Ping me
Are you interested in an engineer, community management or marketing job at a company building open source machine learning tools that play well with databases? Ping me
https://parrhesia.substack.com :)
I'm a freelance editor specializing in science fiction and fantasy; I've worked with a number of other fiction genres, and occasionally interesting non-fiction, but that's my core specialty. I have a slightly odd pricing pattern: I don't charge for hours, I charge for (500-word) pages ($2-$8/page, depending on how much editing is required - $2 is "a little polishing", $8 is "one page took me half an hour"), so it's easy for me to tell you the exact price as soon as I've received the document. I also have a 5-free-pages offer; if you have never hired me before, send me the first five pages (2,500 words) of whatever you want edited, and I will edit and return them for free. This lets you see what you'll be getting, and also allows me to tell you what pricing category the work falls into. Second and later passes are half price. For more information please see my website (http://arpistaediting.com/) - I know it's running slowly at the moment, sorry about that.
I am a grad student studying epidemiology, and am looking for EA (preferably biosecurity) related researcher or organizations to do a Practicum (basically an internship) or a Capstone (thesis or some other project with an end result). I'm linking to a google sheet of some ideas that I've brainstormed so far, but many of my ideas are limited to the school I go to and the researchers I've come into contact with. I have experience in research and research design, as well as R, SAS, and some Python. I would be very willing to travel- please, if you have ideas, either comment below or update my google sheet. Thanks!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12zGGgVhz5Vf1Ea9LFDc2neYFuGgagwUYMOVHEAiwcZY/edit?usp=sharing
PS-This is a copy of the original, so please do feel free to edit or comment on the sheet.
Here is a record I made (instrumental) inspired mainly on ideas around set theory
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kaxgeEJLsEs56Y7XMSUT4?si=vCnurPTDRd6kmV_N39eiMQ&dl_branch=1
PSA: if you’re looking for a side job, it will likely never in our lifetimes be easier of get hired at a restaurant than it is now. In my area (HCOL) places are offering $8-15/hour PLUS TIPS, even with zero experience and limited availability.
I'm a science fiction writer who does a substack that sends original stories and sci fi culture directly to your email, once a week. Here's a link to my latest story:
https://ogwiseman.substack.com/p/story-20-the-asteroid
You can also subscribe from there. Thanks to anybody who checks it out!
I wrote a poem and posted to my blog; it's a sort of ode to mindfulness. Some of you may enjoy it. :)
https://www.metalevelup.com/post/notice
I'm a leadership coach, and I love working with Rationalist and Rationalist-adjacent clients. I'm here to help you think clearly about how to be effective in complex, messy human systems. www.presencetree.com
Welcome to the resistance: https://freedomfighter.shop/
I've had an interest in private cryptocurrency for a while now, especially Monero and ZCash. When I saw a post by an acquaintance of mine, Joshua Goldbard, talking about the technology behind MobileCoin, I recognized instantly that it was an important achievement. (Josh is the founder). They've used a similar signing protocol to Monero for private transactions, but replaced proof-of-work with Stellar Consensus Protocol. This means that transactions complete within five seconds, with the same privacy protections and very small fees.
After experimenting with the project for a few weeks, and contributing some open source software to it, I was hired as a contractor, then later as a full-time employee.
We've been integrated into Signal messenger, although U.S. release is still not ready yet. I'm really excited for this project, so please check it out:
https://mobilecoin.com/
https://community.mobilecoin.foundation/t/mobilecoin-official-signal-group-now-online/550
The Lost War: Historical reenactors are flung into a fantasy world where they must struggle to survive amid monsters who regard them as prey . . . or worse. Not least among their problems is trying to cooperate while organized for playing pretend, not real problems.
Available as ebook, paperback, and audiobook:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QKHZCZP/
I'm a digital artist and painter based in Brooklyn, NY. I've got a new selection of limited edition prints and NFTs which are being shown this Friday, October 8th at a group show in Williamsburg. In addition to the conventional art, there will be immersive digital experiences, live music, and an open bar. Tickets can be found here: https://www.themynt.io/event-details/influences-friday-ticket
My work can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/charlesbentley/
Complice declares war on Beeminder, adds commitment contracts!
https://blog.beeminder.com/microcommitments/
Do you like Stephen King novels, and the Dark Tower specifically? Check out Kingslingers, a Dark Tower close reading podcast! It's a readalong format, so you can read the books along with the podcast and not worry that we'll spoil future information. Currently in Season 2, we are reading all the other King novels with Dark Tower connections: https://www.doofmedia.com/kingslingers/
Do you like Wildbow's stories? Check out We've Got Worm, a podcast about the web serial Worm: https://www.doofmedia.com/weve-got-worm/
Are you a big reader in general? Check out our monthly livestreamed book club. We have covered over 40 books, including many SFF classics you may be familiar with, though we also read literary fiction. This month we're reading Ancillary Justice. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCW6KR4MVOXbdi8iG72oCwOHCBDMyY7RL
Hi! Your invited to come see my art and maybe do a little holiday shopping at ArtFair 14C at the Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey Nov. 12-14. Go to my website at https://www.margaretwithers.com/upcoming-exhibits-/view/2719357/0/5241554 for information and a link to some comp tickets for the event. Send me an email if you have any questions about my art! I hope to meet you there!
I never pass up a good opportunity to shill my blog: https://residentcontrarian.substack.com
The blog exists in what could be described as the rationalist adjacent adjacent space, with some occasional deep dives and general philosophy stuff. I've been pretty hard on Scott in the past there, although I think I've probably just about worked that out of my system.
Bright, shy, old-fashioned girl seeks bright, interesting boy. Purpose: matrimony. (Or rather, courting hopefully, if compatible, leading to matrimony.) Not poly, not interested in casual sex. For more information, see OKCupid profile (https://www.okcupid.com/profile/17435752182960911079/) or email rebeccaanne3 at gmail dot com.
Hey, so I work for Truffle, we make blockchain development tools, primarily focused on Ethereum; I figure a few people here have likely heard of us so I thought this would be a good place to post this.
Anyway we're looking to hire more people, both for software development and for more management-y things. Link for open positions is https://consensys.net/open-roles/?discipline=32535
(Yeah Truffle isn't actually an independent company, we're part of Consensys, but Consensys basically lets us do what we want, so, yeah)
(Also yes I posted exactly this same thing last time, but it's still true, so...)
I should post here more, I guess I'll start with dating preferences. I'm a man in my early 30's in NJ open to a woman. I'm interested in any kind of relationship -- that means friends, too! -- and odds are that you're smarter than me, because it seems like everybody here is! Like, dang.
Feel free to message me if you're a guy, too. I'm not interested in men, but I love to conversate and learn.
Hi Folks, I've been doing a lot of photography lately and am interested in gigs or specific requests. Last time I posted I had fun helping some get some images they wanted, so I thought I'd post again. I mostly do wildlife, but I'm happy to attempt to photograph whatever you want. You can check out a partial portfolio and contact info at drethelin.com
I'm also interested in longer term projects if anyone is looking for a photojournalist or wildlife photographer to accompany them for something. I can also do some videography but I'm much less practiced at that.
I’m the founder of Science is WEIRD, a company that helps hungry kids fall in love with ALL the sciences.
We do live, hyper-interactive classes with kids on four continents (and counting) — with the biggest fraction in the Valley. We specialize in 2e kids: more than half are gifted/talented; more than half are also ADHD.
Each lesson is a riddle wrapped in a game; the class works together to solve it. The teacher facilitates the fast-paced discussion, and drops hints (metaphors, images, stories, etc).
These… aren’t typical science classes. We use a mundane topic (we just finished our “Crows are Weird” month) to unveil big ideas —
* taxons vs. clades (Linnaeus vs. Darwin)
* endothermy vs. exothermy (and why it matters that birds are dinosaurs)
* sexual selection and monogamy in birds
* the difference between reptiles and mammals (it’s probably not what you think)
* the adaptiveness of intelligence
* the social lives of crows (more complex than anyone would guess)
If those sound dull, I promise they’re FASCINATING (and that the classes are maximally goofy). Along the way, kids learn some of the most wonderfully odd things, and each lesson crescendos with an insight that turns their conceptual world upside down.
Classes meet twice a week (but some of our families stream them to watch later).
Throughout this year, we’ll plunge into other disciplines: dirt (chemistry), the Moon (astronomy), onions (botany), hills (geology), mushrooms (mycology), nuclear power (physics), neurodiversity (psychology), and mosquitoes (zoology, again).
I’d be happy to offer a free month of “Dirt is Weird” (which starts next week) to anyone in the ACX community — just use the code “ACX” at the checkout.
scienceisWEIRD.com
I'm a Software Engineer with 9 years of experience and I'm looking for work either in Chicago or remote. I've mostly worked in JVM languages, though Clojure is my favorite. I strongly believe in ownership of the entire lifecycle of services (development, testing, operations) and am well versed in k8s. I have a passion for search and continuous improvement. My most recent project was speeding up an ETL job from 43 hours to 10 hours (though sadly we can't move it from Akka-Streams to Spark since it's expected to be sunset in a year).
You can contact me at `{My Name} . b . mcg at gmail` (replace My Name the name from my substack profile).
I have a blog ( https://sablegm.substack.com ) about analyzing tabletop RPGs in general and DnD specifically from a rationalist-ish perspective, which might be interesting to people here. Core topics involve analyzing group dynamics, core GM skills, advice on setting construction, and whatever else I feel like writing.
Most recently, I've been doing a sequence of posts on de- and then re- constructing DnD magic. Goals are partly to help people resolve what happens when magic is used in a-typical ways, partly to solidify worldbuilding, partly to write down my own thoughts about magic. I numbered the posts, but I think so far they can be read mostly independently of one another:
1. Problem description and why it's important ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-1-the-problem )
2. Basic properties of magic and spells ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-2-magic-fundamentals )
3. Soul-body models, how to use them to figure out spell interactions, and some notes on illusion magic ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-souls-and-illusions )
4. Scanning divination spells, object penetration, radiology, and the magical TSA ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-magical-sight )
5. Trying to define what is an "object" as rigorously as I can, because a lot of spells refer to this concept. ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-5-objects-and )
6. Overview of the general spell properties such as range, navigation and target selection as well as some notes on relativity and area of effect. ( https://sablegm.substack.com/p/reductionist-magic-6-general-spell )
I'm gradually turning the ideas from fifteen years of blog posts into chapters for a book or books. As I finish the draft for each section, I web it for comments. I am trying, in the first draft, to use almost all of my blog posts, so expect to end up with more material than I actually want to include, so it would be particularly useful if commenters could tell me what chapters, or sections within chapters, I ought to drop, which I definitely ought not to drop.
Four sections are already up. I am almost finished with the economics section, which will probably be the longest, and expect to web it shortly.
The drafts are located at:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Ideas%20I/Ideas%20I_%20A%20Book%20from%20Blogs.html
As always, check out my webcomic about fantasy / science fiction books! "Sort of like Penny Arcade for books," one SSC reader raved. This link goes to our one about HPMOR: https://involuntarybookclub.thecomicseries.com/comics/15/#content-start
Not really a shill, but looking to hire a doctor or medical professional to do a few hours of research to decide if a particular medical procedure is legitimate or not. Email me at maksym.morawski@gmail.com
I have written three novels, one published by Baen, two self published. One of the comments I get on Amazon is that my characters are too rational, so people here might enjoy them. _Harald_ was marketed as fantasy but is really a historical novel with invented history and geography — no magic, elves, dwarves, etc. _Salamander_ and its sequel _Brothers_ are fantasies. The setting is about fifty years after the magical equivalent of Newton, who started the process of converting magic from a craft to a science.
None of them is a political polemic, all reflect in various ways my world view as both a libertarian and an economist.
Hi Everyone,
Currently, as a side hustle, I'm building an online platform for creating or joining campaigns for collective action in adversarial situations - using concepts like Assurance Contracts to solve game-theoretic coordination problems.
Think “Kickstarter,” but instead of crowdfunding products, it’s for safely recruiting and organizing participants for any project that requires a group effort, like workplace organizing, whistleblowing, open letters, direct action, formation of parallel institutions, etc.
It's called https://spartacus.app/. The Twitter account at https://twitter.com/AppSpartacus.
I know this is not an entirely novel concept - many of the underlying principles have been validated by other successful platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Change.org, and The Point, (before it pivoted to become Groupon).
Unlike those other platforms, my focus is not fundraising or self-expression, but the formation and enablement of group coordination for specific collective actions in the real world. The aim is to increase the expected value of organizing around concealed preferences by lowering the courage requirements for taking action (from heroic to average) and reducing individual actors’ risks (from potentially catastrophic to marginal).
To preemptively address some common points of feedback:
- Spartacus will prohibit any campaign encouraging illegal actions or violence of any kind.
The app will have several mechanisms built in to abate the risk of trolls, spammers, or bad faith actors sabotaging or gaming the system.
- The explicit ideological position of the app is one of J.S Mill style liberal pluralism, and it will be defended as such. It will be politically agnostic. Both “blue” and “red” campaigns will be equally welcome. That said, campaign curation will strike for balance to try to avoid the app taking on a partisan valence. Also, absolutely no Nazis.
Project Status:
I’m currently looking to recruit people for proof of concept and beta testing.
I’d also love to connect with the following sorts of people in general:
Anyone with a strong social science background who wants to be involved and/or offer input.
Anyone who thinks they might be a potential user of the app, and/or has an idea for a good use case.
Anyone who wants to support this project through signal boosting online.
If you’d like to participate, you can fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ECyUAUc54TtjMExz8
If you have questions, you can contact me in the thread, through the intake form on the site, or via Twitter @AppSpartacus
Thanks!
Hanging With History is a podcast focused on a very roundabout explanation/investigation of the causes of the Great Enrichment, Industrial Revolution.
The perspective is mainly libertarian/conservative/rationalist history and economics.
Unfortunately, the first 60 episodes have sort of a folksy tone that many people find annoying. Still if you like your English history with economics and philosophy you might enjoy it. The current episode is on the Nine Years War/War of the Grand Alliance and the origins of the War of the Spanish Succession.
If you enjoyed my Orwell review in the ACX contest, and are interested in rationalist-ish book reviews of a wide range of stuff, ranging from classic novels to contemporary self-help and nonfiction, that's what I'm doing over at my blog, https://whimsi.substack.com/p/book-review-the-emperor. Right now I've got write ups on Kafka, Kapuscinski, and comments responding to my Orwell review. Next review will likely be on David Cullen's 'Columbine'.
I'm working on a new language for web development called Argil. It's very early in the process but the goal of the language is to remove redundancy from the development process and decrease development time.
If you want to get on the ground floor and help design a new language and transpiler: https://gitlab.com/argil/kiln
www.onlinecounsellingtherapist.com
I am a qualified and experienced counsellor and psychotherapist trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and incorporating other modalities including elements of Positive Psychology, Compassion Focussed Therapy and Mindfulness.
I provide evidence based techniques for managing stress and anxiety and more effective methods of self motivating than self criticism. I remind my clients how to be a good friend to themselves and more, to cherish and celebrate themselves (without becoming narcissists). It’s the magic switch that makes you automatically raise your inner thermostat setting to allow more of the good stuff into your life and to recognise and end any self sabotaging behaviour.
I have space for 2 more clients at the moment, so have a look at my website, read the reviews by previous clients and contact me for a free initial meeting if what you read resonates with you. I am based in the U.K. and work internationally on Zoom.
I've a set of Thoreau's 1st editions put together over the last 2 decades and I'm looking to sell them. My email is davidpovey at hotmail.
The puzzle game I'm working on with some friends has a demo available as part of Steam Next Fest:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706090/Bean_and_Nothingness/
It's designed by a bunch of mathematicians and it's about turning beans into monsters. It's cute, it's challenging, and the main character has a pet bunny.
The demo is available until October 11 and we're releasing the full game later this year. The demo is Windows only, but the full game will likely also have Mac and Linux versions. If you like puzzle games, give it a try!
I'm working on building a product that makes it easier for dev teams to deploy new product features, gather high quality data from those product features, and optimize those features through A/B tests or machine learning models. My co-founders and I are looking to show engineers and/or product managers what we've been working on and get feedback. You can either email me at christina at causallabs dot io or you can set up time to talk with us here: https://book.vimcal.com/p/Csz2aDmxgSBXyyTH.
I will note that our product is particularly useful for folks working in building online machine learning models. That's what we worked on together in our previous jobs, so that's generally been top of mind for us in designing the product. I'd say the capsule summary for ML folks specifically is: "get the training data you need without ever writing another ETL + deploy your models without waiting on engineering."
I want to connect with psychiatrists interested in working in the ketamine space. My two partners and I are concerned about some of the trends we're seeing of sending medications home for people to essentially do on their own (e.g. Mindbloom, My Ketamine Home). Doesn't feel responsible to have people undergo their first psychedelic experiences essentially on their own. On the other hand, many people aren't interested or ready for bull-blown ketamine assisted psychotherapy. We're interested in bridging that gap by training somatic therapists, massage therapists, and other folks to be responsible sitters and to help with preparation and integration. We're interested in finding a psychiatrist partner to develop this project. Would love to connect if that's you!
A Twitter bot I built to share rationalist/effective altruism type content with the aim to open peoples minds to more quality ACX like content.
https://twitter.com/RationalReads
Code is here https://github.com/l0x6c/TwitterRSSBot on GitHub if anyone is interested.
another blog shill: https://ravik.substack.com
I write mostly book-review style posts on economics, history, technology, etc. Here are a couple of posts I think might have some appeal:
1. https://ravik.substack.com/p/a-795m-analogy
I go over the history of broadcast copyright law, and how some weird implications of legal loopholes induced cable providers to waste exabytes of storage, pumping over a million tons of co2 into the air every year.
2. https://ravik.substack.com/p/book-review-domination-and-the-arts
Book review of another work from James C. Scott (of Seeing Like a State fame). This one focuses on the subversive strategies deployed by the oppressed. Plenty of neat historical anecdotes if you're into that sort of thing.
Please subscribe if you find these interesting!
schlaugh.com is a social media website where you get to post at most once a day. It's not mine, but I happily remind people it exists at irregular intervals.
It is low-traffic and low-tech (metaphorically speaking, it's run by one chap out of his basement); you may have to fight it a little sometimes. Post markup is in an HTML derivate, for example. But it's a nice, quiet corner of the internet, and the 24 hour interval makes debates not nearly as hot-headed as they would be elsewhere.
Presently most schlusers (the community likes tacking "sch" onto various words, so here I am, giving you a taste of that) use the site as a journal plus a little low-frequency social interaction.
"So, I signed up. Where's the content? Where do I find other people?" You find other people by them linking you to their schlaugh profiles, or because they made a post using a tag you follow. The closest thing to a "public" stream is the tag "milkshake", for historic reasons. This sort of thing is covered by the site FAQ, though, which is both enlightening and amusing to read.
"Does this have anything to do with rationality?" No, not really.
"Why should I join?" Maybe you're tired of Facebook, Twitter, et al. Maybe you're just curious. In any case, I don't think there's much of a 'should' about it. Personally, I tried it out of curiosity and stayed for the company, as well as for the useful habit of writing a little bit every day, which has e.g. helped me combat feelings of 'but I didn't get anything done today', clobbering myself over the head with large lists of things I did in fact do.
If you are into investment research, have some hands-on experience in some real business, and are a great writer we might be able to use (and level-up your skills) over at IPO Candy. You can see what we do at ipocandy.com and you can send me an email if you get fired up (kris@).
Woman seeking human for romance etc! Serious relationship preferred, but also open to friendship.
Strong preferences:
- I’m open to all genders, but people capable of siring kids are preferred (ie cis men or pre-transition trans women — I’m a cis woman).
- My age (32), +/-5 years.
- I like people who are very honest and very kind. Smart is cool or whatever, but compassion, integrity, and grace are a lot more important to me.
Dealbreakers:
- Must want to have children (I have none, but would like them in the next few years)
- Must be okay with living in New England long-term (I’m currently in Boston)
Bonus points if you’re:
- An effective altruist
- An atheist
- Mostly or entirely sober (I’m an occasional social drinker, but that’s it)
- Interested in group houses / communal living
- Monogamous (I’m kinda sorta open to poly with people who do it extremely carefully, but I mostly prefer not to add that complexity to my life)
- Someone who likes other people + likes being alive
More about me: I’m a tall software engineer who lives in a group house with my childhood best friend. I like reading, cooking, hanging out with my siblings and niblings, solving riddles and word games, learning to juggle, starting and not finishing knitting projects, and (some) board games.
If you want to introduce yourself, you can email me at rip.my.inbox at gmail. No need to send anything too long — I’d prefer to meet up in person rather than go through a ton of back-and-forth online.
(If you want ideas, you could introduce yourself with any of the following:
- a link to your blog / Reddit profile
- a book recommendation
- a link to your favorite Wikipedia article
- a link to a dating profile
- a project you’ve done or code you’ve written
- a controversial opinion you have
- an unappealing fact about yourself
- a good riddle
- a bad riddle
- any of the above, but ciphered)
Thanks for reading all this!
PS: I’m taking a few months off dating, (until December / January), so I may not respond to emails for a bit. Just putting this out there now because the classified posts don’t come around that often!
I evaluate grants for the the Near ecosystem. We're enthusiastic about stuff that can be done with DAOs, Prediction markets, NFTs and more. If you need a bouncing board, I'll be glad to help you sort out an idea. It's very easy for me to hand out grants in the 10-20k USD range right now to anyone remotely qualified, if that's you, you might like to apply.
email: thor at near dot foundation
If you’re looking for a remote job or to hire remote talent check out: https://himalayas.app
I indulge in landscape photography from time to time. Unfortunately, I have neither skill nor talent:
https://www.deviantart.com/omnibug
You are welcome to buy some prints/coasters/magnets from the site, if you feel like it (I get a shiny nickel for each purchase made !), but what I'm really looking for is some kind of brutal yet actionable critique. Talent can't be taught, obviously, but perhaps I could improve my skill at least a little.
These ACX classified threads are weirdly fascinating. Thank you, and please keep doing this.
My band's new music video came out today https://youtu.be/6XwihrJSZnA
Are you bored, now that Scott's traveling? Do you want to read something interesting, especially some interesting fiction?
Well, I'm writing stories and I could really use helpful comments and criticism on them, and I see opportunities for what economists call 'gains from trade'.
I think I'm well above average as writers go, and, in particular, well above average at writing intelligent, reasonable characters taking actions for motives that make sense. (Also at superpowered fight scenes.) If anyone's interested in signing up as an alpha reader for my fiction, I'm happy to add you to my mailing list - I just finished a new story for the EA contest, and I'd like to get some feedback on it before I submit it. If you're bored and looking for something to read, we can help each other out!
I can get endorsements from David and Rebecca Friedman, but they're relatives of mine and so potentially highly biased.
My E-mail address is (rot13) nrilyzne@tznvy.pbz; send me a message or give me your E-mail address, and I'd be happy to send you a link!
Bisexual polyamorous guy in his late 20s seeking romantic partners, friends, co-hackers, and possibly you :D
current location: Lisbon, soon (january 2022) SF
More about me: I'm a cryptographic engineer originally from California; I've been living outside of the US for a couple of years, soon to be returning for a six-month experimental stint in SF.
Identity constructions: I claim to value honesty, intellectual curiosity, self reflection, love, community creation, and first-principles thinking above other things. I'm tend extraverted. The better part of my energy goes toward learning and building projects, participating in crypto and open-source communities, and in creating real-world communities. I'm an advocate for privacy and alternative communities/lifestyle practices.
Politics: I lean anarcho-libertarian, though the rise of multi-trillion dollar companies has pushed me farther left. I quite liked this post https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/08/a-something-sort-of-like-left-libertarianism-ist-manifesto/.
Religion: I was raised Episcopal Christian; I discarded that tradition about ten years ago, though I maintain a respect for some religious practices.
Sex and romance: Growing up, I didn't have positive romantic role models. I now internally frame all encounters as social with capacity to become romantic later if it feels right (usually after several times hanging out or extended correspondence). I currently live with a partner who is also polyamorous. Am switch, enjoy kink. I'd like kids one day, probably not in the next 5-10 years.
Health: very active, do yoga, run, climb. Semi-regularly go through meditation phases. Reduced meat diet, drink occassionally, enjoy psychedelics and other drugs too.
Three of my favorite books are East of Eden, The Diamond Age, and Sirens of Titan. I tend to read 25-30 books a year, lots of sci-fi, programming-related stuff, economics, and philosophy.
A plausibly unappealing thing about me is that I'm limited in my capacity for empathy, particularly toward people who fall outside my ingroups. I sometimes practice growing my capacity for empathy and love.
My semi-active blog: https://thork.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptograthor
Github: https://github.com/thor314
Qualities I admire: Open-mindedness, honesty, ethical self-examination, community-centrism, creativity, curiosity, self-knowledge, good boundaries
Qualities I don't care about: travel-propensity, nature-enjoyment, adventurosity, artistic talent (though I admire creativity)
Qualities I dislike: high (>2hrs/day) social media/phone usage, excessive hedonism, being a total dingus
Woah, you got all the way here!? You should send me an email! thorck at protonmail dot com
I work at Zoba, a startup building optimization software for the cities of the future. Right now we help micromobility operators decide how to allocate their fleets to better serve users and generate more revenue. We're growing rapidly, both in the sense of "new products" and "new people."
Check out https://www.zoba.com/careers for job postings. We've got openings in software engineering, data science, machine learning, economics, semi-technical roles in operations (e.g. consulting background is a nice match), sales, customer success, marketing, ...
Hi everyone, I work a day job as a TEFL teacher but I'd really like to find work as an illustrator. I work in various styles. If you have something you'd like me to illustrate (paid),please contact me and I'll happily consider it.
My website is here: https://www.berryillustrator.com/
I translate poetry! From Norwegian into English and vice-versa. A good sample here:
https://odysee.com/@kom-poetry-channel:1/London-(Nordahl-Grieg,-1940):b
And my whole channel here:
https://odysee.com/@kom-poetry-channel:1
More content every six months or so. True art cannot be rushed.
My blog: https://paranoidenough.com/
Some rationality, technology, finance/crypto, and general philosophical musings :)
On SSC, Scott wrote a post about Puritan spotting, and one of the items to look for was someone starting a religion. Scott asked where these people have gone. Well, fear not, because Oa has called me out of the wilderness to start a new religion: The Way. Broadly speaking, we Wayfarers believe in Enlightenment values like tolerance and use of the scientific method, but also find value in community, ritual, and well, religion. I bring up these points and more in the introductory post on the substack that I hope will serve to expand and support the soon-to-be community of Wayfarers: https://windingway.substack.com/p/introduction
As I think I suggested last time, this would work better if it were in fact classified, and it's quite easy to do. When you put it up, make a set of top level comments: Jobs, Blogs and Books, Looking for Work, Dating, ... . Ask each person to post his ad as a reply to the appropriate top level comment.
I'm a co-founder of a small crypto software engineering agency. We're initially focusing on NFTs, but we're interested in working on any smart contract projects! Website: https://www.northwestnfts.com/ and our blog: https://medium.com/northwest-nfts
You can reach us here: contact at northwestnfts.com
I do a FREE LIVE weekly 40-min science chat and acoustic singalong on Zoom under the nom d'espace of 'Super blurry astronaut' – mostly on a Thursday but this week's was Wednesday on the theme of 'Nobel sentiments', to celebrate this week’s Nobel prizes.
Given the Medicine awards, it was truly sensational, so 🎸 Touch me 🙌🏾 Sensual world 💃🏻 Tender 😘 Feeling good 👼🏼 I wanna hold your hand 🐙 etc.
Every Monday, I post the details on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PatrickEasterbunny as well as various mostly UK-based science communication networks, and folk share ideas for songs and general chat.
I don't know if this counts as shilling, but in for a penny...
Best regards,
Patrick
Nature NEWS 04 October 2021
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who discovered biology of senses
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian share the award for identifying receptors that allow the body’s cells to sense temperature and touch.
Two researchers who discovered the molecular basis for our ability to sense temperature and touch have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Physiologist David Julius at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) used capsaicin — the compound that gives chilli peppers their gustatory kick — to track down a protein called TRPV1 that responds to painful heat.
Molecular neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, identified receptors in skin and other organs that respond to mechanical forces, such as those generated by touch and pressure.
I write a blog, https://www.navalgazing.net/, about naval history and technology. It started in the comments at SSC and has now been running for nearly four years. I've looked at everything from the basic technical aspects of battleship design to overviews of warship development to an in-depth look at the Falklands War.
The first edition of A student's introduction to English grammar by Huddleston & Pullum came out in 2005. A second edition is finally coming out next month and I'm a co-author. https://www.amazon.ca/Students-Introduction-English-Grammar/dp/1009088017
Also, surprisingly (or not), even today linguists disagree on seemingly simple questions like what qualifies as an English pronoun. I used math to answer the question: https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/399
My new book, "Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World," pulls six leadership lessons from complexity science. I believe these lessons can help leaders deal with increasing complexity in their public and private lives. My goal: readers gain a gut-level understanding that most of life takes place in organized systems where no one is in control - and thus leaders should seek influence, rather than control. https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Out-Control-Emergent-Leadership-ebook/dp/B09G4V4WLZ/
I write logic puzzles sometimes: https://primepuzzles.wordpress.com/ I enjoy external constraints and writing puzzles for people who actually want to solve them, so if anyone wants to "commission" a puzzle like these (for free), just give me some rules to work with (e.g. what type of puzzle? do you want the clues to spell your name or something? etc) and I'll give it a shot. (I am guessing there will be 0-2 takers; I may have to re-evaluate this plan if there are many more.)
Don't know if anyone will still see this, but I translate Russian to English, with particular emphasis on scientific papers. If interested, email this gmail: ebtranslationsetc
I work on Copilot (copilot.github.com), an AI-powered programming assistant that can write code for you. We're currently hiring developers with experience/interest in developer tools as well as ML engineers and more. If you'd like to help shape the future of AI-assisted programming (and make it safe and human-aligned), send your resume to mtaran@github.com. It's a bonus that GitHub is remote-first, hiring all over the world, and the team is awesome to work with!
I build stuff from LEGO bricks - mostly small models that look well on a bookshelf. I'm mostly interested in sci-fi themes, with some builds based on works of fiction in the genre. You can see most of my creations here: https://linktr.ee/john.carter (choose your preferred platform), including instructions for several of them.
I do commissions, so if you're interested in having custom designed LEGO model contact me at john.carter.workshop [at gmail]. I can deliver either a finished model, or instructions and list of required parts and help you order parts yourself (the second is preferable if you're based outside of EU).
So I'm at sea trying to get my book in front of the right kinds of readers. I'll spare you the litany of frustrations, but I really think many readers here would be interested in it. It's called "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers and Algorithmic Matchmakers" https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intimacy-Virtual-Algorithmic-Matchmakers/dp/0231200943
It considers what happens when evolved human nature has to operate in a world of robotics, VR and artificial intelligence. I'd obviously like people to buy it, and to post about it on social media etc. Even more, however, if you have a podcast/youtube/blog, I'm always up for interviews - there's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about it.
Not sure if anybody's still looking at this thread, but: the startup I work for is looking for more software engineers. It's a smart, friendly, collaborative team trying to revolutionize software testing -- I personally have grown more as an engineer here than everywhere else I've worked at put together. We have more than a few ACX/MR/Money Stuff readers, and come from a variety of political viewpoints and academic/career backgrounds.
The catch is that we *really* don't want engineers working remote when we don't have to, so you have to be willing to relocate to Northern Virginia (Metro DC) and join our fully-vaccinated office.
We're not extremely picky about your tech specialization (most of us work on a variety of fairly-different projects over our time here), but we're definitely most enthusiastic about senior-ish people right now.
If anybody's interested, job postings are here: https://antithesis.breezy.hr/
Happy to answer questions, with the disclaimer that this post is more "I'm allowed to try" than "official messaging".
I'm an interview coach and a general career/executive coach. I work with a fair few folks in (especially) tech to improve communication skills and help people to sell themselves. Free 15-min consultation to see if it's a good fit. https://www.smithinterviewcoaching.com/
Reserve is hiring.
We are working on governance protocol design, which is a bit like designing a new tiny nation, and we are seeking new teammates to help with that design process. This is a long-term, patient project, which requires careful and extended thinking about intricate mechanisms, political coordination, credit assignment, and other such topics. Thus, we need people capable of precise thinking, with very long attention spans, at least in this domain. We don't have a job ad up for this role since we don't expect to find anyone for it online, but this community is a bit different. Pay for this role is significant, as it is very important and we value it highly.
We're also hiring in many other domains: engineering, design, strategy, filmmaking, and recruiting, for example.
Reserve is a cryptocurrency project. We have a stablecoin protocol on Ethereum, and a mobile app for using our USD stablecoin in Venezuela, Argentina, and Colombia. The app has 50k active users (100k weekly app visitors, but 50k we count as financially active), and we are aiming to get past 100k by end of year. Over the last few months we've scaled our team to handle customer support – eng+product is still only 16 people, but total team is 160. The project is complicated, risky, and stressful, and since earlier this year when we began concretely serving a meaningful number of people who are dealing with hyperinflation, it's become pretty rewarding as well.
More on us, and our open engineering roles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28776980
Feel free to email me or others on the team directly about the governance design role, firstname.lastname@reserve.org.
I have a blog and some people might like it.
It's not about tech or futurism or AI or psychology or rationality.
It's about my life as a winemaker-turned-distiller with blended senses (a weird variant of auditory-olfactory synesthesia). Check it out if you're interested in neurodiversity, and if you like reading other people's personal stories :) www.chromaticaromatic.com
In other news, I'm doing monthly online wine and beer tastings via zoom with a synethesia theme. I co-host with Sean Day, president of the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists, and Scientists. We get together, talk about synesthesia, and taste beverages following a theme. The ticket is $35, all proceeds go to fund the Synesthesia Society of Africa, and it's limited to eight people. Neurotypical people are always welcome. If you think this would be fun and interesting, please reply to this post and I'll hook you up.
Hello! I'm writing about play-and-earn and play-to-earn game design on Metaversus. If you're interested to learn more, I think this is a great place to start.
https://metaversus.substack.com/p/introducing-metaversus
Dear all, my name is Thomas Prosser and I'm a politics academic at Cardiff University in the UK. In my Substack, I write about politics from a heterodox perspective, avoiding groupthink. I do so with reference to theories of institutions, values and ideology, these being areas of academic expertise. My influences include Scott Alexander, Ronald Inglehart, Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan. Here's the link: https://thomasprosser.substack.com/
Please check it out! It's free and I'm always so grateful for subscribers :-)