Iron supplementation is often important for vegans & vegetarians, especially if you also donate blood. Your doctor should measure your blood ferritin, not just hemoglobin. Both are important.
Iron gluconate pills work fine for my wife, but they make me nauseous. Iron glycinate pills work better for me.
Welcome to the forum, @SpeakClearly. You make some good points here, but could you please engage in a friendlier way?
Iāve heard people say that the idea of an individualās ācarbon footprintā has actually harmed the cause of climate activists because it takes the emphasis onto personal behavior and off of policy change. Considering how amazingly successful policy advocacy for animal welfare can be, I worry that āwelfare footprintā could be a step in the wrong direction.
Holy smokes this is a good answer! Do you know if anyone is trying to spread thinking about AI x-risk in China, at least among the engineers and intellectuals? Iām unsure about the tractability, but this seems super important & neglected since China still has a decent shot of developing AGI first.
Several of the Statement on AI Risk signatories live in China, including a Dean at Tsinghua University. What can be done to further integrate them into the global AI x-risk community?
This is fantastic, phoebe. Keep it up!
Thanks for this feedback, Joseph. The bullet points I wrote were for sure overly simplified. I was trying to put myself into the shoes of an open-minded Chinese citizen, who has no doubt absorbed more pro-China propaganda than either of us has.
āHow would you try to convince an open-minded Chinese citizen that it really would be better for America to develop AGI first?ā
If it is possible to convince Chinese AI engineers that ālosing the raceā is in their best interest, then that would be a huge win for everyone. It would give the West more breathing room to develop AGI safely.
There is a word that educated liberals need to learn or relearn: evil.
Flagrant disregard for human life is evil.
Thanks for those links, Tristan! It felt a bit like @Jackson Wagnerās comment was scolding me directly:
The idea that a neartermist funder becomes convinced that world-transformative AGI is right around the corner, and then takes action by dumping all their money into fast-acting welfare enhancements, instead of trying to prepare for or influence the immense changes that will shortly occur, almost seems like parody.
Why do you believe that capital wonāt be useful?
OpenAI is nothing without its people.
It sounds like weāre around the same age, both a few years out of a PhD (mine was in bio). Iām happy to email/ātalk 1-on-1 with you about this:
Do not continue down the academic path. Your mind and body are clearly telling you to stop! Instead, start applying for jobs as you wind down your ongoing projects.
Probably donāt start a business right now. Not unless you have a major technical edge in a lucrative area and a suite of business-relevant skills (I couldnāt infer this from your post).
If your internships were at large/āestablished companies, I would be unsurprised that they went poorly. There are stark cultural differences between academia and the corporate world.
Consider joining a startup. Culturally, this will be a smoother transition than to big corporate. You will be paid much more than you are as a postdoc. The people around you will generally be happier than your academic colleagues. And youāll build skills that are relevant to starting your own business one day.
Academia is wonderful in many ways, but it teaches people that life is linear, which is a damn lie. Life isnāt linear! You have decades ahead of you that will be filled with personal growth and bringing happiness to other people.
This was really fantastic, Raymond! Nice work :)
Welcome to the forum! For videos specifically, John & Hank Green have an enormous number of subscribers, and theyāre pretty EA as far as Iām concerned. Just last week their vlogbrothers videos discussed treating tuberculosis in the Philippines.
One thing Iād love to have is an EA Workout Playlist on Spotify. Music is cool. Fitness is cool. Iād love to have that in my daily routine.