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the grey text feels disruptive to normal reading flow but idk why green link text wouldn't also be, maybe i'm just not used to it. e.g., in this post's "Curating technical posts" where 'Curating' is grey, my mind sees "<Curating | distinct term> technical posts" instead of [normal meaning inference not overfocused on individual words]

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if the authors make sure they agree with all the definitions they allow into the glossary, yes. author-written definitions would be even more useful because how things are worded can implicitly convey things like, the underlying intuition, ontology, or related views they may be using wording to rule in or out.

Whenever an author with 100+ karma saves a draft of a post, our database queries a language model to:

i would prefer this be optional too, for drafts which are meant to be private (e.g. shared with a few other users, e.g. may contain possible capability-infohazards)

Y'know @Ryan [LW · GW], MATS should try to hire the PIBBSS folks to help with recruiting. IMO they tend to have the strongest participants of the programs on this chart which I'm familiar with (though high variance).

... WOW that is not an efficient market. 

My two siblings and I always used to trade candy after Halloween and Easter. We'd each lay out our candy on table, like a little booth, and then haggle a lot.

My memories are fuzzy, but apparently the way this most often went was that I tended to prioritize quantity moreso than my siblings, wanting to make sure that I had a stock of good candy which would last a while. So naturally, a few days later, my siblings had consumed their tastiest treats and complained that I had all the best candy. My mother then stepped in and redistributed the candy.

And that was how I became a libertarian at a very young age.

Only years later did we find out that my mother would also steal the best-looking candies after we went to bed and try to get us to blame each other, which... is altogether too on-the-nose for this particular analogy.

Yes, it definitely does depend upon local conditions. For example if your grid operator uses net metering (and is reliable) then it is not worthwhile at any positive price. This statement was in regard to my disputed upstream comment "Even now at $1000/kW-hr retail it's almost cost-effective here [...]".

Daniel Schmachtenberger has lots of great stuff.  Two pieces I recommend:

1. this article Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality, which is about how just because two people disagree doesn't mean either is wrong
2. this Stoa video Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger, which is about races-to-the-bottom eating themselves

Also hi, welcome Sage!  I dig the energy you're coming from here.

At $1000/kW-hr it's (just barely) not worth even buying batteries to shift energy from daytime generation to night consumption, while at $700/kW-hr it definitely is worthwhile.

Doesn't this depend heavily on local utility rates, and so any discussion of crossover points should include rates? Ex: I'm at $0.33/kWh while a friend in TX is at half that.

Batteries are primarily used for intra-day time shifting, not weekly. I agree that going completely off grid costs substantially more than being able to use your own generated power for 80-90% of usage. That's why I focused on the case where home owners remain grid-connected in my top-level comment:

With smart meters and cheaper home battery systems the incentives starts to shift toward wealthier solar enthusiasts buying batteries and selling excess power to the grid at peak times (or consuming it themselves), lowering peak demand at no additional capital or maintenance cost to the grid operators.

The only mention I made regarding completely off-grid power systems was about the counterfactual scenario of $150/kW-hr battery cost, which I have not assumed anywhere else. I didn't say that it would be marginally cost effective to go completely off grid with such battery prices, just that it would be substantially more cost-effective than buying all my power from the grid. The middle option of 80-90% reduced but not completely eliminated grid use is still cheaper than either of the two extremes, and likely to remain so for any feasible home energy storage system.

That's what I was referring to regarding $700 kW/hr. At $1000/kW-hr it's (just barely) not worth even buying batteries to shift energy from daytime generation to night consumption, while at $700/kW-hr it definitely is worthwhile. Do you need the calculation for that?

On mobile we by default use a markdown editor, so you can use markdown to format things.

My sister tried TMS and said it made her ears ring. Did you experience that?