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The word for a drug that causes loss of memory is “amnestic”, not “amnesic”.  The word “amnesic” is a variant spelling of “amnesiac”, which is the person who takes the drug.  This made reading the article confusing.

Midazolam is the benzodiazepine most often prescribed as an amnestic.  The trade name is Versed (accent on the second syllable, like vurSAID).  The period of not making memories lasts less than an hour, but you’re relaxed for several hours afterward.  It makes you pretty stupid and loopy, so I would think the performance on an IQ test would depend primarily on how much Midazolam was in the bloodstream at the moment, rather than on any details of setting.

Hunches: you ended up near the top, due to having commented on something that was highly upvoted. you were sharing something good, so getting seen a lot resulted in being upvoted more.

Depends on how much she can wiggle the frame, I would expect. There may be value in adding a screw through the strap into the rail just to be sure.

I am a lawyer. 

I think one key point that is missing is this: regardless of whether the NDA and the subsequent gag order is legitimate or not; William would still have to spend thousands of dollars on a court case to rescue his rights. This sort of strong-arm litigation has become very common in the modern era. It's also just... very stressful. If you've just resigned from a company you probably used to love, you likely don't want to fish all of your old friends, bosses and colleagues into a court case.

Edit: also, if William left for reasons involving AGI safety - maybe entering into (what would likely be a very public) court case would be counteractive to their reason for leaving? You probably don't want to alarm the public by flavouring existential threats in legal jargon.  American judges have the annoying tendency to valorise themselves as celebrities when confronting AI (see Musk v Open AI).

Something I'm confused about: what is the threshold that needs meeting for the majority of people in the EA community to say something like "it would be better if EAs didn't work at OpenAI"?

Imagining the following hypothetical scenarios over 2024/25, I can't predict confidently whether they'd individually cause that response within EA?

1. Ten-fifteen more OpenAI staff quit for varied and unclear reasons. No public info is gained outside of rumours
2. There is another board shakeup because senior leaders seem worried about Altman. Altman stays on
3. Superalignment team is disbanded
4. OpenAI doesn't let UK or US AISI's safety test GPT5/6 before release
5. There are strong rumours they've achieved weakly general AGI internally at end of 2025

This sounds like a terrible idea.

Though, if you're going to be put under sedation in hospital for some legit medical reason, you could have in mind a cool experiment to try when you're coming around in the recovery room.

i was sedated for endoscopy about 10 years ago,

they tell you not to drive afterwards (really, don't try and drive afterwards)

and to have a friend with you for the rest of the day to look after you

i was somewhat impaired for the rest of the day (like, even trying to cook a meal was difficult and potentially risky ... e.g. be careful not to accidentally burn yourself when cooking)

I drew a bunch of sketches after coming round to see how it affected my ability to draw.

Another thing that Haskell would not help you at all with is making your application good. Haskell would not force obsidian to have unbreakable references.

Yes, but now try moving the heading to a different file.

The LessWrong Review [? · GW] runs every year to select the posts that have most stood the test of time. This post is not yet eligible for review, but will be at the end of 2024. The top fifty or so posts are featured prominently on the site throughout the year. Will this post make the top fifty?

Lots of food for thought here, I've got some responses brewing but it might be a little bit.