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You may be able to notice data points where the SAE performs unusually badly at reconstruction? (Which is what you'd see if there's a crucial missing feature)
neel-nanda-1 on yanni's ShortformWhat banner?
neil-warren on Politics are not serious by defaultConcept creep is a bastard. >:(
donald-hobson on All About Concave and Convex AgentsOr the sides can't make that deal because one side or both wouldn't hold up their end of the bargain. Or they would, but they can't prove it. Once the coin lands, the losing side has no reason to follow it other than TDT. And TDT only works if the other side can reliably predict their actions.
donald-hobson on How to safely use an optimizerIf the oracle is deceptively withholding answers, give up on using it. I had taken the description to imply that the oracle wasn't doing that.
silentbob on Failures in KindnessJust came to my mind that these are things I tend to think of under the heading "considerateness" rather than kindness
Guess I'd agree. Maybe I was anchored a bit here by the existing term of computational kindness. :)
technicalities on Are extreme probabilities for P(doom) epistemically justifed?As of two years ago, the evidence for this was sparse. Looked like parity overall, though the pool of "supers" has improved over the last decade as more people got sampled.
There are other reasons [LW · GW] to be down on XPT in particular.
silentbob on Failures in KindnessFair point. Maybe if I knew you personally I would take you to be the kind of person that doesn't need such careful communication, and hence I would not act in that way. But even besides that, one could make the point that your wondering about my communication style is still a better outcome than somebody else being put into an uncomfortable situation against their will.
I should also note I generally have less confidence in my proposed mitigation strategies than in the phenomena themselves.
scrollop on Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat themI recommend to my patients to purchase(in the UK) Ferrous Fumurate (has better bioavailabilty than ferrous sulphate), the more you take the better (upto 3 times a day, you may have GI side effects) and take with 200mg+ of Vitamin C (or fresh orange juice), and don't have tea/coffee/dairy one hour either side of taking it.
(I'm a GP/Family Physician)
scrollop on Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat themWhen people come to us with hair loss for example, the first thing a doctor would do would be to check their bloods, specifically looking for ferritin levels (and other things eg thyroid etc).
If the ferritin level is less than 60 then we would recommend increasing our iron intake.
Thinking about this logically, one Could say that the usual lower threshold of normal iron(around 20, differss with age/sex and lab) Is too low. I tell this to my patients and recommend ferritin levels above sixty.
I recommend that people purchase(in the UK) Ferrous Fumurate (has better bioavailabilty than ferrous sulphate), the more you take the better (upto 3 times a day, you may have GI side effectsA) and take with 200mg+ of Vitamin C (or fresh orange juice), and don't have tea/coffee/dairy one hour either side of taking it.