Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on Tail SP 500 Call Options · 2025-01-24T20:25:45.919Z · LW · GW

I agree with this and think it's interesting (I actually already have a nice block of SPY leaps)

That said, I have far more conviction in NVDA and similar assets, so I think my total profit from either strategy would work out to be about the same

 

Like NVDA could 10x, this could 50x, but I'm gonna put 5x as much in NVDA

Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on If all trade is voluntary, then what is "exploitation?" · 2024-12-31T05:24:06.967Z · LW · GW

Trade is not voluntary, nothing is voluntary, we do everything without a choice

Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on Would You Work Harder In The Least Convenient Possible World? · 2024-12-16T00:26:07.991Z · LW · GW

I like this post a lot.

Personally I am an even less altruistic Bob, who is still slightly altruistic. I would guess that 1% or less of my effort and resources go to altruistic causes.

But I accept most of the logical arguments and most of the facts / conclusions.

The very reason I don't step up to at least become Bob is because of the Alices of the world.

If I identify with the good (pure?) too much, the good people then have in-group status which they can use as a tool to extract more value from me.

I think it's one of those things you can't logic people into doing, because there's always "well at the end of the day I'm going to die in 50 years, I am ultimately a meaningless monkey on a dirt rock, why not just get high, have fun and ignore all this dumb shit"

The idea of using goodness (really ideological purity) as leverage feels inherently wrong to me.

Maybe that's just a convenient though-terminating cliche. But maybe I don't really care, and that's the whole point.

Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on Effective Networking as Sending Hard to Fake Signals · 2024-12-14T08:52:56.949Z · LW · GW

I agree with all of this and it underscores why I loathe networking

Trying to hit the balance of not being overly transactional and signaling the right way but also trying to make sure that my signaling itself isn't perceived as conscious (which it is) is agonizing for me

Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on How to avoid death by AI. · 2024-12-09T04:49:51.380Z · LW · GW

I strongly believe that at least half of the population would never believe it is an unbiased source of information no matter what you do, and would find the centralization very suspicious

Comment by Cheese Mann (cheese-mann) on Which things were you surprised to learn are not metaphors? · 2024-11-21T22:36:49.478Z · LW · GW

This feels closely related to Alexithymia or emotion blindness

Extremely common in: people with ADHD / Autism (potentially over half)

Fairly common in: people who have PTSD, people with substance abuse issues (possibly causal, alexithymia -> drugs to feel something), and men (male-normative alexithymia)

People with alexithymia often identify their emotions primarily through physical sensations

For me (a male with autism, ADHD and PTSD) I can tell I'm feeling scared or anxious if my legs get cold (I believe this is a common form)