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British savoury food is poor. British desserts are maybe the best in the world: apple/rhubarb crumble, bakewell tart, summer pudding, sticky toffee pudding, Eton mess, steamed puddings, etc. Most cultures have fewer desserts and they're too sweet without enough tang. (Bias: I am a Brit.)
Yeah, If I'm reading the preprint correctly, the effect is insignificant in the under 60 group, and the overall odds ratio (of long covid conditional on infection, I think) is basically 1 (Figure 3). I'm not sure if this is about the study being underpowered, or if there's just no effect.
The main thing I noticed doing this is that my brain really wants to come up with clever solutions. A lot of obvious but non-clever solutions came later.
- Bury it in a completely random place on the earth in a secure box, making sure I wasn't followed, record the location exactly
- Put it in a bank vault
- Make friends with someone who guards the crown jewels, ask them to slip it under the cushion that the crown rests on
- Find a lot of identical pens, mix it in with them
- Put it in my mother-in-law's kitchen drawer
- Put it in a well-insulated box in a satellite whose orbit will decay in 50 years
- Donate it to the Swiss patent office
- Slip it in to the Swiss patent office (visit and put it in someone's desk)
- Split it into pieces (cartridge, top half, bottom half etc) and attach those pieces to pieces taken from identical pens, so there are now three pens. Don't tell anyone, they hopefully won't catch on
- weld the pen into another object
- hide it inside a lamppost
- Hide it inside a drainage pipe
- Melt the constituent parts of the pen down into another form
- Bury it in my back yard
- Give it to Einstein's grandma
- Give it to Einstein's school
- Buld it into a piece of furniture (e.g. a door)
- Hide it in a Cluedo set
- Attach it to a flotation device and a GPS tracker and set it adrift in the middle of an ocean
- Place it in the foundations of a building that I know will be torn down in 50 years time
- Camouflage it
- Feed it to a cow
- Tie it to the top of the empire state building
- Tie it under the golden gate bridge
- Put it in the edge of a picture frame
- Attach it to a magnet in CERN
- Give it to the Royal Society, tell them what it is, ask them to hide it
- Sink it to the bottom of the marinas trench, or somewhere less obvious
- Give it to them - they'll be so shocked they won't believe it's the real one
- Remove any identifying marks, and set up a company to mass-produce such pens, slip it in with the others
- Give it to a randomly-selected person
- Get it lost in the post
- Put it in a high-altitude balloon with a timer set to detonate the balloon after 50 years, allowing the pen to fall to earth
- Get it caught in a whale's balleen
- Tie it to an Elephant's tusk
- Hide it inside a piano
- Hide it inside a hollow book
- Hide it inside an oven
- Hide it in a toilet cistern
- Stick it underneath a fridge
- Put it in the stuffing of a sofa
- Hide it inside the handle of a fishing rod
- Hide it under a railway line, inside a groove in a sleeper
- Bury it at a (full) landfill site
- Put it at the top of a redwood, buried in the bark
- Hide it in a cave
- Go to antarctica, melt a circle of ice, throw it in, so that it ends up encased in a piece of ice
- Hide it in their own house, so they won't look for it
- Spread as many rumours and as much misinformation about the pen as possible, to throw them off the scent, then just keep it
- Hide it inside a really ugly pencil case
I'm planning to try this: https://learn.nateliason.com/. I think that the Roam founder also recommends it.
This is a sidepoint, but I'd be interested in hearing more about Wikipedia's "increasing signs of ideological uniformity". I wasn't aware that it was biased, and I'm not sure what direction the bias is in.
Thanks so much to the LessWrong team for all your support - the Forum wouldn't exist as it does without you, and we've learnt a lot from conversations with you.
I wanted to link to our post explaining the goals of the Forum, which Oli's excerpt is from.
We are still in the process of rolling out additional features like sequences and the community section, but most of the things you’re familiar with should be there, and basically everything should be there eventually.
Some things we’re doing slightly differently: rather than having a “meta” category, we have a slightly broader “community” category, which is designed for organizational updates and discussion of community issues. We hope this means that new users will hit the intellectual side of the Forum before seeing community-focused discussion, whilst still leaving room for valuable coordination and information sharing. We also don't have a curated section.
As before, feel free to cross-post content which is relevant to both communities -- it will be moderated according to the standards of each community.