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Any ideas for a prediction market observable that quantifies "culture-warisation"? 2023-08-19T15:11:04.645Z
Have you heard about MIT's "liquid neural networks"? What do you think about them? 2023-05-09T20:16:27.280Z
Why don't more people talk about ecological psychology? 2023-03-04T17:03:17.588Z

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Comment by Ppau on Why you should be using a retinoid · 2024-08-19T06:32:43.369Z · LW · GW

Thanks, this is interesting

I was wondering, do retinoids work as an acute treatment as well? I sometimes have annoying acne spots in various places, but I don't feel like preventatively slathering my whole body in the stuff

Comment by Ppau on Controlling AGI Risk · 2024-04-01T20:28:45.730Z · LW · GW

Of course! Thank you

Comment by Ppau on Controlling AGI Risk · 2024-03-16T15:28:20.598Z · LW · GW

As a fellow member of the regrettably small overlap between rationalists and adepts of ecological psychology, (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y4hN7SkTwnKPNCPx5/why-don-t-more-people-talk-about-ecological-psychology), I'm looking forward to seeing your next posts!

Comment by Ppau on When did Eliezer Yudkowsky change his mind about neural networks? · 2023-11-15T20:32:03.890Z · LW · GW

Those statist AI doomers never miss a chance to bring I, R, and S into everything...

More seriously, thanks for the history lesson!

Comment by Ppau on Have you heard about MIT's "liquid neural networks"? What do you think about them? · 2023-05-10T15:24:11.066Z · LW · GW

Thanks for your answer! Very interesting

I didn't know about the continuous nature of LNN; I would have thought that you needed different hardware (maybe an analog computer?) to treat continuous values.

Maybe it could work for generative networks for images or music, that seems less discrete than written language.

Comment by Ppau on SSC/ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring Bordeaux 22 April 17:00 local · 2023-03-20T21:05:44.557Z · LW · GW

Je suis de Grenoble donc ça fait loin mais sympa de voir des rationalistes en France!

Comment by Ppau on Why don't more people talk about ecological psychology? · 2023-03-04T21:09:09.286Z · LW · GW

As I understand it, ecological psychology is more of a framework for the interpretation of existing results than a theory, but it does make predictions about coaching interventions, and yeah it seems like the results are pretty robust

Here is a compilation of studies comparing approaches favored by ecologically-minded coaches to more traditional training interventions: https://perceptionaction.com/comparative/

Could be biased of course, but it may be a good starting point

Comment by Ppau on Why don't more people talk about ecological psychology? · 2023-03-04T21:03:34.452Z · LW · GW

Indeed, the language analogy is a good metaphor for what I was getting at

To be clear though, I was making the opposite point: that ecological dynamics is a lower-level language and bayesianism is at a higher level Like, everyone talks about "opinions" and "mental models" but those concepts are more abstract and leakier, and the underlying reality is closer to information-control laws

But it might be the reverse, what do I know

Comment by Ppau on Why don't more people talk about ecological psychology? · 2023-03-04T18:57:33.882Z · LW · GW

Sure, in any case we're talking about unconscious "automatic" processes The question is what kind of processes they are

Comment by Ppau on Why don't more people talk about ecological psychology? · 2023-03-04T18:56:09.441Z · LW · GW

Thanks! Yeah, you're probably right about the style, I wanted to have some fun but I'm new at this

Comment by Ppau on any good rationalist guides to nutrition / healthy eating? · 2022-06-30T08:35:57.795Z · LW · GW

Not sure is they would qualify as "rationalist" but I’m really fond of the Stronger by Science website/podcast

They’re quite knowledgeable and cautious in their advice, and I find their explanations very clear

If you want to go deeper they have a subscription for a very serious monthly research review, and a diet app that seems very carefully designed

Comment by Ppau on Best informative videos on the Internet · 2022-05-24T16:10:20.382Z · LW · GW

Thanks, I watched a few videos and really liked them
Makes you appreciate the importance of common things

Comment by Ppau on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction · 2022-01-17T09:08:55.351Z · LW · GW

I'm just here to say that we should call it "Solomonoff's EDM" or "Solomonoff's EUV process"