All of Sam Celarek's Comments + Replies

I made a vegan vitamin supplement spreadsheet! It has vitamin ranges for many multivitamins available on amazon along with price/day estimations informed by this Vegan Vitamin Primer

Inspired by reading this VOX article on Nutrition (and knowing that I should be taking vegan vitamin supplements for a while now):

Just fyi, but the vitamin values in this spreadsheet ARE NOT informed by my own independent deep dive into all the potential vitamins I should be getting or the research behind it. I'm mostly relying on the expertise of this VOX promoted Ginny... (read more)

3
Sjlver
2mo
For European people on a budget, here's a multivitamin at €0.07 per day: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Multivitamins-Minerals-Multivitamin-Essential-Vitamins/dp/B08BX439HX They don't deliver to the US, though. And you might want to add in some omega 3 fatty acids (DHA/EPA) for a more complete supplementation
4
Elizabeth
2mo
This looks great, thanks for doing it

An Updated version of this event is on Meetup: We will be discussing Petrov Day

https://www.meetup.com/portland-effective-altruists-and-rationalists/events/288296711/

I would like them to continue because it saves me a lot of time. Does LessWrong have a similar function?

1
Group Organizer
2y
LessWrong doesn't have this event cross-posting. Possibly it's less relevant for their site than the EA Forum.

Hi Yvonne Gurira, unfortunately we will not be having this meet up because we have covid. It has been postponed until May 29th! Sorry for the late notice

Can I have access to modifying these events?  I'm an organizer for PEAR. I'm glad that EA Forum can pull things from the meet-up website but most of our meet-up events are placeholders until further updates can be made.  

Case in point: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Effective-Altruists-and-Rationalists/events/sbndssydcgbgc/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

1
Group Organizer
2y
Sure thing - I just assigned you as an organizer to the group. You should have access to edit the group's info and events. We have a contractor who cross-posts EA events from Facebook and Meetup. If you'd prefer to manage your group's events yourself, we can ask the contractor to skip your group.

I was just talking about this with some friends! Has anyone trained a GPT-3 language model on LessWrong or EA posts and then had it create or try to distill some posts? I think this would be mostly entertaining, kinda like the postmodern philosophy generator or subreddit simulator. But it seems like a win-win regardless of whether it is a good or bad distiller.

If it is bad, it could impart some valuable lessons about recognizing vacuous gpt-3 generated ideas. If it is good, then maybe it could really distill some ideas well or generate new ones (doubtful atm?).

Also there could be a monthly award for whoever predicts which post is AI generated :).

It seems everyone here already implicitly understands how much value our free time has, however I would suggest using this Free-Time Value Calculator from Clearer Thinking which uses several thought experiments to further prime and clarify your intuitions into one central Free-Time Value.  It also has several suggestions for Time-Savers at the very end depending on your Free-Time Value Estimate.  If you take it feel free to share! I've had several friends (EA and otherwise) take it and find it fascinating, but put spoilers on your comment to prev... (read more)

Here is the link to the discord server! https://discord.gg/RHAFm6eP5N