Small-Scale Question
Does Effective Altruism have a *current* opinion on how to most effectively cease the suffering caused by Russia's invasion of the Ukraine? Or more concretely, which program/intervention offers me the most effective 'counteract Russian terrorism' per $1, taking into account short- and long-term effects?...
Starting PhD program in neurosci in 1 week. General advice is wanted, but I have one specific question: how do I build a close knit group of friends? I am a little scared bc i am 21 and 2 years younger than anyone in my cohort of 20 ppl. I still like to hang out with my undergrad friends (moving away 400 miles) and do undergrad things (getting very very wasted etc)....
I have had this sitting for a week but it never seemed to fit in the small-scale or friday fun or wednesday wellness. So I guess the question is "how evil can a product be?" https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1562914396732801025?s=20&t=YTSBi61pjYTqsfkgBKOA3Q Short version: A consumer can buy a 30 TB hard drive off of Alibaba or Walmart's website (which is a reseller using them as a storefront). The capacity is fake. Someone wrote hacked firmware so that two flash drives have (each) 512MB of actual storage self-report as 15TB. When you go to use it, the hacked firmware pretends to write the files and creates the whole directory structure. The directory structure is the only permanent part. The file contents start getting overwritten once you put in too much ...
So, what are you reading? I'm starting Minsky's *Society of Mind*, a classic AI text about building minds from smaller, mindless components. The current zeitgeist seems to be moving away from classic AI, but eventually we'll need better understanding of where precisely our machine-learning models fit in the broader scheme of knowledge. "Shut up and scale" doesn't seem entirely satisfactory. Maybe going over some slightly dust-covered ideas might spark some useful thinking. The book itself seems like a mix of aesthetic quirks and precision, and I seem to be in the mood for that....
Recently [posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/x0wtdt/open_access_to_research_articles_recent_progress/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) my summary of the article [“Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access?”](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1347) (2020) about struggles between publishers and pubic research institutions. I read the article to contextualize US govt [statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/) from Aug 25, announcing that immediate open access to all taxpayer-funded research articles should be implemented by 2025, thus eliminating current 12 months embargo. I wanted to...
**European Probation/Early Release Scandals:** After playing a game that made fun of him, I read that Josef Fritzl, [World's Least Popular Austrian (silver medalist)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case) might be eligible for probation next year, after 15 years in prison for the whole multi-generational incest rape dungeon business. It made me curious: what's the media environment in european countries like when this happens? Does the press pay any attention to it? Do people ever talk seriously about maybe bus-full-of-nuns-murderers needing to spend more time in prison? In the UK it's usually only the Daily Mail that notices/comes out with headlines about bringing back hanging, while the US sometimes gets some hand-wringing in the serious-people papers if th...
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