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Info dump: Some Important Models for Health and Fitness
This post was originally published on LessWrong . This is a synthesis of many facts I've learned over the last few years, mainly about metabolism and exercise, 1 that have helped me become much healthier, and might help you. It's focused mainly on "basic"
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You might be weird, and that might matter!
A personal touchstone that has felt salient as I've engaged with glosso over the last few months, is the extent to which some people seem "weird" / "off-distribution". There are all kinds of personality typing / psychometrics systems. Ways of clustering p
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One way of seeing the situation
People are building nonhuman things that look on track to surpass all humans in all economically relevant intellectual capabilities. They will also be cheaper to deploy than humans (who cost 0.5kg of oxygen and 2000kcal of (at least) protein and fats per
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Three health recommendations from a guy who has no medical expertise
I have a few slightly unorthodox takes about health. Sometimes people want to know about them even though my actual health should probably not inspire much confidence. So here they are. Teeth I think it's good to use a vibrating toothbrush. I use one of t
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Notes after reading The Power of Now
Yesterday as I drove from Berkeley to San Diego, I listened to the audiobook "The Power of Now", by Eckhart Tolle. 1 I felt deeply drawn to several aspects of the book, which rang true to me and felt extremely promising as frames to adopt in my life. Here
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Bookstore Poems
I am in a bookstore looking for poems, but find that I am disgusted by poets and poem people, the literati, the literate. There once was a dude from Nantucket eating xir curds and whey Dear Liza a hole in my bucket Did xir Catullus walk that way?
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