Roman Hauksson

@dearestclaude.bsky.social What should I do at EAG today?

Nutricost got back to me – their 100mg caffeine pills are in size 1 capsules.

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

I ordered empty capsules from Nutricost instead, to try to match my caffeine pills (which are also from Nutricost). Unfortunately, it doesn't say anywhere what size the caffeine capsules are, so the empties I ordered are too big (size 0). They also weigh less.

Side note: placebo pills on Amazon are super expensive for some reason. "Zeebo Imagine" capsules are $0.55 per! Compare this with L-theanine pills from Nutricost – presumably, the same thing but with a supplement instead of just filler – which are $0.08 per.

I'll also record at least one objective measure like reaction time, as well as sleep quality the following night. Pretty sure I'll do a Bayesian t-test, but haven't looked into it and not very familiar with stats. Consider this post a super informal preregistration.

I'm going to do my first blinded self-RCT to see what effect caffeine has on me. Each morning for 30 days, after my coffee, I'll blindly take either a 100mg caffeine pill or an empty gelatin capsule. I'll record subjective factors (focus, mood, anxiety level) at set times throughout the day.

seems true, but timeliness is a good virtue to cultivate, and hard deadlines are a good feedback loop to encourage that

Domestic frontier AI governance doesn’t seem to matter so much if we can’t prevent an AI arms race between countries!

Cool report on mechanisms to verify compliance with international AI treaties. International AI cooperation is a sorely neglected research topic compared to how important it will be.

YouTube video by Branch Education How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps

Just watched this incredibly well-made video on how integrated circuits are manufactured and was reminded how high the ceiling of educational resource quality is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...

Welcome!

Interesting phenomenon. I found this paper investigating it in more detail:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Thoughtful thread on the recent controversy about scrapes of Bluesky posts and data ethics in general.

I heard from the grapevine that Peter Wildeford joined

I enjoyed this episode a lot, really expanded my theory of mind

Can’t wait!

Ofc! It’s a great service

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Ofc! It’s one of my favorite posts.

YOU NEED MORE LUX | Meaningness Seriously bright indoor lights for seasonal affective disorder, or just the winter blahs

Great writeup:
meaningness.com/sad-light-le...

There are plenty of projects trying to do the same thing (e.g. gotit.pub), but they don’t have the same reach.

I think Bluesky is a good candidate for a standard platform on which academic papers are discussed. It’s open, has traction, and interfaces with the general public as well as researchers. Imagine if every arXiv paper had a link to a Bluesky thread where people could share their thoughts.

Congrats!

Maybe silly question: using a custom domain as my handle doesn’t prevent this, right?

Your new pfp and anti-nerd attitude go hand in hand

Looks like a quite interesting podcast series. I’ve been meaning to study how researchers conceptualize what intelligence is exactly.

That’s a Long list

Awesome news! Is it inspired by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?