My best tweets of 2019
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2019-02
pain is first and foremost motivational
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 2, 2019
thus, opposite of pain is desire, not pleasure https://t.co/BjzhP42pAr
much deeper point in this tweet i only saw after months of thinking about it:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 2, 2019
most successful people are totally unable to think strategically about life
they have aptitude for math-like problems and they enjoy doing things that end up being good in the long-term.
that's it https://t.co/N08cJIoJqO
when people begin lying about travel expenses, instead of starting to require paperwork, just dissolve the organisation and start anew
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 5, 2019
Researchers looked at 1008 manuscripts submitted to The Lancet, British Medical Journal, and Annals of Internal Medicine in 2003 and 2004.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 7, 2019
14 of the rejected manuscripts went on to become the top 14 most cited papers out of all these manuscriptshttps://t.co/PLO4TrbRFf pic.twitter.com/NxHkiTIKBJ
a periodic reminder to start using tab snooze https://t.co/RIifsL3hB2
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 11, 2019
TAB SNOOZE IS THE MOST USEFUL EXTENSION EVER
if you're not sure how it's useful, here are my snoozed tabs: pic.twitter.com/Xb2VaJMIWT
great demonstration of my deep skepticism of ANY data
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 14, 2019
obscure methodological detail was responsible for ~10% change in an extremely important metric
now realize that vast majority of such details are "unknown unknowns" still hidden and mercilessly fucking up all our statistics https://t.co/ev4pgiK7YV
from reddit: "therapy is like when you need someone to proofread your paper and point out silly errors, except with your thought process instead of a paper."
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 16, 2019
*this is also a very good explanation of why you should have a spouse*
this is Austen's most important tweet. Our thinking about problems with education is clouded by giant survivorship bias and we have NO IDEA how many people failed out of the system due to all of its bullshit
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 20, 2019
I know that I didn't by pure luck and always balanced on the very edge https://t.co/XnjqUc72ID
When I was 13 I discovered the pdf of my school's "Internal Rules".
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) February 28, 2019
So I read it, went to the school's Principal, and told her about every violation of the rules by the school's administration I could find https://t.co/x3rrkUz8CP
2019-03
"the history of science is full of ideas that seemed radical, unfathomable, and interdisciplinary at the time, but that now we teach to undergraduates. Every generation, we somehow compress our knowledge just enough to leave room in our brains for one more generation of progress" pic.twitter.com/jRohDmWfCW
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 4, 2019
Generalized Gell-Mann amnesia (Guzey amnesia? :D):
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 21, 2019
You know that the majority of papers in your field of expertise are wrong or meaningless but when looking at papers from other fields, you take every result at face value.
"Typical actions of reviewers include:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 22, 2019
* Trying to delay or block a competitor’s publication in a prestigious journal;
* Asking to cite their papers;
* Generating strange suggestions;
* Acting as if they are the authors of the paper;
* Writing a positive review to a friend." pic.twitter.com/CBaKem8z0S
imagine that the way venture funds picked startups was to send the startup's application to a few of its competitors, ask them what they think about this startup, and then decide to invest or not invest solely on this
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 27, 2019
"Total loss in brain mass between age 20 and age 80 is, on average, ~450 g, or roughly 1/3rd of our youthful brain volume." https://t.co/xwAq8nExqq
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 30, 2019
this is one of the most important tweets https://t.co/rH52fwc4tl
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) March 30, 2019
2019-04
/r/slatestarcodex strikes again https://t.co/w9UGCXJ64o pic.twitter.com/Ib08amFuXt
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 3, 2019
This is the single most important part of learning *anything*https://t.co/a3Pu4272Yy pic.twitter.com/qaySLxdhTz
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 6, 2019
"rare datapoints driven by unusual processes such as the mentally ill or hoaxers are increasingly unreliable as evidence of anything at all and must be ignored. At scale, anything that can happen will happen a small but nonzero times." https://t.co/CnTG3IuLj9
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 10, 2019
a few quotes from @michael_nielsen's https://t.co/RkIfjNUsG5
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 10, 2019
"As a byproduct of failing on a great problem, I have always found that I could solve some lesser but still interesting problems - which then fill your vitae."
cc @yevterentiev pic.twitter.com/ICwvPeEY49
skyping with internet friends is underappreciated
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 17, 2019
getting kicked out of your phd program is underappreciated
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 17, 2019
1/ a thread of my all-time favorite gifs............
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) April 28, 2019
let's start with dumb bugs pic.twitter.com/nWWdzv8C19
2019-05
also, I've been referencing this tweet by @paulg in every conversation I had in the last 6 months: https://t.co/KLBlEaxdVE
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 4, 2019
why you should never rely on Internet Archive, exhibit #93053:@Quora has excluded its archives from @internetarchive and most of it is now permanently lost to history
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 4, 2019
Exclusion of twittr/fb/reddit is just a matter of time
use https://t.co/sQ4MaUA6yr or https://t.co/J4jVCcdUNH pic.twitter.com/QA1CONvZip
/r/tinder's "Profile Review" threads are one of the greatest creations of humanity:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 5, 2019
Thousands of strangers giving invaluable help and feedback to each other for free, helping with one of the most important parts of our lives.https://t.co/VDFRDRZO9g pic.twitter.com/LnWUzZluuS
A brilliant post from @TrevMcKendrick:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 7, 2019
"Even the great Sam Walton couldn't find investors to start the 1st Walmart, on the back of a near-perfect record in retail." https://t.co/8QFRvaB8Ij pic.twitter.com/pd3tcdI1MN
"unglamorous projects went wanting for people to work on them. They [google] had a half day meeting to review file system projects because…it turns out that many, many top computer scientists evidently dream of writing their own file systems." https://t.co/6Ii7KGBtmQ
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 7, 2019
the only determinant of long-term wellness is hope for a better future
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 11, 2019
1/ >On the day of Stalin’s funeral, factory sirens shrieked and wailed and cars and locomotives hooted. ... the years passed ... rumors began to spread about executions and tortures ... another rumor spread ... : “The biggest enemy of the people of them all was—Stalin!” pic.twitter.com/P6WpVkgrF7
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 12, 2019
6/ >... at the Party Congress, someone sent a note up to Khrushchev: “Where were you at the time?” And that Khrushchev asked over the microphones: “Who wrote this note? Please stand up!” Nobody, of course, got to his feet. “All right,” said Khrushchev, “I was where you are now.” pic.twitter.com/JLJ8my3tCZ
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 12, 2019
3/ "The legitimation of Copernican astronomy implied a restructuring of the hierarchies among the liberal arts which, in turn, involved an increase in the mathematicians’ social status." pic.twitter.com/o2PEgRk6RH
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 16, 2019
i'm convinced literally everybody needs a coach / accountability buddy who actually cares about them https://t.co/ThsCtzueaH
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 19, 2019
1/ this essay is brilliant
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 19, 2019
"I’ve been a graduate student in physics for almost three years, but I only recently figured out why."
some highlights: https://t.co/cfmg5m623b
"A CEO poses next to his growth marketing strategy (left: six months after founding; right: month before IPO)" https://t.co/Ka5tRfFOeC by @byrneseyeview cc @backus pic.twitter.com/wZCPpnf035
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 22, 2019
"crackpots who were right" https://t.co/upIcQpET0j
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 24, 2019
"On 4chan ... no one knows ... your past beliefs, nor do you have any incentive to display beliefs that will make you look good - since no one will ever even know it was you." https://t.co/dgt3rBcZLD pic.twitter.com/RH4ho0oqyn
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 25, 2019
https://t.co/3VW8Xxyjr4 pic.twitter.com/ldxor4BUTH
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 25, 2019
imagine being in the market for moral frameworks deciding upon one that seems most straightforward and principled and then finding out that actually the only reason for the framework's all-organizing rule was the fact that mathematicians found it easy to prove facts about it
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 26, 2019
"Bohr disliked writing and avoided doing so whenever
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 26, 2019
he could. He was able to complete his doctoral thesis
only by dictating it to his mother. 'You mustn't help
Niels so much, you must let him learn to write himself',
his father had urged, to no avail." https://t.co/618Tm9Jsyv
Everybody is ignoring OneNote but it's 100x better than Notion.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 28, 2019
Most people discard it without even trying because they feel that it's "old", which is fucking stupid
My intro to OneNote: https://t.co/MhSJxVdU2w https://t.co/8MhsSgTfE0
"it was my hope that the gene might be solved without my learning any chemistry ... as an undergraduate ... I was principally interested in birds and managed to avoid taking any chemistry or physics courses which looked of even medium difficulty" pic.twitter.com/gMzt7fkkNZ
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) May 29, 2019
2019-06
1/ An important personality trait not discussed in Myers-Briggs and Big 5, but which mostly drives which type of a job you'll be attracted to:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 2, 2019
Tolerance for risk and tolerance for being responsible for things.
In 2004 45% of Americans thought that same sex *relationships* should not be legal https://t.co/GMyLvsDcgr
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 2, 2019
Going back in time to give younger self your wisdom.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 7, 2019
Younger self is unimpressed, wants to be left alone.
you do x for 10 years
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 8, 2019
you realize that x is stupid
if you stop doing x you will feel stupid for doing it for 10 years
you do x
RAPIDLY PRESS X TO REFUSE TO COME TO TERMS WITH YOUR OWN MORTALITY https://t.co/dOtmfQ4ZqR
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 10, 2019
Gossip is the most powerful weapon against bad actors we have. It should not be looked down upon.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 11, 2019
everything interesting I've ever done in my life resulted from me forgetting to prepare for job interviews and failing to get a job year after year
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 11, 2019
meeting all the famous people i've been admiring all my life
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 12, 2019
just a bunch of awkward nerds just like me
https://t.co/KZ0523qSBy (pdf) pic.twitter.com/UhdhRf0X0t
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 12, 2019
best thing about giving advice is that you actually start following it yourself eventually
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 13, 2019
"One day every 2 or so weeks I break from my sleep schedule to go ~36 hours without sleep. ... Sleep deprivation is actually more effective at short-term mood improvement than any psychiatric drug"https://t.co/fbcOEEEbIv pic.twitter.com/8xEcrFbnZf
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 16, 2019
"[normal people] have problems that are .. as messed up as the recovery crowd. .. two main differences .. "normal" people are much more committed to hiding their problems .. and normal people don't recognize that their unhappiness is a solvable problem." https://t.co/h0mlQwTLwv
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 16, 2019
2/ "[founders seemed unsure] that they were actually onto something big. Some of these companies got started almost by accident. The world thinks of startup founders as having some kind of superhuman confidence, but a lot of them were uncertain at first about starting a company." pic.twitter.com/3FQeaiHVCT
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 21, 2019
"monomania isn’t a process but a near-pathology, something that infests the mind ... one should search for what infects one with it ... it is a dubious blessing, it is nevertheless one for which the world must often admit gratitude." https://t.co/uppEFQ1ypo https://t.co/UB610DtXWT
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 23, 2019
🔥🔥🔥"[Zipcar] stood to lose millions of dollars’ worth of government contracts ... They quickly took up an aggressive lobbying effort that forced city councils to act fast. ... [our] technology was banned 17 days after it launched in Boston" https://t.co/ERjud4uBcA pic.twitter.com/SDzlN3dTtE
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) June 30, 2019
2019-07
"Viaweb wasn't the first startup Robert Morris and I started. In January 1995, we and a couple friends started a company called Artix. The plan was to put art galleries on the Web. In retrospect, I wonder how we could have wasted our time on anything so stupid." https://t.co/bHlAqClCKy
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 3, 2019
Why saying that high school drop-outs' wages have declined in the last 50 years is meaningless:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 15, 2019
"A high-school drop-out was around the 40th %-ile of academic achievement in 1973. Now a high-school drop-out is around the 10th %-ile" https://t.co/dQtBMSJsBx
I'm trying to connect more people in my extended network to each other (a super high return activity!)
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 19, 2019
Please fill out this form if you're interested, and I'll try to intro you to someone I think you should know https://t.co/BsLU3dbl5e
Love this operationalization of twitter as an engine for (1) discovering people and then (2) having repeated unplanned interactions with them resulting in friendships without the necessity of physical proximity https://t.co/K0ehpXYtQ1
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 21, 2019
Apparently, while writing "Flash Boys", Michael Lewis biked through rural Pennsylvania to trace the routes of fiber-optic cables between stock exchanges but didn't manage to interview a single actually high-frequency trader pic.twitter.com/LVv1YiXXR8
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 25, 2019
an underappreciated benefit of having a blog: my cold emails more and more frequently look like this (1), instead of like this (2) pic.twitter.com/069Y2Mttx7
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 27, 2019
the number of organisations in the world doing x is frequently determined not by how many organisations would be optimal but by how many people want to run an organisation that does x (especially so in nonprofit space)
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 27, 2019
I'm trying out an experiment:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 29, 2019
Every Saturday at 18:30 UTC I'm going to host a public Zoom call.
As a discussion prompt, we'll be [initially] using the latest issue of my twitter newsletter: https://t.co/HIfKxXYSVm
(will post url of the zoom call in this thread every Saturday)
90% of the time you should be in the state of flow
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 29, 2019
10% of the time you should be doing things that you hate, constantly pushing yourself against the limits of your ability and willpower
Doing anything in between slowly kills you.
“To the college authorities,” E. H. Neville observed later, “he [Ramanujan] was just a student who was neglecting flagrantly all but one of the subjects he was supposed to be studying. The penalty was inevitable: his scholarship was taken away.” 1/ pic.twitter.com/LDnezJS9yd
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 30, 2019
my life is pre-product-market fit
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) July 30, 2019
2019-08
lmaooooo "The vast majority of student loan debt is held by borrowers who are perfectly capable of serving it. All of which is to say that a giant welfare program for the upper middle class is at or near the top of the Democrats' spending priorities." https://t.co/wB0HYfigzt
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 5, 2019
"Crick had been working for the navy for a long time and was depressed and discouraged. He said he had missed his chance of ever amounting to anything as a scientist. WW2 had hit him at the worst time...six best years of his life, squandered on naval intelligence, lost...forever" pic.twitter.com/QG14ZBUJIL
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 5, 2019
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better." https://t.co/vNXlJ9fIO1 pic.twitter.com/avnW7KtKB6
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 6, 2019
A new note: How long does it take to write a post/essay? https://t.co/WSbxiI8Vws pic.twitter.com/YrFPFSn5Ic
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 10, 2019
🤔 https://t.co/3vqOIO8Fzr pic.twitter.com/7rHbyn7aSP
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 11, 2019
😮 "Some 12% of the British army's ordinary soldiers were killed during the war [WW1], compared with 17% of its officers. Eton alone lost more than 1,000 former pupils - 20% of those who served." https://t.co/rUFR2dLBNR pic.twitter.com/OY0anXOgDe
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 13, 2019
ISA are fake in that they do not depend on Lambda teaching anything real. They only depend on people getting jobs afterwards and people get jobs for any number of reasons
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 18, 2019
"Competent, but not exceptional, interviewers means the company looks competent, but not exceptional, too." https://t.co/Xs4u0Tmi0t
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) August 26, 2019
2019-09
"The pioneers, the first who struggle out of the established systems and who form new and useful conceptions, appear only half right..their names stay remote. [we shld cherish them] more than those who come after, who clear off the debris and offer a neater, more full-blown view" https://t.co/uyQI21LDxA
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 2, 2019
best slate star codex post in a while "sometimes the body communicates with itself by messages written with radioactive ink on asbestos-laced paper, in the hopes that it’s killing itself slightly more slowly than it’s killing anyone who tries to send it fake messages." https://t.co/F78gc1exBT
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 2, 2019
got myself a new haircut pic.twitter.com/vbQRJAZaD4
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 2, 2019
just like functional institutions are the exception, functional relationships are the exception
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 5, 2019
my wife during our last weekly review: "so what's your 30-year life plan this week?"
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 9, 2019
a super underappreciated post by @diviacaroline
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 14, 2019
"Many years ago, I did an exercise where I made a list of thoughts that I flinched away from. Then, I made spaced repetition cards with the thoughts."https://t.co/NmzE94CNNu
"Some prospective parents have sought PGD [pre-implantation genetic diagnosis] to select an embryo for the presence of a particular disease or disability, such as deafness, in order that the child would share that characteristic with the parents." https://t.co/MoV5P1hXT9
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 21, 2019
if you're not thinking about this tweet every day, you're not thinking about it enough https://t.co/67jvtZgRaC
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 22, 2019
Love this line by @gwern as it captures both
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 22, 2019
(1) insane amount of recent, important technological progress
(2) hedonic adaptation that cancels it all out, in happiness termshttps://t.co/28TzpDYVAV pic.twitter.com/ruiR4XUEo5
lmao humans are literal utility monsters? https://t.co/bsHqAGJmX7
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) September 24, 2019
2019-10
Brothers Karamazov is just Dostoyevsky talking to himself for 600 pages.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 3, 2019
- Alyosha is his deeply loving and religious part
- Dmitry is his crazed by casino and constantly chasing women part
- Ivan is his blasphemous writer/intellectual part
just replied to a 5-months-old email -
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 5, 2019
encourage my followers to find a really old email you should've replied to long ago and finally do it
I discovered a new todo app (https://t.co/zc9meyZPl5) 6 months ago and it is MUCH better than any other app I used in the past (Todoist, Complice, etc).
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 5, 2019
This makes me think of just how wrong the low-hanging fruit arguments are. Amazing Marvin would be straight up impossible...
"over about two generations, 25% of the entire [Sweden's] population left for the USA..because of the emigration..the remaining population is noticeably lower on [individualism]..[by] 10.1%-points in Sweden..these reductions appear to be permanent:" https://t.co/eBUyy5PeKg
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 5, 2019
It's terrifying how often I read something, love it, then reread it a month later, still love it, then reread it 6 months later and am like "this is the dumbest argument I've ever read how have I missed it before"
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 13, 2019
lmao https://t.co/Iid55Xnc22 pic.twitter.com/lHnPozFCEq
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 24, 2019
Noticed an interesting change in my perception of things:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 28, 2019
In the past, when I saw a research paper I looked for negative signals about its quality.
These days I look for positive signals.
The default perception of science has flipped.
the evolution of "F" from a meme mocking call of duty to a legitimate way to pay respects might be one of my favorite things on the internet
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) October 30, 2019
2019-11
every time i look at some graduate program's admission page and see the desire for "demanding undergrad classwork" i'm reminded of this quote by Watson https://t.co/w44y09cCky
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 3, 2019
divide people in 2 groups of same average iq but different conscientiousness. if admissions to an institution are based on n<iq+consc<m, the group with higher consc will have lower iq on average, within almost every institution --> false stereotypes of iq diff
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 8, 2019
honestly given microsoft's success and impact on the world gates should've been a trillionaire
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 9, 2019
For the last two months I've been sleeping for 4 hours a night, thinking about Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep".
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 15, 2019
130 hours of writing and research and 6000 words later: https://t.co/7H2IlY57Fd
"Failure of systematic reviews to acknowledge the unreliability of small, single-centre trials should raise concerns about the value for money provided by reviews.” https://t.co/Ta5tZzuoPN
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 19, 2019
on carnivore diets: "while most of the "inflammation" claims are probably nonsense, it's extremely unusual to be allergic to meat, so some of those who have tried it and liked it may have just managed to cut out an allergen." https://t.co/4rBYwWb2DA
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 23, 2019
"There is no clinically controlled evidence showing that...LED [light] causes significant change in sleep quality with measures like minutes spent sleeping or an insomnia scoring system...There are 4 or 5 studies on the matter, all negative results." https://t.co/2H9NSIQSd0 ????? pic.twitter.com/IrYGY8vQ0u
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) November 29, 2019
2019-12
Is it just a coincidence that apparently Korea, China, and Japan all have very similar, grind-based education systems, strong deference to authority, etc. ???https://t.co/9bfvt8VYYj
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 2, 2019
the curriculum for my future children (I'm 100% serious):
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 3, 2019
ages 0-10: English, Russian, Mandarin, RTS + FPS videogames. No math.
One of the effects of deeply internalizing https://t.co/KSYxxOqG9V and https://t.co/3Pv9nTMobW is that I no longer perceive results like this to be any interesting. https://t.co/bOwxtz3MrT
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 5, 2019
I refuse to use any note-taking apps that won't allow me to have a printout all slides of a lecture fully readable on a single screen pic.twitter.com/ARvmS8eJSN
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 5, 2019
The more I learn about drug development, the more it seems to be that the cost of the US healthcare is to a big extent (1) the price the US pays for drug development that the rest of the world rides on (2) result of actually giving good treatment to people with terrible diseases
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 11, 2019
also, here's my favorite ever paper about school:
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 14, 2019
"the driver behind the reduction in crime [after increasing school time] is not better employment outcomes, but ‘dynamic incapacitation’"https://t.co/o48NMjFbnR
"Lidocaine was discovered in 1946 and went on sale in 1948" wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut https://t.co/xq4at3MyAP
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 13, 2019
age at which interesting (according to @briantimar) companies were founded https://t.co/ncX2jlRt0T pic.twitter.com/g5X4tKNXJg
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 14, 2019
"This plausibly mean that some treatments look healthy for mice simply because they counteract the harm done by high methionine and/or low glycine. Maybe anything that causes calorie restriction helps counteract the harm from methionine." https://t.co/j1qYApsmpR ???????
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 14, 2019
has anyone looked deeply into plastics in food and hormone regulation? how meaningful is this?https://t.co/6nAsnF7Orehttps://t.co/LXDGANWNnihttps://t.co/WsUdUPUNI5
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 15, 2019
thinking about raising ~$1k for someone to do a deep review of the lit based both on bio plausibility+curr data
One of the biggest mistakes people commonly make in long-term romantic relationships is not discussing whose career is a priority.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 16, 2019
If A has to move halfway across the world for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, will B pack their stuff and sacrifice their career or cut A's wings?
It's dumb that therapy is always in 30-60 minute sessions.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 18, 2019
My guess is that maximum efficacy would be achieved if instead it went in like 4-6 hours blocks for the first few days and then in 30-60 minute blocks for maintenance/long-term support
it's ridiculous how often some terrible study finds some large effect and then becomes the de facto standard reference, to the point of people writing something like "it is well-known that..." -- no, it's not well-known. it's just one terrible fucking study. stop. just stop.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 19, 2019
1/ if you're thinking about your 2019 donations, instead of going to GiveWell and absent-mindedly donating to whatever charity they recommend...
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 27, 2019
In 2000s, my age was growing at 22% per year.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 30, 2019
In 2010s, it slowed down to 6% per year.
In 2020s, it will be growing at less than 4% per year.
A Great Stagnation, no less.
(anonymous critics say that assuming exponential growth is stupid, but I'll just ignore their nitpicking)
two weeks ago someone linked to my why we sleep piece on the book's wikipedia page.
— alexey (@alexeyguzey) December 30, 2019
here's the current page history lol pic.twitter.com/oSu04pHsHC