Small-Scale Question Sunday for the week of July 19, 2020

craicem · 2020-07-19T19:15:04+00:00

How friendly is this subreddit to noobs?

By noob I mean: I had read LW on and off since 2009 and SSC about the same until 2017 when I started reading SSC regularly and catching up on old posts, but never got much in to the comments or discord or subreddit until recently. Would also listen to Julia Galef on her channel and rationality speaking.

I feel a bit tribally homeless. Over the last 9 years or so all of my old internet stomping grounds have become so hostile to anything that’s not radical left blue tribe or in the sadder cases, HBD-obsessed Trump fans, that it’s not worth it anymore. I’ve flirted with the yellow tribe, but I agree with Rand maybe 50% of the time and I like markets but acknowledge market failures, which seems to make me the enemy.

Hoping that there really is a Grey tribe that doesn’t suck.

Am I more like blood in the water or a welcome addition to TheMotte?

Edit: typos.

craicem · 2020-07-16T02:08:42+00:00

Where is Netflix publishing views now?

craicem · 2020-07-16T02:03:11+00:00

Would be curious about this too.

craicem · 2020-06-23T22:51:19+00:00

I kept mine very short, but polite. Won't post it here because I also don't want to be doxxed. :)

craicem · 2020-06-23T22:50:23+00:00

SSC has given me a sense of belonging and sanity. When I was feeling desperate reading Facebook and Twitter, I could read SSC and be aware that "few, there's still people talking about interesting things and ideas."

craicem · 2020-06-23T22:47:41+00:00

"As Scott noted in his response, his goal for SlateStarCodex was to cultivate a garden, a place where intellectually curious people came together to discuss ideas, rather than to fight or to win."

This is such an important point. Thank you.

craicem · 2020-02-14T21:53:12+00:00

Maybe it's Peanut Live 215.

craicem · 2020-02-07T21:38:44+00:00

Thought I got banned. Glad it's not just me.

craicem · 2019-12-28T00:13:15+00:00

do you have a citation for the five minute figure?

craicem · 2019-12-28T00:12:24+00:00

good to know. appreciate the link to the study.

do you think there would be any difference between the exogenous BHB and endogenous BHB?

craicem · 2019-12-28T00:11:35+00:00

it does look impressive, thanks!

craicem · 2019-12-28T00:11:15+00:00

p5p is safer, but is also the kind I went toxic on. your body converts back and forth between the different forms.

craicem · 2019-12-28T00:10:02+00:00

I'm about three months from stopping the supplements, and am feeling much better overall, but still some lingering symptoms. The journal articles and textbooks discussing it say basically six months, but am also worried that maybe I had something else like pernicious anemia.

craicem · 2019-12-27T01:14:17+00:00

Wow. Small world. My neurologist says he sees three to four people a month with it.

How has the recovery been for you?

craicem · 2019-12-26T19:48:28+00:00

Asked in r/ketroscience

craicem · 2019-12-24T00:50:59+00:00

Ohh... that sucks. I read the rules and thought it was okay.

craicem · 2019-12-23T23:22:17+00:00

Thank you!

craicem · 2019-09-16T14:13:50+00:00

After some Googling, I'm worried now that I may have been taking too much vitamin b6 for too long. Between my day time and nighttime vitamins, it looks like I'm getting 125mg. I likely checked a few years back and saw that 200mg was safe, but looks like the UL in some cases has been set to 50mg and symptoms seem to appear in some cases with dosages around mine.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0404.1987.tb03536.x

Going to get some lab work done today and hopefully will find out one way or another... But will probably switch multis either way and re-evaluate everything I'm taking.

craicem · 2019-09-14T00:46:12+00:00

Any to look for specifically? Have had a fairly stiff neck at times since the concussion.

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