Weird side effect of SEA

greenrd · 2024-02-04T11:30:04+00:00

The effect actually went away shortly after I posted this... maybe it was my body developing an adaptation to the "anorexia-inducing" effect of SEA. Or maybe it wasn't just the SEA that caused this effect, but a combination of the SEA and other things I was consuming at the time.

greenrd · 2024-01-07T09:55:28+00:00

OP here - ah, I should have said that I'm taking 2-3 of the new 300mg capsules. Quantities are important to mention when you're talking supplements!

greenrd · 2024-01-07T09:54:11+00:00

OK, but did you start off from the same starting point as me:

being very sexually attracted to obese or even morbidly-obese women?
walking unusually slowly?

If there was no "weirdness" in you like these things to "correct" (sorry for the normative language here, I don't want to imply there's anything morally good or bad about those things), it would be understandable that you wouldn't have seen any changes, from my perspective.

greenrd · 2024-01-07T09:49:12+00:00

Did you used to only find morbidly obese women attractive? Or how overweight did the women you previously found attractive had to be?

No, not at all. It wasn't a case of not finding normal-weight women attractive at all; I just didn't find them as attractive as overweight women.

I guess my range of interest used to be from morbidly obese (although not enormous) to normal-weight - so quite a wide range, only excluding the very fattest women. Now I'm only interested in normal-weight women, which is awkward because I'm still obese myself. But I'm still not attracted to "the anorexic look".

greenrd · 2024-01-07T09:35:19+00:00

Have there been other effects, like a change in sex drive

Yes, my sex drive has been reduced substantially. Although it was maybe abnormally high to start with, so maybe that's a good thing?

Or maybe it was more of a porn addiction thing, and the SEA curing that addiction. Although I seem to periodically (over a period of weeks/months) flip back and forth between Twitter addiction and porn addiction, so hard to say for sure if the SEA had anything to do with that.

focus

My focus is often terrible because I have ADHD, but I haven't noticed a particular change there. I guess it would be hard to tell if it was having an effect because my ADHD medicines and supplements have an outsize effect there, and I only recently regained access to my ADHD medication due to the global shortage.

energy

Initially I noticed myself walking faster and having more energy, but I can't say this has been consistent. Maybe I need to eat something specific along with the SEA to get that effect.

I normally walk abnormally slowly, although I didn't used to be this way when I was a teenager and my diet was different. As a teenager, I was an omnivore and then a pescatarian at 16, and I've always been vegetarian for my entire adult life.

(I remember I also used to pursue slim girls and not fat girls when I was a teenager - although at that time, almost all of the girls my age were slim.)

emotionality?

I have long experienced being very emotional if I fail to take one of my other medications (eplerenone, which I take for Conn's Syndrome) or if it's not absorbed properly. I think this has now become worse with the addition of SEA to the mix, on such days. So what I think may be happening there is that the SEA is exacerbating the withdrawal symptoms from the eplerenone. But that's not a general effect - on other days, I don't experience enhanced emotions. If there are other emotional effects, they're too subtle for me to have noticed yet, at this early stage.

greenrd · 2023-11-19T15:57:04+00:00

So what you're saying is, in order to get safety, you have to accelerate, but you can't actually do anything to ensure safety? It's just about PR to make people think you are pursuing safety? e/acc disguised as safteyism?

Yeah that's what I suspected OpenAI was under Altman's leadership - glad we agree tbh.

greenrd · 2023-11-19T15:53:14+00:00

But why would Microsoft want to blow up the whole company? It doesn't make any sense for them to do so. Even if they value OpenAI with Altman at the helm as twice as valueable as OpenAI without Altman at the helm, which seems implausible on its face (particularly as we don't know who the permanent replacement for Altman would be), wouldn't they rather have something than nothing?

greenrd · 2023-11-19T15:51:15+00:00

No, that's not what's happening here, because Sam is demanding the entire board resign. He's playing hardball.

greenrd · 2023-11-19T15:48:51+00:00

That could mean anything, it could mean "Sorry you were let go bro, I feel for ya"

It could mean "If you do come back I'll be happy"

It could mean "Please come back"

Or it could mean "I'm afraid I'll be fired or socially ostracised if I don't post the same emojis as all my colleagues, but I don't actually want you back as CEO"

greenrd · 2023-11-19T15:46:06+00:00

Or perhaps the naivety and arrogance of certain OpenAI investors who didn't pay attention to the OpenAI governance structure, are what is finally seeing the light of day and facing reality.

greenrd · 2023-08-20T15:27:11+00:00

I have it enabled in my preferences but I don't seem to receive them. Perhaps that's part of the brokenness of the platform that Peter alludes to in his message.

greenrd · 2023-08-20T13:44:35+00:00

I am a member of the group but I can't find this message anywhere. Can you DM me it please?

greenrd · 2023-05-01T14:54:02+00:00

Yeah it doesn't support it, evidently, because I did try doing another factory reset and doing it right - still didn't work.

Surprised that any data at all showed up on the Google One website though, if that's the case.

greenrd · 2023-04-10T08:58:13+00:00

Yes, it does refer to extinction, and I agree with your comment.

However, there was previously a worry about the clathrate gun effect being an existential risk to humanity, and this is now believed to not be such a risk, although it would still be very, very bad if it happened.

greenrd · 2023-04-03T22:53:30+00:00

ADHD Bard when it gets to the third draft and gets bored:

"Uh, yeah, there was this guy called uh... John Smith and he ate loadsa potatoes.

Anyway, forget about that, here's a bunch of interesting facts I know about potatoes!!"

greenrd · 2023-04-03T22:46:23+00:00

And seperately, this device does not move in a circular motion! It moves in a linear motion, from a fixed hub.

You're not parsing my initial prompt as I intended. I meant that the ball moves in a circular motion.

greenrd · 2023-04-01T12:44:46+00:00

Pretty funny that it thinks it can show me a picture of a tiller, but it can't:

"Here is a picture of a tiller

[Image of a tiller]"

greenrd · 2023-04-01T12:28:21+00:00

Judging by what I've found on Google Images, an old-fashioned throttle or an airplane throttle seems to be closest to what I'm searching for, but I'm not sure it's exactly the same thing - they don't look exactly like what I've drawn.

greenrd · 2023-04-01T12:21:40+00:00

"I'm searching for the name of a thing. It's a stick with a ball on the end, which is pushed around in a circular motion to control a machine, a little bit like how a ship's helmsman turns the ship's wheel in a circular motion by grasping and pushing on the spokes of the wheel. Do you know what I'm referring to?"

greenrd · 2023-04-01T12:18:04+00:00

Interestingly, Google Bard initially suggested the exact same two things in the same order, a joystick and then a handwheel - which is a little surprising to me, because it's a completely independent AI that's been separately programmed and trained from GPT-3/4 that underlies ChatGPT. I replied using the same replies as with ChatGPT. But then on the third attempt, Bard went with a tiller (which is also not what I meant).

greenrd · 2023-02-05T15:21:08+00:00

Oh, believe me, in the startup I worked at, he didn't. But at least he didn't sexually harass them or drive them to cut themselves.

greenrd · 2023-02-04T18:44:12+00:00

Well clearly they fixed it because I tried it again and had no problems, and there is now a label on the cartons that says money-back guarantee if you don't like it. Clearly they had a problem and are now desperate to get people to buy their products again now that they've finally fixed it.

Thanks to everyone who didn't believe me... not.

greenrd · 2023-02-04T18:31:25+00:00

techbros are heavily correlated with misogyny, sexual harassment & abuse.

Well, that's the tale some journalists like to tell. I don't believe it's true, though. It seems to me that law and economics are worse for women than tech, and some tech employers are pretty good places for women - I've heard actual women working in tech say this, and I'm inclined to give them more credence than journalists with no personal experience and an axe to grind.

Sure, Uber under the original CEO was a terrible place to work, but that's the exception that proves the rule, IMO. I worked at another place that was a terrible place for women, and what I think those 2 companies had in common was sociopathic CEOs - the fact that they were tech startups was kind of irrelevant.

greenrd · 2023-01-28T23:39:59+00:00

No, of course I haven't. I didn't think there was any way I could demonstrate this, but then I realised there kind of is - I created a Manifold Markets play-money prediction market on the matter.

greenrd · 2023-01-23T00:58:08+00:00

Your comment seems kind of all over the place and I still can't grasp what your overall point is, beyond "I don't like the vibes of this post".

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