Hacker News: jamesdmiller

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy"

jamesdmiller — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:07:53 +0000

I have been taking Rapamycin for 19 weeks and NR and Metformin (for anti-aging) for much longer and I can't see any difference. I'm 50+. I generally, however, feel excellent, as well as I remember when I was younger so long as I have gotten lots of sleep and don't have a cold. When I'm sick or tired I feel much worse than I did, however.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare"

jamesdmiller — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:35:25 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jamesdmiller in "If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare"

jamesdmiller — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:21:58 +0000

Hanson doesn't think (2) and (3) follow because of the possibility of panspermia. It's possible that our galaxy is the only one in a billion light years that has given rise to life, but there could, because of panspermia, skill be a high probability that a planet in our galaxy outside our solar system has life. See this podcast Hanson did with me: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521

New comment by jamesdmiller in "The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)"

jamesdmiller — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:26:01 +0000

Children with hyperlexia can often learn to read before they are two. I personally knew a children who before the age of two was reading.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)"

jamesdmiller — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:49:32 +0000

But if I travel for 45 years at 1-g doesn't the largest scale of the universe become significant to my travels?

New comment by jamesdmiller in "How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)"

jamesdmiller — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:58:49 +0000

Does the expansion of the universe reduce how much you have to slow down if you wish to land on a very distant planet?

New comment by jamesdmiller in "There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here"

jamesdmiller — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:35:03 +0000

Yes, if it's aliens or a 1 in 10,000 glitch it's the glitch. But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

jamesdmiller — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:50:20 +0000

HBO should email everyone to give us all the choice of whether to get an apology email.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal"

jamesdmiller — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:00:07 +0000

The ability to break the Enigma code might qualify. German scientists, I think, considered it unbreakable.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel"

jamesdmiller — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:42:54 +0000

I think because of the expansion of the universe, you don't have to decelerate as much if you travel to far away galaxies.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer"

jamesdmiller — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:09:29 +0000

By this logic, the military would have started vaccinating their troops for COVID by March 2020.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Larry King has died"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 17:19:02 +0000

Infinity makes decision making really weird since infinity + 1 is the same as infinity so if you are going to be tortured for infinity years it wouldn't be irrational to volunteer to be tortured for an extra year.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Larry King has died"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:00:22 +0000

Let's say that across the multiverse all versions of you are going to collectively live for 1 billion years. Unfortunately, some versions of you will be tortured and let's assume that collectively you will be tortured for 10,000 years meaning that the measure your torture is 10,000 / 1 billion. But if you sign up for cryonics you most likely only get brought back in a world that has cured death and isn't evil. If many versions of you do sign up for cryonics say you live collectively for 2 billion years and are only tortured for 11,000 of these years so the measure of you being tortured is 11,000/ 2 billion.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Larry King has died"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:25:54 +0000

Cryonics (I'm signed up with Alcor) can reduce the measure of you being tortured. Assume a multiverse where some versions of you are going to be tortured for a long time. If you sign up for cryonics, if you get brought back most likely you won't get tortured and so this might reduce the percent of you across the multiverse that is not being tortured.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Ask HN: What happens next after a successful lockdown?"

jamesdmiller — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:42:07 +0000

The endgame is to figure out the least cost sustainable measures of getting R0<1 until we have a vaccine or treatment safe enough for people in high risk groups to take.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann"

jamesdmiller — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:57:30 +0000

We must never forget him so we keep in mind that genius can be used in support of evil.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen?"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:58:13 +0000

Where do they put it? Wouldn't this require the total biomass of the rainforest to be continually increasing?

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:29:28 +0000

How common is it for a federal inmate on suicide watch to commit suicide? What's the Bayesian prior?

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Bicameralism (Psychology)"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:01:01 +0000

I can recall memories easily, but I don't see pictures of them.

New comment by jamesdmiller in "Bicameralism (Psychology)"

jamesdmiller — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 12:59:59 +0000

I dream but don't daydream. Some with aphantasia say they don't seem imagines in their dreams.