There's a level of rudeness that I find unacceptable. I basically never see it among my friends. I see it very rarely in the Berkeley rationalist community. However, I can't spend much time scrolling Twitter without running into it (even if I try to stay within TPOT). And it's also pretty common for me to see unacceptable levels of rudeness when pursuing healthcare.
It seems so easy to avoid rude behavior when navigating my friend-network, but so difficult to avoid it when navigating other parts of society. This seems pretty striking to me!
I don't know what to do with this insight -- perhaps I'm stuck on it because it seems like it shouldn't be true.
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I strongly agree with this.
Also, if you happen to be wanting to give me feedback, I highly encourage this, of course including having an anonymous feedback form (link in profile).
A thing that helps me with a million communication annoyances, at least when both people are used to using it, is the idea of generalized happy prices: to express the magnitude of a preference, just say how much money you'd be happy to pay for that preference to be satisfied, or what amount you could be paid in order to feel overall happy about the trade, even if the preference isn't satisfied. Sometimes money can actually change hands to make everyone happy; sometimes not; but at least it helps to get across preference strengths.
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I'm glad you've had a good time with nurses. There's a lot of variance, so I expect many people feel this way overall.
I think there are intermediate cases where the thing really sucks, but it's not quite in the "obviously extremely painful" category, where there can be a significant disconnect between patient experience and provider concern.
Yes -- I think in many of these situations, the provider does not believe that the patient is suffering as much as they claim. As a patient, it's very distressing. I've had a lot of good healthcare experiences as well, but bad experiences have the potential to be intensely bad.
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This makes me think of how in normal society there are a variety of expensive-to-verify tasks that have their quality/correctness guaranteed by the threat of reputational damage, or even malpractice/liability lawsuits.
Say a civil engineer submits a design for a bridge, and then it collapses on day #2 after the expensive construction is complete. Even if he can't get sued to cover the construction company's loss, he'll have trouble finding work afterwards.
But with internet bounties, generally people aren't laying their expertise and credibility on the line with their suggestions, so there isn't much of an incentive to hold back from offering dubious solutions.
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AI noise removal is still not that good
I end up with a lot of super-noisy photos because I do social dance photography. The light in the room is dim, and I need a fast shutter speed because people are moving quickly, so I'm letting in even less light. This is terrible for noise.
Unfortunately, it seems that the best AI noise removal tools are still not that good! I am surprised.
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I hear good things about Lightroom's denoise - do you have a way you could try that? The random online tools are often pretty far behind state of the art, if that's what you've tried so far.
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Oh cool! I can try Lightroom and this DxO thing (haven't heard of it). I think I may have already tried Photoshop's denoise feature -- maybe that's the same as whatever Lightroom is doing.
Topaz was what I tried in the screenshot. It seemed like it was supposed to be one of the best options, but I'm glad that top comment says it's actually far behind others
Further attempts:
According to someone on the thread that Kevin linked, Topaz works better if you're using raw files instead of JPGs. Indeed, it does!
Not sure it's good enough that I'd actually want to use it. I'll think about it.
Looks like I did try de-noising in Lightroom already -- I cancelled my Adobe subscription so I can't redo it, but it's still on there when I open Lightroom. It's kind of impressive, but also still looks pretty unnatural in a lot of ways. (Some things too blurry, some things too crisp.) Looks like some poorly-stylized digital painting rather than a photo. (At least for the photo I tried. I can't share it because it's not a very flattering shot of the person pictured.)
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I just played Duck Detective and I have a complaint
I am confused that it is SO well-rated. Like, it's 10/10 on Steam? The motivation behind the central crime doesn't really make sense and is barely explained. It's cute in a bunch of ways, but writing reasonable character motivations feels like a "bare minimum" thing for me. (At least in this kind of game, where you're supposed to deduce who did what and why.)
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I did a dance shoot on Friday
Check out this edit I did. The more colorful one is the "after." It's more colorful than what it was like to really be there -- but the less colorful one also isn't what it looked like to really be there. It was so dim!
This kind of choice feels salient during photography post-processing. Should I make it look like how it looked to be there? Or how it FELT to be there? Or should I just do something cool?
The ideal probably depends on the purpose of the shoot. (Is it to remember a wonderful event? Is it to create a piece of art? Is it to give people photos to use for dating apps?)
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Yeah that would be nice! Partly because it sounds nice to give people a better idea of what goes into a pretty photo -- a lot of the labor is invisible. (Sometimes people just tell me "wow you have a really good camera" when they see my photos.)
But also because there's a big difference between what is optimal for aesthetics and what is optimal for accurate-information-sharing, and I'm disappointed about how much art distorts people's beliefs
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in reply to kip • • •♥️ wow, I would definitely not have guessed this, and am very impressed; that sounds like it would make life way harder and that at various times you've succeeded at some of the things that I'd have guessed were hardest!
Re knitting: have you tried using alternating marker rings? Maybe Orange for Odd and grEEN for EvEN?
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in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun • •Interesting to hear you are impressed, because I am used to my own brain and I don't exactly intuit how hard/easy this stuff is for other people, haha
Good point on the markers! I forgot I could use little lobster-clasp things (like charms) in a way that would just mark one side. I think that's a good solution
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