2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (188+ words) TL: DR if you have cavities despite rigorously trying to prevent them, have you tried mewing? Myofunctional therapy may be helpful in preventing cavities. So how do you prevent mouth breathing?" Simple by breathing through your nose, well if you…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1744+ words) Castel di Tusa, Sicily. It is October 24th, 2025. I look at an empty school. This is the third town in Italy I have visited this Autumn: the other two, one in the hills of Tuscany, the other near the border with…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (441+ words) Let's say you're someone who wants to learn about an academic discipline. Perhaps advanced Physics, Sociology, Early-Modern History, or Cognition Sci...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (279+ words) Write-up of a recent research sprint looking at factors influencing strategic deception in models " TL; DR "...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (359+ words) On behalf of OAISI, we're excited to be running our fourth iteration of ARBOx (Alignment Research Bootcamp Oxford), a 2-week intensive designed to rapidly build skills in AI safety. This year, we're considering running two concurrent streams for the first…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (37+ words) While I was traveling Julia asked me: why is Anna saying her fiddle practice is only two minutes? In this case, two minutes was the right amount of t...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1178+ words) Contra Aella on chattel childhood Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their children: Every culture throughout history has justified the abuse of treating their children as property by arguing this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (353+ words) The recent post on whether common diseases build immunity reminded me of the data collection I made when my children were young. It supports the idea that immunity does not build, but very weakly because n=2 and limited period of…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (559+ words) [Attention conservation notice: description of a social phenomenon which may be obvious to some people.] This post is partially inspired by Alexander Wales" Majority and Minority, which I would recommend highly. Here"s The Other Sexual Orientation: Roughly 80% of women…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (846+ words) Cross-posted from my website. If civilization advances its technological capabilities without advancing its wisdom, we may miss out on most of the potential of the long-term future. Unfortunately, it's likely that that ASI will have a comparative disadvantage at philosophical…...