Alan Boulton

Unreasonably enthusiastic (think labrador X springer spaniel) - deliberately naive, prone to hugging and celebrating everything.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@paulg Careful: if you square your eccentricity, you may become hyperbolic.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@geoffreylitt @holmesworcester "Prune logic" is unecessarily ambiguous (logic involving prunes the fruit or the process of pruning?) and maybe should be "pruning logic" (but then has extra issues). Your "pruning" clarifies easily.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@MasonChris16980 https://t.co/ydYRYQCjzu

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@benegotherit Bang!

Neither of you had a live dog.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@chompie1337 This works well with the fortune cookie trick of always adding "in bed"

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@liminal_warmth Also "be nice to the robots" seems good advice thinking about the future when they use those message logs to assess you!

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@Liv_Boeree @ESYudkowsky Or Anthropocentric AI bias?

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I don't know why so many Americans have this idea that Germans all feel guilty about WWII. I don't know anyone my generation or even my parents' generation who feels this way. I think this is a story that Americans are telling themselves.

What is true is that at least the Germans I know feel a responsibility to make sure what happened in Nazi Germany doesn't happen again, not here, and not anywhere else. I certainly do.

This is why we are scared by what we see happening in the United States. The concentration of power, the streamlining of opinions, the normalization of evil, and the populism to excuse it. These are all warning signs we were taught to recognize.

Americans have this idea that the Holocaust happened in Germany because something is especially wrong with Germans. We're just somehow especially evil. This is why the bad guys in Hollywood movies are always Germans. This is why they make jokes about our supposedly military sounding language.

I strongly disagree. What happened in Germany could have happened anywhere. It's just that Hitler was the first to exploit this weakness. He was a master of mass manipulation (probably strongly influenced by Le Bon's "The Crowd" -- worth a read if you don't know it).

Now we have new masters of mass manipulation. And of course Germans worry about it.

Don't confuse what we feel is our responsibility with guilt.

Yes, ugh, "responsibility". That sounds terribly German, doesn't it. I'm sure you read this wiz a Schermen eksent.

No, I'm not proud to be German. Why would I? I didn't do anything for it, I just happen to have been born to two Germans. But I am glad I am German because all things considered it's a good country.

But if it was possible to just identify as Earthling and not belong to any country, that's what I'd want to be.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@xamde @girba Based on that Wikipedia’s Desmos example I made this variant: https://t.co/4U8HvDMW2I

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@girba Beautiful! How exciting to resuscitate that legacy source! Nice work <3

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@neuranne In the spirit of 'a change is as good as a rest', are there ways to achieve *productive* rest, by switching to work activities that employ different parts of the brain, thereby achieving a sort of replenishing load balancing?

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@itsmewaldi @neuranne Perhaps it's the peril of not knowing, and emotions* from this?

Good questions can set off a "background thread" of puzzling, that can pop up ideas at the oddest of times.

* maybe this is the key? Emotions/drives compel us.

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@itsmewaldi @neuranne Questions!

I find that questions alone act as a massive driver. Why is that? :)

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

We are exploring if we can restore my joints to that of an 18 year old.

Problem
Our joints (i.e. knees, hips, etc.) break down with age. Resulting in pain, stiffness and movement restriction. While I do not have any major joint problems, I do have small aches and pains. We are testing if we can repair normal age related damage, restore vitality, and preventatively lessen future deterioration.

Therapy
Last week, I had 300 million bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) injected into six joints over two days: both knees, shoulders, and hips as part of a clinical trial in the Bahamas. We may repeat this therapy as needed to achieve the outcome objectives.

MSC’s were manufactured by Cellcolabs. Injections were performed by Dr. Steven Sampson of Physical Longevity.

Measurement
Prior to the therapy, we completed comprehensive baseline analysis of each joint with MRI and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Here were the findings:

Joint & tendon diagnosis
+ Bilateral shoulder labral degenerative tears with paralabral cysts.
+ Tendinosis (degenerated tendons): bilateral supraspinatus rotator cuff (shoulder) with subacromial bursitis (chronic inflammation in R>L shoulders).
+ Bilateral knee chondromalacia patella (cartilage wear beneath the kneecap) with left knee mild to moderate effusion/bursitis. (fluid in knee).
+ Bilateral hip gluteus medius tendinosis (chronic degeneration). Bilateral Hip Cam impingement syndrome. (Can predispose to osteoarthritis)

What we hope we can achieve with this therapy
Improved function, mobility, and athletic performance. Elimination of aches and pains. Potential tissue regeneration and prevention of future degeneration.

Treatment plan
+ Intra Articular injection of bilateral shoulders, hips, and knees.
+ Bilateral supraspinatus rotator cuff and bursa  injections.
+ Right shoulder anterior labrum injection.
Bilateral hip gluteus medius tendon injections.

What happened
The injections were completed in the Bahamas in collaboration with Cellcolabs Clinical Ltd. and Dr. Steven Sampson of Physical Longevity. Treatment was under a clinical trial approved by the national stem cell ethics committee in the Bahamas. Cellco Labs provided best-in-class, gold-standard cell manufacturing of allogeneic bone marrow-cultured mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). 50 million MSCs were injected into each of six joints, shoulders, knees, and hips, over two days. Cells were prepared and shipped from Sweden and were cryopreserved with liquid nitrogen. Cells were checked for viability at the point of care in the Bahamas and injected under ultrasound guidance by Dr Sampson for proper deployment under strict protocol.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This week I reintroduced my Ultra-Millionaire Tax.

It’s time for millionaires and billionaires to start paying their fair share.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Professor of the year

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@Madisonkanna Hmm, why is that?

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@neuranne An inspiring level of sharing! Thank you so much for this courage and exploration! <3

[Alan Boulton @boultoa]

@neuranne Wonder is transformative - Derren Brown wrote (in Pure Effect) about how he pivoted his career (from banal standard magic tricks to awe-inspiring mind influencing effects) by focusing on the recipient's experience of wonder, as the essence of magic.