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Sorry Dr. Coughlin, “aging” and “old age” are real, and they suck
Aging denialism must be overcome
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How to treat Long Covid as a brain-based (psychosomatic) illness
Oddly, there are no other articles online about this?
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Psychosomatic contributors to Long Covid suffering
“Lots of people act like psychosomatic = not a real problem. Unfortunately, having a symptom for psychosomatic reasons sucks just as much as having it…
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The "false fatigue alarm" theory for Long Covid fatigue
Epistemic status: speculative In this post I’m going to discuss and elaborate on a specific theory for Long Covid fatigue. I got this theory from Dr…
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What AI ethicists get wrong – and right – about AI safety
Backstory - on December 1st I wrote a thread on Twitter responding to Timnit Gebru’s article in WIRED which criticized EA-funded AI safety work. Someone…
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Could S-modafinil be the new caffeine?
S-modafinil is the shorter half-life enantiomer of modafinil
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The world in 2072
The future will be wonderful
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Kidney stone pain as a potential EA cause area
Note: At the Effective Altruism Global: San Francisco conference in 2017, Prof. Will MacAskill implored the audience to “keep EA weird”. As the EA…
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More is Different
Explorations centered around how to accelerate progress in science & technology (progress studies, metascience). Other topics of interest : AI, Effective Altruism, transhumanism.
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