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AI for medicine is overhyped right now
Should we update our timelines to AGI as a result?
Dan Elton
Mar 29
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“The FDA almost killed me”
A true story from someone who almost ended up in the invisible graveyard.
Dan Elton
May 22, 2021
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Why the FDA should legalize Pfizer's COVID pill immediately
The FDA's refusal to legalize Paxlovid and Molnupiravir is killing thousands
Dan Elton
Nov 26, 2021
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What happened? A timeline on the development and approval of Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca's vaccines
Why didn’t we get Pfizer’s vaccine before the election? Why wasn’t the AstraZeneca vaccine approved in the US shortly after being approved in the UK…
Dan Elton
Mar 12, 2021
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The Case for Leronlimab
it's a weak case
Dan Elton
May 1, 2021
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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…
Dan Elton
May 1
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The deluge of crappy papers must stop
There should be repercussions for scientists who pollute the commons with crappy papers
Dan Elton
Feb 28
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Notes from "Where is my Flying Car?"
A book by J. Storrs Hall, published by Stripe Press in November 2021
Dan Elton
Feb 3
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Europe's reckless precaution
When following the precautionary principle is letting COVID-19 slaughter thousands across the EU
Dan Elton
Mar 19, 2021
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Forecasting connectomics - a naive Kurzweilian approach
The connectome of an organism is a map of all neurons and their connections. This may be thought of as a graph with the neurons as nodes and synaptic…
Dan Elton
Mar 5, 2021
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AI for COVID-19 diagnosis - a case study in bad incentives
Everyone please stop.
Dan Elton
Apr 15, 2021
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Did the J&J pause boost confidence in vaccines?
On the day of the J&J pause Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, argued to a CNN panel that the pause should make people…
Dan Elton
Apr 29, 2021
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