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by neelnanda 4y ago
Awesome! Articles like this forget that early on, "misinformation" included the idea that masks worked or that COVID was airborne. And for a shockingly long-time, the idea that COVID could have come from a lab leak. Vaccines obv
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What's Stopping You?(neelnanda.io)
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The goal of standards is to improve our future actions(neelnanda.io)
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On Systems: Living a Life of Zero Willpower(neelnanda.io)
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Seek Upside Risk(neelnanda.io)
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by neelnanda 6y ago
[1 Day Sooner]( https://www.1daysooner.org/ ) is an organisation pushing for these trials, that's found 38,000 informed volunteers who would be willing to do these trials. Force is completely unnecessary, there are enoug
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by neelnanda 6y ago
Interesting! Can you say a bit more about what you don't like about the font style, layout and color scheme?
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by neelnanda 6y ago
Hey! Author of the piece here. I somewhat disagree, I think experiments are a great way to overcome wasted motion. Sure, only 20% will succeed. But there's a major asymmetry with trying new things - you can drop the failures after tryi
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by neelnanda 6y ago
Hey! Author of the piece here Thanks for the feedback, this prompted me to add an afterword to the piece about the dangers of optimising too hard. To me there's a pretty important difference between 'it is systematically bad to do