TL; DR

The LessWrong team has been throwing our combined might behind coronavirus efforts. As I see it, coronavirus is both of a problem immense proportion that we might be able to help with as well as a domain well suited to the development and application of rationality + rationality tools

Our efforts include:

A Coronavirus Research Agenda for the community to contribute research efforts towards.
A Link Database of Coronavirus Resources which have been vetted, rated, and briefly summarized.
- Plus daily updates of the best additions to the database.
New tagging features which allow for:
- A dedicated coronavirus tag page.
- Filtering for coronavirus content (exclude or include).
A thread of Justified Practical Advice.
- plus summary.
A Coronavirus Open Thread for coronavirus thoughts that don't warrant their own post.
A Template Spreadsheet for Houses to coordinate their coronavirus quarantine and health statuses within and between themselves.
Various direct research contributions [1, 2, 3].
Online Events & Meetups
- The first event, this Sunday 3/29, will be a livestream debate + meetup with Robin Hanson and Zvi Mowshowitz on whether we should intentionally expose parts of the population to the coronavirus in a controlled way.
- When: Sunday, March 29 at 12:00 PDT (West Coast Time)
- Full Details Here

Full Update

2020 is turning out to be quite the year. I apologize that the LessWrong team hasn’t yet put out any updates so far: we’d lined up some great Q1 plans and then things got...messy.

The team’s attention is now fully focused on COVID-19. Habryka has some elaboration on why this is a top priority here.

Before I go any further, serious respect to the LessWrong community which has done a fantastic job addressing the coronavirus situation ahead of the curve. Really, the response has been very proportionate to the situation.

A Note on Additional Help

For the last several weeks, the LessWrong team has been contracting with Elizabeth to help lead coronavirus efforts, hence her name being attached to several of the below projects. Elizabeth has been a member of the extended LessWrong moderator team since possibly the rise of LW2.0 and may be recognized for her work on epistemic spotchecks and other research.

Current Projects

[This Sunday!! March 29] Online Events & Meetups

The LessWrong team is beginning to organise various online meetups and events. The plan is to experiment and explore

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