Thanks for the reply, I've been thinking on it. I'm curious - is there any evidence that might change your mind in the future? Or do the risks dominate?

I'm curious if you have any updates, but also - stress+social isolation seems like a plausible hypothesis, but I'd add asymptomatic infection.

Hi, I'm curious if you have any updates to share.

I think your questions are good ones, but very difficult to answer, especially in light of rampant denialism. The second question stands out to me, because (1) that will vary individually and (2) it depends on the facts. If covid is causing cumulative cognitive decline, I can see that resulting in a loop of increased infections due to brain damage and increased risk tolerance, which further damages the brain, resulting in higher risk of more infections. In such a case, I'm doubtful that self-isolation is a bigger problem, even though isolation has its own problems.

I hadn't heard of glycol vapor as a potential mitigation, thanks for sharing. I'm sticking to my respirator personally for now but definitely wanting to keep an eye on which mitigations are most effective in practice (e.g. I'm in no position personally to ask anyone to wear a mask).

I'm working on a project that may be automatically aligned in some sense. Thinking in terms of the Thousand Brains hypothesis, I have a network of virtual, specialized cortical columns that help track different reference frames for me with a wiki shared between myself and these virtual columns to act as a cognitive glue. The virtual columns are like "atomic" agents that center linked Markdown notes, styled off of "atomic" or "networked" notes PKM styles. These atomic agents are not prompts right now, they're mostly Scala code, an explicit encoding of my agenda. If any AI system seems like it can help my agenda, I can incorporate it by wrapping it with an actor. Right now that includes Whisper for transcription and Rasa for entity extraction.

I need to incorporate Bayes' law explicitly, and I only recently started adding voting a la Monty (the main Thousand Brains project), but I thought it would be worth making some post here just in case it catches anyone's attention.