Spiracular

TsviBT Intro written a day later: Spiracular and I discuss the nature and origin of values. The dialogue doesn't get into much of a single clear thread, but I had fun writing it and hope it has some interesting trailheads for others. (You may wish to skip the methodological exchange...

HMCM and Notetaking Systems BBE W1C1 (Build a Better Exobrain Week 1, Commentary 1) Back in the old days, when the internet was bad for notetaking, some obsessive notetaker named Lion Kimbro wrote a Document. A long, long time after that, the document came up on some LessWrong thread I...

Personal Notetaking Desiderata Walkthrough (Build a Better Exobrain Week 1, Project 1) A key step I took in becoming a better notetaker was listing out what I was looking for. That's what I'm going to try to walk readers through today. So take out your current favorite bullet-point software, and...

BBE Overview One Sentence Idea The spirit of Hammertime, applied to the subject of Obsessive Notetaking. (On further consideration, Gwern catches the intention I'm going for better than this does.*) Quick Disclaimer This is not an Intro to Notetaking course. Perhaps I will write one someday, but this is not...

Coping and Cultures (or, Acquiring Coping Mechanisms from the Culture of a Field of Study) One of the useful pieces of implicit knowledge that college or mentorship gives people are mental adaptations that make the stressors particular to a field of study more tolerable. These often go unnoticed, and seem...

The possibility of SARS-CoV-2 having Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (aka ADE) looked pretty real, to me. If you're curious about the challenges of vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2, I recommend this article. UPDATE: It looks like it isn't productively replicating in WBCs, but it probably is fusing with them and telling them to...

Authors: Megan Crawford, Finan Adamson, Jeffrey Ladish Special Thanks to Georgia Ray for Editing Biorisk Most in the effective altruism community are aware of a possible existential threat from biological technology but not much beyond that. The form biological threats could take is unclear. Is the primary threat from state...