I’d love to see a more structured approach to the kinds of questions you’re raising here. LW does a good job of creating a space for smart people to share their thoughts about individual topics, but isn’t so good at building toward a coherent synthesis of all those pieces.
The original microCOVID white paper did a good job of summarizing a lot of relevant evidence back in the day, but (like the rest of the site) has been only sporadically updated.
Put me down as tentatively interested in being part of some larger project, if one comes together.
Also: may I humbly request that if this ever takes off, it be named LessSick?
This feels like a hole in LessWrong in general that would seem to be worth addressing. Maybe a general initiative for synthesis on various topics should be created, not just about COVID?
Yet there is, I think, more absent than present in this “art of rationality”—defeating akrasia and coordinating groups are two of the deficits I feel most keenly.
This is not a small project, and I’m too new here to have a clear sense of how it might happen. But this feels important.
I’d love to see a more structured approach to the kinds of questions you’re raising here. LW does a good job of creating a space for smart people to share their thoughts about individual topics, but isn’t so good at building toward a coherent synthesis of all those pieces.
The original microCOVID white paper did a good job of summarizing a lot of relevant evidence back in the day, but (like the rest of the site) has been only sporadically updated.
Put me down as tentatively interested in being part of some larger project, if one comes together.
Also: may I humbly request that if this ever takes off, it be named LessSick?
This feels like a hole in LessWrong in general that would seem to be worth addressing. Maybe a general initiative for synthesis on various topics should be created, not just about COVID?
Eliezer, back in 2009:
This is not a small project, and I’m too new here to have a clear sense of how it might happen. But this feels important.