Link. Now replicated in humans with puny (by my standards) amounts of exercise.
Daily Archives: December 1, 2021
“Worldwide, about 56 percent of people have received at least one vaccine dose. Every continent is above 50 percent except for Africa — which is at about 10 percent.”
Link. Lack of demand mostly.
Vaccines for the unwealthy: “growing signs in parts of Africa, as well as South Asia, that skepticism or outright hostility toward the Covid vaccines may run deeper than expected”
Link. Stop beating up on wealthy country vaccine use.
Molnupiravir looks useless and can’t be given to women at risk of pregnancy.
Link. “final data showed only a 30% relative decrease, and because the numbers also changed in the control group, the absolute change was only 3% in the end.”
Reith Lectures: AI and why people should be scared.
Link. AI worries are considered silly now. Even so I consider AI our greatest existential risk over the next 80 years. It’s my favorite Fermi paradox resolution.