Great write-up!

About the Vestergaard PFAS story, GiveWell did make a comment here

This question has troubled me as well, plus the idea that once you get a high-impact job, if it turns out not to be a perfect fit, there are transaction costs to the organisastion replacing you with a better candidate

I don't think it's necessary for EA to denounce Musk on the basis that apart from a vague endorsement of a book a few years back and some general comments on AI safety which run in the opposite direction to his actual actions, he doesn't seem to be associated with EA at all

I think you are downplaying Musk's (historic) association with EA, he was a speaker at EA Global 2015, and donated at least $10m to FLI's AI safety research grants (both mentioned at this link)

This section from Tu Youyou's Wikipedia page is incredible:

As Tu also presented at the project seminar, its preparation was described in a recipe from a 1,600-year-old traditional Chinese herbal medicine text titled Emergency Prescriptions Kept Up One's Sleeve. At first, it was ineffective because they extracted it with traditional boiling water. Tu discovered that a low-temperature extraction process could be used to isolate an effective antimalarial substance from the plant; Tu says she was influenced by the source, written in 340 by Ge Hong, which states that this herb should be steeped in cold water. This book instructed the reader to immerse a handful of qinghao in water, wring out the juice, and drink it all. Since hot water damages the active ingredient in the plant, she proposed a method using low temperature ether to extract the effective compound instead.

Two notification-related suggestions:

1. I would like to be able to "middle click" on individual notifications to open them in new tabs. At the moment I believe you can only single click on them to open them in the current tab. This middle click behaviour does exist on LessWrong

2. Related to this:

   1. Click on a new comment notification (it opens in your current tab)
   2. Scroll around on the page as you normally would
   3. Click on the bell notification icon
   4. As you hover over the notification that you originally clicked on, it shifts the focus of the page to that comment

   Is that the intended behaviour? I find it quite jarring 

What is the difference between this post and your previous one?

What about this current administration and possible TAI is the failure? Is orthogonal to American 'democracy' as outlined in the post?

Here is an online version of the book annotated by the author:

https://deepness.trmm.net/c00b/

Screwworm is a flesh-eating maggot!

I skimmed past many posts like this, assuming that it was some kind of stomach worm, or related to the suffering of wild worms (not that I am opposed to either of those, they just don't grab my attention as strongly)

Google Sheets also has a criminally under appreciated tool - Google App Script

You can write custom code, as Javascript, and have it run on a schedule, or as a function in a spreadsheet cell, or as a clickable menu item