Is there a potential naming collision with https://www.asteriskjournal.org ? Are you going with 'asteriskmag' as the domain name perhaps?
Human Challenge Trials as a wiki entry(less so as a tag)
An idea I think a sizeable portion of people here are sympathetic to and the entry could act as a good companion to entries like 1Day Sooner and COVID-19 pandemic
Windfall Clause (under Global Catastrophic Risk (AI))
Justification:
Posts that it could apply to:
I didn't really have a preference to be honest! I was just curious and a little confused by the fact that some posts and one of the "further reading links" used the "anti-aging" terminology.
Thank you for point about the general format being "[Area] research" - that makes sense and will be useful to me for potential future wiki edits. Also thank you to the other comment for the "cancer research" analogy - that makes sense too.
Is it worth updating the style guide for the "[Area] research" convention or is it too niche and may add unnecessary bloat?
Thank your for this piece Lizka!
To what extent do you agree with the following?
Strong identities are epistemically sub-optimal(i.e. if you are an agent whose exclusive concern is to hold true beliefs, then holding strong identities is likely to harm that project) - but they may be socially expedient (perhaps necessary) in that they facilitate cooperation (by encapsulating views and motives)
I think the idea is to assign credences to plausible theories, where plausible is taken to mean some subset of the following:
Another equivalent way to proceed is to consider all possible theories, but the credence given to the (completely) implausible theories is 0 or sufficiently close to it.