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https://mentalengineering.info/

Trans rights! End all suffering!

Apparently the left-leaning stuff I wrote on here got censored and only the shit I now disagree with remains.

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A Cost- Benefit Analysis of Immunizing Healthy Adults Against Influenza

As of 11:30CST, 11/11/14, this cost-benefit analysis has been revised, in order to address concerns raised in the comments. See http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/l8k/expansion_on_a_previous_costbenefit_analysis_of/ for more on how the cost-benefit analysis was carried out, and on how varying certain parameters affected the determined expected value of receiving a flu shot. Overview The purpose of this post is to provide readers of LessWrong with a summary of what the literature has to say about the efficacy and safety of influenza vaccinations, as well as to weigh the costs of receiving yearly flu vaccinations against the benefits which healthy adults gain from vaccination. As illustrated in the "Cost-Benefit Analyses" section of this report, the expected value of receiving flu vaccinations is positive for healthy adults. Therefore, a further motivation for authoring this post is that writing this post may encourage LessWrong readers who have not yet been vaccinated this flu season to receive immediate vaccination. Introduction and Review of Literature Several meta-analyses on the efficacy and safety of live-attenuated influenza vaccines, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines, and tetravalent inactivated influenza vaccines have been published within the last two years (see Coleman et. al, Demicheli et. al, Osterholm et. al). These meta- analyses reached broadly similar conclusions regarding the efficacy of flu vaccines, which groups were most at risk for being infected with influenza, the safety of being vaccinated, and the magnitude of social harm caused yearly by influenza. However, there was disagreement between some articles regarding whether or not vaccination of healthy adults against influenza should be pursued as a public health policy. Specifically, the Demicheli paper (wrongly) found "no evidence for the utilization of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure". The issue of whether or not healthy adults s

Effects of Castration on the Life Expectancy of Contemporary Men

Dry Ice Cryonics- Preliminary Thoughts

Willpower Thermodynamics

Willpower Thermodynamics

Edit 2019: By the spark, was everything I wrote before mid-2018 idiotic? Apparently. CONTENT WARNING: A COUPLE LWERS APPARENTLY THINK THAT THE CONCEPT OF EGO DEPLETION—ALSO KNOWN AS WILLPOWER DEPLETION—IS A MEMETIC HAZARD, THOUGH I FIND IT HELPFUL. ALSO, THE MATERIAL PRESENTED HERE WON'T FIT EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCES. What happens if...

Aug 16, 2016•9

Dry Ice Cryonics- Preliminary Thoughts

Edited nearly a year later to clarify: dry ice cryonics probably won't work, for reasons hinted at in the post, and stated by Gav in the comments, regarding nanoscale ice crystals. It seems like there may be less of a tradeoff between fracturing and having ice crystals now than there...

Sep 28, 2015•12

Effects of Castration on the Life Expectancy of Contemporary Men

Follow-up to: Lifestyle Interventions to Increase Longevity Abstract A recent review article by David Gems discusses possible mechanisms by which testosterone and dihydrotestosterone could shorten the life expectancies of human males, and examines previous research on the effects of castration on male survival. However, Gems does not examine how age...

Aug 8, 2015•16

Efficient Food

Yudkowsky's 2014 April Fools Day's confession notes that food production could be more efficient: > Food in dath ilan was made by people who were very good at making a particular variety of food, and they’d pick a few dishes and make a huge amount of it on any given...

Apr 6, 2015•8

Tentative Thoughts on the Cost Effectiveness of the SENS Foundation

Edit from fucking 2019: this is all obviously wrong, EA is a scam, do all your own analysis of everything if you want to have an impact It should be emphasized that back-of-the-envelope calculations, such as the one given in this post, ought to be adjusted to account for the...

Jan 4, 2015•8

Expansion on A Previous Cost-Benefit Analysis of Vaccinating Healthy Adults Against Flu

This post is an expansion on my post in main, A Cost- Benefit Analysis of Immunizing Healthy Adults Against Influenza (see http://lesswrong.com/lw/l81/a_cost_benefit_analysis_of_immunizing_healthy/). The purpose of this post is to examine different approaches to conducting the cost-benefit analysis given there, as well as to serve as an archive for a previous...

Nov 12, 2014•6

A Cost- Benefit Analysis of Immunizing Healthy Adults Against Influenza

As of 11:30CST, 11/11/14, this cost-benefit analysis has been revised, in order to address concerns raised in the comments. See http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/l8k/expansion_on_a_previous_costbenefit_analysis_of/ for more on how the cost-benefit analysis was carried out, and on how varying certain parameters affected the determined expected value of receiving a flu shot. Overview The purpose...

Nov 11, 2014•24