Astral Codex Ten

Berkeley meetup

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Berkeley meetup

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Berkeley meetup is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 23, 2021 and April 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “the most recent Berkeley meetup”; “Berkeley meetup this Tuesday, special guest Daniel Ingram”; “I’ll provisionally be attending the Berkeley meetup on May 6th”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Discord, Florida.

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  • Category: Events
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: December 23, 2021
  • Last seen: April 10, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Diseasonality
December 23, 2021 · Original source
This last sentence reminds me of a discussion I had with Bram C at the most recent Berkeley meetup. He noted that most diseases are less severe when you get them as a young child, for unclear reasons (chicken pox is the most obvious example). You get most respiratory viruses for the first time as a young child. When you get them a second time, you already have partial immunity from the first time - it’s like COVID with one vaccination. In fact, in the simplified case where everyone in the population is at the same level of immunity, you will have only just reached the point where the virus can infect you at all (after all, if there was an earlier point, the virus would have infected you then). So normally, children (who are weirdly resilient) are the only people who get the full force of a disease, and everyone else gets a weak watered-down version. COVID is worse than other coronaviruses partly because adults are facing its full force. Once every adult has had it a few times (or had a few rounds of shot-and-booster) it may be more like all the other coronaviruses and so very mild. And a hundred years from now, the only immuno-naive people to get COVID will be young children, who will do fine.
Inline links: a discussion
Open Thread 262
February 06, 2023 · Original source
2: In case you missed it: Berkeley meetup this Tuesday, special guest Daniel Ingram.
Inline links: Berkeley meetup this Tuesday
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2023
April 10, 2023 · Original source
I’ll provisionally be attending the Berkeley meetup on May 6th. Skyler will provisionally be attending Manhattan, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, and Berkeley.