MicroCOVID
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MicroCOVID is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 22, 2021 and September 05, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Catherine Olsson, Ibasho, and MicroCOVID already have one WIRED article about how great they are”; “MicroCovid says that vaccinated people who attend an outdoor meetup with a known case have a 2% chance of getting sick”. It most often appears alongside Applied Divinity Studies, Boston, Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞).
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 22, 2021
- Last seen: September 05, 2021
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- Applied Divinity Studies (1 shared issues)
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- Boston (1 shared issues)
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- Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) (1 shared issues)
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- Catherine Olsson (1 shared issues)
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- Ibasho (1 shared issues)
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- If Only Turing Was Alive To See This (1 shared issues)
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- Matt Yglesias (1 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (1 shared issues)
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- New York (1 shared issues)
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- New York Times (1 shared issues)
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- PredictIt (1 shared issues)
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- Qualia Research Institute (1 shared issues)
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If it's a boring enough news day that you want to cover me, consider instead covering the many other fascinating and under-covered people and institutions in and around the rationalist community, some of whom are probably women or minorities or whatever. The Qualia Research Institute is doing absolutely picture-perfect mad science. Metaculus is fast becoming what PredictIt should have been; I intend to shill it pretty hard but I can't do it all by myself. Catherine Olsson, Ibasho, and MicroCOVID already have one WIRED article about how great they are, but they deserve at least a dozen.
1: The Salt Lake City meetup group reports that COVID may have spread at their meetup. A few people there are reporting symptoms, and at least one person tested positive. If you attended, please take actions appropriate to a likely COVID exposure, like self-quarantining or getting tested (MicroCovid says that vaccinated people who attend an outdoor meetup with a known case have a 2% chance of getting sick, but since several people are reporting symptoms maybe it’s higher than that). If anyone knows of any other meetup where COVID might have spread, please let me know. I’ll list any alerts like this on open threads - but since those take a while to get up, I’ll also mention them on the top of the meetups post as soon as I hear about them. Remember, please only attend meetups if you’re fully vaccinated and don’t have any recent COVID exposure or symptoms.
Inline links: a 2% chance, on the top of the meetups post