John Green
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John Green is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 03, 2023 and November 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Author and Internet celebrity John Green recently campaigned against tuberculosis”; “John Green has 40x more Twitter followers than I do”; “Many people commented that John Green didn’t invent this out of whole-cloth”. It most often appears alongside 23andme, Alyssa, Art Nouveau.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 03, 2023
- Last seen: November 10, 2023
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- 23andme (2 shared issues)
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- OKCupid (2 shared issues)
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- Roots Of Progress (2 shared issues)
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- EEGManyLabs (1 shared issues)
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Companies make predictors like these all the time (the cancer risk companies have done it for cancer), so it can’t be too hard for someone with the relevant skills. It’s possible that there are already some EA predictors floating around the open Internet that I just haven’t heard about. In that case, your job would be to make it usable by an ordinary consumer (drag and drop a file with your 23andMe results?) and put it somewhere people can find it. 3. Things like John Green’s anti-tuberculosis campaign Skills needed: knowledge of pharma landscape, fame or ability to interface with famous people Budget: Some large amount of your time? Payoff: Lower costs of life-saving drugs
Author and Internet celebrity John Green recently campaigned against tuberculosis.
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Your job if you took this quest would be to figure out other leverage points like this, figure out how to run a corporate pressure campaign, and then run the corporate pressure campaign. Probably this would work better if you got celebrities on board. Getting me on board would be easy mode, but John Green has 40x more Twitter followers than I do, so you might need to look further afield.
3 (Anti-TB campaign): Many people commented that John Green didn’t invent this out of whole-cloth, he took a campaign by some existing charities and signal-boosted it. Sounds great, someone let me know if there’s a good campaign by existing charities that I should signal-boost.
3: Comments On John Green’s Anti-TB Campaign Will Van Treuren writes:
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One person did not accomplish this. This was part of a concerted campaign by MSF, Stop TB, and a few other organizations to let the patents expire. I'm actually kind of annoying that John Greene gets credit. Not because he doesn't deserve any credit but because MSF and other such organizations deserve much more. Anyway, eventually J+J allowed to procure generic versions of the drug in certain countries. It did not ultimately surrender the patent.