20 – What’s important?

Subjects the politicians aren’t talking about, that they really should be talking about. Links! UN resolution on antibiotics US banning of antibiotics in soap Guy with potentially antibiotic resistant tuberculosis (that ended up not so dangerous) sued CDC. More drug resistant tuberculosis! Internet access in prison is pretty limited. :/ Mortality rate for people infected with ebola. Up to 100,000 deaths annually related to medical personnel not washing their hands (in 2009). Polio eradication hoped to be achieved by 2018 Will MacAskill, author of Doing Good Better and founder of the Center for Effective Altruism – the idea of giving a cash prize to the group that comes up with the cure rather than funding research directly. (Discussed in this episode of the Sam Harris Podcast) Methuselah Mouse Prize and Methuselah Foundation, of Aubrey de Gray Katrina has been watching too many cute dog videos American manufacturing jobs are not coming back ~3.5 million Americans work as truckers Minimum wage in Colorado in 2016: $8.31/ hour Singleton?! Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander Nick Land Permutation City by Greg Egan Estimates for the timing of the heat death of the universe – over a quadrillion years. To clarify, Russell, I don’t think it’s fair to stomp on your ideas without your input, mine was a self-deprecating comment. – Katrina Moon base mockery Article on patients not being allowed to alter medical devices in their own bodies Digital locks prevent farmers from changing their own tractor oil (although every 16 hours of use seems excessive, even the meticulous seem to only do so every 50. Maybe Eneasz misheard “every 60”) Sam Harris 15 minute TED talk on AI risk