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It was nice to see C S Lewis as a reminder we've kinda been here before.
One of the things which helped groups during the fight for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the US was Joanna Macy's "despair work", which was developed from individual grief work.
Joanna started in intelligence and has been facing X-risks and slow actions of governments with others since the 1970s, and built a network of people doing that, and she still does. She did a lot in Cernobyl, and did some of the earliest longtermism and deep time work on nuclear waste storage.
Her despair work has been adapted for climate change and rainforest protection, so I'm sure it could be adapted for AI and other Xrisks/Srisks too, and even tougher goals like achieving universal veganism, instituting rational policymaking or "dealing with parents" ;-)
Trainers in despair work:
https://workthatreconnects.org/find-a-facilitator/, or ask me, or Dr Chris Johnstone for recommendations.
Trainer's Manual for groups (recommended):
- Coming Back to Life, Joanna Macy
Books:
- Despair and Empowerment in the Nuclear Age, Joanna Macy
- Active Hope, Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy
More recent video:
(be ready to filter some of the 1970s vocabulary; they're both confident with intense emotion)
Nice to see the Focusing/Gendlin link (but it's broken!)
Are you familiar with "Getting To Yes" by Ury and the Harvard mediators?
They were initially trained by Marshall Rosenberg, who drew on Gendlin and Rogers. I don't know if Double Crux works, but NVC mediation really does. Comparison studies for effectiveness would be interesting!
For more complex/core issues, Convergent Facilitation by Miki Kashtan is brilliant, as is www.restorativecircles.org by Dominic Barter, who is very insightful on our unconscious informal "justice systems".
Fast Consensing, Sociocracy and Holacracy are also interesting.
EAs invented neither effectiveness nor altruism, as Buddha, Quakers, Gandhi, Elizabeth Fry, Equiano and many others can attest!
EAs tend to be slow/behind the curve on coms and behavioural science and Implementation Science, and social science/realpolitik in general. But they do learn over time.
selenium may be more important than zinc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5IH2hGjjdPi-vcs4zOBlArgFJ9iSDdZVoceevUPI9c/
Himalayan salt is somewhat radioactive.
find others in your area who have similar sun exposure to you, and see if any of them were tested
ask a local doctor about local levels
see the maps/prevalences here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5IH2hGjjdPi-vcs4zOBlArgFJ9iSDdZVoceevUPI9c
More on supplements (especially vitamin D and selenium) here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5IH2hGjjdPi-vcs4zOBlArgFJ9iSDdZVoceevUPI9c/
and humidity by beds and desks here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olkOb6IMxE1zYBqvv5XAI2gREbg2O-0QUq0EfUr5_tM
What about male vs female?
Might be important in whatever the mechanism is, in relation to hormones / steroids / cholesterol / SiRT-one pathway and D3.
Could someone look at whether the underlying explanation for this could be SIRT-1 pathway, which involves zinc, nicotinic acid/niacin/B3 and D
Here is a list of studies* I collated which seem to support that possibility and point to effective low-cost actions.
BMI does have an impact on D3 requirement. More sunlight exposure is required to get adequate B3 serum levels in older people, and of course this exposure is down due to skin cancer advice, lockdowns and urbanisation.
Re Diabetes: it appears that covid infection may profoundly impact ketone levels in diabetes, so some endocrinologists are advising people to monitor ketone levels more than usual, and this might be part of what's going on.
*NB please ignore all the studies and reviews which focus on osteoporosis, which is a rather different issue - here we're looking at prophylaxis of respiratory viruses