Daniil GorbatenkoArmchair Theorizing: Good and BadWhat Mises and Searle can teach Eliezer Yudkowsky and other humans tempted by erroneous abstraction.Jun 12, 2023Jun 12, 2023
Daniil Gorbatenko10 Interesting links (20/12/21)This is the first in the ongoing series of posts with interesting links. I will try to make these as regular as possible but I probably…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
Daniil GorbatenkoCovid-19 and Driving: A Valid AnalogyThose of us who have raised the driving analogy to argue against Covid-19 restrictions on most people have mostly been ridiculed.Oct 30, 2020Oct 30, 2020
Daniil GorbatenkoinDoor to CryptoAlgorithmic PoS rewards may be a bad ideaMany people in the crypto space believe that decentralized finance, or DeFi is the industry’s best candidate for the killer app at the…Jul 30, 2020Jul 30, 2020
Daniil GorbatenkoMasks vs. shutdowns is a false dichotomyWhen one follows the public discussion about the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, one increasingly gets the impression that there are…Jul 17, 20201Jul 17, 20201
Daniil GorbatenkoCarnivals, air pollution and Covid-19 in the proximal regions of Germany, Belgium and NetherlandsThe grotesque failure of the most widely cited epidemiological models to correctly predict the dynamics of Covid-19 epidemics (that this…May 4, 20201May 4, 20201
Daniil GorbatenkoSARS-CoV-2 may be more similar to influenza than we realiseIn my previous article, I looked into some recent research on influenza transmission and raised the possibility that a similar pattern of…Apr 28, 20201Apr 28, 20201
Daniil GorbatenkoThe questions influenza transmission research raises about Covid-19Note: this article is very speculative. Its main goal is to attract attention to important recent research on influenza transmission and…Apr 16, 20201Apr 16, 20201
Daniil GorbatenkoThe 5 dubious pillars of the Covid-19 panic narrativeThe Covid-19 pandemic and the apparent surge in cases and deaths worldwide has engendered a global panic and a stringent response up to…Apr 5, 20202Apr 5, 20202