Dave Cortright 🔸 comments on Singularity Survival Guide: A Bayesian Guide for Navigating the Pre-Singularity Period

[Dave Cortright 🔸]

Please read the US Surgeon General report. It’s more than just suicide.

There’s also this chart from The Village Effect, citing Holt-Lunstad 2010:

Also, (from an LLM):

A study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry examined the impact of loneliness and depression on mortality over 19 years. The researchers found that individuals experiencing loneliness at baseline had a higher likelihood of death during the follow-up period. The presence of depression further increased this risk, suggesting a potentially synergistic effect between loneliness and depression on mortality. ​Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Another study, also published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, investigated the association between mental disorders and accidental deaths. The study population was over 6.9 million adults in Sweden, followed for eight years. The researchers found that individuals with mental disorders, including depression, had an increased risk of death from accidents, such as falls, motor vehicle crashes, and other unintended injuries. ​Cambridge University Press & Assessment

[Matt Brooks]

I mean more specifically, what is the additional risk of death per person across the next 10 years if you’re lonely vs not lonely? Is it even 1/​1000 an affect compared to deaths due to cars?

How tractable are the interventions? It might take hundreds of hours over many months to solve your loneliness. That’s actually pretty hard /​ costly

I’m not saying it’s not a problem, it definitely is, but I’m just trying to understand if it makes sense to be in this particular guide. Short term serious (yet tractable) risks