Critical Concepts

@critconcepts

Critical care PA, FCCM, former EMT. Teaches at icu101.com, podcasts at icuscenarios.com, blogs at critcon.org. #FOAMcc #FOAMed

icu101.com Joined February 2014

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Critical Concepts @critconcepts Feb 13, 2023

ORESTES: Set me back upright, swivel me round—there’s no pleasing the sick! I hate being helpless

ELEKTRA: Do you want to try putting your feet on the ground? It's been so long. But change is sweet

O: Yes by all means. That will seem like good health.

Sophocles on ICU mobility

Critical Concepts @critconcepts 2d

Whilst the world burns, here is a foyer bench in a traditional staked style similar to a Moravian stool. Tapered octagonal legs (ash) wedged into sliding dovetail batons. The top is a sort of inappropriate walnut slab.

Critical Concepts @critconcepts Sep 16

The current challenges around AI alignment seem to mirror the challenges of raising human children. Creating adults with reliable deeply-held core values is not trivial, but we know a lot about it; have these principles of child development been applied in AI?

Tomek Korbak Verified account @tomekkorbak Sep 16

I started to think that some folks overupdated on Astra's CoT monitorability results: Astra is still pretty monitorable in absolute terms, so the claims of "unmonitorability" or "loss of monitorability" are somewhat overstated. I am (very!) worried about the trend, not so much about the datapoint!
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Critical Concepts @critconcepts Sep 11

Near-future risks to our survival, economy, and way of life from AI have finally entered the mainstream discourse. I have been loosely following all this since 2009 or so, only "loosely" because it gives me anxiety and I don't know what to do.

Critical Concepts @critconcepts Jul 16

KRS One should be an oncoreceptor