User:Sebastian

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This is Sebastián Sánchez. I work for Vipul Naik as content creator. A diary with notes is being written in User:Sebastian/notes. Promotion of the timelines can be consulted at Timelineswiki promotion. Also check Detail construction for full timeline in timelines, Inclusion criteria for full timeline in timelines and Representativeness of events in timelines.

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New timeline

Remove from list when updated to contract work page [2] and [3].

Expansions

Requested/agreed

Remove from list when updated to contract work page [4] and [5].


Other (not requested)

  • Timeline of SpaceX (this expansion started on May 11, 2022) (Update in response to comparably notable performance in traction)

Outside Timelineswiki

  • Wikihow work (Vipul's complete list of pages: [6]):


Works on Subwiki

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Devec

Priority work from Future Fund Regranting Program (list from Pablo Stafforini)

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The following are awaiting the creation of an outline and guidelines by Issa:

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Priority work from Vipul

Suggested time-sensitive content

With time-sensitive content, the idea may be to add a few additional important recent events to a timeline, without doing a systematic expansion. So, there may be holes in coverage. The "focused coverage period" banner on top can help to clarify the situation.

For instance, let's say you last expanded a timeline in March 2019, and it covers content till March 2019. You want to add a couple of significant events in 2020. You can do so, and keep the focused coverage period as March 2019. So readers get the information that the coverage after March 2019 will be only partial, and less complete than coverage until March 2019.

In some cases you may decide to do a more complete expansion while adding time-sensitive content, but this should be done only if time and mood permit.


  • Timeline of online food delivery (one of the most viewed timelines):
    • COVID-19 has probably boosted online food delivery a lot? This may deserve a mention.✔
    • DoorDash IPO (filed for one on November 13, IPO date still unclear)✘
      • Sebastian: It filed confidentially on February 27, 2020, but maybe we should wait until it becomes effective, as it remains private as of date.
      • Sebastian: let me further expand

Not ready

Expansion


  • Google Trends, Google Ngram Viewer and Wikipedia Views (not reported nor made yet):



Returned with feedback

  • Timeline of existential risk (Future Fund Regranting Program, 2x payment)
    • Pablo's feedback:
      • It may be worth adding an entry on Bertrand Russell's "The Bomb and Civilization" (1945), written a day or two after the Hiroshima detonation, and perhaps the first essay ever to discuss human extinction from nuclear weapons (I don't recall if Russell talks explicitly about human extinction, though).
      • "A radar alert from Thule, Greenland is sent to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), announcing the detection of dozens of Soviet missiles launched for the United States." Perhaps worth expanding a bit to convey to the reader how this incident was resolved.✔
      • "German astrophysicist Sebastian von Hoerner suggests that sixty percent of all civilisations immolate themselves in planet-scorching war." Without looking at the cited reference, I don't quite understand what this means. Is the author talking about alien civilizations?✔
      • "During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a single officer on a Soviet submarine almost starts a nuclear war." I think a slightly more accurate characterization of this incident would be: "During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a single officer on a Soviet submarine prevents the launch of a nuclear torpedo, which would likely have resulted in nuclear war." (I.e. Arkhipov persuaded the two other officers not to go ahead with the launch.)
      • It may be worth adding an entry on John von Neumann's "Can we survive technology?" (1955), although I haven't read it myself, so I don't know how relevant it is.✔
      • I found the clauses or sentences briefly explaining the nature of the event reported very useful. For example, in "Isaac Asimov publishes A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World, an early book-length nonfiction treatment of possible existential catastrophes", the clause after the comma helps me appreciate the significance of this event. For some events, however, you do not provide this additional information; it would be great if you could revise these entries so that they are similarly informative, e.g.:
        • "Scientists discover a new and distinctive type of stellar explosion."
        • "Joshua Lederberg publishes Biological warfare and the extinction of man."✔
        • "The United States Congress' Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) publishes The Effects of Nuclear War."
      • You may want to add an entry mentioning the publication of Parfit's Reasons and Persons, the final section of which highlights the discontinuity in value between events that kill almost everyone alive and events that cause human extinction.
      • "American artificial intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that it would be good to allow a superintelligent AI system to choose own its morality." Clarify.
      • "The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky as an independent non-governmental organizations (NGO), with the purpose to reduce the risk of a catastrophe caused by artificial intelligence." I think it was co-founded by Yudkowsky.
      • "Caplan believes that the human capacity for suffering is so great that even the worst possible life would be preferable to an infinite amount of pain. Caplan concludes that it is better to risk extinction than to live under a dictatorship forever." I don't understand
      • "The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere is formed[180] with the purpose to gather of individuals and organizations concerned about the existential threats to civilization." Remove 'of' in 'to gather of individuals'.
      • You may want to check out MacAskill's latest book, What We Owe the Future, esp. the endnotes.
      • Events I would personally remove from the current timeline:
        • "Cathy O'Neil publishes Weapons of Math Destruction, which takes a critical look at the ways in which mathematical models are being used in ways that can be harmful to individuals and society as a whole."✔
        • "The epigram Murphy's law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") is originated at Edwards Air Force Base. It is named after Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, which was designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash."✔
  • Timeline of web search engines
    • Include DuckDuckGo
    • Add a few more events from early history of Google Search, to show its path to domination (you can copy relevant rows from timeline of Google Search)
    • Add more shutdowns of search engines (e.g., Blekko, Cuil) as separate rows, to give a sense for how new search engines come and go
  • Check for unreported charts:

Other

Pending expansion

Pending timeline

Jointly discussed

Suggestions from Vipul

Suggestions from Pablo

Suggestions from Thomas

Suggestions from Sebastian

Note: Vipul may use ✘ for works he is not interested in (quicker than using strikes).

  • Timeline of leprosy
  • Timeline of onchocerciasis ("About 21 million people were infected with this parasite in 2017; about 1.2 million of those had vision loss")
  • Timeline of trachoma ("As of 2011, about 21 million people are actively affected by trachoma, with around 2.2 million people being permanently blind or have severe visual impairment from trachoma. An additional 7.3 million people are reported to have trichiasis")

Subwiki projects

Subwiki purpose: "Mostly for in-depth exploration/understanding of specific topics, but still not in any sequence (so people can jump directly to a specific page)". Read this: [33]

  • Build summaries for organelles based on this model [34]
  • A table of plasmodia


Marking tools: Use ✔ ✘