We enticed a real life comedian onto our podcast: 

Just a reminder that anyone can set off a Forum debate! I'd love to see more of these. 

Mox Movie Nights watched Slumdog Millionaire today and it reminded me of the why behind the work. We're not here to EV-max, to gain impact points, to count utils. We're here because the world is unfair, suffering is prolific, and need to find a way through it. 

I was excited to hear about this "Claude Corps" initiative for NGOs, which helps orgs supercharge their benefits from AI then gutted to hear that its only going to be in the USA. Apparently they want to extend it overseas later, but the impact an intern li this could have right now for orgnisations like us at OneDay Health in Uganda would be mind-blowing. I hope they can expand the program overseas sooner rather than later! - 150 million dollar program - Intern works for 12 months with the NGO to supercharge AI use - $85,000 payment to intern for the year https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps  

Question from a newbie. I am constantly seeing negative references to the gutting of US foreign aid. It seems pretty clear that global development-focused EAs generally view the change in policy to be a bad thing. But I do not think I have once seen any discussion at all about how to reverse this state of affairs. Building on a running theme as of recently, it seems like political giving may have an outsize effectiveness, due to the relatively sparse funding in the space. So, naively, it would seem like you probably could get a great rate of return on efforts to reinstate USAID. I understand that political coalition building and organizing is not easy, etc. I'm not someone with those skills, just a rando. But I'm a little surprised that I don't think I've ever seen it taken up here when it seems like the downstream effects are making our goals harder to achieve. Basically, not only is it at face value cost effective, but also, we are collectively burning a lot of human capital working around this problem. Why not confront it head on?