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Are too many young, highly-engaged longtermist EAs doing movement-building?
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Anonymous_EA
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Mental support for EA partners?
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Hedgehog
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What is the right ratio between mentorship and direct work for senior EAs?
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mariushobbhahn
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Examples of someone admitting an error or changing a key conclusion
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Lizka
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Where can I learn about how DALYs are calculated?
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Aaron Gertler
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Animal welfare orgs: what are your software and data analysis needs?
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BrownHairedEevee
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What is the best NGO for hunger relief in Somalia? Asking for a millionaire friend who is locked in on that specific cause
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ezrah
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What's the causal effect of a PhD?
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Gavin
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What is the state of the art in EA cost-effectiveness modelling?
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Froolow
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Where can I find good criticisms of EA made by non-EAs?
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oh54321
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If I'm 20% less productive, do I have 20% less expected impact?
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[anonymous]
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Training a GPT model on EA texts: what data?
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JoyOptimizer
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How much funding is needed to eradicate Malaria?
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GidiKadosh
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What is the difference between the San Francisco and Washington DC EAGs?
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BrownHairedEevee
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Questions to ask Will MacAskill about 'What We Owe The Future' for 80,000 Hours Podcast (possible new audio intro to longtermism)
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Robert_Wiblin
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Where to donate goods/textbooks/items ~effectively in the UK/US/beyond?
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david_reinstein
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What actions most effective if you care about reproductive rights in America?
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Gordon Seidoh Worley
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Projects for EA historians
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quinn
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Are there English-speaking meetups in Southeast Germany?
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Grant Demaree
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I'm interviewing Oxford philosopher, global priorities researcher and early thinker in EA, Andreas Mogensen. What should I ask him?
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Robert_Wiblin
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What are the best resources on comparing x-risk prevention to improving the value of the future in other ways?
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[anonymous]
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Modeling humanity's robustness to GCRs?
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QubitSwarm99
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How are y'all finding places to stay for EAG San Francisco?
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BrownHairedEevee
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How did COVID-19 affect the median person's quality of life?
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Sam Enright
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What is a good EA career change for a Physiotherapy student?
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Joe91
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What lawsuit resulted from EA organizations sharing information very freely?
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ChristianKleineidam
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What are some current, already present challenges from AI?
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nonzerosum
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Job, skills, and career capital suggestions for 18-year-old
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CeeDeeWee
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Moral trades for tax deductibility
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OscarD
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How might we rigorously measure the outputs of public investment by default?
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Locke
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When should the inverse-variance method be applied to distributions?
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Vasco Grilo
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Is Mineral Resource Scarcity a Risk Anyone is Researching? Worth Researching?
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haywyer
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What time does EAG San Francisco start and end?
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BrownHairedEevee
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How does a For-Profit Business Become Involved?
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Patrick-AgamiCo
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What about EA's Take on Other Uses of Money than Philanthropy?
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haywyer
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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Tomer_Goloboy
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How to approach the dilemma between the law of unintended consequences and the consequences of nonaction?
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kristin.h
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