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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
Hi all,
I'm unsure whether this is fully appropriate for the forum, so please let me know if not (or if better suited elsewhere).
My name is Guerdon Ligon -- a senior computer science undergrad at Boston University, and the founder of the EA group there.
To date I have focused on AIS problems, and was a research fellow with the Swiss Existential Risk Initiative this past summer where I worked on impossibility results in value learning from multiple agents. These experiences have lent me a fair background in AIS, formal game theory and mathematical modelling, general SWE and data analytics, as well as moral philosophy both EA and otherwise.
For various reasons I have found myself at loose ends until this coming September, and would vastly prefer working, even in a minor role, on an impactful project. I do not believe I am fully equipped for many of the research position roles posted here and elsewhere, and am looking for temporary employment besides. Hence this post.
If you or a project you are aware of could use full or part-time assistance in either a technical domain (including writing, research, and documentation for the same) or any other relevant field, please reach out for discussion.
I am hoping not to simply rehash the same job listings as are already present in the community, but rather projects that would specifically benefit from mission oriented, temporary, and low cost help (I am not looking for significant payment beyond cost of living).
Hey,