I was reading through 80,000 Hours's home page, and their "Most pressing problems" section was interesting to me. https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
#1 was AI-safety, #2 power concentration, etc...and #8 was global health.
I agree AI safety & factory farming are important...but more important than Global Health? AI safety MIGHT be a problem...whereas we KNOW Global Health is a problem.
Idk if they were intentionally ranking things or not, but they kinda were whether they meant to or not.
Does this actually reflect their thinking? That seems bewildering to me that they might think AI Safety is "more important" than something as imemdiate & tractable as Public Health.
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Anybody in this community focused on international law? Human Rights law, etc.
Also would love to get pointed to any groups of EA-like folks donating to/raising money for international law non-profits (like HRW, etc).