Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'.
As examples, he gives:
* Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws (in 1754 BCE) and his justification of his rule not in terms of divine or hereditary right, but by the delivery of justice to his citizens.
* St Gregory of Nyssa's...
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
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This post summarizes a new preprint on alternative proteins from the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab: New alternatives, same orders. We investigated 19...
Have you read the full Founders Pledge reports on this topic? I'm not sure exactly which post you're referring to, but the full report documents go into a lot more detail.
"This guide is about what we believe the implications of this changing landscape to be for donors that are motivated by maximizing positive climate impact." Interesting, but ideally it'd be something framed for people looking to work in climate rather than those with money looking to donate.
The 80000 Hours problem profile also has some career advice