Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
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With the AI windfall, mental health may be taken increasingly seriously by mainstream EA. There’s increasingly room to explore the cause area and answer some of the biggest uncertainties; at the same time, costs of the most effective interventions are continuing to fall. StrongMinds is now treating for ~$35, about a third of GiveWell’s best guess from a few years ago, and is expected to...
This is great. Are there any more talks on career choice that you could add?
80,000 Hours have only a few videos on their YouTube channel that're more than ten minutes long.
Is there anything you had in mind? I don't know of any other talks that are relevant and whose permissions would be easy to secure.
P.S. I just realized that the audio quality of Toby Ord's talk is very bad.
P.P.S. If anyone would like to take over this project, let me know.
If you'd like I can give a go at cleaning up the audio of Ord's talk.
And by give a go I mean, run it through a few filters to see if it can go from "very bad" to "passable".
Sure, that would be very helpful. Boris did that for a couple of other files. I'll upload any cleaned-up audio sent my way. New audio is also welcome!
E-mail is probably the best way to get in touch: pbrinichlanglois@gmail.com
And sorry for the delayed reply! I didn't see your comment.