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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....
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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.
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This is more of a note for myself that I felt might resonate/help some other folks here...
For Better Thinking, Consider Doing Less
I am, like I believe many EAs are, a kind of obsessive, A-type, "high-achieving" person with 27 projects and 18 lines of thought on the go. My default position is usually "work very very hard to solve the problem."
And yet, some of my best, clearest thinking consistently comes when I back off and allow my brain far more space and downtime than feels comfortable, and I am yet again being reminded of that over the past couple of (deliberately quieter) weeks.
So, yeah, just a thought, but if you're feeling like you're banging your head up against a problem, maybe (counter-intuitively) consider doing way less to solve it for a while