This article is really good food for thought but for now I'm more swayed by Marcus's more pessimistic take in the comments. I just wanted to add another correction to this post where it says: 

"The last time new technology opened up this kind of money, it led to one of the largest declines in extreme poverty and child mortality in human history." 

I explored that statement with Gemini 3.5* and it thinks the above is half right .

It said it's correct that early 21st tech boom ended up saving the lives of 5.4 million children each year, cutting global child mortality "by more than half in a single generation". 

However it said the roughly 80% reduction in extreme poverty around that time was probably more correlation than causation.

*P.S. Sorry I had to use Gemini cuz I ran out of Claude credits

This is great to hear! Any reason why "major grantmakers have significantly more to deploy than they did a few years ago — the EA Animal Welfare Fund alone has had more funding allocated to it in the past six months than in the previous six years"?

Just wanted to note that this work was highlighted by ourworldindata.org/do-better-cages-or-cage-free-environments-really-improve-the-lives-of-hens

Great post and beautiful charts

Can't wait to find time to watch this.

Quick nitpick: there's currently no link at the end of this sentence 'You can see our retrospective on our first two videos here."

I'm convinced tho I must admit I was turned off by this post (and the associated quitgpt.org) opening its case by Brockman's contribution to MAGA. And that's saying something cuz I dislike that movement a lot. 

But I really think it's much more partisan and controversial than it should be when the reasons that follow include being unprincipled about enabling authoritarianism.

My first attempt went pretty poorly but I'm not giving up yet. I'm making some adjustments and will try again in 2026. 

This is great news and good timing! A few days ago I was wondering what your org was up to.

I'm afraid I'm quite unqualified to do this screw worm research myself but please let me know if there's any other way I can support this effort

Sounds great! Do you plan to release an audiobook of this?

Thanks! I genuinely appreciate that and will keep you posted.