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I'm one of the contact people for the effective altruism community. I work at CEA as a community liaison, trying to support the EA community in addressing problems and being a healthy and welcoming community.
Please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Besides effective altruism, I'm interested in folk dance and trying to keep up with my three children.
As described, this doesn't seem to contain
- time with friends
- seeing family, especially if they don't live in the same city
- recuperation time if you get sick
I suggest having some tripwires built in, like "If my closest friend says 'you are not ok, you should pause,' I will take X steps."
The commitment as stated is "actually donated €1 million", unclear if donating part of a company counts.
>Palisade, Apollo, METR, MATS, Tarbell
For other readers who thought, "Wait, are those not getting CG funding?" Almost all of those orgs have been funded by CG, most within the last year. Maybe not at the level Scott's talking about though.
Other comments make me think the language wasn't a big factor, but trying to model what my college-aged self would have asked before hearing about EA: "what career will help other people the most" / "what career will make the world a better place"
I wonder if some of this is that most people don't ask questions with "morally speaking" in the phrasing.
Thanks for spelling this out! Re the call script: my understanding is that messages like these get recorded by staffers basically as "in favor / opposed" to whatever the legislation is. Is it worth having a shorter script, since the arguments are not making it into the record of who called about what?
Seconding this. I've heard both "you could die from toxic shock syndrome if you don't clean your cup properly" and also there are something like 5 known cases and no deaths of TSS from menstrual cups. Getting the right balance of education would be important: conveying that cleaning the cup is needed, but it's apparently unlikely to cause a serious problem with typical use.
Seems like a great reason for donors to give during their own lifetimes instead of setting up a long-term foundation.
Students for High Impact Charity was a project to support groups at high schools, but it had difficulty getting traction. It's hard to start a group from afar if you're not a student or faculty there.
Vox piece about Foege's work.