Mostly to various projects on AI risk policy and communications, and a smaller portion to GiveWell's recommended charities

For people interested in this type of content, Yale has/had a similar course called "Life Worth Living", mostly from a religious rather than philosophy perspective. A variety of interviews with past guests: https://lifeworthliving.yale.edu/practitioners

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I haven’t actually seen the evidence that the LessWrong community was particularly early on covid or gave particularly wise advice on what to do about it.

I'm saying microcovid was a useful contribution on what to do about covid that came out of the rationality community.

To give an example of where rationalists produced a useful tool here, I found microcovid useful. For example, to convince my father that it was very low-risk for him to resume outdoor social activities.

In cases where there is an established science or academic field or mainstream expert community, the default stance of people in EA should be nearly complete deference to expert opinion, with deference moderately decreasing only when people become properly educated (i.e., via formal education or a process approximating formal education) or credentialed in a subject.

On the other hand, many early critiques of GiveWell were basically "Who are you, with no background in global development or in traditional philanthropy, to think you can provide good charity evaluations?"

I first heard of cluster headaches when I worked in a psychiatric hospital with a young man who was suicidal in part due to his cluster headaches.
I didn't realize how little access to standard treatments there is! Thank you for moving this forward.

I don't have reason to think that prioritizing women's careers is more common in EA than in other similarly educated groups. And within EA, I definitely think it's still most common that women are doing more of the parenting work. But I wanted to highlight some examples to show that multiple configurations really are possible!

Hi Jessica! Some things you might check out if you're not already connected:
- EA Connect, the upcoming virtual conference
- Magnify Mentoring which might have mentors with experience in connecting people in LMICs to areas where AI safety is more established
- The opportunities board, which tends to have more accessible roles than boards aimed at full-time jobs
 

I kept wondering "how does this compare to sunlight" in terms of radiation that reaches the living layers of your skin, etc. Might be worth including that.

Related, from another member: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Y5HggjkG5ZPSv3arM/how-i-missed-my-pledge-and-how-i-m-fixing-it