You speak of the difference between jhana and breath practice. Is it mainly just the object of concentration (i.e. the breath vs creating a whole body positive feeling)? Or is it more than that? 

Thanks for writing this up! 

Few questions:

• How long does the happiness continue when you're not meditating? A range of times would be helpful
• How long does it take you to get into the state each time?
• How many hours of meditation did you have to do before you could reliably achieve the state?
• What percentage of the time when you try to get into the state do you succeed? 

I had really good success with the book Stop Beings Your Symptoms, Start Being Yourself. 

I still have my chronic mystery ailment, but it reduced its impact on my life by about 80%. 

I think "labs" has the connotation of mad scientists and somebody creating something that escapes the lab, so has some "good" connotations for AI safety comms.

Of course, depending on the context and audience. 

Loved this post! Thanks for writing it. 

I've been having some pretty good success doing online outreach that I think is replicable but don't want to share strategies publicly. I'd be happy to give advice and/or swap tips privately with anybody else interested in the area. 

Just DM me telling me what you're working on/want to work on. 

Thank you for writing this. I think this really does make a difference for people's motivation and the vibe of the community.

This doesn't change your conclusions at all, but it's hard to count the Nonlinear Network donations without accidentally double counting because a lot of the largest donors are also on the platform.

The Nonlinear Network was designed to help increase funding diversification in the movement. 

It was also designed to be maximally low effort on both the funder and the applicant side. This is why we allow people to apply with any existing fundraising materials and there are very few required questions so if you've already fundraised, it should take you minutes to apply. 

It's not nearly enough to solve the whole problem, but it's low cost and high upside so good EV for most AI safety orgs

A couple of articles relevant to this topic:

• Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf by me
• Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument by Scott Alexander

You mentioned looking for longtermist donation opportunities. One thing that might help is the Nonlinear Network, where donors can see a wide variety of AI safety donation opportunities, and also see expert reviewers ratings and comments. You can also see other donors' opinions and voting on various donation opportunities. This allows you to avoid the unilateralist curse and use elite common sense.