All of Michael's Comments + Replies

Good idea on creating a database. One misleading article (with community members' rebuttal) here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Fm4vAtKoH4nBCzsoQ/linkpost-a-response-to-rebecca-ackermann-s-inside-effective

One quick hack to do this could be using an ad-blocking extension such as uBlock Origin. It has an option to selectively block parts of the website (Right click on the element and choose "Block element..." and then "Create")

Great piece :) Nitpick:

Quote:
"When things feel particularly bleak, I sometimes tell myself that even if I had the time and energy to try to make the world better, I’d probably fail.

Effective altruists try anyway. They know it’s impossible to take the care you feel for one human and scale it up by a thousand, or a million, or a billion."

Quote 2:
"We could really make things very good in the future,” he tells me. “Imagine your very best days. You could have a life that is as good as that, 100 times over, 1,000 times over."

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At the face value th... (read more)

Nice try GPT3 :)

• Tiefenfuturismus
• Tiefezukunftheit
• Tiefe Voraussicht
• Weitsicht für zukünftige Generationen
• Zukunftschutz
• Zukunftrettung

Probably it would be worthwhile to cross-reference your post with sources such as:

https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/ceas-guiding-principles

https://resources.eagroups.org/running-a-group/communicating-about-ea/what-to-say-pitch-guide

These sources seem to encapsulate key claims of EA nicely, so points raised there could serve as additional points for your analysis, clarify some things up maybe (haven't thought of it much, just dropping the links).

I very much like the idea of targeting the "self-improvement" crowd, especially the more sensible authors such as Mark Manson or James Clear :) 

Russia is also one of the largest exporters of grain: https://www.ft.com/content/e6a28dd9-ecea-4d67-b6b5-a50301b731b2

Another point of interest - both belligerents provide key ingredients to chip manufacturing - for Ukraine it's neon, for Russia - palladium. War can potentially exacerbate the existing chip shortage: https://www.ft.com/content/e6a28dd9-ecea-4d67-b6b5-a50301b731b2

The post you linked is interesting but omits one crucial consideration - most of Russian soldiers probably have their families back in Russia, and it's very likely that deserters' families would be harassed, given that there are already many human rights' violations going on there.

Case in point - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/europe/13hazing.html - one of the Russian soldiers lost his legs in (peacetime) brutal hazing. His family was pressured with bribery to drop the charges against the army (they didn't). It's not hard to imagine similar, albeit brutal pressure put on families of deserters.

Good catch :)

Thank you :)

I've submitted a very rough draft of how we could profile charities (and perhaps other organizations) to get a feel how they contribute:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gacpE79RKke2foG9K/rough-attempt-to-profile-charities-which-support-ukrainian

I appreciate your feedback, I'd be happy to get this ball rolling.

I wonder about the issue of how  cost-(in)effective current interventions really are - it's true, that current interventions in the war zone can seem cost-ineffective in terms of immediate help to affected populations, however there is one larger game at play - Russian Federation's (and Belarussian) aggression against Ukraine effectively demolished the current peacekeeping balance in Europe and across the world, and it seems that responding to worldwide defence challenges in case of Russian victory can be much more costly and time/attention consuming,... (read more)