My experience from the church is the salary doesn't correlate will with likelihood of donating, although it does of course correlate with donating larger amounts of money.

If EAs working in AI policy and safety were serious about AI Doom being a near-term possibility, I would expect they would donate huge amounts towards that cause. A clear case of "revealed preferences" not just stated ones. 

I think I was assuming people working in highly paid AI jobs were donating larger percentages of their income, but I haven't seen data in either direction?

There's no heel prick in low income countries because there isn't the money for newborn screening.

Yep here it's super common here in UgAnda the baby gets whisked away to check breathing, temperature, then gets washed, then gets wrapped up. Often babies are then given to mother wrapped in clothes. Skin to skin is highly variable and I would say the majority of babies don't get it. 

We should be careful about criticizing cultural norms. Cleaning and wrapping up the baby is often seen here as the best care they can get - it's just unfortunate that it isn't.

I don't think it's that wild that it isn't the standard, I can easily see how other options after birth could be seen as "better" for a whole bunch of reasons.

Probably for the best. Nearly fell off a motorcycle taxi yesterday when a bunch of bublys exploded into my face :D

As do I brother, thanks for this declaration! I think now might not be the worst time ogir those who do identify directly as EAs to stay so to encourage the movement, especially some of the higher up thought and movement leaders. I don't think a massive sign up form or anything drastic is necessary, just a few higher status people standing up and saying "hey, I still identify with this thing".

That is if they think it isn't an outdated term...

I appreciated it :)

I think there are good arguments here. I think though starting with the opinions of CEOs of companies though is a weak opening. These guys are just outrageously motivated as company heads to state timelines as short as possible. 

Add to that increasing race dynamics with companies vying for investment and from a business perspective they almost "have" to say these things for the good of their investors. It's their job to overhype.

We don't listen very seriously to Crypto CEOs on the trajectory of Crypto, or Tobacco CEOs on the safety of tobacco, or Elon Musk on the trajectory of Tesla and Space X (usually hugely overoptimistic). Why then do we listen to AI company CEOs about AGI timelines? Perhaps we are lulled by their intelligence and ability but that can never outweigh the sheer weight of incentives and even the very nature of their position.

There are plenty of forecasters and AI experts outside of companies that we can look to for this, I think we should perhaps consider the statements from AI company CEOs a weak data point.

This is super encouraging - I'm impressed how you leaned into the areas where liberal arts students might already have a felt need and interest, both empathetic and smart.

1) Finding a meaninful job (apparently a big deal for Gen Z)
2) Diverse food options including vegetarian meals

No suggestions here unfortunately, at 38 I'm not sure what the youth are into ;).

100 percent man

Most changed mind votes in history of EA comments? This blew my mind a bit, I feel like I've read so much about American productivity outpacing Europe, think this deserves a full length article.

That's interesting and I'm sad to hear about people declining jobs due those reasons. On the other hand though some leadership jobs might not be the right job fit if they're not up for that kind of critique. I would imagine though there are a bunch of ways to avoid the "EA limelight" for many positions though, of course not public facing ones. 

Slight quibble though I would consider "Jane Doe sucks for these reasons" an order of magnitude more objectionable than quoting a wedding website to make a point. Maybe wedding website are sacrosanct in a way in missing tho...