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...

This is fantastic to hear! The Global burden of disease process (while the best and most reputable we have) is surprisingly opaque and hard to follow in many cases. I haven't been able to find the spreadsheets with their calculations.

 Their numbers are usually reasonable but bewildering in some cases and obviously wrong in others. GiveWell moving towards combining GBD with other sensible models is a great way forward. 

Its a bit unfortunate that the best burden of disease models we have aren't more understandable.

 Wow again I just haven't moved in circles where this would even be considered. Only the most elite 0.1 percent of people can even have a meaningful "public private disconnect" as you have to have quite a prominent public profile for that to even be an issue. Although we all have a "public profile" in theory, very few people are famous/powerful enough for it to count.

 I don't think I believe in a public/private disconnect but I'll think about it some more. I believe in integrity and honesty in most situations, especially when your are publicly disparaging a movement. If you have chosen to lie and smear a movement with"My impression is that it's a bit of an outdated term" then I think this makes what you say a bit more fair game than for other statements where you aren't low-key attacking a group of well meaning people.

Do you think 1% is very useful in practise? That seems very high to me and I would have thought by that stage we would know through other means already? Or is the plan to lower the threshold as the tech improves and aim for something lower?

Perhaps silly question as you've probably written about this before, have you tried getting people to (with you blinded) dump both natural and engineered DNA in wastewater in different quantities at random times to see how good your system is at picking it up?

#importantquestions 

It's kind of sad this hits the spot so hard lol.