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Announcing: The ‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition
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This seems like a valid question to me, and worth answering, even though I don't strongly share these concerns myself.

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Announcing: The ‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition
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Interesting! I have a somewhat oblique question/suggestion/idea: As somebody who often finds text harder to engage with than audio, I suggest it may also help to spur more awareness and engagement with the work to produce an audio version of it, perhaps in the way that FreeClassicAudiobooks or Librivox do, via a collaboration of readers recording different chapters. 

I have not headed such a project, but I've looked into it before - I think the book would only be eligible for a project ON those sites if it were in the public domain (is it?) but we coul... (read more)

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David Thorstad
Just seeing this now -- sorry for the late reply! It's open access. Here is the copyright information from the book. Is this license good enough for the kind of audio adaptation you're thinking of? (There's a permissions department at Oxford that you can contact if you're not sure -- they direct to https://plsclear.com/Home/Index I think) This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Subject to this license, all rights are reserved.
Concrete project lists
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Regarding: "What’s blocking you from working on an altruistic project?"

Recently I took an online course about managing time and projects, including motivation and follow-through, and one of the most valuable take-aways I got out of it was this:

There are three basic reasons people procrastinate:

  • Not knowing what to do.
    • That is, which of the many available things to start doing. Analysis paralysis is a huge threat to getting things done. I think the kinds of people who feel drawn to EA may also tend to have a particularly high rate of worrying about
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