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AMA: Pablo Melchor, author of Altruismo Racional and President of Ayuda Efectiva
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Do you think "authoring a book" will help you getting the EA message to more mainstream media?

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Pablo Melchor 🔸
Yes! How interested (or uninterested) mainstream media are in effective giving varies a lot between countries. In Spain, their interest is close to zero, but the book has already led to some good opportunities that will hopefully materialize in the next couple of weeks. 
What Small Weird Thing Do You Fund?
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I'm a Patreon patron of Jaime Gómen Obregón, a fellow Spaniard that is doing independent work to make public data actually usable. His projects include tools to cross-check electoral lists with public contracts that help uncover political corruption and increase transparency.

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The Righteous Mind book review
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You did a great job at looking at Haidt book from the EA perspective. I think trying to do the opposite is also interesting: how can EA be understood in the light of the moral foundations theory?

I'm in the introduction to EA program and yesterday we were talking about triage as part of reviewing the readings. Even though we bought the argumentation by MacAskill about triaging being the best thing to do and something we must not look away from it felt conflicting. In the framework of Haidt that's easily explained as the sanctity/degradation foundation kicki... (read more)

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