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I'll try to set that up for sure! In the meantime, you can follow us on Instagram @shop_misercordia (https://www.instagram.com/shop_misercordia/). With regards to existential hope, I'm looking into some designs for utopian cities, as well.
Thank you so much!!
It only took ~10 hours of work. I initially drew out the original design in pastel, and then scanned it and uploaded it to Figma, after which I edited it to my needs. The other one I paid a classmate $0.50 for the design and played with the filters on Figma to design the shirt. All the shirt designs were then uploaded to CustomInk, which allows for print on demand to multiple addresses so I don't need to have any inventory. I originally tried to create the website on Wix.com, but it was too expensive for my needs. The current website is built on Squa...
Yes! I made a silly error when writing out "Misericordia" on the original design, but I thought it sounded cooler, so I ran with it.
I agree with ColdButtonIssues that luxury consumer goods may be a better direction in the long term. You might be well advised to run a for-profit business (perhaps dropshipping, or other money-making schemes, like buying cheap items at garage sales and upselling them on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc.) and use the profits to fund the start-up costs of a bigger business. I would guess that you could make ~$10,000 with 100-200 hours of work.
I recently read "Zero to One: Notes on Startups and How to Build the Future" by Peter Thiel and "The Tipping Po...
Anecdotally, I would never have heard of transhumanism if not for the U.S. transhumanist party, even though they only got a few hundred votes in the presidential election.
My suggestion would be that more people interested in Effective Altruism infrastructure donate to Giving What We Can instead of the E.A. Infrastructure Fund or CEA Community Building Fund. A community organized around effective giving is 1) better for optics; 2) better for us; 3) anecdotally, I was inducted into E.A. through global poverty, and then later got into longtermism and animal welfare by extension. Without good infrastructure and a strong culture of effective giving, E.A. will cease to be an excited and exciting (and growing) community working to...
Also, I think that a book which you would really resonate with is Wisdom to Heal the Earth: Meditations and Teachings of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. A lot of the teachings about the Messiah and the Messianic age start to make sense when viewed from a longtermism paradigm.
God bless,
Tomer
I just read this article, and I think your ideas are beautiful and should be spread further throughout the E.A. community. Is there any way that this article could be rewritten to be more palatable to an E.A. audience, perhaps by removing quotes from the Bible and Qur'an, and changing the title to something like "The Singularity and Its Metaphysical Implications." I'll share with you a draft of what I'm thinking of. Love what you're doing man, keep at it!
There are several authors who are somewhat E.A.-aligned like Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, etc. who we should work on recruiting to write books from them in the future about E.A. Also, I would a verbal history of E.A. simply for the reason of, if it got optioned for movie rights, who would play Will Macaskill. I have my bets on Liam Hemsworth.
Someone who has contributed to Jewish thought in this area (i.e. our individual power to usher in a messianic age - similar to what many E.A.'s believe longtermist interventions (and neartermist interventions, to some extent) can bring about - is The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of blessed memory. A great book on this (which I'm reading right now) is "Wisdom to Heal the Earth - Meditations and Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe" by Tzvi Freeman. The focus on 'Tikkun Olam' also aligns with a lot of the progressive Jewish messaging I've seen in recent years anyways.
I think this is definitely feasible. I was convinced by the ideas of Effective Altruism as early as age 12 and donated a significant portion of my Bar Mitzvah gifts to The Life You Can Save.
Could you explain what "Embodied virtue ethics and neo-Taoism as credible alternatives to consequentialism that deserve seats in the moral congress" would mean for cause prioritization in E.A.? I'm not familiar with either of those concepts.
Hi, I'm Tomer Goloboy (mathgeek2008@gmail.com). I'm working on writing a children's book teaching basic altruist principles. I'd love to join Slack to get suggestions from and network with other EA-aligned creatives! Huge thanks to Jeroen_W for creating this channel!
- What are the odds of extinction from nuclear, AI, bio, climate change, etc.?
- His thoughts on the threat of "population collapse"?
- How work on existential risk compares to work on animal welfare and global poverty in expected value (is it 50% better? 100x better?)
- How does work on animal welfare and global poverty affect existential risk and the quality of the long-term future?
- Where do Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Eliezer Yudkowsky, etc. go wrong that leads them to believe in substantially higher levels of AI risk than you?
- What new E.A. projects would you like to s
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