[I hope it’s not bad form to comment on a post from 2016 -- here it goes!]
Michael --
I’m a newcomer to EA. I find it very compelling but I’ve been troubled by the assumption that saving (or even generating) current (and future) lives is more valuable than improving existing lives. So I was excited to stumble upon your work. It has given me some intellectual basis for what was previously mostly intuition. What I have not been able to find is this: for someone who more or less shares your priorities / worldview, what should we be doing with our time and money? Can you point me to any resources on this? I imagine they exist but I’m having trouble finding them. The EA community has done an amazing job of evangelizing its favorite causes in a really accessible way (GiveWell etc); is anyone doing the same for causes that rank highly for those with alternative flavors?
[I hope it’s not bad form to comment on a post from 2016 -- here it goes!]
Michael -- I’m a newcomer to EA. I find it very compelling but I’ve been troubled by the assumption that saving (or even generating) current (and future) lives is more valuable than improving existing lives. So I was excited to stumble upon your work. It has given me some intellectual basis for what was previously mostly intuition. What I have not been able to find is this: for someone who more or less shares your priorities / worldview, what should we be doing with our time and money? Can you point me to any resources on this? I imagine they exist but I’m having trouble finding them. The EA community has done an amazing job of evangelizing its favorite causes in a really accessible way (GiveWell etc); is anyone doing the same for causes that rank highly for those with alternative flavors?
FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/EAMentalHealth/
Shallow overview of mental health from an EA perspective
http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1ha/mental_health_shallow_review/
Happiness reading list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJBarYoUPjvtDo8tTrcNb6NT5adWLaJCUOgEMdeNQ6E/edit#