Thank you for sharing! I think it is a good post and the topic raised there (tied to this current post) is worth a deeper discussion than it got in the comments (which were imho rather tangential, the monetary estimate actually not being central to the post). Does anyone know whether the person who wrote that has permanently left the EA forum? (Btw if there is a cause area ‘animal welfare’, maybe there indeed should also be one called ‘child welfare’, but if this is too broad, then maybe ‘positive parenting’, which is the flip side of corporal punishment and other abuse of children, and skills in which actually help to prevent most abuse).
This was posted on the EA Forum about a year and a half ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20171105140307/http://effective-altruism.com/ea/19m/reduction_and_abolition_of_physical_punishment_of/ (not sure why non-archived link brings up “Sorry, we couldn’t find what you were looking for.” now).
Thank you for sharing! I think it is a good post and the topic raised there (tied to this current post) is worth a deeper discussion than it got in the comments (which were imho rather tangential, the monetary estimate actually not being central to the post). Does anyone know whether the person who wrote that has permanently left the EA forum? (Btw if there is a cause area ‘animal welfare’, maybe there indeed should also be one called ‘child welfare’, but if this is too broad, then maybe ‘positive parenting’, which is the flip side of corporal punishment and other abuse of children, and skills in which actually help to prevent most abuse).
It’s by Jiwoon Hwang, and it’s also posted on his blog: http://jiwoonhwang.org/physical-punishment-of-children-the-neglected-3-6-trillion-year-problem/ . He hasn’t posted anything later on the EA Forum. There are three usernames on the current EA Forum containing the word “Jiwoon”, but they seem to be deleted.
I like to make the following taxonomy of cause areas:
near-term humans: global poverty, mental health, child abuse?
near-term animals: factory farming, wild animals
long-term future: AI alignment, biosecurity, nuclear weapon security, alternative foods, s-risks
Sadly, Jiwoon passed away last year.
Do you know if there’s an obituary or memorial page somewhere?