Hello! I posted this in a short form, but I guess it’s also good to post it here.
I am a startup founder. My company is starting to work well by itself—I have about one full free day per week. My skills are team building, start-up building, remote team building, and software development.
How can I help? Is there a list of open projects that one could take on? 🤔
And for a bit of background, I came upon EA a couple of months ago and found it very meaningful. I attended my first meetup last week and also start the Giving What We Can pledge in September.
I used a method by Dr David Hanscom to cure chronic pain and it worked (spectacularly) for me and several other people. I would like to run a trial to see if I can get some solid data on whether something we don’t fully understand could nevertheless help millions of people with severe, long term pain.
No “boosterism”, I’m not going into this to “prove” it works but to find out.
If you’ve got free time, I would love to have you onboard- I need to contact pain groups and influential people who can help, such as Scott Alexander, Julie Rehmeyer, Andreas Gobel, Isobel Whitcomb, Julia Wilde, Nick Whitaker etc, and basically form an online team to work together on this project- with someone like Andrew Gilman to advise on methodology.
I would then need to run the experiment and collate the results- the method is completely free, takes 5 minutes and sounds completely wacky.
If you’re at all interested by this, but have questions, please get in touch. If you’re (understandably) sceptical, please find someone you know with chronic pain and ask them if they’ve got 5 minutes to help you decide what path to go down. If it works for them, please tell me- also if it doesn’t.
I don’t want to imply that this must be a barrier to action, but how much time have you spent digging in to questions relevant to cause prioritization? Your priorities might change as you investigate more.
Here are a couple flowcharts—if you haven’t engaged with a particular question before, like really grappled with whether animals have moral status, you might find your priorities change as you think through these considerations.
Thanks, I have started to dig into the causes mainly through listening to podcasts and it really shifted my perspective on many causes; and actually let me to that post, but these flowcharts are new to me—I’ll dive in, thanks !
Hello!
I posted this in a short form, but I guess it’s also good to post it here.
And for a bit of background, I came upon EA a couple of months ago and found it very meaningful. I attended my first meetup last week and also start the Giving What We Can pledge in September.
Nice to meet you all!
Hi Fabien,
I used a method by Dr David Hanscom to cure chronic pain and it worked (spectacularly) for me and several other people. I would like to run a trial to see if I can get some solid data on whether something we don’t fully understand could nevertheless help millions of people with severe, long term pain.
No “boosterism”, I’m not going into this to “prove” it works but to find out.
If you’ve got free time, I would love to have you onboard- I need to contact pain groups and influential people who can help, such as Scott Alexander, Julie Rehmeyer, Andreas Gobel, Isobel Whitcomb, Julia Wilde, Nick Whitaker etc, and basically form an online team to work together on this project- with someone like Andrew Gilman to advise on methodology.
I would then need to run the experiment and collate the results- the method is completely free, takes 5 minutes and sounds completely wacky.
But, if you’re here, I assume you’re a Feynman fan- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W9rJv26sxs4g2B9bL/transcript-richard-feynman-on-why-questions
If we look at Ignaz Semmelweiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis we can see that not all ideas are treated equally.
If you’re at all interested by this, but have questions, please get in touch. If you’re (understandably) sceptical, please find someone you know with chronic pain and ask them if they’ve got 5 minutes to help you decide what path to go down. If it works for them, please tell me- also if it doesn’t.
I don’t want to imply that this must be a barrier to action, but how much time have you spent digging in to questions relevant to cause prioritization? Your priorities might change as you investigate more.
Here are a couple flowcharts—if you haven’t engaged with a particular question before, like really grappled with whether animals have moral status, you might find your priorities change as you think through these considerations.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TCtbuGC3yBisToXxZ/a-guided-cause-prioritisation-flowchart
http://globalprioritiesproject.org/2015/09/flowhart/
Thanks, I have started to dig into the causes mainly through listening to podcasts and it really shifted my perspective on many causes; and actually let me to that post, but these flowcharts are new to me—I’ll dive in, thanks !