Thanks for the comment, Carl. I’ve taken back those examples, which were mistakes. In general am going to have a higher bar for quality before putting up posts, as I’ve found it’s been easier to mislead people than I was expecting. (Maybe I could introducing a new operator? E.g. [Thinking out loud]:[sentence]”) I agree that recommending funding GOTV, even non-officially, would be a bad move for the movement, for the reasons you say. I was just trying to give an example of a donation opportunity that could conceivably have high expected value in the eyes of both the “charity begins at home” advocate and the globally-minded effective altruist.
I was basing the mindfulness recommendation on opinions with academics, including someone doing a meta-analysis on the intervention at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, who reported that it was effective in the short-term (but not in the long-term). The views I heard reported were “I was sceptical at first, because it seems so ‘alternative’, but the studies show it actually works.”. But I hadn’t actually looked into the data myself, which I should have done.
Thanks for the comment, Carl. I’ve taken back those examples, which were mistakes. In general am going to have a higher bar for quality before putting up posts, as I’ve found it’s been easier to mislead people than I was expecting. (Maybe I could introducing a new operator? E.g. [Thinking out loud]:[sentence]”) I agree that recommending funding GOTV, even non-officially, would be a bad move for the movement, for the reasons you say. I was just trying to give an example of a donation opportunity that could conceivably have high expected value in the eyes of both the “charity begins at home” advocate and the globally-minded effective altruist.
I was basing the mindfulness recommendation on opinions with academics, including someone doing a meta-analysis on the intervention at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, who reported that it was effective in the short-term (but not in the long-term). The views I heard reported were “I was sceptical at first, because it seems so ‘alternative’, but the studies show it actually works.”. But I hadn’t actually looked into the data myself, which I should have done.