I don’t understand this post. It seems like based on the title that these are individuals who may have died of covid or related complications but that’s not clarified. Most of the people listed were ageing, so it’s easy to imagine might have them may have incidentally died during the pandemic for other reasons.
Most of these people are ones who effective altruists would find inspiring figures, though a few of them appear to just be your favourite musicians. I’m guessing overall they’re people you personally find inspiring who died during the pandemic, for reasons that may or may not be related to covid.
I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with making a post like that on the EA Forum. It’s just not clear to me which of those things this post is about. (I tend to miss social subtleties often obvious to most others, so please pardon me if this post seems strange.)
Yes, they all died of or with Covid; yes, you guess right that they inspire me.
Besides my wanting to honour them, the point of the post was to give a sense of vertigo and concreteness to the pandemic then ending. At the time of writing, a good guess for the total excess deaths was 18 million—a million people for each of those named here. The only way to begin to feel anything appropriate about this fact is to use exemplars.
Okay, that’s awesome. I appreciate it. I’d like to see more inspirational or personal posts like this on the EA Forum in the future, actually, so this kind of post personally speaks to me as well.
I don’t understand this post. It seems like based on the title that these are individuals who may have died of covid or related complications but that’s not clarified. Most of the people listed were ageing, so it’s easy to imagine might have them may have incidentally died during the pandemic for other reasons.
Most of these people are ones who effective altruists would find inspiring figures, though a few of them appear to just be your favourite musicians. I’m guessing overall they’re people you personally find inspiring who died during the pandemic, for reasons that may or may not be related to covid.
I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with making a post like that on the EA Forum. It’s just not clear to me which of those things this post is about. (I tend to miss social subtleties often obvious to most others, so please pardon me if this post seems strange.)
Yes, they all died of or with Covid; yes, you guess right that they inspire me.
Besides my wanting to honour them, the point of the post was to give a sense of vertigo and concreteness to the pandemic then ending. At the time of writing, a good guess for the total excess deaths was 18 million—a million people for each of those named here. The only way to begin to feel anything appropriate about this fact is to use exemplars.
Okay, that’s awesome. I appreciate it. I’d like to see more inspirational or personal posts like this on the EA Forum in the future, actually, so this kind of post personally speaks to me as well.