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86406 22 Feb 2023 17:46 UTC
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in reply to: Nathan Young’s comment on: EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages
What, in your opinion , is an example of overregulation?
I used to agree with this, but I now think that the usual examples of over-regulation, such as the Ecodesign directive, have actually been extremely successful.

86406 4 Feb 2023 7:27 UTC
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in reply to: timunderwood’s comment on: EA, Sexual Harassment, and Abuse
I’m sorry, but this seems to me like a completely inappropriate response.
The article clearly shares incidents that make clear that there is an issue with safety in EA spaces, I am fine with saying that these are incidents and that this is not everyone’s experience, but discrediting Time / journalism is just not an appropriate response, it is going to come off as defensive and as if we are not taking these issues seriously.
We should clearly say that as a movement we have made mistakes and that we are working on addressing these. And then we should actually do so. I am very happy that the statement Wise made in the article basically says exactly this.

86406 21 Jan 2023 9:17 UTC
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on: The ones that walk away
I really feel like this captures my own thinking pretty well at the moment. I am worried that leaving also has other effects on the community as well though, such as Evaporative Cooling.

86406 15 Jan 2023 19:33 UTC
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on: Contra Ari Ne’eman On Effective Altruism
Thank you so much for writing this.
Effective altruists talk a lot about ethics. It’s fun to get into the nitty-gritty of virtue ethics versus deontology. But, frankly, the core effective altruist beliefs are platitudes, the kind of thing I teach my four-year-old. “It is bad to hurt animals.” “Every person matters equally, even if they are poor or black or far away.” “We should care about the effects of our actions on future generations.” “We should try to figure out what ways of helping people work the best and do those instead of ones that don’t work as well.”
But if you actually take those platitudes seriously they lead to bizarre actions. You donate a kidney to a stranger. You skip a vacation to pay for children you don’t know not to get a disease you can’t pronounce. You shut down a charity that donors love because the evidence isn’t good enough. You decide that rather than being a doctor you’ll help sentient beings more if you become a food scientist and make soybeans taste really really good. You spend a lot of time talking about worries that sound like science fiction movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This is just so powerful and so true, tbh it almost made me tear up, really describes well what we should be about here.

86406 14 Jan 2023 8:07 UTC
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in reply to: Quadratic Reciprocity’s comment on: Forecasting could use more gender diversity
Another thing that I liked was when a job post had a comment at the bottom saying that women and minorities are less likely to feel qualified to apply to things, mentioning something along the lines of this https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified and encouraging them to apply.
This is just speculation, but maybe this is also why women are less likely to participate in forecasting tournaments? It does take a certain level of confidence / arrogance to see a question about e.g. NATO expansion and think “Yeah, of course I can come up with a prediction on that”.
I think it is very good that FRI is looking to create a diverse team, but I also think that forecasting has a pipeline problem where the participants in tournaments seem to be overwhelmingly male. Maybe they are also the kind of organization that could do some work on figuring out why this is the case and what we can do to solve this?