AmAristizabal

• AmAristizabal 27 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC

  1 point

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  in reply to: Vaidehi Agarwalla’s comment on: Re­search­ing Pri­ori­ties in Lo­cal Contexts

  I like this too!

What Has EAGxLatAm 2023 Taught Us: Ret­ro­spec­tive & Thoughts on Mea­sur­ing the Im­pact of EA Conferences

• AmAristizabal 27 Jan 2023 17:49 UTC

  3 points

  3

  on: ¿Por qué es­cribir en es­pañol? (Why should we write in Span­ish: a fol­low-up of EAGx Latam)

  Gracias por escribir esto Simón y espero que nos mantengas al tanto de los avances de la iniciativa en UPB.

  Mi experiencia ha sido que hay bastante demanda de creación de contenido en español y que aun creando artículos cortos y sencillos se puede llenar un vacío importante. Creería que un posible paso concreto a seguir puede ser crear espacios o talleres de creación de contenido original (y universidades como UPB pueden ser un buen experimento) para que los creadores de contenido hispanohablantes ganen experiencia y practiquen. Creo que hay muchas normas de comunicación en la comunidad angloparlante de AE que pueden nutrir el contenido en español y animaría a los escritores nuevos a que consuman mucho contenido de AE, interioricen esas normas, sepan usarlas, criticarlas, y a su vez nutrir a la comunidad angloparlante con nuevas maneras de comunicación.

  Creo que un modo fallido de promover creación de contenido sin interacción suficiente con el mundo angloparlante puede resultar en dos comunidades aisladas (y una con muchos más recursos y capacidad de tomar decisiones) así que definir bien los espacios para ambos idiomas (como las sugerencias de opciones multilingues para el EA forum) parece ser importante.

  Gracias de nuevo :)

A few more rele­vant cat­e­gories to think about di­ver­sity in EA

Top down in­ter­ven­tions that could in­crease par­ti­ci­pa­tion and im­pact of Low and Mid­dle In­come Coun­tries in EA

EA ca­reer guide for peo­ple from LMICs

• AmAristizabal 16 Sep 2022 19:16 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Eyad Mohamed Ali’s comment on: GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

  Thank you Eyad!! I’m very happy to hear that this was useful :)

• AmAristizabal 9 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Joy Bittner’s comment on: Geo­graphic di­ver­sity in EA

  Thanks! It would be great to see more research about this

• AmAristizabal 9 Dec 2021 16:28 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: MZimbalist’s comment on: Geo­graphic di­ver­sity in EA

  Hi!
  Thanks for your message. Sadly we don’t have very good answers to this question yet but I can send some resources that can be useful:
  -You can contact Andres Gomez who is starting a charity evaluator in Colombia: https://​​www.linkedin.com/​​in/​​andresfelipegomez/​​?originalSubdomain=co
  -Open Philanthropy has recommended Sinergia Animal in the past as a potential impactful cause in many south american countries, including Colombia: https://​​www.openphilanthropy.org/​​focus/​​us-policy/​​farm-animal-welfare/​​sinergia-animal-corporate-cage-free-campaigns
  -If you’re not committed to Colombia in particular, Brazil has its version of Givewell: https://​​doebem.org.br/​​
  -If you want to be more involved in EA in Colombia and start new projects feel free to send me a message :) Also you’re welcome to join the Spanish Speaking EA group on Slack where there are lots of new initiatives to find impactful causes in South America: https://​​join.slack.com/​​t/​​altruismo-eficaz/​​shared_invite/​​zt-9dcv7eki-jrN6GerS0NAI~97RH4dB2A
  
  I’m looking forward to know more about your interests :)
  

• AmAristizabal 22 Jun 2021 15:34 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: finm’s comment on: What are some moral catas­tro­phes events in his­tory?

  This makes me wonder if current hair removal/​depilation methods for women could fit the definition (or curious why they would not). We could think of them as minor inconveniences, but maybe women perceived foot binding as a minor inconvenience too (I can think of examples in which we don’t categorize things as major inconveniences even when they have huge levels of pain).

• AmAristizabal 13 Jun 2021 12:50 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: fmoreno’s comment on: GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

  Thanks Fer!
  Good points, I will add info hazards.
  Thanks for the TED talk! ugh yes… violence sucks haha :( I also haven’t seen too much about that in EA circles but I have seen it more present in development circles, like JPAL and IPA with their crime and violence initiatives. I’m curious why on the longtermist side of interventions violence and crime play such an important role in EA (like preventing great power conflict or nuclear weapons) but on the shorttermist side it’s more focused on health interventions (is it because it’s harder to measure than health interventions so they will never beat a GW recommended charity, which is not a problem for the longtermist side when expected value can make violence prevention a great deal?)
  
  Thanks again for your comments!

• AmAristizabal 11 Jun 2021 8:38 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Ramiro’s comment on: GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

  Thanks Ramiro!
  Yes, the efforts private and public companies make in order to be or at least appear to be “aligned” with SDGs is one of the things I find most interesting and worth making use of. They have been widely adopted across different sectors perhaps because they included private & non-profit sector in their elaboration (and great outreach and communication strategies as well I’m guessing). Also worth studying how they became such a big deal (and also explore until what extent they are a big deal or more a symbolic statement).
  
  The concern for animal welfare is a very interesting case study, thanks for pointing that out! I’ve had it in the back of my head but haven’t thought too much about it. I will point this out to Ana Diez from Argentina, she was interested in finding case studies of overlaps (or significant differences) between SDGs and EA’s cause prioritization.

GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

• AmAristizabal 21 Oct 2020 19:12 UTC

  5 points

  on: How can we im­prove on­line EA so­cial events?

  Thanks for this initiative, I will answer the survey. Regarding the questions here are some comments:
  -Has your participation in online social events changed over the course of the pandemic? If yes, how has it changed, and why?
  I would say that the pandemic was the reason why I started being more involved in EA in the first place thanks to EAGx (before this I only read stuff or listened to podcasts but never got really involved). EAGx exceeded all my expectations about online events. The platform with the “matchmakings” , the 1 on 1s and the icebreakers were awesome.
  However, after that I felt more reluctant to join any other online event… perhaps they feel less “official” and I get the impression that only really involved in EA people attend. Perhaps it’s easier to come up with excuses about lack of time with those ones… Or perhaps you start considering the time it takes to meet new people and you prefer to talk to people you already know before building new relationships (in my case I just message directly the people that I know instead of attending events).
  

  -Do you prefer small group (3-5 people) to 1-1 discussions for socializing online?
  I have never been in a 3-5 people meetup (just 1-1) but I think I would love it, both sound important and different. For career advice or networking 1-1 sound better to me but for discussion/​having a good time/​commenting stuff 3-5 could be great. But I´m not sure…

• AmAristizabal 17 Aug 2020 20:00 UTC

  6 points

  on: Kick some­one’s butt today

  Thanks for the post! I agree with the importance of peer accountability and I have been trying to apply it myself. Some comments about helpful and unhelpful butt-kicking:

  • You say the butt-kicking is called for when the person has a better understanding of the opportunities to be considered, but I don’t think this is necessarily the case. I think hardly someone else will have a better idea of how opportunities fit within our own plans but the value can come precisely from the butt kicker´s ignorance about all of the uncertainties involved (the factors paralyzing our own decisions). The butt kicker is able to “zoom out” of the actual situation and “remove the noise” from the decision...maybe? That’s how I feel it sometimes haha.

  • You also mentioned that butt-kicking is not ideal when the bottleneck is related to financial or psychological issues. I think this one could go both ways; I can imagine a situation in which the person is stuck with a harmful decision (such as a terrible boss, burnout, etc) but justifies not taking the next step due to psychological issues that come as a result of those harmful environments. In that case an external person kicking your butt can be particularly useful, perhaps even more than in other situations. I think this butt kicking thing can be a way of acknowledging and avoiding your own biases and motivated reasoning to stay in harmful situations that stall your career.

  So in general thanks for the post and for sharing your ideas. Hope to see more butt-kicking tools inside EA community.

• AmAristizabal 30 Jul 2020 19:02 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Linch’s comment on: Is re­gion-level cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search valuable to spot promis­ing long-term pri­or­ity causes wor­ld­wide?

  Thanks Linch, these are very good points (I´m particularly interested in number 3, I never thought of it that way, but I agree).

  Thanks a lot!

• AmAristizabal 26 Jul 2020 19:26 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Ramiro’s comment on: Is re­gion-level cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search valuable to spot promis­ing long-term pri­or­ity causes wor­ld­wide?

  Definitely. It is a puzzle that I constantly have in mind. I would say that the line could be drawn only when it is used kind of as a “last resource”? Haha so it makes sense to “use parochialism to promote EA-like goals” (and in your example I suppose that not having the 100+ option wouldn´t have meant more funds for Covid-19 Africa) but it makes sense only if there is no possible way to fight parochialism (or if it is excessively costly, which I think is in many contexts and with certain individuals). But as you say, it would be interesting to find where that threshold is (when is it unnecessarily hard to fight parochialism and should we aim for more cost-effectiveness within that restricted scope?). Thanks for the comment!

• AmAristizabal 26 Jul 2020 6:05 UTC

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  in reply to: brb243’s comment on: Is re­gion-level cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search valuable to spot promis­ing long-term pri­or­ity causes wor­ld­wide?

  Thanks for your comment, this is insightful. I like the distinction between as a means to create additional impact and as means to help locals. Also thanks for pointing out other ways in which this latter option informs long-term priorities, there are many I did not consider before such as the further funds that are left for outer moral circles when people care for inner moral circles more cost-effectively, although I wonder if that is always the case or if the time/​effort invested finding cost-effective local causes to care for inner moral circles could be better used otherwise, like finding ways to expand moral circles for example haha but so far I share your views and I think that it is valuable to spot these areas acknowledging the limits. Thanks again!

Is re­gion-level cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search valuable to spot promis­ing long-term pri­or­ity causes wor­ld­wide?

• AmAristizabal 26 Jun 2020 23:31 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Devon Fritz’s comment on: Geo­graphic di­ver­sity in EA

  Hi Devon, thanks for watching. Here is the Google doc: https://​​docs.google.com/​​document/​​d/​​1wsAivVBb2yj3tXjG6_3dBMK5BSJy0SoOUT1P2ek0Ddk/​​edit

  But some of the best and more informative replies are on the comments of this forum post, I´ll organize them on the document one of these days(still thinking how haha). Thanks!