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This update was very much needed, and congrats on the new introduction—I love it and finally have a page I can share introducing EA!
“It is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.”
-Nassim Taleb
Thanks for evaluating the evaluators!
TL;DR Write shorter posts.
Hi Bara, thank you very much for your feedback!
Thanks for the catch on the malaria bed net :)
I think cancer deaths have been going up, not down (https://ourworldindata.org/cancer#is-the-world-making-progress-against-cancer), so maybe you meant 4M not 40M in 2015.
I don’t fully understand the problem with the ‘payload’ point, but since I’m in doubt, and I understand that it could be a risk, I will remove it for the moment.
Great catch! I didn’t see this deck before, will go through it now. From a first look, it seems like the key numbers deck is general, and these decks are based on the 4 EA cause areas.
I recently published six new wikiHow articles to promote EA principles: How to Make a Difference in Your Career, How to Help Farmed Animals, How to Launch a High Impact Nonprofit, How to Reduce Animal Cruelty in Your Diet, How to Help Save a Child’s Life with a Malaria Bed Net Donation, and How to Donate Cryptocurrency to Effective Charities.
Some titles might change soon in case you can’t find them anymore (e.g., How to Reduce Animal Cruelty in Your Diet --> How to Have a More Ethical Diet Towards Animals, and How to Help Save a Child’s Life with a Malaria Bed Net Donation --> How to Help Save a Child’s Life from Malaria).
Three more are in the approval process (you have to wait a few days before seeing them): How to Fight Climate Climate Change by Donating to the Best Charities, How to Donate to the Most Effective Animal Welfare Charities, and How to Help the World’s Poorest People by Sending Money. I will publish some more articles in the following weeks.
Let me know if you have feedback on the articles, and I’ll be glad to improve them :)
Also, thank you for writing this shortform, as it inspired my mentor Cillian Crosson to ask me about writing these wikiHows :)
Best,
André
You mean like Animal Welfare (beginners) and Animal Welfare (advanced)? Thanks for the idea! I never thought about it. Let me know your feedback on the cards once you start revising them :)
I agree with sharing more flashcards! Let me know your feedback on the Anki cards :)
Great feedback on the longevity of flashcards, will apply it, thanks!
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What a beautiful project for Open Philanthropy to sponsor! I was so happy to see my favourite YouTube channel publish this video :)
Great idea!
On the UGAP website, there’s no mention that the program is online or physical. I recommend clarifying it :)
When is the deadline for the volunteer application?
This morning I thought, “EA Forum posts should be shorter and simpler,” and now I read your post. Thank you for helping make ideas clear to everyone, not just philosophers ;)
I need to add more examples to my writing. For example, I wrote my list of 90 mental models with no examples, so some mental models are un-understandable.
I recommend to everyone On Writing Well by William Zinsser, which improved my writing by 50%.
I summarised the book in my writing checklist for those short on time. Feedback is welcome :)
Great, will apply! :)
Great idea, I applied
Thanks for writing this. I think the communist ideology of “Tax good. Billionaires bad” is ridiculous. I prefer, “Donating good. Founding companies good. Bureaucrats bad.”