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Andy Masley
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Thanks for cross posting my blog post! Wrote this 2 years ago and would probably update it a bit, one commenter pointed out a mistake:
“1 person dies from alcohol each year for every 1900 people who drink. This means that throughout a lifetime of drinking (let’s say from 20 to 70) 1 person dies from alcohol for every 38 people who regularly drink.”
I’d really like to see your source on it because I feel like breaking it down to 1⁄38 every year in a lifetime of drinking misinterprets the data.
I’d like to circle back and correct a few other points but I stand by the broader claims.
One other point I’d make is that I definitely don’t consider harms from alcohol to qualify as a high impact intervention for EAs to think about. It isn’t especially tractable or neglected and there are much bigger problems.
I can edit from here, thank you! You can leave yourself as a co-author since you cross-posted if you’d like or I’m happy to be the sole author.