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Really excited for EA UKâs work in the future with @gergo as director now! Congratulations :)
So glad to have seen this published, great stuff Chris!
As a tl;dr from my initial thoughts on the original post: I think this has individually been really beneficial for my work, and Iâm excited to potentially see it grow :)
While I am by no means an âexperiencedâ organiser nor the main organiser for EA Manchester as a whole, Iâve decided to fill out the form anyway as I think my insights may be useful after a year of starting a separate branch (AI Safety Manchester) at our EA society :)
Thank you for organising this!
I use Notability on iPad for the majority of my notes. Itâs free now, organising features are extensive enough for my use case and it auto-backups to Google Drive as PDF. GoodNotes is an alternative.
Other than that, I use Notes on iOS sort of as a âslip boxâ and Notion for more tabular/âstructured data (though beware of privacy concerns with Notion).
Congratulations!
Today is Indiaâs 76th Independence Day! I thought it would be nice to look at some of Indiaâs progress over the last three-fourths of a century:
Infant mortality has gone down by 13.48% since 1960.
The death rate from malaria has gone down from 15.78 deaths per 100,000 people in 1990 to 2.61 deaths per 100,000 in 2019.
The number of children whose development has been stunted (as a consequence of poor nutrition or repeated infections) has gone down from 66.04 million in 1990 to 49.26 million, a ~25% reduction.
The share of Indians living in extreme poverty has drastically reduced from 58.96% in 1981 to 10.55% in 2017.
We still have a long, long way to go in many domains (as one EA-aligned example, lead in paint and lead concentration in children is still a huge issue in India).
Source: Our World in Data
This LessWrong post about Thomasâ paper is also interesting.
Great post! I was mainly concerned with the -values heading haha. I wonder if Thomas Philippon will follow up on all of the attention his paper received.
Good point! Though I think it shouldnât be difficult to figure out a lower upper bound, maybe an economist is working on that right now, depending on how actively researched this domain is.
I think focusing on outreach to top schools is less about elitism and more about the potential to have a greater impact (which is sort of talked about here). I guess we suspect that spreading our community building resources to thousands of schools in America wonât be as effective as focusing on the couple hundred universities that have a track record of producing high-impact students, labs, projects, etc. (such as the Ivies or the UCâs)
Great post, itâs amazing to see mental health in the EA-sphere being talked about.
About time tracking, as someone who also tracks their time in little color-coded squares (or rectangles?), you start to associate some colors with negativity and others with positivity, and when youâre in a rough spot (or a ârutâ if I may) it can definitely make you feel like youâve wasted the week as you glance over.
To me, thatâs the biggest disadvantage of time-tracking/âtime-blocking, though for me the advantages vastly outweigh the disadvantages.
Thank you!
Thank you for the quick reply!
Thanks for hosting this Kes! I really enjoyed helping out with the mental well-being sharing circle, and I hope that there are more EG retreats in the future :)