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Benevolent_Rain

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​​I have received funding from the LTFF and the SFF and am also doing work for an EA-adjacent organization.

My EA journey started in 2007 as I considered switching from a Wall Street career to instead help tackle climate change by making wind energy cheaper – unfortunately, the University of Pennsylvania did not have an EA chapter back then! A few years later, I started having doubts whether helping to build one wind farm at a time was the best use of my time. After reading a few books on philosophy and psychology, I decided that moral circle expansion was neglected but important and donated a few thousand sterling pounds of my modest income to a somewhat evidence-based organisation. Serendipitously, my boss stumbled upon EA in a thread on Stack Exchange around 2014 and sent me a link. After reading up on EA, I then pursued E2G with my modest income, donating ~USD35k to AMF. I have done some limited volunteering for building the EA community here in Stockholm, Sweden. Additionally, I set up and was an admin of the ~1k member EA system change Facebook group (apologies for not having time to make more of it!). Lastly, (and I am leaving out a lot of smaller stuff like giving career guidance, etc.) I have coordinated with other people interested in doing EA community building in UWC high schools and have even run a couple of EA events at these schools.

Com­plex in­side, sim­ple out­side.

Benevolent_Rain21 Oct 2025 12:52 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Map­ping AI safety orgs to threat mod­els — has any­one done this?

Benevolent_Rain14 Oct 2025 7:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Poll: Have your views on mov­ing abroad changed in the last 12–24 months?

Benevolent_Rain26 Sep 2025 7:30 UTC
21 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is a “cause bal­anced” EAF front page pos­si­ble?

Benevolent_Rain30 May 2025 4:26 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A mir­ror bio shelter might cost as lit­tle as ~$10,000/​per­son (ma­te­rial cost only)

Benevolent_Rain19 Dec 2024 18:04 UTC
28 points
19 comments19 min readEA link

Longter­mism bet­ter from a de­vel­op­ment skep­ti­cal stance?

Benevolent_Rain9 Dec 2024 12:16 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] In­ves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist in the AI safety space?

Benevolent_Rain15 Nov 2024 8:48 UTC
4 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is there any overview over con­sid­er­a­tions that im­pact cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Benevolent_Rain23 Aug 2024 8:55 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Benevolent_Rain13 Mar 2024 3:18 UTC
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

Diet that is ve­gan, fru­gal, time-effi­cient, ~ev­i­dence-based and as­cetic: An ex­am­ple of a non-Huel EA diet?

Benevolent_Rain6 Feb 2024 8:33 UTC
41 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] AI+bio can­not be half of AI catas­tro­phe risk, right?

Benevolent_Rain10 Oct 2023 3:17 UTC
23 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

News: Span­ish AI image out­cry + US AI work­force “reg­u­la­tion”

Benevolent_Rain26 Sep 2023 7:43 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is the risk of a bioweapons “warn­ing shot” >>50%?

Benevolent_Rain18 Sep 2023 9:45 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Benev­olent_Rain’s Quick takes

Benevolent_Rain3 Sep 2023 7:24 UTC
4 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Bioweapons shelter pro­ject launch

Benevolent_Rain14 Jun 2022 3:44 UTC
75 points
19 comments8 min readEA link