Done, thanks for posting this! Concrete ways to take action in a high-impact, low-input way are really nice to see on the forum!
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EA MenÂtal Health Flash Talks & Gathering
EA MenÂtal Health Flash Talks & Gathering
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Just sent a letter. This post was what pushed me to do itâI am a CA voter and have never written a letter urging the governor to take action on legislation before, and I believe I wouldnât have done so without 1. reading this post and 2. reading Will MacAskillâs comment on this post. So thatâs counterfactual impact on your part, nice one!
Iâd love to see this with select US states (like California) included as their own bars. This is super interesting, thanks for making it!
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Nice, just donated my $31.23 worth of Mana to GiveWell! Wouldnât have known to do that otherwise, and took about 30 seconds. Thanks for the post :)
This is very exciting! Canât wait to CEâs successful formula applied to new high-impact areas & programs.
Big +1 to making weighted factor model spreadsheets for decisions! Theyâre soooo good (for small decisions too). Plus, once youâve made one, you can reuse the template :) All great advice Alexandra, thanks for writing this up!
Great idea! This could be a great way to think of gift ideas and get more people to donate around holidays/âspecial events. I wonder if thereâs room to expand/âproliferate projects like this...
Iâm so sorry to hear this news. Iâm glad that this community can be a place of remembrance and to honor Sebastianâs commitment to impact and giving. I especially wish strength and peace for Sebastianâs family.
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Very interesting write-up, thank you for it.
As pointed out in an earlier comment, raising the compensation for challenge trials and/âor seeking out participants with lower âwilling participation priceâ seems promising as a way to get enough participants.
I would be interested to see an analysis on the âdonation equivalentâ of participation.
E.G. if it would cost 10k to pay a willing participant, and an EA were willing to do it for free for social good, is this the âequivalentâ of a 10k donation to an effective health cause? If not, approximately how much would it be worth? Putting a number on this would be interesting, and could help individuals decide whether to participate (comparing to their opportunity costs, etc).
Heck, maybe if we had a number, individuals who track donations could even log challenge participation as a number amount towards their donation goal (e.g. for those who donate 10% of their incomes), though thatâs probably a whole different conversation.
I agree that increasing compensation to a happy price might be better than relying on altruism, and that selecting for altruistic individuals might mean selecting for those with high opportunity costs.
However, I donât like the language or sentiment behind calling non-EAs ânormiesâ especially in a context like this. I think both the nomenclature and the blanket sentiment is bad epistemics, bad for the EA brand, and potential evidence of a problematic worldview.
Thanks for your comment & questions! These are great questions for further research. I donât know enough to comment on the first question. But as for the second, weâre lucky that right now, the advanced chip supply chain has multiple tight bottlenecks, and is largely controlled by US-allied advanced democracies (Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Netherlands, UK, US, etc). This is part of why the US was able to effectively cut off Chinaâs access to obtaining the most advanced chips. So there is a window of opportunity, where the most important countries could agree to require their companies to implement this framework, and require certain buyers to comply with the framework as well. Countries generally can require their companies to manufacture a certain way, and can also set import/âexport restrictions on chips to ensure transactions are compliant.
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Drew is a personal friend of mine, as is a nonlinear employee not mentioned in this post, so I am saddened to read this. I am waiting to see Nonlinearâs response.
Thanks for this, lab safety deserves so much attention and zooming in on regional contexts might be really high impact.
âEstablish a non-punitive accident reporting systemâ seems really important, and very interesting because getting those incentives right seems difficult (punishing malpractice vs incentiving hiding issues from authorities). But itâs probably better to air on the side of not discouraging reporting!
It only asked me for my name (not citizenship, residency, or address), so not sure if they cross check with a citizens directory or something, but the UK didnât require citizenship to answer a public consultation on the kinds of causes their international aid should go towards so it seems like they just allow anyone to give input.