Damin Curtis🔹

• Damin Curtis🔹Apr 24, 2023, 3:53 AM

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  on: Ghana has ap­proved the use of a malaria vac­cine with >70% efficacy

  Wow! How exciting. Thanks for the update!

• Damin Curtis🔹Apr 24, 2023, 3:51 AM

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  on: Who were The Righ­teous Among the Na­tions?

  This brought tears to my eyes, thank you for posting. The Yad Vashem Museum is so beautiful and heavy. Looking for common denominators among the exceptional few who became rescuers seems like a high potential value pursuit for EA.

• Damin Curtis🔹Mar 3, 2023, 7:38 PM

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  on: An­nounc­ing the Launch of the In­sect Institute

  Awesome work, Dustin! So glad that this exists.

• Damin Curtis🔹Feb 15, 2023, 10:07 PM

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  on: Let’s ad­ver­tise EA in­fras­truc­ture pro­jects, Feb 2023

  Yeah I say keep doing this, once a month tops/​once a quarter minimum :)

• Damin Curtis🔹Jan 29, 2023, 4:28 PM

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  on: OpenBook: New EA Grants Database

  Very cool, thanks for making this! Where does the data come from? How is it decided which orgs are included?

• Damin Curtis🔹Jan 25, 2023, 5:51 PM

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  on: Why peo­ple want to work on AI safety (but don’t)

  Thanks for sharing, I definitely have the same feeling. Especially on the “but I can’t code” bit. I’m gonna read through that Blue Dot course curriculum, it seems like a good step for people in this stage of thinking.

• Damin Curtis🔹Jan 25, 2023, 5:46 PM

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  on: Anti En­tropy: Sup­port­ing ops pro­fes­sion­als in EA

  “Don’t worry too much about overlap. Chances are there is demand for many organizations doing the same thing or that you’ll fill a slightly different niche than the original organization.”

  I think this is good advice. There’s a lot of (justified) focus on neglectedness in EA, but this is often confused with one-of-a-kind-ness, when in reality there can be multiple organizations providing the same service and it is still neglected/​in short supply. EAs who want to help can found new projects that are basically just using a pre-existing template in another context/​niche.

• Damin Curtis🔹Jan 14, 2023, 8:45 PM

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  on: An­nounc­ing WildAn­i­malSuffer­ing.org, a new re­source launched for the cause

  Amazing website! This does fill a need; now I have a simple, single-link resource to share with other animal activists/​EAs/​etc with whom I’d like to convey the importance of wild animal suffering.

• Damin Curtis🔹Jan 12, 2023, 9:56 PM

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  on: Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals This Decade

  “None of this progress was inevitable. It was mostly the result of sustained and focused advocacy, much of it done and funded by all of you.”

  This is so important to remember. Unlike progress in tech, economic growth, etc, which often feel like the inevitable trends of progress (sometimes our efforts even focus on figuring out ways to slow progress, like in AI), animal welfare runs the risk of falling by the wayside. It’s very important for us to be proactive and not take any change for granted. Most (all?) of these corporate pledges were due to hard-fought, strategic pressure from effective animal advocacy groups.