Damin Curtis🔹

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Damin Curtis🔹 21 May 2026 17:53 UTC
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in reply to: Tristan Katz’s comment on: Where should the next EA Impact Hub be? (Take the poll by 27 May)
Our current Vietnam Hub will end around mid-july (after the EA Summit Vietnam), so we expect to head to our next location around mid-late July! With the poll closing at the end of May, we should have the next location decided pretty soon after the poll closes, so hopefully early June.

Damin Curtis🔹 15 Mar 2026 19:11 UTC
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on: GHD discussion here is slowly dying
This was an extremely interesting post to me, and I hope it gets more comments, partly because I’m interested and partly because of the topic at hand. 😅 I think I probably originally found out about EA through GHD, and this all seems very important. I wonder if a GHD fellowship could help. Also, a group I’m part of called Effective Mental Health runs a Global Mental Health fellowship and runs some other programming in the space, and if you have any thoughts of how we could encourage EA Forum engagement through these, please do reach out or post here. We’d love to help build engagement, it seems very important and I don’t know if anyone is taking it upon themself.

Damin Curtis🔹 3 Feb 2026 6:18 UTC
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on: My Career Plan: Launching Elevate Philanthropy!
Great stuff, Joey! Thanks for the update. I can’t wait to see what this new path leads to.

Damin Curtis🔹 1 Nov 2025 16:41 UTC
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on: Framing EA: ‘Doing Good Better’ Did Worse
Super important to test our assumptions, including on branding, especially since what sounds good to those already in the EA community might be totally different to what convinces “outsiders”. Great work and thanks for writing up a post to get the word out!

Damin Curtis🔹 1 Nov 2025 16:39 UTC
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on: On What Is Prevented
This reminds me of a post describing firsthand accounts of what starvation actually feels like, or the process of being swallowed whole that makes up a large portion of wild fish deaths. Such posts are horrific, but very important in understanding why we do what we do. They can be very motivating. Thank you for writing, I am a big fan of your work in general.

Damin Curtis🔹 22 Oct 2025 10:19 UTC
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on: Retrospective on the first-ever EAGxNigeria, 2025
This is so exciting to see! I’ve been facilitating for EA Virtual Programs for years, and have anecdotally seen a significant uptick in participants from the African continent in the last year+. I’m very excited to see the growth of EA values & community in new regions. Thank you for writing this retrospective! (also, 11 valuable new connections per participant seems quite good, I think? So well done on that!)

Damin Curtis🔹 22 Oct 2025 10:14 UTC
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in reply to: Robi Rahman🔸’s comment on: You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
LMK what the outcome is (if it works smoothly on chromebook after you do this stuff)!

Damin Curtis🔹 17 Oct 2025 14:51 UTC
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on: Entertainment for EAs
As a developer of fellowships and courses in EA, this is something I constantly consider as a failure mode—building something that’s interesting, and delights impressive participants, but doesn’t have a strong ToC that actually makes the world lower suffering in expectation. Thanks for making this post, it’s a really important consideration that might be given too little credence much of the time!

Damin Curtis🔹 16 Oct 2025 9:20 UTC
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on: Introducing Senterra Funders: the new name for Farmed Animal Funders
Great to see! Does this signal an expanded interest in cause areas like wild animal welfare, assuming cost effectiveness/ tractability/etc were comparable?

Damin Curtis🔹 15 Oct 2025 15:21 UTC
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on: You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
This looks super cool! But is it only for linux for now? I also didn’t realize how much the AIM association would pique my interest, reading that is what made me actually open the website! Either way, looks great, thanks for sharing!

Damin Curtis🔹 15 Oct 2025 15:09 UTC
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on: Total number of neurons and welfare of animal populations
Thank you so much for the acknowledgement, Vasco! As you know, I’m a huge fan of your work, so it’s great to know our chats have been productive for you. 🤗

Damin Curtis🔹 7 Oct 2025 15:52 UTC
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in reply to: Agnes Hasselblad 🔸’s comment on: No one knows what the Opportunities board is, and other updates
I get updates from all these lists emailed to me, and the EA Opportunities Board is one of my favorites because it often has part-time opportunities (eg fellowships, courses, part time work) which I think don’t make it into some of the other lists’ headlines (either because the opportunity is small, or too EA-niche). Just my two cents.

Damin Curtis🔹 3 Mar 2025 18:39 UTC
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in reply to: Joanna Michalska 🔹’s comment on: Take action to help insects: UK government consultation [5-10 minutes]
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 didn’t 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.

Damin Curtis🔹 3 Mar 2025 18:36 UTC
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on: Take action to help insects: UK government consultation [5-10 minutes]
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!

Damin Curtis🔹 22 Sep 2024 10:32 UTC
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on: How to help crucial AI safety legislation pass with 10 minutes of effort
Just sent a letter. This post was what pushed me to do it—I am a CA voter and have never written a letter urging the governor to take action on legislation before, and I believe I wouldn’t have done so without 1. reading this post and 2. reading Will MacAskill’s comment on this post. So that’s counterfactual impact on your part, nice one!

Damin Curtis🔹 4 Jul 2024 6:17 UTC
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on: Number of EAs per capita by country
I’d love to see this with select US states (like California) included as their own bars. This is super interesting, thanks for making it!

Damin Curtis🔹 24 Apr 2024 11:19 UTC
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on: You probably want to donate any Manifold currency this week
Nice, just donated my $31.23 worth of Mana to GiveWell! Wouldn’t have known to do that otherwise, and took about 30 seconds. Thanks for the post :)

Damin Curtis🔹 19 Feb 2024 11:52 UTC
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on: Ambitious Impact (AIM) - a new brand for Charity Entrepreneurship and our extended ecosystem!
This is very exciting! Can’t wait to CE’s successful formula applied to new high-impact areas & programs.

Damin Curtis🔹 3 Feb 2024 4:35 UTC
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on: Deciding What Project/Org to Start: A Guide to Prioritization Research
Big +1 to making weighted factor model spreadsheets for decisions! They’re soooo good (for small decisions too). Plus, once you’ve made one, you can reuse the template :) All great advice Alexandra, thanks for writing this up!