Here is an even more ambitious one:
Found an EA charter city
Effective Altruism
A place where EAs could live, work, and research for long periods, with an EA school for their children, an EA restaurant, and so on. Houses and a city UBI could be interesting incentives.
Mere libertarians may have failed, as anarchists did in similar attempts. But I believe that EAs can do better. An EA city would be a perfect place to apply many of the ideas and polices we are currently advocating for.
I don’t think I will elaborate on policies, given that they are the last thing to worry about. Even RP negative report counts new policies among the benefits of charter cities. Now we are supposed to have effective ways to improve welfare, why wouldn’t we build a new city, start from scratch, do it better than everybody else, and show it to the world? While I agree that this can’t be done without putting a lot of thinking into it, I believe it must be done sooner or later. From a longtermist point of view: how could we ever expect to carry out a rational colonization of other planets when nobody on earth has ever been able to successfully found at least one rational city?
It has happened to me that when trying to make an edit I accidentally click ok on the warning that says “We’ve found a previously saved state for this document, would you like to restore it?”, thus restoring an old version of the article and reverting someone else’s edits.
To achieve this you could create a “community user” and share the pass on top of the post. People would login with it, make changes and explain them in the comments. Not sure if sharing the pass would be against the Forum’s rules.
Could anyone help me downvote the ‘Job listing (open)’ tag? Applications closed two days ago. Thanks
Added. Thanks!
I like that one very much, but I stopped listing posts in March, that’s why it is not included. Thanks anyway.
Added. This is a great contribution. Thanks a lot!
There is a rough draft. I’ll try to update it and let you know.
Thanks for raising this point. I agree that such category could include enhancements not strictly limited to “being smarter”. I think this is a legitimate cause area, but I’m not sure if I would include Magnus’s excellent post. I just don’t feel he is proposing this as a cause area. . . Anyway, the real reason I didn’t include it was far more trivial: It was published in April and this update is supposed to cover up to March. I’m thinking about ways of extending the limit and keeping this up to date on a regular basis.
I’ll add them soon, thanks! Yes, you’re right about the beneficial influence of improving institutional decision-making over other causes. This is something that occurs very frequently between other causes as well (though not always, as the meat eater problem has shown). I look forward to reading that post.
All of these are arguably either neglected or less-discussed, or at least that’s what the posts discussing these causes suggest. I suppose the same goes for your posts (I just didn’t have the time to read them in detail yet) and that’s why I lean towards including them.
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Great article! Another thing I just realized: I dislike the clock metaphor. It seems to suggest that we will eventually reach midnight, no matter what. Perhaps a time bomb (which can be deactivated) would be a better illustration.
Langzeitigkeit
Langzeitethizismus
But I think the best is the already proposed ‘Langzeitethik’.
I think this is very useful. Added.
Have you checked this https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events? There are some meetups in Berkeley.
Kelsey Piper has written an excellent article on different ways to help Ukrainians, including how to donate directly to the Ukrainian military. But she wisely points out that “[s]uch donations occupy a tricky ethical and even legal area… A safer choice would be to direct money to groups that are providing medical assistance on the ground in Ukraine, like Médecins Sans Frontières or the Ukrainian Red Cross.”