Helvellyn

• HelvellynFeb 10, 2023, 4:54 PM

  24 points

  20 ∶ 1

  on: Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

  Fwiw, my impression is that within the EA community, endorsing a nonzero pure time preference is a minority reason why people don’t agree with longtermism. Doubts about tractability seem much more important.

  What links here?

  • pseudonym's comment on What are the best ex­am­ples of ob­ject-level work that was done by (or at least in­spired by) the longter­mist EA com­mu­nity that con­cretely and leg­ibly re­duced ex­is­ten­tial risk? by Ben Snodin (Feb 12, 2023, 1:45 PM; 22 points)

• HelvellynFeb 9, 2023, 1:14 PM

  45 points

  24 ∶ 0

  on: Mas­sive Earthquake in Turkey: Com­ments on the situ­a­tion from the EA Com­mu­nity in Turkey

  My thoughts are with you all in Turkey. Thank you for taking the time to write this informative post in what must be a very difficult time.

• HelvellynFeb 5, 2023, 1:00 PM

  31 points

  16 ∶ 0

  on: Ap­pre­ci­a­tion thread Feb 2023

  I am grateful that I can increasingly find vegan foods at restaurants etc. I can’t imagine how much harder it would have been to be vegan even 10 years ago.

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