Henry Stanley 🔸

• Henry Stanley 🔸Nov 8, 2023, 3:10 PM

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  on: AMA: Ben West, former startup founder and EtGer

  Since you offered: 0.015% tretinoin + niacinamide 4% + urea 5% moisturiser at night, SPF50 in the morning. What else should I be doing?

• Henry Stanley 🔸Nov 3, 2023, 12:16 PM

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  in reply to: Aidan Alexander’s comment on: Shrimp paste might cause more an­i­mal deaths than any other food product. Who’s work­ing on this?

  “There’s no life bad enough for us to try to actively extinguish it when the subject itself can’t express a will for that”

  Agreed that this seems nonsensical on its face.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Oct 18, 2023, 5:37 PM

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  in reply to: Kat Woods’s comment on: A quick up­date from Nonlinear

  Downvoting because you’ve already posted this exact comment several times in this thread. Just post it once and link to it.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Oct 18, 2023, 11:43 AM

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  in reply to: Kelsey Piper’s comment on: Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

  Also—the whole point of getting a licence is to test that you can drive to a specific standard. Not just “my friends taught me how to drive so it’s fine”. The fact that the penalties for driving without a licence are small doesn’t make it good behaviour.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Sep 14, 2023, 3:46 PM

  20 points

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  on: Who should we in­ter­view for The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast?

  David Pearce on the seriousness of suffering, paradise engineering, and negative utilitarianism.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Aug 30, 2023, 2:02 PM

  8 points

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  in reply to: Max Harris’s comment on: Giv­ing gladly, giv­ing publicly

  Thanks!

  I set up a DAF with Founders Pledge (which is available to all Pledgers subject to a minimum £10,000 initial deposit) - it’s a screenshot from their internal granting tool.

Giv­ing gladly, giv­ing publicly

• Henry Stanley 🔸Aug 8, 2023, 5:26 PM

  5 points

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  on: The Ve­gan Blindspot: A Pre­sen­ta­tion on Wild An­i­mal Suffering

  What do you think about having more of an EA presence at Vegan Camp Out more generally? I was there and was surprised not to see any of the big names I’m familiar with in the animal welfare movement.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Feb 7, 2023, 5:15 PM

  36 points

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  in reply to: Aptdell’s comment on: EA, Sex­ual Harass­ment, and Abuse

  I guess I don’t even really understand her relevance. Fully a third of the TIME article is about her mediation in an EA house, and makes her bad behaviour out to be emblematic of problems at the core of EA, but she’s… just some random person, right?

  From some online digging: she’s listed as an attendee at EA Global 2016. She appeared on the Clearer Thinking podcast in 2021. She’s never posted on the EA Forum or LessWrong, at least not under her own name that I can find. Her relationship with EA seems at the most to be very, very slight. Am I missing something about her relevance in this whole thing?

• Henry Stanley 🔸Jan 14, 2023, 5:50 PM

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  on: Iron defi­cien­cies are very bad and you should treat them

  This is awesome, thank you so much for writing it. Incidentally I wrote a piece on treating restless legs syndrome (RLS), step 1 of which is “fix iron deficiency”: https://​​henryaj.substack.com/​​p/​​how-to-treat-restless-legs-syndrome

• Henry Stanley 🔸Jan 13, 2023, 6:36 PM

  27 points

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  in reply to: JamesÖz 🔸’s comment on: I Sup­port Bostrom

  “What about eugenics? Do I support eugenics? No, not as the term is commonly understood.”—This is just not a useful thing to mention in an apology about racism, or at least, not in this way

  I actually think this was quite reasonable. He’s a bioethicist, after all – ‘eugenics’ has a bunch of different meanings in that field and it’s important to distinguish between them

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 25, 2022, 7:11 PM

  10 points

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  on: New EA cause area: chewier food for children

  The figure of 85% of Americans having their wisdom teeth removed isn’t very informative as (IIRC) most Americans have them removed by default, even if there’s no impaction.

  In the UK, the NHS only removes them if they’re causing problems (although in practice I found they were quite reluctant even in this case). That would provide a more useful base rate.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 19, 2022, 4:29 PM

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  in reply to: ramekin’s comment on: Con­sider work­ing more hours and tak­ing more stimulants

  Good point about stimulants mostly being useful as adjuncts and not as monotherapy.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 18, 2022, 8:22 PM

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  in reply to: Xavier_ORourke’s comment on: Con­sider work­ing more hours and tak­ing more stimulants

  You generally consider yourself to be happy, highly composed and emotionally stable. You have no history of depression or other mood-related dissorders

  Some stimulants seem to work well for depression, however: https://​​www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/​​pmc/​​articles/​​PMC6375494/​​

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 18, 2022, 8:21 PM

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  in reply to: JoelMcGuire’s comment on: Con­sider work­ing more hours and tak­ing more stimulants

  I’m not convinced you can really replace sleep with caffeine in any meaningful way; tolerance to caffeine builds so quickly as to make it unuseful after a couple of weeks.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 18, 2022, 8:20 PM

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  in reply to: David_Althaus’s comment on: Con­sider work­ing more hours and tak­ing more stimulants

  Would be interested in your experience with tranylcypromine; it sounds to me to be way more dangerous than amphetamines.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Dec 1, 2022, 10:26 AM

  4 points

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  on: FTX’s Col­lapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident

  Came here to post this same article—I think it does a good job outlining all the ways in which this really was a fraud and not some sort of accounting mistake as seems to be presented by some media outlets.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Nov 20, 2022, 9:42 PM

  32 points

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  in reply to: Lorenzo Buonanno🔸’s comment on: What hap­pened to the “Women and Effec­tive Altru­ism” post?

  This seems like generally a bad precedent to set—lots of people put a bunch of time into writing thoughtful comments; those comments are now gone. Even leaving the post up with the body blanked out would be preferable. I’m not sure the author of a post should have the power to erase all the discussion of it unless they have a very good reason.

• Henry Stanley 🔸Nov 17, 2022, 1:22 PM

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  in reply to: Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ ’s comment on: Adam Cochran on the FTX meltdown

  Fine on chrome for me

• Henry Stanley 🔸Nov 12, 2022, 11:44 PM

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  in reply to: Keerthana Gopalakrishnan’s comment on: Women and Effec­tive Altruism

  This all seems very sensible and reasonable. But at the time of writing this comment, your post still makes all of the ‘bailey’ claims I mentioned, which rather proves the point that you’re using a central reasonable claim to justify a bunch of related but unreasonable/​poorly-evidenced ones. I suspect this muddled thinking is why you’re getting downvoted.