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James Brobin

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Hi! I’m a twenty three year old ex-software engineer. I like to write about EA and I’m interested in a broad range of its related topics (such as animal welfare, moral progress, and biorisks.)

My YouTube channel is James Brobin, and it conveys EA ideas to a general audience.

My blog is James Brobin’s Substack, and it includes stuff that I haven’t posted on this forum.

Effec­tive Altru­ism Isn’t Utilitarianism

James Brobin14 Aug 2026 19:57 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why I’m Skep­ti­cal of Longtermism

James Brobin10 Aug 2026 15:19 UTC
12 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

We don’t know how con­cerned ex­perts are about en­g­ineered pandemics

James Brobin9 Aug 2026 17:28 UTC
23 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mism Seems Like A Religion

James Brobin5 Aug 2026 20:18 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EAs Should Use Less Bayesian Reasoning

James Brobin2 Aug 2026 21:06 UTC
52 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

List of “Mediumter­mist” Cause Areas

James Brobin31 Jul 2026 2:23 UTC
5 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on The Scout Mindset

James Brobin5 Jul 2026 20:23 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Has Global Health Been Ri­gor­ously Com­pared With Other Cause Areas?

James Brobin3 Jul 2026 23:43 UTC
20 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Rea­sons To Be Skep­ti­cal Of Re­think Pri­ori­ties’s Mo­ral Weights Project

James Brobin9 Jun 2026 14:53 UTC
37 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Has Any­one Com­piled The Most Effec­tive Char­i­ties Ac­cord­ing to Differ­ent Wor­ld­views?

James Brobin23 Apr 2026 22:15 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ideas for EA Cause Areas

James Brobin9 Apr 2026 23:21 UTC
23 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “Clue­less­ness” by Hilary Greaves

James Brobin26 Mar 2026 16:58 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Why do EAs fo­cus on global health over global de­vel­op­ment?

James Brobin19 Mar 2026 3:10 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Re­view of If Any­one Builds It, Every­one Dies

James Brobin18 Feb 2026 20:16 UTC
9 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What Are Other Ways of Com­par­ing In­ter­ven­tions and Cause Areas?

James Brobin17 Feb 2026 19:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EAAs Lack A Long-Term Perspective

James Brobin4 Feb 2026 3:10 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A Sys­tems Think­ing Per­spec­tive on Farm An­i­mal Activism

James Brobin2 Feb 2026 20:03 UTC
9 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

How to Im­prove EA’s Pres­ence on YouTube

James Brobin5 Jan 2026 18:34 UTC
50 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Are there any EA hubs that are both warm and sunny?

James Brobin30 Nov 2025 18:29 UTC
21 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

EAs Should Pro­mote Fru­gal­ity More

James Brobin12 Nov 2025 15:32 UTC
46 points
25 comments2 min readEA link