James Brobin

Karma: 353

Hi! I’m a twenty three year old ex-software engineer. I like to write about EA and I’m particularly interested in factory farming, the abundance movement, and how we navigate transformative AI.

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.

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

James Brobin9 Jun 2026 14:53 UTC

33 points

5 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

Categorizing Longtermist Cause Areas

James Brobin8 Apr 2026 19:46 UTC

7 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Overview of Longtermism (Its ideas, writings, individuals, institutions, and history)

James Brobin7 Apr 2026 17:56 UTC

8 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Why I’m Ambivalent About Longtermism

James Brobin6 Apr 2026 14:44 UTC

14 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

Summary of William MacAskill’s “Better Futures”

James Brobin3 Apr 2026 14:51 UTC

6 points

0 comments14 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

Criticisms of What We Owe The Future

James Brobin16 Mar 2026 17:22 UTC

45 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Why I Think Humanity Is Worth Saving

James Brobin15 Mar 2026 16:39 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Review of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

James Brobin18 Feb 2026 20:16 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 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

12 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