jancbeck

Karma: 32

Elected board member of EA Austria and currently working for SageWealth, a Berlin-based FinTech startup founded by EAs that is trying to make investing more accessible by building the sustainable investment bank of the future. Co-founder of the EA Graz local group and past organizer at EA Vienna.

I’ve worked for +10 years as a freelance web developer and recently graduated with a Bachelors degree in Business, Economics and Social Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

One of my areas of interest is finding a solution so that donations to effective charities are tax deductible in Austria.

jancbeck 20 Jan 2023 16:59 UTC
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on: Heretical Thoughts on AI | Eli Dourado
> And yet, if I had only said, “there is no way that online video will meaningfully contribute to economic growth,” I would have been right.
- online video conferencing saved parts of the economy from shutdown during COVID. The trend seems somewhat persistent post-pandemic and may save lots of time commuting/traveling
- online education has grown enormously but I‘m not sure this would get picked up in GDP numbers. I’m India right now and almost everyone on a commuter train watched a video lecture on their phone. I’ve fixed multiple things in my home thanks to ‚youtube university ’ for which i would have needed to hire a professional otherwise.

jancbeck 2 May 2022 10:52 UTC
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on: EA frontpages should compare/contrast with other movements
I wouldn’t call these biases. I was a typical lefty before I joined EA but when I learned about economic history and microeconomics I heavily updated towards what you call “capitalist mode of production”. In hindsight, I knew very little about economics and just repeated the same ideas that my leftist friends had. Knowing more has made me better at criticizing certain aspects of capitalism but also more appreciative of others.

The bias, in my opinion, should not be stated as the outcome (“believe in capitalism”) but what directs one to arrive at such a position (e.g. risk aversion wrt to bad publicity, trust in authority etc).

jancbeck 5 Mar 2022 22:35 UTC
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on: Best Countries during Nuclear War
@luisa_rodriguez on the 80,000 Hours Podcast mentioned Chile because of long shorelines which are good for fishing.
Rob also mentions something about nuclear fallout not spreading easily towards the southern hemisphere.

jancbeck 6 Apr 2019 8:46 UTC
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on: Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
IT organizations offer bug bounty programs. Why do governments not offer similar programs to fix vulnerabilities before they are exploited by terrorists?