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Jens Aslaug 🔸

Karma: 125

Dentist doing earning to give. I have pledged to donate a minimum of 50 % (aiming for 60%) or 40.000-50.000 $ annually (at the beginning of my career). While I do expect to mainly do “giving now”, I do plan, in periods of limited effective donating opportunities, to do “investing to give”.

As a longtermist and total utilitarian, finding the cause that increases utilities (no matter the time or type of sentient being) the most time/​cost-effectively is my goal. In the pursuit of this goal, I so far care mostly about: alignment, s-risk, artificial sentience and WAW (wild animal welfare) (but feel free to change my mind).

I heard about EA for the first time in 2018 in relation to an animal rights organization I worked for part-time (Animal Alliance in Denmark). However I have only had minimal interactions with EAs.

Male, 25 years old and diagnosed with aspergers (autism) and dyslexia.

Jens As­laug ’s Quick takes

Jens Aslaug 🔸19 Oct 2025 5:14 UTC
3 points
9 commentsEA link

How much to donate to max­i­mize im­pact and per­sonal hap­piness

Jens Aslaug 🔸31 Jul 2025 7:40 UTC
16 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

The­ory: “WAW might be of higher im­pact than x-risk pre­ven­tion based on util­i­tar­i­anism”

Jens Aslaug 🔸12 Sep 2023 13:11 UTC
51 points
20 comments17 min readEA link