JP Addison🔸

Some mod­er­a­tion team principles

• JP Addison🔸 15 Jan 2025 15:40 UTC

  15 points

  6 ∶ 1

  on: Vol­un­tary Salary Reduction

  Why don’t you consider the reduction as part of of your donations? Unlike taking a direct-work job (where the counterfactual and non-monetary compensation questions are complicated and any estimate will involve a lot of guesswork)^[1] your salary reduction is from a known very well-understood baseline.

  I’m sympathetic overall to your desire for this not to become a norm in EA, due to the concerns you listed, but I would (and do) count it towards my donation target, and would generally advise others to do so.

  1. ^

     There’s an argument in your case that your counterfactual salary is extremely clear. I would expect for most people taking a salary reduction, the answer is much harder. I’d estimate that half of people I’ve heard of leaving EtG jobs would have had a hard time being happy at that job any more, and many more people are like me where I haven’t worked in industry for 7 years and so I would have to guess, which makes it a bit of a weird norm question if a peer of mine gets to claim a 50% reduction, but I have no idea if I could have made double my (reduced) salary in industry in a very distant counterfactual world.

• JP Addison🔸 17 Dec 2024 20:58 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: Seek­ing Sup­port: Help Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive Develop Re­mote Sens­ing Technology

  I used to work in remote sensing in a past life. I don’t have much to say about the science of measuring water quality, but I do want to comment on the data collection question.

  You mention satellites and drones. If you can get the info you need from existing satellite imagery that’s great. To the extent that you need something more, I can recommend using manned aircraft over drones.

  The world is well set-up for pilots to fly small aircraft. The type of drone you would need to cover a large area would have to be a very autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft. You don’t need this. You can contract a pilot & plane for hundreds of $s an hour and cover a whole lot of ground per hour. I would bet you could survey the whole of India’s fish farms annually for less than a single FTE in a western country working on drones.

  Once you realize this, you might start thinking about other approaches than visible light. Can you identify substances that shouldn’t be present in a humane fish farm and measure them with a spectrometer mounted on an aircraft?

Where CEA staff are donat­ing in 2024

• JP Addison🔸 12 Dec 2024 21:33 UTC

  6 points

  1 ∶ 1

  in reply to: Habryka’s comment on: Tech­ni­cal Re­port on Mir­ror Bac­te­ria: Fea­si­bil­ity and Risks

  I really appreciate that the comment section has rewarded you both precisely equally.

• JP Addison🔸 4 Dec 2024 13:54 UTC

  10 points

  7 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ben Millwood🔸’s comment on: What is the ad­mis­sions bar for EA Global?

  I love the way you were non-opinionated about this comment, and left it up to the agree-disagree votes.

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 22:40 UTC

  9 points

  4 ∶ 1

  in reply to: MathiasKB🔸’s comment on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  Ah, um, confusingly the default for personal is “Hidden”, and what you’ve done is effectively changed your settings for Personal Blogs to “Neutral.”

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 19:23 UTC

  66 points

  23 ∶ 6

  on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  You can read our politics policy here.

  Political issues are clearly relevant to improving the world. However, in our experience, we’ve seen that partisan political discussion tends to have a strong polarizing effect on public forums; it consumes a lot of a community’s attention and can lead to emotionally charged arguments. Overall, we think the EA Forum will be healthier, and better-positioned to achieve its goals, if we limit the space given to political topics.

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 19:20 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 1

  in reply to: MathiasKB🔸’s comment on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  You probably have customized your feed to show personal blogposts. The default feed has them hidden.

• JP Addison🔸 13 Sep 2024 22:05 UTC

  21 points

  7 ∶ 0

  on: Brief Up­dates on EAIF

  I really appreciate brief update posts like this, that help me keep some awareness of other meta projects. Thanks!

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 22:04 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  Another comment from me:

  I don’t like my mod message, and I apologize for it. I was rushed and used some templated language that I knew damn well at the time that I wasn’t excited about putting my name behind. I nevertheless did and bear the responsibility.

  That’s all from me for now. The mods who weren’t involved in the original decision will come in and reconsider the ban, pursuant to the appeal.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 21:40 UTC

  −5 points

  1 ∶ 4

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  In the post that prompted the ban, they asked whether murdering meat-eaters could be considered ethical. I don’t want to comment on whether this would be an appropriate topic for a late night philosophy club conversation, it is not an appropriate topic for the EA Forum.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 21:38 UTC

  10 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  That is not the post in question. We removed the post that prompted the ban.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 19:32 UTC

  −1 points

  0 ∶ 9

  in reply to: Lizka’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  Moderation update: We’re issuing dstudiocode a one-month ban for breaking Forum norms in their recent post and subsequent behavior. Specifically:

  • Posting content that could be interpreted as promoting violence or illegal activities.

  The post in question, which asked whether murdering meat-eaters could be considered “ethical,” crosses a line in terms of promoting potential violence.

  As a reminder, the ban affects the user, not just the account. During their ban period, the user will not be permitted to rejoin the Forum under another account name. If they return to the Forum after the ban period, we’ll expect a higher standard of norm-following and compliance with moderator instructions.

  You can reach out to forum-moderation@effectivealtruism.org with any questions. You can appeal this decision here.

CEA is hiring a Head of Oper­a­tions (ap­pli­ca­tions closed early)

• JP Addison🔸 5 Aug 2024 16:43 UTC

  39 points

  13 ∶ 0

  on: On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

  I very much appreciate you writing this, and writing it so well. I really resonate with a lot of this, though of course maybe my role as a professional EA community person makes it harder for me and others to trust my take.

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2024

• JP Addison🔸 1 Jul 2024 23:21 UTC

  6 points

  2 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ozzie Gooen’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform

  I’m excited that we exceeded our goals enough to have the issue :)

• JP Addison🔸 25 Jun 2024 21:01 UTC

  7 points

  1 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ozzie Gooen’s comment on: Ozzie Gooen’s Shortform

  I don’t know about you but I just learned about one of the biggest updates to OPs grantmaking in a year on the Forum.

  That said, the data does show some agreement with your and commenters vibe of lowering quantity.

  I agree that the Forum could be a good place for a lot of these discussions. Some of them aren’t happening at all to my knowledge.^[1] Some of those should be, and should be discussed on the Forum. Others are happening in private and that’s rational, although you may be able to guess that my biased view is that a lot more should be public, and if they were, should be posted on the Forum.

  Broadly: I’m quite bullish on the EA community as a vehicle for working on the world’s most pressing problems, and of open online discussion as a piece of our collective progress. And I don’t know of a better open place on the internet for EAs to gather.

  1. ^

     Part of that might be because as EA gets older the temperature (in the annealing sense) rationally lowers.

• JP Addison🔸 19 Jun 2024 13:01 UTC

  8 points

  4 ∶ 0

  on: Lov­ing a world you don’t trust

  I can’t recommend the podcast audio enough. 🥲