Khorton

• Khorton 4 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC

  7 points

  in reply to: saulius's comment on: A cause can be too neglected

  I agree! I think it was worth posting

• Khorton 4 Apr 2020 8:22 UTC

  2 points

  on: A cause can be too neglected

  I’m sure I’ve heard this idea be­fore—maybe in the old 80k ca­reer guide?

• Khorton 3 Apr 2020 20:36 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Alexis Carlier's comment on: What posts do you want some­one to write?

  I don’t think this can be taught in one post, be­cause you have to be able to ac­tu­ally use the re­search meth­ods be­fore you can de­cide which one to use.

• Khorton 1 Apr 2020 14:49 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Ramiro's comment on: Ramiro’s Shortform

  https://​​www.the­guardian.com/​​world/​​2020/​​mar/​​24/​​woman-first-uk-vic­tim-die-coro­n­avirus-caught-hos­pi­tal-mar­ita-edwards

• Khorton 1 Apr 2020 12:40 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: IsabelHasse's comment on: Coron­avirus Re­search Ideas for EAs

  I think you could con­tribute, but some pro­jects will be eas­ier to con­tribute to than other. Some sug­ges­tions:

  -Helping to up­date Wikipe­dia pages about differ­ent coun­tries’ policy re­sponses to COVID-19 would be helpful and a good in­tro­duc­tion, be­cause you’ll have col­lab­o­ra­tors to help you.

  -Many of these ques­tions you could make a start on and ask for feed­back from Aaron Gertler or Effec­tive Altru­ism Edit­ing and Re­view or Effec­tive Altru­ism Coron­avirus Dis­cus­sion groups on Face­book. Then you can post your work, mak­ing the limi­ta­tions clear.

  -I would be care­ful about do­ing sur­veys or com­pli­cated mod­el­ling for the first time right now (you can give it a shot it’s just re­ally easy to get wrong). I’d also be thought­ful about in­ter­view­ing peo­ple af­fected be­cause they might be quite busy.

  If there’s a par­tic­u­lar ques­tion you’re in­ter­ested in re­search­ing, feel free to mes­sage me to dis­cuss how you’ll go about re­search­ing it, or you could even write up your plan on your short­form.

  Note: I am not an ex­pert in re­search meth­ods!

• Khorton 1 Apr 2020 11:46 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: John_Maxwell's comment on: New Top EA Causes for 2020?

  Ex­cel­lent sub­mis­sion!

• Khorton 31 Mar 2020 19:40 UTC

  4 points

  on: Is Ex­is­ten­tial Risk a Use­less Cat­e­gory? Could the Con­cept Be Danger­ous?

  I think the key mes­sage a lot of peo­ple will take away from this post is “Your en­tire philos­o­phy and way of life is wrong—it doesn’t mat­ter if ev­ery­one dies.”

  What is the key mes­sage you ac­tu­ally want peo­ple to take away from this post?

• Khorton 31 Mar 2020 19:36 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Milan_Griffes's comment on: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

  I would dis­agree—al­though the ‘rules of the game’ are cre­ated by in­di­vi­d­u­als, they are larger than any one in­di­vi­d­ual and difficult to change by any one in­di­vi­d­ual de­spite their best effort.

  But that’s a bit of a tan­gent—I can see why you thought it was rele­vant.

• Khorton 31 Mar 2020 11:22 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Milan_Griffes's comment on: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

  I don’t read this Fo­rum post as sug­gest­ing in­di­vi­d­ual within EA are un­co­op­er­a­tive, but rather that EA in­sti­tu­tions/​teach­ings are un­co­op­er­a­tive.

• Khorton 28 Mar 2020 23:02 UTC

  9 points

  on: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

  This was one of the most im­por­tant posts I’ve read on the Fo­rum all year. I’ll definitely be think­ing about it for a while. Thank you for post­ing it!

• Khorton 27 Mar 2020 18:40 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Mati_Roy's comment on: What are EA pro­ject ideas you have?

  Why wouldn’t you just ask four peo­ple who you trust to re­view each idea in con­fi­dence? Why for­mal­ize it or in­sist they re­cip­ro­cate it?

• Khorton 25 Mar 2020 13:35 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: ofer's comment on: Why not give 90%?

  Also, many EAs don’t iden­tify as util­i­tar­i­ans, like me!

• Khorton 24 Mar 2020 8:53 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Aaron Gertler's comment on: What posts you are plan­ning on writ­ing?

  Thanks for com­ment­ing! I ac­tu­ally for­got I was mean­ing to do this… Maybe I’ll find some time over the next few weeks!

• Khorton 24 Mar 2020 5:09 UTC

  6 points

  on: Is COVID an op­por­tu­nity for non-EAs to give effec­tively?

  I think a lot of peo­ple will be in­ter­ested in giv­ing right now, and you can in­fluence your friends by shar­ing a favourite char­ity or talk­ing about your own dona­tions.

  How­ever, I would also cau­tion all of us to “read the room” as this situ­a­tion evolves. A lot of our friends will be suffer­ing from los­ing jobs or loved ones and it might some­times be harm­ful to ask them for char­ity dona­tions.

• Khorton 23 Mar 2020 17:32 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: lucy.ea8's comment on: Why not give 90%?

  You could dis­cuss this on a new top level post or this Face­book group: https://​​m.face­book.com/​​pro­file.php?id=1863633717221799&ref=con­tent_filter

• Khorton 23 Mar 2020 14:02 UTC

  10 points

  in reply to: Max_Daniel's comment on: Max_Daniel’s Shortform

  “The WHO declar­ing a pan­demic has a bunch of ma­jor le­gal and in­sti­tu­tional con­se­quences. E.g. my guess is that among other things it af­fects the amounts of re­sources the WHO and other ac­tors can uti­lize, the kind of work the WHO and oth­ers are al­lowed to do, and the kind of recom­men­da­tions the WHO can make.”

  Are you sure about this? I’ve read that there aren’t ma­jor im­pli­ca­tions to it be­ing offi­cially de­clared a pan­demic.

  This ar­ti­cle sug­gests there aren’t ma­jor changes based on ‘pan­demic’ sta­tus https://​​www.bbc.co.uk/​​news/​​world-51839944

  What links here?

  • Max_Daniel's comment on Max_Daniel’s Shortform by Max_Daniel (23 Mar 2020 9:29 UTC; 6 points)

• Khorton 18 Mar 2020 12:06 UTC

  2 points

  on: AMA: “The Oxford Hand­book of So­cial Move­ments”

  What are some of the key challenges other move­ments have faced when build­ing a truly global, cross cul­tural move­ment? How have they re­sponded?

• Khorton 18 Mar 2020 2:51 UTC

  12 points

  on: AMA: Elie Hassen­feld, co-founder and CEO of GiveWell

  You started hiring peo­ple to look into policy in­ter­ven­tions last year, right? How’s that go­ing?

• Khorton 13 Mar 2020 10:54 UTC

  4 points

  on: Are there any pub­lic health fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties with COVID-19 that are plau­si­bly com­pet­i­tive with Givewell top char­i­ties per dol­lar?

  Pos­si­bly some­thing around do­mes­tic vi­o­lence? China saw a rise in DV dur­ing its lock­down.

  I could imag­ine the pos­si­bil­ity of spend­ing a month in quaran­tine with your abuser could in­spire a sud­den uptick in vic­tims want­ing to leave, if there’s some­where for them to go.

• Khorton 13 Mar 2020 10:37 UTC

  2 points

  on: Are there any pub­lic health fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties with COVID-19 that are plau­si­bly com­pet­i­tive with Givewell top char­i­ties per dol­lar?

  I’m sure fund­ing for hand san­i­tizer, soap, masks etc in re­fugee camps would be wel­come.

  Lob­by­ing for bet­ter health­care/​san­i­ta­tion for pris­on­ers may be effec­tive in cer­tain coun­tries.