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MichaelPlant

Karma: 9,100

I’m the Director of the Happier Lives Institute and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre. I’m a philosopher by background and did my DPhil at Oxford, primarily under the supervision of Peter Singer and Hilary Greaves. I’ve previously worked for an MP and failed to start a start-up.

Talk­ing through de­pres­sion: The cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy in LMICs, re­vised and expanded

JoelMcGuireNov 27, 2023, 11:08 PM
72 points
34 comments4 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Learn­ing from our mis­takes: how HLI plans to improve

Peter BrietbartSep 1, 2023, 11:11 AM
355 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

HLI’s 2023-4 re­search agenda

MichaelPlantJul 6, 2023, 12:02 PM
46 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

The Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute is fund­ing con­strained and needs you!

MichaelPlantJul 6, 2023, 12:00 PM
84 points
92 comments6 min readEA link

Tak­ing hap­piness se­ri­ously: Can we? Should we? Would it mat­ter if we did? A debate

MichaelPlantJun 28, 2023, 8:16 PM
57 points
1 comment27 min readEA link

Straw­men, steel­men, and mithril­men: get­ting the prin­ci­ple of char­ity right

MichaelPlantJun 9, 2023, 1:02 PM
89 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

What is effec­tive al­tru­ism? How could it be im­proved?

MichaelPlantMay 5, 2023, 3:53 PM
142 points
33 comments17 min readEA link

Lead ex­po­sure: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuireApr 11, 2023, 5:49 PM
71 points
1 comment32 min readEA link

Can we trust wellbe­ing sur­veys? A pi­lot study of com­pa­ra­bil­ity, lin­ear­ity, and neutrality

Conrad SMar 17, 2023, 10:17 AM
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuireFeb 20, 2023, 3:57 PM
104 points
7 comments36 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Money barely in­creases hap­piness (un­less you re­ally value money, and even then not by much)

Dhruv MakwanaFeb 11, 2023, 9:27 PM
23 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(twitter.com)

Pain re­lief: a shal­low cause exploration

Samuel DupretJan 27, 2023, 9:55 AM
85 points
17 comments37 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A can of worms: the non-sig­nifi­cant effect of de­worm­ing on hap­piness in the KLPS

Samuel DupretDec 21, 2022, 1:10 PM
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 char­ity recommendation

MichaelPlantNov 24, 2022, 9:56 AM
165 points
50 comments9 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlantNov 18, 2022, 12:09 PM
153 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuireNov 1, 2022, 2:25 AM
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlantOct 14, 2022, 1:36 PM
235 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Mea­sur­ing non-health, non-pe­cu­niary benefits us­ing sub­jec­tive wellbeing

JoelMcGuireAug 11, 2022, 11:43 PM
110 points
28 comments13 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
308 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlantJul 15, 2022, 8:21 AM
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)