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MichaelPlant

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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.

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism over­look­ing hu­man hap­piness and men­tal health? I ar­gue it is.

MichaelPlant22 Jun 2016 15:29 UTC
28 points
56 comments3 min readEA link

Are You Sure You Want To Donate To The Against Malaria Foun­da­tion?

MichaelPlant5 Dec 2016 18:57 UTC
40 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

The Un­proven (And Un­prov­able) Case For Net Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing. A Re­ply To Tomasik

MichaelPlant5 Dec 2016 21:03 UTC
27 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

In­tu­ition Joust­ing: What It Is And Why It Should Stop

MichaelPlant30 Mar 2017 11:25 UTC
10 points
28 comments4 min readEA link

The Philan­thropist’s Paradox

MichaelPlant24 Jun 2017 10:23 UTC
2 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

The mar­ket­ing gap and a plea for moral inclusivity

MichaelPlant8 Jul 2017 11:34 UTC
32 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 1/​4: In­tro­duc­tion and Cause Summary

MichaelPlant9 Aug 2017 13:17 UTC
24 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 2/​4: Six Ways It Could Do Good And An­ti­ci­pat­ing The Objections

MichaelPlant10 Aug 2017 19:34 UTC
16 points
15 comments28 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 3/​4: Policy Sugges­tions, Tractabil­ity and Neglectedess

MichaelPlant11 Aug 2017 15:17 UTC
8 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 4/​4: Es­ti­mat­ing Cost-Effec­tive­ness vs Other Causes; What EA Should Do Next

MichaelPlant12 Aug 2017 18:03 UTC
8 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Could I have some more sys­temic change, please, sir?

MichaelPlant22 Jan 2018 16:26 UTC
24 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Ineffec­tive en­trepreneur­ship: post-mortem of Hippo, the hap­piness app that never quite was

MichaelPlant23 May 2018 10:30 UTC
92 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

A Hap­piness Man­i­festo: Why and How Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Re­think its Ap­proach to Max­imis­ing Hu­man Welfare

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2018 15:48 UTC
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

Cause pro­file: men­tal health

MichaelPlant31 Dec 2018 12:09 UTC
147 points
31 comments24 min readEA link

High-pri­or­ity policy: to­wards a co-or­di­nated plat­form?

MichaelPlant14 Jan 2019 17:05 UTC
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of the Hap­pier Lives Institute

MichaelPlant19 Jun 2019 15:40 UTC
133 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing and eval­u­at­ing EA’s cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion methodology

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2019 19:55 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Us­ing Sub­jec­tive Well-Be­ing to Es­ti­mate the Mo­ral Weights of Avert­ing Deaths and Re­duc­ing Poverty

MichaelPlant3 Aug 2020 16:17 UTC
97 points
8 comments35 min readEA link

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlant25 Sep 2020 7:54 UTC
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlant30 Nov 2020 16:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link