Mitchell Laughlin🔸

Karma: 182

Analyst in the Australian Treasury reporting on the economies of Australia’s major trading partners and financial markets. Giving What We Can (GWWC) pledge member since September 2022. EA Sydney organiser.

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Jan 23, 2024, 5:34 AM
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in reply to: jackva’s comment on: Who should we interview for The 80,000 Hours Podcast?
I’m atheistic/agnostic and am unfamiliar with Dominic Roser.… but I think that discussing the compatibility of EA with religious views/a religious view would be very interesting and appealing to a large number of people.

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Jan 20, 2024, 5:07 AM
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on: Mitchell Laughlin’s Quick takes
Hiya! Wondering if anyone wanted to donation swap with me for 2024?

I’m looking to donate around AUD 5,500 each to the Good Food Institute, Giving What We Can, and Family Empowerment Media. I think these are all tax-deductible in the US, UK, and the Netherlands, but sadly not in Australia (update: GWWC is tax-deductible in Australia via EA Australia, also there’s currently a funding match for donations made before Jan 31st).

If anyone is planning on making a (roughly) similarly sized donation (GBP 2,900, USD 3,700, EUR 3,300) across 2024 (in one donation or split into months or quarters), to a charity that is tax-deductible in Australia please reach out!!!

Thanks a bunch,
Mitch

Update:
This went excellently and I’ve organised my swap! Thanks all

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Jan 4, 2024, 7:30 AM
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on: Effective altruism as the most exciting cause in the world
Hi Kaj, enjoyed the post!

I just wanted to ask if you might consider changing the “his” in “by donating a measly 10% of his income” to “their”, noting that there are no other gendered references in the post. Maybe I’m being a little pedantic but I think I’m always quite eager to make sure women feel as at home in EA as I do!

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Jan 3, 2024, 10:27 AM
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on: Malaria Vaccine Research Help Needed
Hi Josh, apologies if this was detailed elsewhere, but do you have any skills you’re after for pool members? I’d be keen to help out if you thought I could.

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Nov 29, 2023, 10:04 AM
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on: How I feel about my GWWC Pledge
I identified with so many aspects of this post. Thank you for writing it, Michael.

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Nov 25, 2023, 1:51 AM
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on: Health in poor countries problem profile
Hiya! I think the Smoking in developing countries read more link is broken. Might be worth fixing. Also if in the process of fixing it someone could link me to it (or let me know if it’s no longer recommended, etc.) that’d be great!!! Thanks

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Nov 25, 2023, 1:30 AM
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in reply to: Vasco Grilo🔸’s comment on: Direct effects of marine plastic pollution on wild animals seem small
Thanks for adding those links, definitely helpful.

I think it might be more comprehensible to use 10^x notation, given I imagine most readers would be more familiar with that concept (happy to be corrected). It would also make it so units would be comparable (i.e., it’s easy to see that 10^-8 is much less than 10^-4) without switching back and forth between a Wikipedia article (as I had to do).