Nicholas Kruus

• Nicholas Kruus 11 Apr 2024 16:50 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Bella’s comment on: Sum­mary: Mis­takes in the Mo­ral Math­e­mat­ics of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (David Thorstad)

  Thank you so much! I’m very happy to hear it was helpful for you.

• Nicholas Kruus 21 Mar 2024 14:04 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Arepo’s comment on: Sum­mary: Train­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism (Mehmood et al.)

  Thanks for catching the typo! I’ve updated the post to fix it. Not sure how that happened...
  
  I think it’s reasonable to be skeptical. The results seem somewhat too good to be true. That said, the study seemed to have been carefully conducted, so, if the results are bunk, I doubt it was intentional.

• Nicholas Kruus 10 Mar 2024 16:17 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: emmajcurran’s comment on: Sum­mary: Longter­mism, ag­gre­ga­tion, and catas­trophic risk

  I apologize for this confusion. I’ve updated the section with the inaccurate statement @Richard Y Chappell quoted.

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Feb 2024 22:50 UTC

  6 points

  1 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ulrik Horn’s comment on: How much par­ent­ing harms pro­duc­tivity and how you can re­duce it

  Thank you for bringing up other important considerations and limitations of these studies. You are right that, with this post, I don’t intend to make any claims about the extent to which anyone should let productivity effects determine their decision whether or not to have children. I’m just hoping to help better inform those who factor it into their choice (although, again, you make a good point about these studies’ failure to account for the counterfactual of people who want children deciding against it).

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Feb 2024 22:13 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Larks’s comment on: How much par­ent­ing harms pro­duc­tivity and how you can re­duce it

  Good catch; thank you very much. I misinterpreted the findings—an embarrassing mistake on my part. I’ve updated the post to address this.

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Feb 2024 22:06 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: How much par­ent­ing harms pro­duc­tivity and how you can re­duce it

  Unfortunately, not in the studies I have read…

• Nicholas Kruus 29 Jan 2024 14:52 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Constance Li’s comment on: Ve­gan­uary’s im­pact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

  Thanks for doing that! I’d love to hear what he has to say.

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Jan 2024 20:53 UTC

  6 points

  1 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Constance Li’s comment on: Ve­gan­uary’s im­pact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

  Unfortunately, I’m learning the article may be a bit misleading. I’d see some of the other comments for more details.

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Jan 2024 20:50 UTC

  1 point

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: MMathur’s comment on: Ve­gan­uary’s im­pact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

  Thank you for your investigation.

  That is disappointing...
  However, there’s still at least some benefit from increased plant-based product sales by providing revenue to plant-based companies for R&D and other expenses.

• Nicholas Kruus 27 Jan 2024 20:47 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: MMathur’s comment on: Ve­gan­uary’s im­pact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

  Unfortunately, it also shows its impact has been decreasing since 2020 (which the first graph doesn’t show).

• Nicholas Kruus 26 Jan 2024 21:00 UTC

  3 points

  2 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Holly Morgan’s comment on: Ve­gan­uary’s im­pact has been huge – here are the stats to prove it

  That finding pleasantly surprised me too! Though, I want to keep in mind that this is just one survey.

• Nicholas Kruus 29 Dec 2023 17:19 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: What posts does the EA Fo­rum ap­pre­ci­ate, and what posts does it need more of?

  To get the ball rolling on this discussion, I’ll pitch in some trends I’ve noticed (although might be completely wrong about!)

  The following seem popular (at least lately):

  • Highly detailed and thorough research reports (example)

    • Or summaries of them?

  • Personal narratives about things like...

    • Mental health

    • EA commitments (e.g., taking the GWWC pledge)

    • EA community interactions

    • Introductions to EA

    • Intuitions about EA-related philosophies

  • Positive posts that...

    • Celebrate progress (example)

    • Express gratitude for EA (example)

    • Praise other posts (example)

  • Well-thought-out criticism of EA

  • Drama at EA-aligned orgs (e.g., FTX, OpenAI board, Nonlinear)

• Nicholas Kruus 12 Oct 2023 0:19 UTC

  23 points

  4 ∶ 0

  on: Po­ten­tially ac­tion­able op­por­tu­nity: elimi­nat­ing the New World screw­worm (flesh-de­vour­ing mag­gots that af­fect a billion an­i­mals each year)

  This really piqued my interest when I listened to the Podcast episode, but after some investigation, I was unable to verify his estimated 1 billion screwworm infections per year. I couldn’t find any estimates at all—only a study of its infection rate in a sample of pigs. Still, I think it’s a cause that STRONGLY deserves further research (namely estimates of annual screwworm infections) given its potential benefit.

• Nicholas Kruus 24 Jul 2023 21:51 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Benny Smith’s comment on: A New Re­source for Effec­tive Vol­un­teerism & Ac­tivism in Minutes

  The compliments and feedback are highly appreciated. I have implemented your recommendations.