nonzerosum

[Question] Who are the peo­ple that most pub­li­cly pre­dicted we’d have AGI by now? Have they pub­lished any kind of ret­ro­spec­tive, and up­dated their views?

[Link] Seed stage philanthropy

[Question] How would you define “dis­en­tan­gle­ment re­search”?

Philan­thropic moon­shot idea: cre­at­ing pos­i­tive group identities

[Question] Pros/​cons of fund­ing more re­search on whether psychedelics in­crease al­tru­ism?

Be­com­ing the per­son who would start a project

[Question] Might the EA com­mu­nity be un­der­valu­ing “meta-re­search on how to make progress on causes?”

[Question] Is trauma a po­ten­tial EA cause area?

[Question] Are there groups of med­i­cal symp­toms that could be im­pact­ful to be turned into a spe­cific di­ag­no­sis? I learned that PTSD was cre­ated as a re­sult of lob­by­ing, pre­vi­ously it was just dis­parate symp­toms.

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

Shar­ing my ex­pe­rience on the EA forum

Con­cept: EA Donor List. To en­able EAs that are start­ing new pro­jects to find seed donors, es­pe­cially for peo­ple that aren’t well connected

An easy way for char­i­ties to in­crease rev­enue: Add Ap­ple Pay and Google Pay to dona­tion checkout

Where can I donate to sup­port in­sect welfare?

Has some­one mi­grated/​ex­ported the .im­pact Hack­Pad?

Note: Jeff Be­zos posted on Twit­ter to­day ask­ing for philan­thropy ideas