nonzerosum

Shar­ing my ex­pe­rience on the EA forum

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

• nonzerosum 13 May 2019 17:09 UTC

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  on: Cash prizes for the best ar­gu­ments against psychedelics be­ing an EA cause area

  For anyone worried their comment won’t get attention vs the existing ones, I’m enjoying this thread and am watching for and voting where relevant on new ones, FYI.

[Question] If it’s true that Coron­avirus is “close to patholog­i­cally mis­al­igned with some of our in­for­ma­tion dis­tri­bu­tion and de­ci­sion­mak­ing rit­u­als”, then what things would help the re­sponse?

Be­com­ing the per­son who would start a project

[Question] If a psychedelic jour­ney has in­fluenced your life pri­ori­ties, how so?

[Question] Who would you like to see do an AMA on this fo­rum?

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

[Question] What met­rics may be use­ful to mea­sure the health of the EA com­mu­nity?

[Question] How ur­gent are ex­treme cli­mate change risks?

• nonzerosum 10 May 2019 23:18 UTC

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  on: Cash prizes for the best ar­gu­ments against psychedelics be­ing an EA cause area

  Tangentially related and perhaps of interest to some readers of this thread, though not a prize submission comment:

  My nomination for the “three books” for psychedelic therapy would be

  The “Why” Book: Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind

  The “What” Book: MAPS’s A Manual for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of PTSD (alternatives would be this treatment protocol from Phase 2 MDMA trials and Grof’s LSD Psychotherapy)

  The “How” Book: R. Coleman’s Psychedelic Psychotherapy: A User-friendly Guide for Psychedelic Drug-assisted Psychotherapy (the runner up would be Fadiman’s The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide)

[Question] Is there a good web app for do­ing the “equiv­a­lent bet test” from “How To Mea­sure Any­thing”?

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

[Question] Thought ex­per­i­ment: If you had 3 months to turn a stressed and un­happy per­son into a calm and happy one, what meta ap­proach would you take?

Posit: Most AI safety peo­ple should work on al­ign­ment/​safety challenges for AI tools that already have users (Stable Diffu­sion, GPT)

[Link] Seed stage philanthropy

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

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

[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.

• nonzerosum 30 Aug 2019 18:14 UTC

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  on: Cam­paign fi­nance re­form as an EA pri­or­ity?

  See also https://​​act.represent.us/​​sign/​​our-strategy/​​