Pat Myron 🔸

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Pat Myron 🔸Dec 6, 2024, 4:54 AM
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on: How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?
Similar post on population figures:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/824rsHCXuqTmBb8se/nigeria-s-missing-50-million-people

Pat Myron 🔸Dec 1, 2024, 11:25 PM
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in reply to: barkbellowroar’s comment on: barkbellowroar’s Quick takes
October 2024 archive

Pat Myron 🔸Nov 21, 2024, 3:47 AM
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on: Giving What We Can is celebrating our 15th birthday!
GWWC website in 2010:
For a person earning £15,000 per year, this would mean saving 5 lives every year
£300/$450 (~£450/$650 inflation-adjusted) per life then.. unfathomably low

https://old.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/1gmtdrm/has_average_cost_to_save_a_life_increased_or/

Pat Myron 🔸Nov 8, 2024, 8:27 PM
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in reply to: Isaac King’s comment on: Stuff I buy and use: a listicle to boost your consumer surplus and productivity
Agreed on default minimums being too bright. Some free third-party solutions though:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quickshade/id931571202
https://lunar.fyi/
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

Pat Myron 🔸Oct 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
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on: Opportunities to improve EA communications

Setting up the Google Ads Grant

A good reminder how much software is free for nonprofits: https://kindful.com/blog/free-nonprofit-software/

Would love to hear what other software you use/recommend!

Pat Myron 🔸Oct 16, 2024, 1:17 PM
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in reply to: yanni kyriacos’s comment on: Yanni Kyriacos’s Shortform
Here’s a list of non-animal welfare concerns about animal farming: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rpBYejrhk7HQB6gJj/crispr-for-happier-farm-animals?commentId=hvCQ9kBvutrnkFm9h

Pat Myron 🔸Oct 4, 2024, 7:49 PM
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
In America, dining services influence far more meals than vegans’ personal consumption

Aramark, Compass Group, etc. each serve billions of meals annually, and even the largest individual correctional facilities, hospital campuses, school districts, public universities, baseball stadiums, etc. each serve millions of meals annually to largely captive audiences

Pat Myron 🔸Sep 8, 2024, 11:19 PM
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on: Building a Forum?
Private subreddit / FB group could be cheaper/easier (although perhaps less private/aesthetic)

Pat Myron 🔸Sep 1, 2024, 3:42 PM
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ is a great American nonprofit resource:
New Incentives in particular seems poised to spend much more after large ~Givewell cash grants

Also, the largest private university endowments don’t seem as restricted as many think:

Pat Myron 🔸Aug 1, 2024, 6:47 PM
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on: Pat Myron’s Shortform
Ranked cost-effective public health interventions:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142580/ (high income-country policies: food, tobacco, alcohol, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552255/ (LMIC policies: medicine, condoms, food, etc.)

Diet advice since food policy tops both lists:
https://cidev.uky.edu/kentuckyhealthnews/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60/

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 25, 2024, 2:04 PM
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on: It’s OK to kill and eat animals—but don’t get caught slapping one.
Most people view farm animals as serving a purpose, whereas animal cruelty is criticized more when more unnecessary. That’s why moral progress is made in fashion, poaching, and animal-fighting sports and why veganism should focus more on food waste and traditions like egg tosses and egg decorating: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22890292/food-waste-meat-dairy-eggs-milk-animal-welfare Omnivores can respect farm animal sacrifices more, which is a useful mindset shift

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 19, 2024, 10:22 PM
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in reply to: Matt_Lerner’s comment on: Peter Wildeford’s Shortform
@Peter Wildeford @Matt_Lerner interested in similar. This in-depth analysis’ was a bit strict in my opinion looking at file-level criteria:
https://www.metabase.com/blog/bus-factor

These massive projects were mostly maintained by 1 person last I checked a year ago:
https://github.com/curl/curl/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/pallets/flask/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/expressjs/express/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors (seemingly improved since)
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/contributors

I’d love to be able to maintain more polished current data

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 19, 2024, 8:49 PM
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in reply to: Matt_Sharp’s comment on: Donation recommendations request
or Governor candidates in states like North Carolina

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 18, 2024, 3:25 PM
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in reply to: Ruben Dieleman 🔸’s comment on: Are older people overlooked within EA? If so, how should we change that?
I don’t mean most members would be interested, but I think they’d at least listen to the pitch. Just thinking similar/tangential existing organized groups seem underutilized when growing new groups

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 15, 2024, 10:53 PM
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on: Are older people overlooked within EA? If so, how should we change that?
Existing secular/humanist/freethought/agnostic/atheist/Unitarian Universalist/vegan/service clubs (rotary, lions, etc)/etc groups seem more diverse age wise and likely sympathetic audiences

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 14, 2024, 2:44 PM
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in reply to: Jeroen De Ryck 🔹’s comment on: Public transit advocacy as an effective cause area
Bus routes also seem cheaper, quicker implemented, lower profile politically, and more historically ridden than rail: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/1-US-transit-ridership-by-year_fig1_367860713

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 9, 2024, 3:48 PM
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in reply to: Nathan Young’s comment on: AMA: Beast Philanthropy’s Darren Margolias
Agreed on building on those wildly successful campaigns that each raised tens of millions:^[1]

Team Disease: GiveWell
Team Bees: Good Food Institute/Clean Air Task Force/Giving Green/Founders Pledge
1. ^
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Trees
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Seas

Giving What We Can 10% pledges by year

Pat Myron 🔸Jul 2, 2024, 1:30 AM

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3 comments1 min readEA link

Pat Myron 🔸Jun 25, 2024, 6:11 PM
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in reply to: Ben Millwood🔸’s comment on: Does GiveWell still plan to model the uncertainty of their cost-effectiveness estimates?
Hypothetically they could work at GiveWell?

Pat Myron 🔸Jun 24, 2024, 2:23 PM
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in reply to: Phib’s comment on: Phib’s Quick takes
Bloomberg/Thomson Reuters/etc generate more revenue than most newspapers providing market data (with seemingly better incentives): https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/052815/financial-news-comparison-bloomberg-vs-reuters.asp

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