Toby Tremlett🔹

Where CEA staff are donat­ing in 2024

• Toby Tremlett🔹 16 Dec 2024 13:32 UTC

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  in reply to: David Thorstad’s comment on: Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

  Thanks! Yep I’d be very interested in a biorisk week… I’ll put your time of perils posts in my to-read list.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 16 Dec 2024 12:20 UTC

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  on: Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

  Thanks for sharing, David! And thank you for your continued dedication to providing constructive criticism.

  I’ve got a pretty long “to read” backlog, does anyone have recommendations for posts from reflective altruism which particularly changed their mind/​ gave them action-relevant updates?
  
  Also, question for David- is there a particular area of beliefs which you think the EA Forum community doesn’t examine enough, which you’d like to see us hold a debate week about? I’m planning a bunch of debate weeks next year, so I’m always open to suggestions.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 13 Dec 2024 15:30 UTC

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  in reply to: JWS 🔸’s comment on: Jan_Kul­veit’s Quick takes

  Interesting- for what it’s worth, I often make frontpage vs community decisions and I don’t think of community as relegating content. Often, there is less community content each day, so community posts stick around for longer than frontpage posts. In some cases, I’d assume it would be better for engagement to be tagged community. I haven’t looked at the stats on this, so I don’t know for sure if my impression is correct.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Dec 2024 8:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: Au­dio AMA: Allan Sal­danha, earn­ing to give since 2014.

  Here it is. Still uploading to spotify etc… I think. I’ll link it when it’s done.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Dec 2024 8:50 UTC

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  in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: Be the First Per­son to Take the Bet­ter Ca­reer Pledge!

  Thank you so much David! I spent a while looking before I commented and I could only find it on ’brainyquotes.com′ and the like.
  In this case- I really like that quote- suits the website.

Pod­cast and Tran­script: Allan Sal­danha on earn­ing to give.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 11 Dec 2024 12:43 UTC

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  on: 2024 Dona­tion Elec­tion Results

  Noting here that the totals going to each charity have been updated (upwards), due to a matching miscalculation. This also means that we have hit two rather than one of the collective rewards- so keep an eye out for that!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Dec 2024 10:24 UTC

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  in reply to: Alfredo Parra 🔸’s comment on: My cur­rent takes on AI Welfare

  Awesome, I’d love to chat when you’re around in Oxford!
  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Dec 2024 9:46 UTC

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  on: Be the First Per­son to Take the Bet­ter Ca­reer Pledge!

  Very nit-picky but I’m not sure this is a real William James quote: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” Doesn’t really sound like him to me.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Dec 2024 9:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Davidmanheim’s comment on: Be the First Per­son to Take the Bet­ter Ca­reer Pledge!

  I agree r.e the unhealthiness of maximise, at least for me personally. Makes me wonder- what could a partial career pledge look like? Some options:

  • 10% of my career thinking/​ planning will be about the effectiveness of my choices.

  • I’ll spend at least 10% of my career making a direct impact (through volunteering or a full time role)

  • Or drop the 10% and just get people to commit to one effective career planning day a year. The Better Career Pledge can then release a guide/​ hold meetups on that day, and then you get retention/​ celebration/​ maybe a recruiting tool.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 9 Dec 2024 16:32 UTC

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  in reply to: Alfredo Parra 🔸’s comment on: My cur­rent takes on AI Welfare

  Cheers, and thanks for all the links!
  I read the binding problem section of your post- it’s really interesting and something I’ve thought about before, but without a nice phrase to bind to it.
  From an initial read, I’m pretty sceptical that the binding problem is something we can talk about/​ experiment on/​ introspect on. I.e it feels kind of impossible for me to answer to what extent my various experiences at this moment are bound together, and what would be different if they weren’t bound, but they were integrated into the information I’m acting on in some other way. Is there a reason to think a “binding mechanism” is an easier thing to investigate than “consciousness”? A valid answer to that question is: please read my post in full, lol.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 9 Dec 2024 13:56 UTC

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  in reply to: Lokesh Parihar’s comment on: Open thread: Oc­to­ber—De­cem­ber 2024

  Hey Lokesh,

  Thanks for coming to the EA Forum with your question!
  
  In some ways, I haven’t seen much discussion of this question on the EA Forum, in another I’ve seen loads.
  
  The ways people interested in Effective Altruism have found to reliably help underprivileged kids are mostly based around:

  • Saving their lives: for example, making sure they don’t get malaria, getting them vaccinated, etc.

  • Helping them live healthier lives: Lead exposure elimination so that they don’t get lead poisoned (which amongst other things seems to lead to lower IQ and all that entails), Vitamin A supplementation to prevent blindness, food fortification, and deworming.

  • All of the above: work on increasing economic growth, and direct donations to underprivileged families, are promising interventions across the board.

  I know this probably doesn’t answer your question, because you are thinking of interventions within education. Perhaps there are some real slam dunks there that I haven’t heard about (and I’d welcome other commenters to mention them).

  Effective Altruist ideas are perhaps helpful here because they encourage you to take a step back, and think “if I really want to help underprivileged kids the most, what can I do?” it’s possible (though by no means am I certain) that the best intervention isn’t in education.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 6 Dec 2024 15:38 UTC

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  in reply to: PabloAMC 🔸’s comment on: Au­dio AMA: Allan Sal­danha, earn­ing to give since 2014.

  Thanks!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 6 Dec 2024 13:12 UTC

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  in reply to: PabloAMC 🔸’s comment on: Au­dio AMA: Allan Sal­danha, earn­ing to give since 2014.

  What do you mean by “impact-based giving”? Do you mean giving that considers effectiveness (like any effective giving), or do you mean high upside, low likelihood of success giving?

2024 Dona­tion Elec­tion Results

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 15:18 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Voting has now closed! Thank you to everyone who voted, discussed and donated. And of course to all the organisations who wrote marginal funding posts!

  Stay tuned for a post about the winners tomorrow.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:50 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  The Donation Election will close (no more voting or donating) at an undisclosed time today… could be in ten minutes, could be in ten hours… get your final votes in soon just in case!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:23 UTC

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  in reply to: Prin_Pa’s comment on: En­hanc­ing the Im­pact of Le­mon­ade’s Give­back Pro­gram: An Open Letter

  This is fantastic, thanks so much for doing this! My only recommendation is to double down on your point of asking them to use charity evaluators (specifically GiveWell, maybe ACE and Giving Green), to decide which charities to include for each category (that way they feel bought into their choice of charity, and ideally they can change when recommendations do).
  Let me know if I can help in any way!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:15 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.

  For @LotteG : “frog with tarot cards”