Toby Tremlett🔹

Your 2024 EA Fo­rum Wrapped

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 13:11 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: News from THL UK: Judge rules on our his­toric Frankenchicken case

  From the rest of the comments, it looks as if I misunderstood this line: “The judges have ruled in favour on our main argument—that the law says that animals should not be kept in the UK if it means they will suffer because of how they have been bred. This is a huge moment for animals in the UK.” I.e., it looks as if it should be rephrased to “solely because of how they have been bred”, still a good thing, but not the home run I was hoping for.
  
  I really appreciated clarification from @JBentham (this is particularly helpful), and the pushback on the content of the post from @Habryka, @VettedCauses and others!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 11:31 UTC

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  in reply to: SofiiaF’s comment on: New Year’s Thread: What do you want to achieve this year?

  Awesome! Good luck on all of the above.
  I’m guessing that you have, but have you listened to bio(un)ethical? It’s more on bioethics than on biorisk, but it might be interesting to you if you are thinking of making a podcast which aims to explain bio topics.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 10:51 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: New Year’s Thread: What do you want to achieve this year?

  Ooh + take B12 supplements (thanks Ozy)

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 9:30 UTC

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  in reply to: RomanHauksson’s comment on: Ro­manHauks­son’s Shortform

  There will… stay tuned.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 9:25 UTC

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  on: New Year’s Thread: What do you want to achieve this year?

  Related to EA, I’d like to:

  • Give 10% again.

  • Run a debate week with more votes and discussion than the animal welfare vs global health debate week.

  • Write at least one non-work-related Forum post.

  Unrelated to EA, I’d like to:

  • Get a maths tutor. I’ve tried to teach myself maths before (I haven’t seriously studied maths since I was 16, and I think it makes a good chunk of human knowledge inaccessible to me, which is a bummer), but I’ve never made it a habit. I believe that if I pay for a weekly/​ bi-weekly tutoring session I’ll be forced to actually put the work in.

    • You can help me by commenting here in February to ask whether I’ve found a tutor yet...

  • Write at least one short story. I enjoyed doing more fiction writing in 2024, especially this short story. I’d like to make sure I do more.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Jan 2025 8:52 UTC

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  in reply to: AGB 🔸’s comment on: Dona­tion Cel­e­bra­tion Post

  Thank you! That’s really helpful. I also just saw Will’s post, which has also been useful.

Open thread: Jan­uary—March 2025

[Question] New Year’s Thread: What do you want to achieve this year?

• Toby Tremlett🔹 31 Dec 2024 10:05 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Cel­e­bra­tion Post

  Just finished- it turns out I had less left on my 10% trial pledge than I thought, so I gave a bit extra.
  
  Most went to the Humane League UK appeal earlier this year, I gave $500 to the EA Forum Donation Election, and I just gave £400 to the EA Animal Welfare Fund.
  
  PS- Are donations tax deductible in the UK (Besides giftaid)? I’ve been operating on the assumption that they aren’t, but if they were, I could give more.

Dona­tion Cel­e­bra­tion Post

• Toby Tremlett🔹 20 Dec 2024 13:48 UTC

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  in reply to: JWS 🔸’s comment on: JWS’s Shortform

  I wish it could be EV-mas every day…

  This is great JWS, thanks for writing it! After Forum Wrapped is out in Jan, we should have a list of underrated posts (unsure on exact wording), we’ll see how it compares.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 19 Dec 2024 14:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Sarah Cheng’s comment on: Sarah Cheng’s Quick takes

  We’re in there now! I’m working on the EA Newsletter, other people are working on posts and google docs, and we are having chats in the breaks. Feel free to join.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 18 Dec 2024 16:02 UTC

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  on: News from THL UK: Judge rules on our his­toric Frankenchicken case

  So pleased to see this! Please update us on the next steps when you know about them. (Though I understand that sometimes it is better not to share details about legal cases).
  Specifically, I’m wondering: does the judge agreeing with the key argument open up other potential legal cases, for example? If DEFRA’s labelling scheme became a reality, would that mean they’d have to make statements about the wellbeing of Frankenchickens?

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: De­cem­ber 2024

• Toby Tremlett🔹 18 Dec 2024 11:44 UTC

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  in reply to: Habryka’s comment on: The Most Valuable Dol­lars Aren’t Owned By Us

  FWIW given the context of previous discussions on the EA Forum, I read the title as meaning something like “influencing other people’s donation decisions is often more valuable than improving your own” when I saw it on the frontpage.

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

  12 points

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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.