Toby Tremlett

• Toby Tremlett 21 May 2024 10:36 UTC

  3 points

  2 ∶ 0

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

  FWIW EV has been off-boarding its projects, so it isn’t surprising that Asterisk is now nested under something else. I don’t know anything about Obelus Inc.

• Toby Tremlett 21 May 2024 8:30 UTC

  3 points

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  on: Policy ad­vo­cacy for erad­i­cat­ing screw­worm looks re­mark­ably cost-effective

  This is great, thanks for sharing!
  Bad news for the people employed to drop 14.7 million infertile screwworm on the Panama-Columbia border every week though :’(

• Toby Tremlett 20 May 2024 10:13 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: EmmanuelKatto’s comment on: New Mem­ber—Em­manuel Katto

  Hi Emmanuel! You can just comment the contents of this post in there :)

• Toby Tremlett 20 May 2024 9:40 UTC

  4 points

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Draft guidelines for new topic tags (feedback welcome)

  
  
  Topics (AKA wiki pages^[1] or tags^[2]) are used to organise Forum posts into useful groupings. They can be used to give readers context on a debate that happens only intermittently (see Time of Perils), collect news and events which might interest people in a certain region (see Greater New York City Area), collect the posts by an organisation, or, perhaps most importantly, collect all the posts on a particular subject (see Prediction Markets).

  Any user can submit and begin using a topic. They can do this most easily by clicking “Add topic” on the topic line at the top of any post. However, before being permanently added to our list of topics, all topics are vetted by the Forum facilitation team. This quick take outlines some requirements and suggestions for new topics to make this more transparent. Similar, more polished, advice will soon be available on the ‘add topic’ page. Please give feedback if you disagree with any of these requirements.

  When you add a new topic, ensure that:

  1. The topic, or a very similar topic, does not already exist. If a very similar topic already exists, consider adding detail to that topic wiki page rather than creating a new topic.

  2. You have used your topic to tag at least three posts by different authors (not including yourself). You will have to do this after creating the topic. The topic must describe a central theme in each post. If you cannot yet tag three relevant posts, the Forum probably doesn’t need this topic yet.

  3. You’ve added at least a couple of sentences to define the term and explain how the topic tag should be used.
     

  Not fulfilling these requirements is the most likely cause of a topic rejection. In particular, many topics are written with the aim of establishing a new term or idea, rather than collecting terms and ideas which already exist on the Forum. Other examples of rejected topics include:

  • Topic pages created for an individual. In certain cases, we permit these tags, for example, if the person is associated with a philosophy or set of ideas that is often discussed (see Peter Singer) and which can be clearly picked out by their name. However, in most cases, we don’t want tags for individuals because there would be far too many, and posts about individuals can generally be found through search without using tags.

  • Topics which are applicable to posts on the EA Forum, but which aren’t used by Forum users. For example, many posts could technically be described as “Risk Management”. However, EA forum users use other terms to refer to risk management content.

  1. ^

     Technically there can be a wiki page without a topic tag, i.e. a wiki page that cannot be applied to a post. However we don’t really use these, so in practice the terms are interchangeable.

  2. ^

     This term is used more informally. It is easier to say “I’m tagging this post” than “I’m topic-ing this post”

• Toby Tremlett 16 May 2024 9:55 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: ArielPayIt4ward’s comment on: In­tro­duc­tions and ques­tions thread: April—June 2024

  Hey Sarah/​Ariel, welcome to the Forum!
  Based on your interests, you might be perfect for this program.
  Hope you enjoy hanging out here- let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.
  Cheers,
  Toby (content manager for the EA Forum)
  

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: May 2024

• Toby Tremlett 9 May 2024 14:56 UTC

  3 points

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  in reply to: Sebastian Kreisel’s comment on: In­tro­duc­tions and ques­tions thread: April—June 2024

  Thanks for joining Sebastian! Your AISF project sounds really interesting, and I’m sure people would love to see it on the Forum some day :)
  - Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)

• Toby Tremlett 9 May 2024 13:13 UTC

  1 point

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  in reply to: ezrah’s comment on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Thank you!

• Toby Tremlett 9 May 2024 9:24 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: Jakub Stencel’s comment on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Thanks Jakub!

• Toby Tremlett 8 May 2024 16:16 UTC

  36 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

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• Toby Tremlett 7 May 2024 15:11 UTC

  6 points

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  in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: An im­pact­ful op­por­tu­nity to take ac­tion for an­i­mals, by to­day (May 7th): Re­ply to UK gov­ern­ment’s open con­sul­ta­tion on food welfare labelling

  That’s interesting! I was thinking there was a chance it did, because in a write-up about a similar public consultation on live animal transport, Defra used a lot of “X% of people thought Y” framings in their analysis (more details). It depends whether they count duplicated responses when they do this.

• Toby Tremlett 7 May 2024 12:25 UTC

  3 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: New Mem­ber—Em­manuel Katto

  Welcome Emmanuel! You might want to post on this thread to introduce yourself, and/​or ask any questions you have,
  Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)

• Toby Tremlett 7 May 2024 10:40 UTC

  6 points

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  on: An im­pact­ful op­por­tu­nity to take ac­tion for an­i­mals, by to­day (May 7th): Re­ply to UK gov­ern­ment’s open con­sul­ta­tion on food welfare labelling

  To speed up the filling out, consider using the resources in this google doc :)

• Toby Tremlett 7 May 2024 8:31 UTC

  3 points

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  on: Ask me ques­tions here about my 80,000 hours pod­cast on pre­vent­ing neona­tal deaths with Kan­ga­roo Mother Care

  Hi Dean, thanks for doing this! I really enjoyed the episode. I’ve got a couple questions:
  1. Do you know why private hospitals in Uttar Pradesh had higher mortality rates for premature babies than public hospitals? Seemed super surprising.
  2. Is kangaroo mother care the best practice for underweight/​premature babies overall, or just the most cost-effective improvement compared to current standards of care in Uttar Pradesh? I.e. do, or should, hospitals in wealthy countries also use this method?

• Toby Tremlett 3 May 2024 12:51 UTC

  3 points

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  on: Epoch AI is Hiring an Eco­nomics of AI Researcher

  Thanks for posting this! In case you didn’t notice, you haven’t mentioned a deadline. (Wouldn’t have thought it weird if you hadn’t included the text “Please email careers@epochai.org if you have any questions about this role, accessibility requests, or if you want to request an extension to the deadline.”)

• Toby Tremlett 2 May 2024 15:50 UTC

  7 points

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  in reply to: Constance Li’s comment on: One week left to give feed­back on the UK Manda­tory Welfare La­bel Scheme

  Thanks for letting me know about Ben and Haven’s doc!

• Toby Tremlett 2 May 2024 14:01 UTC

  11 points

  5 ∶ 0

  in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: On John Wool­man (Thing of Things)

  The book Strangers drowning is great and includes profiles of a bunch of these people. It’s ultimately fairly agnostic about whether they are doing the right thing (it emphasises the extreme upper end of altruists), but there are moments of inspiration in most of the stories for people committed to doing good.

• Toby Tremlett 1 May 2024 9:35 UTC

  20 points

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  on: One week left to give feed­back on the UK Manda­tory Welfare La­bel Scheme

  Shout out to my Mum for filling in the form.

AMA: Lewis Bol­lard, Pro­gram Direc­tor of Farm An­i­mal Welfare at OpenPhil

• Toby Tremlett 30 Apr 2024 16:43 UTC

  22 points

  5 ∶ 1

  in reply to: SuperDuperForecasting’s comment on: Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

  We’re issuing SuperDuperForecasting a one-month ban for breaking strong Forum norms in several comments (1,2). Specifically:

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  • Engaging in unnecessary rudeness and offensiveness.

  To be clear, I’m not commenting on the more complex questions discussed elsewhere in the thread, such as whether or when it’s appropriate to speculate about someone’s psychology. But I do want to flag that mental illness is often stigmatised and we should probably be especially sensitive and compassionate when discussing it.

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