Economics (and Business Economics) and Philosophy student.
Looking for a future career in development economics/âfinance and politics.
Trym Braathenđ¸
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Also, Art Chad literally ate shrimp in his video, so he is clearly not agreeing with you that we should prevent them from dying.
Brother, of course EA also works towards reducing shrimp deaths. Most EAs are vegan and try to spread veganism, but decreasing the suffering of the shrimp who will be killed anyway is an efficient way of decreasing suffering in the world. To your 0% multiple choice thing, like what even is that, its just alienating, and not even accurate to any extent, a big part of EA is to adopt a scout mindset and be better at estimating probabilities and having an as accurate picture of the world as possible.
I am curious what is your alternative is to effective altruism? How do we improve the world in a better way?
I think you forgot to add the application link, I would love the opportunity to be advised on how to expand my dog walking career to new lengths!
If AGI takes on the same values as humanity as a whole, factory-farming will continue, this means it would not go well for the animals.
Good job presenting this in such a clear and concise manner. Thank you for all the great work you are doing!
Trym BraaÂthenâs Quick takes
Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?
What is the implication of this for EA thinking? Does the fly that purely exists in the computer warrant moral consideration, and could we increase the overall welfare of the world by making millions of these simulations with ideal fruit-fly conditions?
They fully copied the brain of the fly, so from my understanding it should also feel pleasure and pain in theory, I think this poses a real conundrum for EA morality.
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Thanks for this! I will definitely try to implement some of this helpful advice :)
Cool website!
One question: why are most of the SOTA models Claude? Is it because Anthropic is the company that releases the most data about their models? I thought that by most measures, Gemini would be the SOTA model today.
Very inspiring, well done!
Cool project!
One point of improvement I noticed was that when it asked for zip-code you could only add American ones, I would suggest adding an option to choose different countries! I think the platform could be especially popular with Europeans, so I would suggest focusing on adding those countries first.
Anyway, I like the platform and I feel like it has a lot of potential to do good. Good work!
Far-future effects are the most important determinant of what we ought to do
I think we need to take a mixed approach, as it is extremely hard to predict what will happen in the far future. Improving the world today will also generally make the future better.
For further reading on this topic I would highly recommend the book âThe Divideâ by Jason Hickle. In this book he shows how the trade rules and international trade organizations are set up in an extractive way, and how more money flows out from Africa to Western countries than the other way around.
I think changing the ways the global economic organizations see development, and opening for more policy flexibility for low-income countries is something that can make a huge difference in development efforts long-term.
I like this! Though I feel like a lot of the numbers are based on long-termist speculation rather than empiricism, which I think could hinder it from being widely adopted. It might also be cool to add how many lives the billionaires could potentially save if they donated most of their wealth.
I just came across this, and Iâm shocked at how similar the list of most-read books is to mine. I have read a majority of those books, most of them long before I became an Effective Altruist. Maybe Goodreads is the place to effectively find new people to join our movement, haha!
Great post! One of the biggest mistakes the EU has made is essentially making snus illegal to sell in stores, and severely restricting access to it online (although it is handled a little bit differently in different countries). I think one of the most impactful and tractable things the THR movement could do is to target this policy.
I like the new strategy! Being more focused and setting this audacious goal seems like a good idea. I must say I also like that you mention digital marketing in the post, and I would urge you to continue your short-form video content creation, as organic social media growth can be a huge source of growth these days. I think that in general, EA orgs have a lacking presence on social media (maybe because most EAs donât use it to that large of an extent?), but in general it is a great way to reach the general population and help incite value changes, IMO.
Very nice work!
Very cool and potentially impactful project! Your team and advisory board seems to be outstanding, and I think that working on building companies to further African industrial capacities is possibly the most important thing to do for the development of the region.
One thing I am wondering though is what differentiates your org that will make it successful at scoping out and building sustainable businesses? I am not doubting that you could succeed, itâs more that I am interested. Is success based on the sheer neglectfulness and capital constraint in field now? Iâm guessing multinationals and banks see it as too risky and unnecessary to invest in African industry, and therefore there is a real capital constraint. I can also imagine that there is not that much talent going towards working on this either, and âboringâ industrial businesses seem to be out of fashion, even though they are highly needed for the development of the continent.