Tyler Kolota 🔹

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Tyler Kolota 🔹 12 Jun 2026 18:43 UTC
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on: Surplus: for massive public good
Any potential for/tracking of people volunteering their time to projects?
For example I am a software developer employed at a global health logistics org & I already have a personal Claude subscription with spare capacity that my work reimburses me for. I may be looking for extra projects and/or open-source builds to work on soon.

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Tyler Kolota 🔹12 Jun 2026 16:45 UTC

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Tyler Kolota 🔹 31 May 2026 17:38 UTC
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on: Lewis Bollard & the EA of social movements: Which GHD EA organisations are working on system change?
I’d like to point out that all EA programs working on common neglected diseases are pushing systemic change.
One of the most cited Acemoglu theories of economic development gives evidence that rates of settler mortality were much higher in some areas due to things like Malaria & that this encouraged the development of extractive colonialist institutions, whereas the places with lower settler mortality saw more people move to those places to live long term & develop inclusive institutions that increase growth & wellbeing.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 13 May 2026 18:34 UTC
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in reply to: danielyu’s comment on: Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid
Okay @danielyu & @Arno what about the secondary part of this with the Atlas Of Economic Complexity resources?
Wouldn’t it be helpful to use some of these tools/data to come up with the highest potential impact ventures to support?
Like maybe one could look for what African countries have the highest similarity scores / adjacent capabilities to start building more generics pharmaceutical industries to support the region’s global health goals.
Or what countries may be most able to develop very low-cost meat alternatives / plant-based protein products for better animal welfare?
Like are there opportunities for donors to support both private business in low income countries & other high impact cause areas simultaneously?

Tyler Kolota 🔹 13 May 2026 18:27 UTC
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in reply to: danielyu’s comment on: Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve had a curiosity if these types of logistics developments would have a significant impact, but had yet to run into anyone with good context to give a rough check / back-of-the-envelope potential impact calculation.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 12 May 2026 18:52 UTC
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in reply to: Arno’s comment on: Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid
Last mile delivery is efficient & not a problem?
The point of things like drone & cargo airship developments is more point to point delivery without extra things like unloading & loading trucks that navigate unimproved roads.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 11 May 2026 22:23 UTC
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on: Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid
If we are considering pushing more people to start businesses in developing countries & building out their own supply chain / logistics, then what might we think about interventions to ease & accelerate logistics in more widespread ways?
Like should EAs focus some support for things like the further development of drone delivery or cargo airships, which could lower the cost of transport & trade to, from, & among developing countries, especially those without good ports, roads, or rail?
Cargo Airships Could Be Big:
https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships
Cargo Airships Are Happening:
https://www.elidourado.com/p/airship-industries

Tyler Kolota 🔹 11 May 2026 17:29 UTC
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on: Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid
I wonder if EA or something similar was mostly made up of say people from various countries in Africa with more ties & influence over local settings then would we see different and/or more ambitious interventions or business interventions or even political pushes from the community?
Like for example would we see interventions to create more trade between specific neighboring countries or the funding of political campaigns?
Or like if I were the economics nerd I am in a country in Africa I’d be pushing politically to create a stronger African Union that could create larger common markets of consumer demand & use the consolidated demand to bargain for things that would increase technology transfers & then push for forced-export lead industrial policy like what several Asian countries did (https://byrnehobart.medium.com/lessons-from-the-east-asian-economic-miracle-5f8d0f2354d9), essentially trying to replicate China or South Korea’s rise but for a lot of Africa.
For anything trade & industrial policy related, I find the Atlas Of Economic Complexity (https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/156) an interesting resource.
I like the categorizing of countries into different economic strategies & the prioritized list of suggested new product opportunities for countries. Could be very useful for anyone exploring the markets & business opportunities of developing countries.

Comment copied from comments on: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tnDQPGFW8vRFiAhrN/what-three-years-of-program-delivery-in-west-africa-taught

Tyler Kolota 🔹 9 May 2026 15:01 UTC
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in reply to: KOUADIO MENIANSOU NOEL ARTHUR’s comment on: What three years of program delivery in West Africa taught me about EA’s implementation gap — and why I’m here
Agreed.

Also for trade & industrial policy purposes I find the Atlas Of Economic Complexity (https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/384) an interesting resource.
I like the categorizing of countries into different economic strategies & the prioritized list of suggested new product opportunities for countries.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 8 May 2026 4:19 UTC
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in reply to: weeatquince🔸’s comment on: Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change
I also wonder if EA or something similar was mostly made up of say people from various countries in Africa with more ties & influence over local settings then would we see different and/or more ambitious interventions or even political pushes from the community? Like for example would we see interventions to create more trade between specific neighboring countries or the funding of political campaigns?
Like if I were the economics nerd I am in a country in Africa I’d be pushing politically to create a stronger African Union that could create larger common markets of consumer demand & use the consolidated demand to bargain for things that would increase technology transfers & then push for forced-export lead industrial policy like what several Asian countries did (https://byrnehobart.medium.com/lessons-from-the-east-asian-economic-miracle-5f8d0f2354d9), essentially trying to replicate China’s rise but for a lot of Africa.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 8 May 2026 4:03 UTC
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on: What three years of program delivery in West Africa taught me about EA’s implementation gap — and why I’m here
I also wonder if EA or something similar was mostly made up of say people from various countries in Africa with more ties & influence over local settings then would we see different and/or more ambitious interventions or even political pushes from the community?
Like for example would we see interventions to create more trade between specific neighboring countries or the funding of political campaigns?
Or like if I were the economics nerd I am in a country in Africa I’d be pushing politically to create a stronger African Union that could create larger common markets of consumer demand & use the consolidated demand to bargain for things that would increase technology transfers & then push for forced-export lead industrial policy like what several Asian countries did (https://byrnehobart.medium.com/lessons-from-the-east-asian-economic-miracle-5f8d0f2354d9), essentially trying to replicate China’s rise but for a lot of Africa.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 8 May 2026 3:52 UTC
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on: What three years of program delivery in West Africa taught me about EA’s implementation gap — and why I’m here
As for your post about EA & a lot of EA participants being in far away developed countries, I agree & my exposure to this line of thinking largely comes from the book The Anti-Politics Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anti-Politics_Machine) describing previous failures in international development from a lack of local knowledge. It’s actually something I find interesting about EA interventions, as instead of trying to develop detailed local knowledge they work around the issue with things that require less local knowledge to work. It’s easier to support a one-time technical intervention like vaccines with like New Incentives that do not require continued follow-up throughout a person’s life or to just send cash with GiveDirectly. And I can’t say this is a bad or even sub-optimal approach as things like vaccines have such great benefits for such low cost & low risk of intervention failure. It more reveals how under funded everything is that things like vaccines & cash transfers to expectant mothers aren’t fully saturated leaving only interventions that could use more local context.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 8 May 2026 3:51 UTC
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on: What three years of program delivery in West Africa taught me about EA’s implementation gap — and why I’m here
Hello Arthur,
Welcome to the EA forum & to the bootcamp. Do you have a Linked-In or other preferred social media account to connect? It may be worth linking it here for people.

As for me, I am also listening in to the bootcamp & I am a software developer for Chemonics, previously the largest USAID global health contractor. With the dismantling of USAID we may soon look to provide other services to multi-laterals & to individual country governments & organizations so your opinions may be interesting.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 7 May 2026 18:53 UTC
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on: Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.
The malaria vaccines are a great tool to have. One thing that may temper the criticism though is the cost per DALY of increasing funding to malaria vaccines for poor countries is about the same if not a little higher than more bed-net campaigns.
But there may also be a better argument in the same style for EA not advancing the full eradication of mosquito species that carry the parasite through gene drives and/or other means.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 5 Apr 2026 21:42 UTC
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on: Donation swap with me please?
It will likely be simpler to find one person donating a large amount to swap with, but if you really don’t find anyone else then I plan to donate another $751 towards the 2026 $1000 above the line US standard tax deduction. I already donated $249 to Screwworm Free Future.
In addition to Screwworm Free Future I plan donations to:
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP)
New Incentives
GiveWell All Grants

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Tyler Kolota 🔹26 Mar 2026 22:24 UTC

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Tyler Kolota 🔹 5 Mar 2026 15:43 UTC
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in reply to: TsviBT’s comment on: New cause area: human intelligence amplification
On 1 I think you are making a few common assumptions & the world may actually be more bottlenecked on broadly implementing existing ideas, thus we need higher average intelligence around the world for that implementation.
And a more general point, a lot of genes associated with higher intelligence are also associated with introversion/anti-socialness & with various mental abnormalities like OCD & others. By optimizing purely for IQ in genes you may be creating less collaborative & less happy individuals.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 5 Mar 2026 4:09 UTC
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on: New cause area: human intelligence amplification
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) can increase people’s IQ for like less than $1 per point of IQ. I doubt you will find any better intervention for increasing IQ.

Tyler Kolota 🔹 18 Feb 2026 5:46 UTC
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on: “Beers for Biodefense”—why yeast-based vaccines could be a big deal for biosecurity
Could this technology improve methods to vaccinate large amounts of farmed & wild animals to help reduce vectors for pandemics?

Tyler Kolota 🔹 9 Feb 2026 22:52 UTC
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in reply to: Charlie_Guthmann’s comment on: Annika Burman’s Quick takes
If we’re doing a constitutional convention then really make it count…
-Statehood for Puerto Rico & Washington D.C.
-Expand the house so each representative represents fewer people.
https://youtu.be/KhQGHY44XPM?si=iLivhjAUAl-igEtd
-Make some extra Senators elected by popular vote.
-Make it easier to remove the president/executive with a congressional vote of no confidence or a 60% referendum vote at each mid-terms.
-Add term limits to the supreme court & elect new justices on a schedule. Or make the Supreme Court a rotating lottery of Appellate judges.

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