Vasco Grilo

Cost-effec­tive­ness of send­ing per­sonal messages

Sum­mary: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

[Question] Are there any uber-analy­ses of GiveWell/​ACE top char­i­ties?

My notes on: Why we can’t take ex­pected value es­ti­mates liter­ally (even when they’re un­bi­ased)

The num­ber of seabirds and sea mam­mals kil­led by marine plas­tic pol­lu­tion is quite small rel­a­tive to the catch of fish

Civ­i­liza­tional vulnerabilities

Sum­mary: The Im­por­tance of End-of-Life Welfare | Brown­ing & Veit

Sum­mary: The Value of Giv­ing Money to Differ­ent Groups | Toby Ord

[Question] What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of GiveWell’s top life-sav­ing char­i­ties un­der to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism?

Cost-effec­tive­ness of donat­ing a kidney

Dona­tions to effec­tive cli­mate char­i­ties needed to can­cel life­time GHG emissions

Do you have im­pos­tor syn­drome?

My notes on: Se­quence think­ing vs. cluster thinking

Types of in­for­ma­tion hazards

How to de­ter­mine dis­tri­bu­tion pa­ram­e­ters from quantiles

My notes on: Search­ing for outliers

Com­par­i­son be­tween the he­do­nic util­ity of hu­man life and poul­try liv­ing time

[Question] When should the in­verse-var­i­ance method be ap­plied to dis­tri­bu­tions?

Are poul­try birds re­ally im­por­tant? Yes...

My notes on: A Very Ra­tional End of the World | Thomas Moynihan