1. Does the EA Forum support <details> / <summary> blocks, for hidden content? If so, I think that should heavily be used in these summaries. 2. If (1) is done, then I'd like sections like: - related materials - key potential counter-claims - basic evaluations, using some table.
Then, it would be neat if the full prompt for this was online, and maybe if there could be discussion about it.
Of course, even better would be systems where these summaries could be individualized or something, but that would be more expensive.
I am trying to comment on Vasco's critical post about Veganuary but it has been deleted as spam twice. I am from Veganuary and we surely have a right to reply to this post. I do not have the icon you said I can use to message you.
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I'm subscribed to the "Organizations update" tab, so I get notifications when a new post in that category appears, but I can't unsubscribe. This has been a mild annoyance for a few years. Clicking subscribe and unsubscribe on the page doesn't do anything. Could someone fix it?
Can this be updated. This is the default "Contact us" page (if I click the sidebar on the right and click "contact us" it brings me here). But this page seems very out of date. Could be worth updating it.
There is no intercom bubble on the right nor is there a "hide intercom" button on the edit profile page. There is a hide intercom button on the account settings page but it does not do anything. There are also a bunch of comments saying similar stuff below but they have not been replied too.
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I've updated it. One oversight of the page was that it didn't mention that intercom was desktop-only. If you're one desktop and you don't see it, can you try the new debugging steps? But also feel free to email us.
Hi, can you please tell people to stop posting inane, distracting and visually disturbing gifs in the comments? Like in a comment on Gideon‘s article on complexity and x-risks. Thanks.
For one, I don’t see any intercom. (I’m on an iPhone).
For two, I wanted to report a bug that whenever writing a comment, the UI zooms in so that the comment box takes up the whole width. Then it never un-zooms.
Another bug, while writing a comment while zoomed in and scrolling left to right, the scroll bar appears in the middle of the text.
A third bug, when I get a notification that somebody has responded to my post, and view it using the drop down at the upper right, then try to re-use that menu, the X button is hidden, off the screen to the right. Seems like a similar mobile over-zoom thing.
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[Desktop-only] Contact us via Intercom
This is the blue speech bubble in the lower-right corner of your screen.
Under [Desktop-only] Contact us via Intercom, the second bullet point should be "To un-hide it, go to your user profile, click "Account Settings", click "Site customizations" and then uncheck "Hide Intercom."
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
Summary
Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Where has Intercom gone?