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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
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Previously: GiveWell raised less than its 10th percentile forecast in 2023 · GiveWell fundraising up 17% in 2024
GiveWell has published its...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
Recent opportunities to take action
Good Governance in the wake of the FTX crisis - turning talk into action
When the EA Good Governance was launched 1 month ago, little did we know that governance would be thrust into the spotlight so publicly. Â Given recent news, I'd encourage everybody to take action by learning about the EA Good Governance Project and signing up to improve EA institutions.
Will look into your project Grayden...and sign up. I might be able to help you with this.