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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
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....
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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...
Great list!
Related to 1., I personally made a Weighted Factor Model with made-up numbers and found it helpful.
(I think most numbers are wrong, and many are very wrong, but they are my current best guesses)
That's awesome! Could you make a template of that? I did something like this to decide where to go to college.
I'm not sure what the template would look like: different people would have different columns (e.g. personal fit, location, career capital) and the numbers are pretty random.
Were you thinking of something like this? Or something fancier with z-scores?
That first thing is great! Ok for me to put it in the post? I like the push to think about worst/best/moonshot scenarios, probably lots of people should do that more.
I would be honored!