Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'.
As examples, he gives:
* Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws (in 1754 BCE) and his justification of his rule not in terms of divine or hereditary right, but by the delivery of justice to his citizens.
* St Gregory of Nyssa's...
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones.
Summary
I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to a case of stunting are too low, largely because they don’t account for the long term effects. This means that childhood nutritional interventions that reduce the prevalence of stunting may be substantially more cost-effective than previously believed.
Epistemic status
Exploratory and back-o...
Are there plans to make that the canonical URL, or otherwise solve the potentially confusing similarity between effective-altruism.com and effectivealtruism.com?
I've considered this. On the upside, there's clearer separation from effectivealtruism.com. On the downside, I'd have to place redirects, we'd downgrade to a .org address and we'd lose some SEO (Posts from the Blog have now been at this address for a couple of years). For those reasons, moving to eaforum.org doesn't feel like a significant forward step to me. What might feel more exciting is combining the various pages into something like book.effectivealtruism.com, blog.effectivealtruism.com, wiki.effectivealtruism.com at a later date... Though I'm sure there's reasonable disagreement here.
Yeah, that makes sense. I like the subdomains idea :)
Yeah, I imagine there's some version on the subdomain option that could work. I'll put this on Kerry Vaughan and Tyler Alterman's radars as they are now managing those domains.
This resource says that a 301 redirect (for permanently moved pages) gets you 90+% of your previous link juice. So count me in favor of moving the domain at some point somehow; in my view, having effective-altruism.com, effectivealtruism.org, and effectivealtruism.com be 3 different sites is confusing.
I might pull some or all of https://centreforeffectivealtruism.org/ (plus some of its subsidiaries?) and http://www.thehighimpactnetwork.org/ (if it's still going) and http://effectivealtruismhub.com/ and http://effective-altruism.wikia.com/wiki/Effective_Altruism_Wiki and dotimpact and skillshare.im and http://jobboard.im/ in there too... it's a bit of a shame that our online presence is so fragmented and it would be nice if all these were more discoverable from one another. People have pointed out, correctly in my view, that the movement could stand to be more coordinated in terms of letting each other know what we're working on and this could be an important step in that direction. This would be a pretty big project though, especially if the interfaces got unified. I wonder if we could put them all under effective.org, altruism.org, impact.org, or something cool like that?