Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
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With the AI windfall, mental health may be taken increasingly seriously by mainstream EA. There’s increasingly room to explore the cause area and answer some of the biggest uncertainties; at the same time, costs of the most effective interventions are continuing to fall. StrongMinds is now treating for ~$35, about a third of GiveWell’s best guess from a few years ago, and is expected to...
Suggestion: Change the existing post title ("Looking for EA Community?") to "EA Slack Groups" and include the new Slack groups (at the top, labeled as new) plus a collection of all the previously-existing ones people might be interested in joining.
Thank you -- great suggestions! I'm happy to add more links if you have them!!