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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.
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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...
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The Guardian is hiring a farmed animal reporter: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4444587806/
I suspect that this is directly resulting from the $1m of Coefficient funding that the Guardian recently received for FAW journalism. Seem likely they would be therefore be open to EA-aligned applications. Could be a great opportunity to have more aligned FAW journalism. In particular, having someone within the community in the role could be really helpful as a route for existing orgs to get coverage on their work!