Here's a place to discuss projects, ideas, events and miscellanea relevant to the world of effective altruism that don't need a whole post of their own!
The most interesting current news for effective altruists is that EA Global in San Francisco has just started!
- Video from the first day, interspersed with occasional breaks, is available here.
- Streamed video from the subsequent two days will be available here.
- The program is here.
Note that MIRI is also a few weeks into its fundraiser.
Hope you have lots to discuss amidst these fresh EA talks!
Effective altruists have considered the potential effectiveness of blood donation and kidney donation. When I read Peter SInger's recent article in the Boston Review, The Logic of Effective Altruism, he also mentioned effective altruists also consider donating bone marrow. I didn't know people could donate bone marrow.
Does anyone know if there's an analysis somewhere about how effective donating bone marrow is? If not, would anyone willing to do an analysis? I could help, but I have enough analytic skill to do it by myself.
You can sign up for it, but it's pretty unlikely you'll get selected. However, it is potentially life saving and at least in Germany it didn't cost that much time, so I'd recommend it. (I signed up this year.)