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...
Strongly downvoted. I think a meme review feels in fairly poor taste for this post. I took the tone of Denise's post as an honest, serious and somewhat sad account of how path to having an impact. Tonally, memes feel non-serious and about humour and making light of things. This clashes a lot with the tone of Denise's post, in a way that feels inappropriate to me.
I found the meme review of Aaron Gertler's retirement fun though!