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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
TL;DR:
The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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Just a small idea I had: is anyone aware of artists who make “sleep music” on Spotify or any other streaming service who verifiably donate their streaming revenue?
It seems like a low-effort way to have a pretty sizeable impact. Some of these sleep artists are racking up millions of plays. Could maybe get some new people learning about EA as well.
Hank Green has done this on YouTube, and has a video discussing the economics (about $1000/month! although already having an audience presumably helped).