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...
Summary: The actions taken this decade may be exceptionally important for the future of civilization, but we should be unusually hesitant to proclaim that any course of action is “best.” Still, we should try to think carefully about how we'll influence the future.
This post was written as part of an introduction to a new reading group I’m starting called “Doing Good in the Age of AGI.” If you want to follow along, the full curriculum can be found ...
Moderation updates
We’re issuing Dubious Altruist a three-month ban. We previously warned them about repeatedly being uncivil and rude to other users, which is against our discussion norms. They recently published a comment that was clearly unnecessarily rude so we are following through with the warning we gave them.
As a reminder, the ban affects the user, not the account. During their ban period, the user will not be permitted to rejoin the Forum under another account name. If they return to the Forum, we’ll expect a higher standard of norm-following. If we see them continuing to act rudely we will likely ban them for longer.
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We've issued Pablo Sar a 6 month for sockpuppeting. We have strong reason to believe that 4 of the users voting and reacting to his post were accounts under his control. This is, needless to say, a violation of our Forum norms.