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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...
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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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I don't engage on the forum very much, although I've been reading the posts for more than a year and resonate pretty strongly with the core philosophy of EA. I wasn't around for the FTX collapse, but how do you all deal with times when half of Twitter, including the president, is punching down on us?
I generally don't engage with social media (beyond LR/EA forum, and I'm not sure I'd endorse my use of those). Maybe you should use Twitter less?
Or if you're getting some value out of Twitter, you could consider if there are alternative ways for you to get that value without getting the vitriol.