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How many submissions do you think the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews contest received? I see 17 posted publicly here, which seems really low to me.
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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.
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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...
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This post is part of the Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series by Rethink Priorities — a sequence of articles dedicated to effective giving across philanthropic areas.
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There is a seemingly plausible argument that do...
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A small exercise to inspire empathy/gratitude for people who grew up with access to healthcare:
If you'd lived 150 years ago, what might you have died of as a child?
I got pneumonia when I was four and it probably would have killed me without modern medicine.
I would have died as a baby - I needed a complex heart operation.