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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* I he...
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...
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...
Curious if there is any addictiveness benchmark for new technologies.
* How would it be measured, would it be similar to training a preference model on rankings of multiple responses?
* I am aware many people are aware how technology can be addictive. I seen people say the best way to avoid it is to not use it or it is the person who is addicted fault. How about instead of people completely avoiding certain technologies like social media is there any effort to make these technologies at the very least less addictive
*I feel this can also be effective with since we do not want to cause a future of simply looking at screens in the future like the wally movie humans
Is there anyone working on making to making less addictive alternatives to technologies or tools to reduce addiction?