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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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Where can people go to have asynchronous, lower level discussion about EA? The bar for this forum is high which is probably good, but I do think we should have a place new folks can ask questions, get help, etc.
I know there’s an EA corner discord but it’s not that active and terrible for asynchronous discussion. Any ideas?
There's a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/
I think the comments aren't exactly what you'd get on this forum but some of them are helpful and accurate.