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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
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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...
In the recent interview with Katja Grace referenced on ACX, she mentioned that many people may be opposed to slowing down AI progress because (I'm paraphrasing) they perceive AGI as a genie that will solve longevity and other problems and bring about the Cool Transhumanist Future, which they won't see otherwise - due to their age and/or longer timelines. I have been hanging out in longevity/anti-aging spaces for a while and this perspective is exceedingly common there. People are very hyped about AI coming and curing aging, and dismiss any concerns about AI safety.
From this point of view, solving aging, or even just making a tangible progress towards LEV , will make those people less resistant to the notion of slowing/stopping AI progress. This is complementary to the often mentioned idea that longer life expectancy will cause people to care more about AGI (and other existential risks). This of course doesn't imply that anti-aging is more important than direct work on AI alignment, but 1) it is likely more tractable and 2) not everyone can or want to work on AI alignment directly.