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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...
TL;DR:
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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NOTES FOR A YOUTUBE VIDEO ON EA
Many people realize that our WORLD is on a path that may lead to extinction. Many people thus do “THEIR PART” in making the change necessary to help. They become vegetarian to decrease greenhouse gases, buy an electric car, recycle, start composting, etc etc. All these minute changes, they say, if added up, will make the difference. Its possible, I mean theres a non-zero chance that these actions will make that change.
But if you think about time spent, versus change made, you have a linear amount of change over time that amounts to a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket.
What you and others are now finding is the knowledge to create greater change than a drop. To make the same time spent, far more effective.