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Independent researcher @ Effective Altruism France
1213 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)Lyon, France

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I'm living in France. Learned about EA in 2018, found that great, digged a lot into the topic. The idea of "what in the world improves well-being or causes suffering the most, and what can we do" really influenced me a whole lot - especially when mixed with meditation that allowed me to be more active in my life.

One of the most reliable thing I have found so far is helping animal charities : farmed animals are much more numerous than humans (and have much worse living conditions), and there absolutely is evidence that animal charities are getting some improvements (especially from The Humane League). I tried to donate a lot there. 

Long-termism could also be important, but I think that we'll hit energy limits before getting to an extinction event - I wrote an EA forum post for that here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wXzc75txE5hbHqYug/the-great-energy-descent-short-version-an-important-thing-ea

How I can help others

I just have an interest in whatever topic sounds really important, so I have a LOT of data on a lot of topics.  These include energy, the environment, resource depletion, simple ways to understand the economy, limits to growth, why we fail to solve the sustainability issue, and how we got to that very weird specific point in history.

I also have a lot of stuff on Buddhism and meditation and on "what makes us happy" (check the Waking Up app!)

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Why Forecasting Fails Decision Makers
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Yes, makes sense, shorter or longer AI timelines do change the game a lot, for instance.

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Why Forecasting Fails Decision Makers
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Well written and pragmatic, thanks. Although forecasting does sounds great, I have no idea how animal nonprofits (to take one example) could use it to make better work.

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300 Pledges: Pitching Effective Giving at Middlebury College
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That sounds like a good strategy, and you explain it very well. 

It's impressive that you managed to get that many trial pledges! 

Congrats!

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Don’t scale up your lifestyle
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Completely agree! We get used to changes in our lifestyle so fast. Our brain tends to take a ton of stuff for granted.

I know that if I buy a large apartment or a fancy car, I'll get used to it in a few weeks. So why bother ? Donating it seems the right choice. 

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What is Love ft. Claude & VascoBot
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I love this, what a fun read ❤️

And the opinion of the bot on Vasco is quite wholesome as well

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EA is underfunding animal advocacy according to our own preferences
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Agreed, I'm always surprised by these low donations numbers.

I keep in mind that EA is one of the movements that helps animals the most in the world, especially farmed and wild animals, which are so important. This is great and much, much more better than the average.

But given that animals are so numerous and often live in terrible conditions, there still is be an important imbalance.

I see no rational reason to spend only 7% of donations on the vast majority of individuals in the world.

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You can just leave EA
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Great comment, thanks !

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How I Measured the Impact of My Japan Nonprofit's Youth Suicide Prevention Program
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Thanks for the analysis, I really like the approach and transparency. This is better that what the vast majority of the charities in France ever attempted.

For reference, regarding the cost effectiveness, can you share what that means compared to Givewell charities ? These are the ones I'm familiar with.

I'm also surprised by the cost-effectiveness threshold of the WHO for high efficiency (one DALY per GDP per capita spent). Does that mean that spending the nations's entire GDP to increase life expectancy by one year (and only for this year) would be considered cost effective by the WHO ?

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