Interesting, sounds useful.

A couple of practical questions: does it make sense to buy one and also use it to not spread random colds / flu / covid, or if I start using it the efficacy drops after a while?

And how bad is it if I sneeze inside? That gives me nightmares from when I was wearing FFP2 for covid.

I found this post inspiring, thank you.

I think it can be a useful antidote to becoming detached and cynical, and forgetting what we are fighting for (especially for people involved in causes about the future).

Fantastic read, I wish you the best with this project.

I really enjoyed the storytelling in Paul Farmer's part.

I would suggest reducing a bit the "science" part, it gets quite dense and becomes harder to read than the stories before and after (and I imagine if it gets dense for me, who chugs graduate school manuals in my free time, it's probably too much for most college students).

Feel free to count on me for beta testing, but maybe not the best idea because I'm not from the US or a native English speaker.

I'd be doing less good with my life if I hadn't heard of effective altruism

Started donating consistently instead of sporadically, and with a focus on cost effectiveness.

Started volunteering.

Still, it might had happened without, I already had some of the ideas.

People keep thinking that I think with numbers because I don’t care, they said. But I think with numbers because I do care. Numbers are how I care.

This got me emotional. I bet it makes for a good focal point in a story.

How are you including necessities in the model? I imagine there are going to be sharp drops in happiness / earnings capacity once you cannot pay rent+utilities and I imagine they will radically change how the graphs should look like for higher %s of donations.

Thank you for writing this post, it made me connect again with the feelings that I had when I took the 10% pledge.

Also do I see 10212? Did we reach 10k then? Cheers!

1. What population are you sampling from? The entire world? No? Where is the data from?
2. What does "normal investing habits" mean?
3. Are you simulating investment outcomes or taking data from actual estates as a proxy for net worth at death?
4. Can you give numbers or code?

Could you please share what assumptions are in the simulation? It's hard to learn from this or give feedback otherwise.

Does the forum have a policy on necro posting (the act of commenting/editing "resurrecting" old material)? I didn't find it in the "how to use the forum" sequence.