EdoArad

Doing stuff @ Effective Altruism Israel
5139 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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Hey! I'm Edo, married + 2 cats, I live in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and I feel weird writing about myself so I go meta.

I'm a mathematician, I love solving problems and helping people. My LinkedIn profile has some more stuff.

I'm a forum moderator, which mostly means that I care about this forum and about you! So let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

I'm currently working full-time at EA Israel, doing independent research and project management. Currently mostly working on evaluating the impact of for-profit tech companies, but I have many projects and this changes rapidly. 

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Thanks! This really clarifies the situation for me.

Prices. Target frames its failure to meet its pledge in equity terms, stating [...]

From Chicken Watch, we find Target's 2016's commitment. There, it's stated that 

We Will:

  • Transition to only cage-free shell eggs by 2025, pending available supply.

While in their 2025 report linked above (this), and in their website , it's framed as a goal rather than a commitment:

Eggs: In 2016, Target set a goal to transition to a 100% cage-free egg supply chain by 2025 pending available supply.

I'm curious about the legality of this. Did they initially frame it as a commitment? Assuming their argument about unavailable (cheap) supply doesn't hold, are they legally bound to uphold their commitment?

I wonder how many people come across EA as a result of a mental health problem and post traumatic growth

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56% agree

Vote power should scale with karma

Assuming at least half of the upvote value of high-karma posts-comments is from people with base upvote value.itd be interesting to check how that is actually distributed

Minor nitpick

Option 1: The EA movement instantly grows to include 1000 new highly-engaged, aligned EAs.

Option 2: X people hear about EA in a relatively high-fidelity way (e.g., through a long-form journalistic article).

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Responses here also reflected wide variation, spanning several orders of magnitude. The median value was 1 million, implying that gaining 1 highly engaged EA was rated roughly 10,000 times more valuable than introducing one person to EA in a relatively high fidelity way.

Should this be 1,000 times instead? (This also appears at the summary of key results as 10,000)

I don't think that expanding compassion to animals leads to reduced compassion for aunts and other humans. It could make one's choices benefit humaunts less, but that's arguably desirable.

I do agree that when we find ourselves dispassionate or hateful towards others that's a sign that we may have stepped wrong at some point in our journey to do the most good

I'm really interested in the answer to this question and happy to say that publicly

I find it's good enough for me, but I haven't deeply engaged with really complicated texts

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