Henry Stanley đ¸
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Former CTO and co-founder of earn-to-give fintech Mast.
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This is wonderful â thank you so much for writing it.
Mutual dedication to one anotherâs ends seems like a thing commonly present in religious and ethnic communities. But it seems quite uncommon to the demographic of secular idealists, like me. Such idealists tend to form and join single-focus communities like effective altruism, which serve only a subset of our eudaemonic needs.
Agree about secular, single-purpose communities â but I'm not sure EA is quite the same.
I've found my relationships with other EAs tend to blossom to be about more than just EA; those principles provide a good set of shared values from which to build other things, like a sense of community, shared houses, group meals, playing music together and just supporting each other generally. Then again, I don't consider EA to be the core of my identity, so YMMV.
Can you say more on why the first $40M is the only money moving the needle? I think very little funding goes on diet change (at least in the EA animal welfare world it feels like itâs barely a focus these days) and much more on corporate campaigning, lobbying, legal action, innovations in farmed animal welfare technology etc.
I don't see any mention here or in the comments about neglectedness, which seems like the most obvious reason for why EA isn't a good fit here. There are enormous, well-funded, long-established ecosystems dedicated to exactly this sort of thing - civil liberties organisations, legal defence funds, democratic governance NGOs, journalism, academic institutions, unions, anti-fascist networks etc.
I think there's some argument that the EA mindset could be applied to finding tractable interventions here but ultimately I just think there are more pressing problems that need our attention.
CEA was aware it was shared with people outside of HR by Riley, even if they themselves did not share it outside HR.
And it seems then like any confidentiality obligation on HR is expunged, given that this Riley shared the document themselves. Or at the very least thereâs no case for them failing to act because of the need to keep the document/its author confidential, as they had already shared it widely.
I once had a conversation with a friend who felt that Anthropic advancing the AI frontier (despite their explicit commitment not to) was fine because theyâre âleading from the frontâ in terms of their ethical stance.
It seems like that might not actually work? Advancing the frontier presumably encourages other labs to compete - and if those labs donât have the same ethical strictures then leading from the front has no effect except to have moved the frontier forward faster than it would have otherwiseâŚ
(Referencing OpenAIâs deal with the Pentagon announced shortly after the Anthropic sanctions)
Ferrous sulphate is also common but a bit nauseating and poorly absorbed in any case. Ferrous bisglycinate is also found branded as âgentle ironâ.
For those very deficient in iron, an iron infusion will give you ~two yearsâ worth of iron in one go - and skips all the issues with oral bioavailability of iron. You will need to test your iron levels first to avoid iron overload.
I write a bit about iron supplementation in my guide to treating restless leg syndrome (RLS) for which iron deficiency is a common cause: https://henryaj.substack.com/p/how-to-treat-restless-legs-syndrome