Jonas Søvik 🔹
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I am a coach, self-exploration and wisdom enthusiast, extroverted
I follow: metacrisis (Schmachtenberger, Nate Hagens), integral altruism, Life Itself, Learning Planet, John Vervaeke's work (modern wisdom), regen thinking, Game B, Liminal Web - & most things related in that field
How others can help me
I do coaching ;)
I run gift economy for EA's, meaning I won't charge you but give my time freely as a gift. And if you genuinely want to, you can give something back based on what you think it was worth and what you're happy to give.
Feel free to reach out or book a call with me:
coachforhumans@gmail.com
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This was awesome. Thanks man. For trying, and for sharing.
I loved the point about "visceral altruism" - it reminds me of Nasim Taleb (antifragile)'s point about having 'skin in the game'. That it's actually very important for our decisions, especially when trying to do the right thing, that we stand to lose out if it fails. Well, Nasim, how about 1-up and putting our organs in the game!
I think it's a great idea!
I hear other commentors' recommendations to focus on pledging, but I don't think they need be counterfactually at odds. I could also see the fundraising lead to people getting more interested in effective giving - and as part of the fundraising you can also highlight both the 10% and trial pledge.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge?c=header
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/trial-pledge
Additonally, there's a post here outlining other low-cost projects people can run for impact:
Cool article. This is exactly the type of stuff we need - but you're only scraping the surface. I /really/ recommend you look into the work of John Vervaeke. He's a cognitive scientist who is all about wisdom cultivation (among many other things). He talks about wisdom as being a type of meta-rationality in which you know when to apply rationality and avoid being caught in the biases of over rationalizing everything - he speaks for how rationality, emotions, and intuition all have their strengths and shortcoming, and how to have them work together so you can become the best possible agent.
You can fx. start here:
It's really hard. But though intuition gets a bad rap, we at base have a sense of which things suck and how much. It can be inaccurate, but maybe wisdom of the crowds can help us pool together to estimate fx suffering weight to give to cluster headaches or losing a child.
I have no idea how much this breaks down when things get more abstract i.e. longtermism/GCR.