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Julia_Wise🔸

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I'm one of the contact people for the effective altruism community. I work at CEA as a community liaison, trying to support the EA community in addressing problems and being a healthy and welcoming community.

Please feel free to contact me at julia.wise@centreforeffectivealtruism.org.

Besides effective altruism, I'm interested in folk dance and trying to keep up with my three children.

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2023 project on reforms in EA

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Don't Panic About Democracy in EA
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I think I don't understand what the purpose of a regional US EA electoral group would be. We had a slack channel for east coast organizers, but there wasn't much to coordinate about.

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Who Are Your EA Role Models?
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I loved meeting Nick at EAG! I knew he worked on public health in Uganda, but we also chatted about choices he and his wife have made to better fit in with their local community, like spending at a level comparable to the better-off of their Ugandan neighbors rather than more typical expat levels. His energy and positivity wowed me.

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Best Anti infant circumcision charity?
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[I don't have knowledge of specific charities, sorry.] From a quick search, it seems most such charities focus on the US because the US is the only high income country where most boys are circumsised despite most parents not having a particular religious reason for it. In other countries where it's common, it's typically for religious or epidemiological reasons.

My guess is that change could come from medical angles (Claude thinks it's important that the American Academy of Pediatrics states the benefits outweigh the risks) and from norm-changing in hospitals. This might parallel the pro-breastfeeding initiatives in many hospitals, where they no longer offer formula unless you ask for it, etc. With breastfeeding I think it gets clumsily carried out at times, and sometimes results in excessive pressure on parents who have good reasons to prefer something different.

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Don't Panic About Democracy in EA
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My understanding is that these general assemblies work by people literally coming to the same room to vote (even during covid). Willingness to spend a day on this is part of how you screen for who's invested. In a country the size of the US, the time and money costs of travel to any one location would be much greater.

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What's your experience with elitism in EA? [Survey]
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I think there's an important difference between "have I ever seen this in the history of any EA org" and "do I think it's a current trend / do I think it happens more in EA than other spaces." The title points to the first, and I think what's meant is the second.

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Positive effects of EA on mental health
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>my initial guess here would be that EA is roughly net neutral
Yes, I think the null hypothesis is a good starting point. Sometimes I see people starting from the guess that EA has a bad effect, and that's not what the evidence suggests.

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GIFTing breeder animals is a humanitarian intervention
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Minor note on clarity: I found the title confusing because "humanitarian" typically means "benefitting humans", and I think the claim here is "a method that's already been used to benefit humans could be used to benefit fish."

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Introducing EA in a non-EA nonprofit
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Hi! You might check out posts under the workplace advocacy tag: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/workplace-advocacy

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Donating everything
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I didn't grow up to donate everything, but I had that goal when I was about your age. My writing from my 20s has some stuff that you might find relevant or useful: http://www.givinggladly.com/

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Donating everything
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Also Charles Gray of the "world equity budget."

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