Second recommendation due this in a week, definitely going to read thanks so much

Amazing blog about an incredible person thank you!

I'm trying to think of modern day equivalents that might doggedly stick to their socially extreme ethical beliefs even if they are wildly against the status quo. Perhaps Greta Thunburg is one that comes to mind?

Another might be Dr. Edric Baker, a Kiwi catholic doc who spent most of his life living on 300 dollars a month, living in one room while running a hospital in rural Bangladesh

https://www.daily-sun.com/post/710253/Dr.-Edric-Baker--A-modern-day-saint-died-letting-us-to-shed-tears

Perhaps most of us aren't cut out for this kind of life, but I think there's a lot to learn from these people, both to be inspired by their uncompromising lives and even to help us see new ideas and causes on the margins we may have otherwise missed.

Perhaps the large uncertainty around it makes it less likely that people will argue against it publicly as well. I would imagine many people might think with very low confidence that some interventions for non-human animals might not be the most cost-effective, but stay relatively quiet due to that uncertainty.

"Most charities seem much less effective than the most effective for-profit organizations"

This is a big discussion but I would be interested to see you justify this. I would say many of the biggest GHD achievements and much important work is driven by not for profit organizations like charities and government (global vaccine alliance, university research institutions etc) but obviously it's a complicated discussion.

Obviously a market economy drives much of it, but I consider this more the water we swim in rather than the capitalist system doing the good itself.

I would be interested to hear the for profit businesses which you think are counterfactually doing the most good on the margins

The "non-tweet" feels vague and unsubsantiated (at this point anyway). I hope we'll get a full article and explanation as to what he means exactly because obviously he's making HUGE calls.

As a quick reply, I'm wondering what evidence you have that education in democratic liberal countries increases support for liberal democracy accross the globe? There's arguments for and against this thesis, but I don't think there's good evidence that it helps. 

 Many dictators in Africa for example were educated in top universities, which gave them better connections and influence which might have helped them oppress their people. Also during the 20ths centure a growing intelligent and motivated middle class seems correlated with higher chance of democracy. - its unclear whether highly skilled migration helps grow this middle class through increasing remittances and a growing economy, or removes the most capable people who could be starting businesses and making their home country a better place. Its worth noting that programs like this don't just take high school graduates, they usually take the cream of the crop who were likely to do very well in their home conutry as well.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that its complicated and far from a slamdunk that this will increase support for liberal democracies.

Love this thanks for the insights, this definitely helps answer some of my questions about people like Weinar. When a couple of people I knew mentioned that article, I pointed them to what I think are better criticisms here in philosophy tube (also more fun)

https://youtu.be/Lm0vHQYKI-Y?si=sw_3u-9tQSvRZRut

I am encouraged though that a few people have written responses to Thorstad over the last couple of weeks. Not exactly blowing up on Twitter but some good engagement at least ;)

New Zealand let's go!

It is pretty clear that the longer the shrimp, the higher the moral weight. Long live the long shrimp orgs

Except they should maximize confusion by calling it the "Macrostrategy Interim Research Initiative" ;)