Also a reminder that anywhere on earth may mean that the deadline is on Tuesday for you (as it is for me). Maybe more simply - the deadline is 12pm Tuesday UTC. 

Interesting - why do you think that?

Reminder: The deadline for the 'Essays on Longtermism' competition is this coming Monday (specifically the end of October 20th, anywhere on earth). If you've been thinking of entering, this weekend is your chance! Consider nudging any friends who mentioned wanting to enter. $1000 top prize, many wonderful judges. 

Thanks Damin!

Haha yes this is true - and at the risk of ruining the fun (in the same way a joke is ruined when you explain it), things which help the community have fun together can be justified in terms of retention/ motivation. So entertainment per se isn't bad, it's just a reason for some extra scepticism. 

Yes please! This has come up before, there are some non-overlapping conventions here about how to represent spans of dates. I'll fiddle with the banner to make it clearer. Thanks!

Great idea! I reached out to GovAI to give their fellows a talk on Forum writing once but it didn't end up happening - I'll try again soon/ try another method of reaching them. 

I'd love it if someone wrote a thoughtful review of Rethink Priorities' new moral parliament tools (see Hayley Clatterbuck's last 4 posts). For example, I can imagine someone using one of the tools on a decision they need to make, and writing up the result. 

My firing from the hip guess is that the lifetime effects of having more money to donate effectively dwarfs the extra harm caused by a bank investing slightly more money in bad things. The intuition mostly comes from the idea that a) the harmful investments aren't trying to cause the most harm, but your donations are (or should be) aimed at doing the most good, and b) I'd guess that if there is an evil thing with a good return, it'll be invested in anyway, whether your bank can do it or not (whereas a great charity with a good impact return generally has a major funding gap). 

Keen to hear any updates I should make to my from-the-hip model here. I currently don't worry too much about what my bank does with my money, as long as I get a decent return. 

I know that @Garrison is working with Omidyar (one of the foundations listed here). Does anyone know of other work aligned with EA priorities coming out of these foundations? This is potentially very exciting.