poverty

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poverty is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 28, 2023 and March 26, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “a lot of work on global health and poverty”; “Consider something human-level and common-sensical like poverty”. It most often appears alongside #57, 80,000 Hours, Adam D’Angelo.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: November 28, 2023
• Last seen: March 26, 2026

Appears In

• In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
• How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?

Related Pages

• • #57 (1 shared issues)
• • 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
• • Adam D’Angelo (1 shared issues)
• • AI (1 shared issues)
• • AI doomerism (1 shared issues)
• • AI risk (1 shared issues)
• • AI Safety (1 shared issues)
• • animal welfare (1 shared issues)
• • Anthropic (1 shared issues)
• • ARC Evals (1 shared issues)
• • Biden administration (1 shared issues)
• • Bill Gates (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/against-that-poverty-and-infant-eegs
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progress-and-poverty
• • https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/11/26/the-poverty-line-is-not-140000/
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Jameel_Poverty_Action_Lab
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For_National_Action
• • https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/against-hickelism
• • https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
• • https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/
• • https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_content=comment_metadata
• • https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/poverty-san-francisco#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20HUD%20defined%20%E2%80%9CLow,for%20a%20family%20of%20four.
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-february-2026/comment/210330591
• • https://www.cato.org/commentary/140000-poverty-line-laughably-wrong-so-why-does-it-feel-right

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism

November 28, 2023 · Original source

I don’t want the takeaway from this post to be “Sure, you may hate EA because it does a lot of work on AI - but come on, it also does a lot of work on global health and poverty!” I’m proud of all of it. I believe - just like Geoff Hinton, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Daniel Dennett, etc - that there’s a pretty serious risk of human extinction from AI over the next few decades. I can’t imagine believing this and not thinking it’s important to prepare for. EA has done a great job working on this (see list of accomplishments above), and I think the AI and x-risk people have just as much to be proud of as the global health and animal welfare people.

Inline links: just like

Ethiopia source here and here, India source here, Rwanda source here.

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How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?

March 26, 2026 · Original source

Consider something human-level and common-sensical like poverty. People may be poor because of “failures” - negative qualities with no counterbalancing advantages. For example, they may be unintelligent, or chronically ill, or stuck in poor areas with bad education systems. These are cases where something goes wrong - their body, their health care system, their schools.

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