Effective Altruist Forum
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Effective Altruist Forum is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between March 24, 2022 and January 11, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Devin Kalish on the Effective Altruist Forum writes Brief Thoughts On Justice”; “Devin Kalish on the Effective Altruist Forum writes Brief Thoughts On Justice Creep And Effective Altruism”; “Levin on the Effective Altruist Forum rephrases this thought experiment”. It most often appears alongside China, Google, India.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: March 24, 2022
- Last seen: January 11, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Justice Creep
- Book Review: What We Owe The Future
- Links For August 2023
- Links For September 2023
- Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
Related Pages
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- Google (3 shared issues)
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- India (3 shared issues)
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- Twitter (3 shared issues)
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- US (3 shared issues)
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- AI (2 shared issues)
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- animal welfare (2 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- EA (2 shared issues)
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- Erik Hoel (2 shared issues)
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- GiveWell (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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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.
Devin Kalish on the Effective Altruist Forum writes Brief Thoughts On Justice Creep And Effective Altruism:
Levin on the Effective Altruist Forum rephrases this thought experiment to be about our obligations to people who aren’t born yet:
Inline links: Levin on the Effective Altruist Forum
But this is a selfish preference coming from the part of me that wants to see philosophers have interesting fights. Most of me agrees with MacAskill’s boring good-PR point: long-termism rarely gives different answers from near-termism. In fact, I wrote a post about this on the EA Forum recently, called Long-Termism Vs. Existential Risk:
Inline links: Long-Termism Vs. Existential Risk
25: Elsewhere in bad policy: after California voted for higher standards for animal welfare in factory farms, the agricultural industry has proposed the EATS Act, banning states from setting standards for what agricultural products they will allow. This seems like a clear attack on states’ rights to me. Still, its supporters cast it as promoting states’ rights, since if eg California bans unethically-factory-farmed meat then Iowa doesn’t have the right to unethically-factory-farm its meat if it wants to sell to California. This is a stupid argument, like saying that it “promotes individual rights” to force dieters to eat high-calorie meals, because their decision not to do so impinges on the rights of chefs to make their meals high-calorie if they would like to sell to dieters. If you’re making a federal power grab, at least admit you’re making a federal power grab! I hope this will either fail or get struck down by the Supreme Court. A post on the Effective Altruist forum urges you to write your representative.
31: During the pandemic, scientists became hopeful that irradiating rooms with germ-killing but seemingly-safe-for-humans far-ultraviolet radiation could provide a general solution to infectious disease. Max Gorlitz on the EA Forum gives a progress report. TL;DR: still seems promising, but there’s a lot more work to be done to determine whether doses that kill pathogens are safe for humans, and what the optimal dose that kills the most pathogens with the least risk to humans is. UV air filters would have fewer safety concerns but be less effective.
Inline links: gives a progress report
25: Effective Altruist Forum: The charity Pure Earth, sponsored by GiveWell, claims to have reduced the prevalence of lead in Bangladeshi turmeric from 47% to ~0%. Previously, unsavory producers would add lead to turmeric spice to make it appear more brilliantly yellow, poisoning children who consumed it and lowering IQ. Pure Earth raised awareness among consumers, helped the government crack down, and is now declaring at least preliminary victory. “The preliminary findings are that this program can avert an equivalent DALY for just under $1.”
The Effective Altruist Forum now has a post on Economic Growth - Donation Suggestions And Ideas, listing suspected top charities for helping countries develop. These include ACX Grants winner Growth Teams, the Charter Cities Institute, GiveDirectly, and Overseas Development Institute.