dotsam

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Ukrainian nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by dotsam 4y ago|3 comments
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by dotsam 4y ago
He reads the audiobook as well, it's definitely worth listening to.
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by dotsam 4y ago
The EA forum is active, e.g here is a discussion of this article: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JBAPssaYMMRfNqYt7/...
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Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool'(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by dotsam 4y ago|1 comments
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Write a critique of effective altruism and win up to $20k(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
2 points by dotsam 4y ago|0 comments
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World’s largest organism found in Australia(science.org)
145 points by dotsam 4y ago|47 comments
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by dotsam 4y ago
> Forest replacement by cattle is most prevalent in Brazil and Paraguay > Forest area replaced by cattle accounts for 36 percent of all agriculture-linked tree cover loss worldwide https://research.wri.org/gfr/for
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by dotsam 4y ago
Donating to anti-malaria charities is a highly cost-effective way to improve lives per dollar spent - see Give Well's top charities if you are interested in how you can make a difference: https://www.givewell.org/charit
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by dotsam 4y ago
Presumably the idea was that the distribution/content of the book promotes rational thinking, and that rational thinking primes you for EA. And then rather than become a mathematics academic, you decide to become e.g. a quantitative tr
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by dotsam 4y ago
I personally care about rainforests and orangutans as well. But if I had a monthly donation going towards orangutans I would want to know what impact it had. How much of my money actually goes to successful habitat preservation, rather than
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by dotsam 4y ago
> Effective altruism is about doing good better > Effective altruism is a social movement and philosophy focused on maximising the good you can do in your career, projects, and other life decisions. That's the 'what they do
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by dotsam 4y ago
A miniscule fraction of global GDP going into preventing misaligned AI would always seem like neglect if you thought the end of the world was at stake.
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Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation(nature.com)
83 points by dotsam 4y ago|44 comments
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by dotsam 5y ago
If you believe that all effects have causes, then births and deaths and identities and consciousness are all perhaps contained and encoded in the initial conditions of the universe and its physical laws. Your particular identity is a mode o
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by dotsam 5y ago
I cope with it by learning more about it. Books I've read and recommend include: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg, Hiroshima by John Hersey, The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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by dotsam 5y ago
Climate change is likely to result in appalling tragedies of widespread suffering, but it is perhaps less likely to result in the permanent and total collapse of human civilisation. To that extent, it is locally sustainable (but at a grot
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by dotsam 5y ago
A number of credible people think that AI safety may be an 'in our lifetimes' problem, and serious work is being done to get it right. This is the kind of thing a longtermist would support, because getting AI safety wrong could ha
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by dotsam 5y ago
If you have the choice between taking an action that may potentially save billions and billions of future lives, or taking an action that may have an extremely marginal impact on a very bad, and yet not absolutely apocalyptic, climate chang
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by dotsam 5y ago
Yes, if like me you search the source for the word you just won with, you will see future answers, as they are listed in order (at least the preceding word was yesterday's answer)
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by dotsam 5y ago
Tip: don’t look at the source if you don’t want to see the answers (I thought the words might be obfuscated but they’re not)
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by dotsam 5y ago
Some people find discussing politics and climate change rewarding in itself, and so it isn't a waste of time for them.
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by dotsam 5y ago
The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness by Ritchie Robertson (2020). Long but worth indulging in if you enjoy intellectual history. Being You - A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth (2021). A clear and readable account of approac
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by dotsam 5y ago
This is a (very) short story imagining a future where our current practices of factory farming and meat-eating are regarded with the same horror as we currently regard slavery. The piece was submitted as part of a creative writing competiti
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by dotsam 5y ago
I have not read Parfit's paper, but in the article only the utilities of the gifted and disabled boys are considered and the utility of the parent is neglected. This gives a partial view, because the decision of a parent sensitive to u
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by dotsam 5y ago
I do not have information to state otherwise. Giving What We Can provides links to research (see below), and is described as 'the best overall resource on effective giving' at https://www.effectivealtruism.org/get-
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by dotsam 5y ago
I have enjoyed following your projects for some years. Thank you for sharing your work. I very much admire your 5% revenue donation, although I wonder if Stripe Climate is the most effective way to deliver positive impact. If you haven&#x27
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by dotsam 5y ago
I respect Chomsky very much, and I have learned a lot from him. But I do wonder to what extent his views are based on a possibly over-optimistic view of the world's potential, and a refusal or inability to accept that the the universe
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by dotsam 5y ago
> In general Chomsky is an example of someone who makes big contributions to specific field but has terrible judgement Chomsky has made contributions to multiple fields, not just a specific field, and he is one of the most cited living s
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by dotsam 5y ago
If you prefer to listen rather than read, there are free librivox recordings of this story: https://archive.org/search.php?query=the+machine+stops&and[]... and there is also an audiobook version you can find on Audible
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by dotsam 5y ago
BirdNet is great and has helped me to identify some birdsong. If you are also interested in identifying plants, PlantNet is good too. https://identify.plantnet.org/

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