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by henryaj 3y ago
> It is the version of Effective Altruism that has gone beyond that to "we need to focus on AI safety" and "we need to fly to mars" that people are calling bananas. There's been more of a move towards longtermism
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by henryaj 3y ago
> The single thing missing from 99% of philanthropy conversations after all these years is STILL the voices of the people we’re all trying to help Not so! Popular EA charity GiveDirectly does exactly what you're suggesting - giving
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by henryaj 3y ago
If they've invented utilitarianism, why do they use that exact term so often? Seems like EAs are actually pretty familiar with the history of utilitarian thought. Much EA discourse focuses on moral philosophy and meta-ethics. Will MacA
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by henryaj 3y ago
> Yes and factory farms face a well organized oppositional movement that for decades has consistently challenged their profitability on that basis Not untrue, but that well organized movement is still very small , and meat consumption (
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by henryaj 3y ago
Then for power companies we wouldn't expect them to make high profits during periods of high energy prices (they're just passing on the higher cost of fuel to the consume) - sort of defeating the OP's point. For fossil fuel c
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by henryaj 3y ago
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/nasdaq-says-sweden-fi... > The Finnish government said its loans to power companies under the guarantee scheme would initially come at an interest rate of 10% plus the six
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by henryaj 3y ago
Or, as in the UK, they can be paid not to run if they would be otherwise generating too much power.
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by henryaj 3y ago
> Officials never asked for electricity companies to lower their profit margins during last year's high prices. Presumably they also didn't offer to subsidise them during periods when demand was much lower, such as during the p
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by henryaj 3y ago
(A nit, but the quote was from the body of the post, not a comment on the post.) A decent subthread on this on the EA Forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/... The money came from a gr
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by henryaj 3y ago
This looks awesome!
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To say nothing of all the policy/civil servant EAs out there!
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by henryaj 3y ago
> The whole point is that you can't compare charity like you can lightbulbs. Often you can. Even charities that are attempting to do the same thing (e.g. stop people dying of malaria) vary wildly in their 'effectiveness' -
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by henryaj 3y ago
> It’s the same with all the billionaires and their “giving pledges”. “Not now, but soon.” Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have both given away more than $50bn each. Not pledged - actually donated.
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by henryaj 3y ago
The second one seems to be a link to a hotel. Where's the source for the claim that it was bought by EAs?
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by henryaj 3y ago
Because they have, in fact, given away much of their income. Thousands of people have taken the Giving What We Can Pledge. I suppose they could all be lying but it seems unlikely. (Happy to send you my donation receipts if you like.) Also,
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by henryaj 3y ago
> blowing right past its (IMO) more grounded and useful focus on improving conditions for presently-existing life Longtermism is one strand of the movement - still many millions of dollars get donated to global health and animal welfare.
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by henryaj 3y ago
From https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney - "conference venues kept ripping them off, having a nice venue of their own would be cheaper in the long run, and after looking at many options, the “castle” w
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by henryaj 3y ago
It is very well established in humans too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy
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by henryaj 3y ago
https://sit-together-toy.vercel.app/
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Interesting Compounds: 2C-B(henryaj.substack.com)
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Interesting Compounds: Melanotan(henryaj.substack.com)
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by henryaj 3y ago
It's a Google project, but looks like it's abandoned/feature-complete.
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Ask HN: What are these refunded charges from Heroku?
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by henryaj 3y ago
Related: https://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-de...
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Narrative Clip(en.wikipedia.org)
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by henryaj 4y ago
Raw pastry
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Kale Phone, Crack Phone(henryaj.substack.com)
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by henryaj 4y ago
Pretty sure all hCG these days is recombinant.
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by henryaj 4y ago
> It's easier to build muscle mass before the age of 30 and the muscle you gain during that time will never go away (with a minimum of training). Why would that not also be true of muscle you build later in life? It might be harder
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by henryaj 4y ago
From https://faq.whatsapp.com/715484576347690/?helpref=hc_fnav > When you choose to exit a group, it will not notify everyone in the chat thread. When you exit a group, only the group admins will be notified in the

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