richardbatty

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by richardbatty 3y ago
There are organisations that work with people who have had challanging psychedelic experiences, but without taking the psychiatric approach. One such project is: https://zendoproject.org/ You could also try contacting http
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by richardbatty 6y ago
I really like the idea but one thing that puts me off is if most of the essays end up being blog posts from the last few years. I'd be more interested in being sent a selection of recommended classic essays. E.g. by people like Orwell
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by richardbatty 8y ago
EconTalk - interviews with social scientists about various topics. The interviewer is an economist so it's an interesting discussion between experts. Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk Rationally speaking - interviews rela
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by richardbatty 8y ago
This calculator adjusts for cost of living: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/ Earning at least $55,000 per year in the US with a household of one adult puts you in the top 1%. $32,000 put
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by richardbatty 8y ago
> People believe them because of their credentials, when professors who actually teach AI will say otherwise While some experts like Andrew Ng are sceptical of AI risk, there are lots of others like Stuart Russell who are concerned. Here
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by richardbatty 9y ago
You can teach that, or at least learn it, with cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety and practice in progressively more difficult situations.
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by richardbatty 9y ago
Oh right, I think a big difference is that in American courses it seems that there is one course textbook, and the assignments are taken from that. Our courses weren't designed around a textbook. For us, assignments (both problem sheet
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by richardbatty 9y ago
Why can't students just borrow textbooks from the library? I see the 'textbooks are expensive' complaint from Americans a lot and I'm confused. I never had to buy a textbook at my UK university, there were usually plenty
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by richardbatty 10y ago
The Open Philanthropy Project uses the word 'Open' to mean ( http://www.openphilanthropy.org/what-open-means-us ): "Open to many possibilities ... instead of starting with a predefined set of focus areas, we’re
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Ask HN: Which companies have the greatest potential to do good?
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by richardbatty 10y ago
There's this facebook group ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1062957250383195/ ) where EA orgs tend to post their jobs, along with other jobs from orgs that are interesting to EAs even if not explicitly EA.
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by richardbatty 10y ago
To add some numbers to this, according to http://www.climatefinancelandscape.org/ $392 billion was spent on various aspects of tackling climate change in 2014. In contrast, under $10 million per year is being spent on poten
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by richardbatty 10y ago
I agree that silicon valley technologists are not well informed about the problems of the poor (or other important problems) and too often use the rhetoric of doing good whilst not thinking carefully enough about how to actually do that. Bu
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by richardbatty 10y ago
This article brings up an important source of bias that tech people risk - that we overuse models from programming when thinking about other aspects of the world. We should be learning alternative models from other subjects like economics,
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by richardbatty 11y ago
How do you find companies working on important problems? When I look at the London software scene, I mostly find trivial (or dull corporate) web and mobile apps. Which kinds of industries have software engineers working on real technology p