The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“in Economist language we're talking about what we do on the margin”
“on the margin given the way Society is currently prioritizing we want a bit more of this thing and that's why it becomes the most…”
“three out of four people were in forced labor some form of forced labor”
“it was as a result of like moral arguments and moral campaigns”
“we've just got the best we can do is kind of informal reasoning”
“instead perhaps what acting freely is is in some sense it being an authentic decision”
“every doubling of your income results in the same increase in happiness”
“you can do about 100 times as much good for someone else as you can for yourself”
“it's a pledge for people to give at least 10% of their income to whatever causes they believe will do the most to positively impact…”
“$5,000 will on average Save a Life of a child in extreme poverty”
“10% is large enough that people aren't otherwise doing it”
“10% is this like not like you know slightly non- arbit number that's kind of in between these two ways of failing”
“clean energy Innovation as a win win win win win”
“burning fossil fuels kills three and a half million people a year”
“given that don't you have a moral obligation to be using your resources to help the very poorest people in the world”
“I need to somehow start living life in accordance with my values”
“he was like no we shouldn't launch the nuclear weapons it's like too risky we should go up to the surface instead”
“he like in that case single-handedly stopped allout nuclear war”
“we're just most of us most of the time are not in those situations”
“the decision instead is do I buy this nicer car or give the money away or do I go in this nicer holiday or give…”
“having altruistic impact in mind gives like mucher arguments for scaling than merely Financial”
“you really need very general purpose technology”
“the main thing is like don't be put in a position such that you can procrastinate”
“I have a work phone that has email slack work email slack signal which I use for other messages and then I have a personal…”
“the rational kind of pushes like decides what direction I'm going in and then the like emotions or the feelings are like actually the engine…”
“we should always go with the arguments”