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Well well , they dont get appreciated enough !
  • EA is primarily advice for people with moderate amounts of disposable income (i.e. middle class), or people trying to figure out their career trajectory. Earn to give is very much a minority position, and that's pretty much the only one that at all involves aiming to be rich.

    Longtermism is mostly a weird set of academics. the recent folks using it as a pretext to buy houses in the Caribbean are almost purely a group of cryptobros using it as a way to ethics-wash their pump and dump.

  • Well well , they dont get appreciated enough !
  • the specific people are all (with the exception of Sam Altmann) grifters. they are

    1. guy whose sub imploded at the titanic
      2 Sam Altman, head of OpenAI (which went from charity to a wing of Microsoft).
    2. Sam Bankman Freid's brother, who was talking about buying an island to carry "effective altruists" through an extinction-level event.

    It pisses me off that these are the first EA adjacent people that are broadly well-known, rather than Givewell and 80,000 hours, who are actually doing good work.

  • undark.org Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.

    California's Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making.

    > > > California's Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making. > >

    Related youtube video.

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    www.quantamagazine.org The Key to Species Diversity May Be in Their Similarities | Quanta Magazine

    New modeling work suggests why nature is more diverse than niche-based ecological theory predicts.

    > > > It encapsulated the fact that a species could have high mortality at one point in its life cycle, then low mortality at another, while a complementary species might have low mortality at the first point and high mortality at the second. The more similar this term was for two species, the more likely it was that a pair could live alongside each other despite competing for space and nutrition. > >

    TLDR: There are way more species than you might expect in a system with inter-species competition because different lifespans allow for niches to exist across time as well.

    The actual paper

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