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There are organisations that work with people who have had challanging psychedelic experiences, but without taking the psychiatric approach. One such project is: https://zendoproje…

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 …

EconTalk - interviews with social scientists about various topics. The interviewer is an economist so it's an interesting discussion between experts. Economics detective radio - si…

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 pu…

> 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 l…

You can teach that, or at least learn it, with cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety and practice in progressively more difficult situations.

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 aro…

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 …

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 predef…

Which companies are having a large positive impact on the world or have the potential to have such an impact?

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…

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 $…

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…

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 lear…

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 ind…