Month: January 2025

Can we rescue Effective Altruism?

Last year Timothy Telleen-Lawton and I recorded a podcast episode talking about why I quit Effective Altruism and thought he should too. This week we have a new episode, talking about what he sees in Effective Altruism and the start of a road map for rescuing it. 

Audio recording

Transcript

Thanks to everyone who listened to the last one, and especially our Manifund donors, my Patreon patrons, and the EAIF for funding our work.

Guesstimating the health impact of Xofluza

I’m going through another health valley, but over on LessWrong I hired DirectedEvolution to investigate the benefits of Xofluza, an anti-flu treatment. His conclusion is that it’s far more effective than Tamiflu, but you can read the whole post and play around with the model to come to your own conclusions.