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William MacAskill Ihmiskunnan tulevaisuuden historia : miljoonan vuoden näkökulma: "Vuoretkin rapautuvat yksittäisistä vesipisaroista. Hurrikaanit ovat vain monien pienten atomien kollektiivista liikettä."

The brief life of longtermism (1) - Mapping Ignorance Longtermism proposes that the lives of people who may exist hundreds of years from now have the same value as present ones

One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.

Which charity should you donate to?

From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill

The brief life of longtermism (1) - Mapping Ignorance Longtermism proposes that the lives of people who may exist hundreds of years from now have the same value as present ones

One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.

Which charity should you donate to?

From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill

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My full interview with @avilewis.ca where he discusses how the future of the left both in Canada and internationally must be unapologetically critical of a broken capitalist system and we can build a better world collectively

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'if there's one thing this series of atrocities and constitutional crises gives me, it's hope for a better future, that we can build together, as americans, with our shared ideals of how america is america, which is good, because this is america and we are all americans.'

Labour are weak as they have been revealed as actively undermining a leader, they have let voters down by not instigating policies that result in change (tinkering and longtermism dont count) as well as dragging our country into murky international policy. Too much ammunition for the Greens !

For most of history, humanity ran on what I call the Scarcity OS. Resources are limited in this system so the game is about finding them, controlling them, and defending your share. This logic shaped everything - our institutions, our economics, our social structures, our sense of what's possible. Under Scarcity OS, certain "fictions" emerged. And I use this word carefully. These fictions weren't lies; they were social technologies, coordination mechanisms that worked brilliantly in a world of genuine constraint. Take jobs... Jobs were a fiction. Not in the sense that work wasn't real, but in the sense that bundling tasks, identity, healthcare, social status, and income into a single institution called "employment" was a specific solution to a specific problem: how do you distribute resources and organize production when information is expensive and coordination is hard? The job was an answer to that question. It was a brilliant answer. But it was an answer to a question that is now ch

Likewise, credentials were a fiction. When evaluating someone's capability was expensive, we outsourced the judgment to institutions. A degree from a prestigious university wasn't proof that you could do anything in particular - it was proof that you had survived a sorting mechanism. The credential was a proxy, a compression algorithm for trust. It worked when the cost of direct evaluation was prohibitive. That cost is collapsing. Expertise was a fiction. Not the knowledge itself, but the social construct of the "expert" - the person whose authority derived from scarcity of information and difficulty of access. When knowledge was locked in libraries, accumulated through years of study, and distributed through gatekept institutions, expertise was a genuine bottleneck. The expert was a bridge between the uninformed and the truth. That bridge is being bypassed. These fictions were functional adaptations to real constraints. The job, the credential, the expert, each solved a genuine proble

The Hoarder sees the old fictions crumbling and concludes that the game is zero-sum. If the pie is fixed, the only strategy is to take more of it. Build walls. Impose tariffs. Retreat to the nation-state. Punish the outgroup. This is Trump's instinct, and it resonates precisely because it matches the Scarcity OS that most people still run internally. The hoarder isn't stupid; he's applying legacy software to a changed environment. The Manager sees the same decay and tries to patch the system. Redistribute more fairly. Strengthen institutions. Negotiate better deals within the existing framework. This is Mark Carney's instinct. It's more sophisticated than hoarding but it shares an assumption that the pie is still fixed, just poorly divided. The manager wants to optimize the Scarcity OS, not replace it. The Builder would see something different. If the fundamental inputs are now on learning curves - if energy, biology, and intelligence are becoming cheaper and more abundant - then the

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help I mixed up the annoying effective altruism guy (Will McAskill) with general annoying guy (Will Stancil). help what is Will Stancil's philosophy

Just rambling. Also, I dont really like giving people random words of encouragement, it feels shallow and empty. It's not direct or as impact. To me at least. But everyone needs a little encouragement now and then. Remember your values and what you stand for. That's all I can really say. Good mornin

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"because Rheingans-Yoo was on Manifold for Charity’s board, and because he would control the disbursement of the money from Manifold"

Another poster child for "Effective Altruism" (a 4chan-worthy dank, terminally cynical troll of altruism & philanthropy).

He was a great drummer, one of the best rock drummers of his generation.

I saw Midnight Oil in, essentially, a bar on the San Diego State campus circa 1984. Peter Garrett, the lead singer, was the personality and the visual focus, but Hirst was the best musician.

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"peter cetera was also worried that he might not be able to suck as hard without chicago, so he actually recruited a contemporary christian singer to duet with him! a move so evil, i'm surprised james bond never showed up to assassinate him!" Todd I Love You

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Box then went on to offer a litany of charities whose funds, he claimed, were being depleted by Mexicans. These “formed communities of misery constituting a heavy charge upon the taxpayers” were cropping up in Dallas, Galveston, Denver, Fort Worth, and Houston. In Los Angeles . . . the Outdoor Relief Division states that 27.44 per cent. of its cases are Mexican. The Bureau of Catholic Charities reports that . . . Mexicans . . . consume at least 50 per cent. of the budget. . . . The City Maternity Service reports that 62½ per cent. of its cases are Mexicans, using 73 per cent. of its budget. The Division of Child Welfare . . . state[s] that 40 per cent. of their clients are Mexican. 10 Mexicans’ alleged overreliance on relief agencies simply underscored what Harry Laughlin had maintained for years. He had already declared Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to be mentally and socially inadequate during his 1920 appearance before Congress: [O]ne notices, by the names of the individuals found in institutions, that the lower or less progressive races furnish more than their quota. In the schools for delinquents at Whittier, California, and at Gainesville, Texas, about half of those names were American and the other half were Mexican or foreign sounding.

Laughlin claimed that the 1924 Act allowed greater entry for Mexi- cans and that they were threatening to retake Texas, California, and Arizona. 13 In 1928, the Eugenical News listed three objectives for future immigration legislation in its February issue. Panic over Mexican immigration topped the list. 1. Inclusion of the Western Hemisphere in the Quota. The alarming influx of Mexican peons tends to inject another serious color problem into American life. . . . With all the Western Hemisphere under the quota, control of bootlegged aliens will also become more effective. 2. Registration of aliens is inevitable. The clamor against it is mostly by “hyphenates,” in whose native lands there exist systems far worse than any mild registration as suggested for America. 3. Deportations of all aliens illegally entered is but justice. The man whose introduction to American life comes through breaking the Quota Act is prima facie an undesirable. 14 Expansion of the quota system and a crackdown on “the border- jumper and the smuggler alien” were key components of eugenicists’ post-1924 agenda. Secretary of Labor Davis favored an “alien” registra- tion whereby immigrants would be required to enroll annually or face fines. This plan garnered the hearty endorsement of Robert Ward who added that, in addition to curtailing illegal entry, the process would pro- tect immigrants from “those of his own nationality, already here, who are always ready to take advantage of his ignorance to exploit him. . . . Registration would thus be a simple act of Christian charity.” 15

It feels practically cliche to point this out but eugenicists' anti-immigration rhetoric really is totally indistinguishable from contemporary anti-immigration rhetoric

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I pledged 10% of my post-tax income to effective charities, for the rest of my life. I encourage you to think about what you, personally, can do to improve this world.

Billionaire Who Tried to Buy an Oregon Congressional Seat Goes Bankrupt as His Crypto Companies Crash

Sam Bankman-Fried spent over $11 million for a *House* race here in Oregon and Musk thinks he can get a Senate seat for less? What a cheapskate.
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