Found in the Struce

First of maybe 3 episodes with some audio giving you a flavor of (my experience of) the EA Mexico Fellowship. Most of this episode surrounds my conversations with Agustin Covarrubias.

Some people might find the "Branches of AI Safety" (jump to that section) the most interesting part.

27 May 2023 -- Sorry, I see the audio ordering was wrong — my 30 second comment on Columbus should not have been at the beginning. I moved it.

Practicing what I preach = reading what I wrote... Seeing the effects of your donation and making incremental choices in EA Forum

Part of the 'giving and gifts podcast trilogy'
along with Profusion: The Big, Christmassy Data Special and

FITS "The Economics of the Gift" reading

Full essay is HERE


Ties in with 

- Profusion data podcast Christmassy special

- EA forum post: seeing the effects of your donation

From the essay abstract:

This essay broadly considers gifts, giving, and gift economies, modern and pre-modern, from a mainstream (and behavioural) economics perspective. I present a selective survey of the literature focusing on six key points:

1. Commercial transactions sustained by reputation are not easily distinguishable from gift exchange economies;

2. Gift-giving allows the giver to accumulate goods that cannot be purchased commercially;

3. When the giver retains some use, experience, or control over the gift, she shares in the consumption of it;

4. Considering behavioural issues such as regret aversion, gift-giving may offer overlooked efficiencies that may balance out the deadweight losses from ‘inadequate gifts’;

5. Aggregate (anonymous) giving can be an important signal of overall group identity and character;

6. Historical modes of ‘giving under pressure’ offer insights for modern public policy and philanthropy

I finished the post, but I hope to make a part III with the footnotes and EA Forum comments on the Post

Reading EA Forum post, "Differences in the Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species" by Jason Schukraft ... with only a few comments and explainers

"Why it would matter if different sorts of animals possessed characteristically different intensity ranges of valenced experience" -- Jason

Oversimply perhaps, do some animals 'feel more pain' (and more pleasure) than others ... so which ones do we need to worry about (the most)?

This is a nice long post -- so I'll split these between 2 episodes.

Here, I read through "Cognitive Sophistication and Intensity of Valenced Experience"

I mainly made this for myself and people I'm discussing these issues with.

Audio is so/so, and I repeat myself a bit, I suspect.

But if you want to hear me ramble about measuring the relative effects of counseling and income interventions, how to measure this, and how to consider the relative value of transfers to poor vs poorer people, have a listen.

See Clearer Thinking episode HERE, and Michael Plant's site HERE

I read and discuss Toby Ord's EA Forum post and linked CEA article. And I interject, explain, and comment. A lot.

(By the way, I leave some hypothes.is comments on the latter page, if you want to engage.)

This ties into longstanding a major theoretical and empirical questions in Economics (Welfare economics, Public Choice, Development, Risk preference elicitation, Happiness). But I think it's thorny unresolved. 

But practical choices must be made that rely crucially on how we value (e.g.) the above A versus B. And I really don't know how major orgs (like the World Bank, the UN, USAID, DFiD, WHO, Gates Foundation) and think tanks/research groups (like JPAL, IPA, CGDEV) consider these tradeoffs.

Get in touch (or leave a message on Anchor) if you want to add to this conversation, or have some suggested references and redings. 

Reading from the collaborative Google Doc HERE (http://bit.ly/unjournal), by David Reinstein, with contributions/comments from
Edo Arad, Sergey Frolov, Georgios Kaklamanos, Paula Masuzzo, Ben Smith, Gavin Taylor, Peter Slattery, Cecilia Tilli, Paulo Crosetto, Nathan Young and others

The “Evaluated Project Repo” (aka ‘the Unjournal’):  (http://bit.ly/unjournal)

• a proposal for peer review/rating, archiving, and open science, aimed at…
  
  • avoiding rent-extracting publishers,
    
  • reducing careerist gamesmanship in academia,
    
  • and making research more effective.
    
• Whether/why this particularly aligns with global priorities/effective-altruism research organizations.
  

Outro music (added 30 Jul 2021)  from "The Third Reviewer" by David Hugh-Jones

Finishing my reading of  "Intervention Report: Charter Cities by DavidBernard, Jason Schukraft" from Rethink Priorities, as posted on the EA Forum.

Whew, this was long!

I even read the comments. 

By popular request (N=1), I read  "Intervention Report: Charter Cities by DavidBernard, Jason Schukraft" from Rethink Priorities, as posted on the EA Forum.

- Minimal commentary and explainers (trying to cut back)

- I got through about half the report, tbc soon

I'm on "The case of the missing cause prioritisation research" by weeatquince

I get into links, comments and more. OK not more, just those things but it sounds better to say "and more".

Here's my reading and takes on the next EA Forum post (suggested by Rossa)...

If you want to engage, maybe add comments in the EA forum post itself, or as Hypothes.is comments on that post.

Also "here's the deal with me" if you want to know about me professionally.

I watched An introduction to global priorities research | Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan | EA Student Summit 2020

He recommended two posts to understand the landscape. One was:

Benjamin Todd, EA Forum, "Why I've come to think global priorities research is even more important than I thought", which I read here, with some comments and explainers. I also read some of the hyperlinked content and comments. 

Hope it's helpful. There are some clicking and mic-adjustment sounds. This will be fixed in the next podcast. 

If you want to engage, maybe add comments in the EA forum post itself, or as Hypothes.is comments on that post.  

Also "here's the deal with me" if you want to know about me professionally. 

Is it hard on a face when it gets laughed in? Is this hurting the economy, and the world? The back story for some of my recent research and future plans.

Part one of ??

With a brief epilogue with the esteemed Dr. Jeroen van de Ven of the Univ. of Amsterdam.

Am I supposed to put hashtags in this thing? #losingface #gametheory #peanuts #economics #gametheory #psychology #rejectionsensitivity

See the Airtable view documenting this HERE. 

Podcast rules are meant to be obeyed.