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Effective Altruism is about asking questions. It’s being judged by its loudest minority.
Months after I read an Effective Altruism book, I booked a flight from my diplomatic assignment in west Africa to California for the movement’s 2017 conference. The core ideas are powerful.
The movement is bigger than people realize. Much...
Newspapers and Think Tanks Are Slowly Losing Their Informal Monopoly on Credible Research
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In the first months of the Trump administration, a government document cited a blog post. My civil servant colleagues and I were horrified.
This broke an unwritten rule: only cite an institution like a think...
What Decides How Much AI Changes the World
People keep asking why I left AI research. I didn’t.
I focused on what made prior AI predictions wrong. When I wrote down the research agenda I thought had to exist, the shortest name for it was Abundance.
Here is how I got there.
The fo...
The working class has its own pride. Not everyone wants to enter elite circles.
At the private four-year university I transferred to, someone asked why I carried a pocket knife. It was a tiny Swiss Army knife mostly used for the scissors and nail file. “You’re not at community college anymore,” he said, as if community...
How Poor People Buy Cars
I like asking friends who grew up rich what small things about their lives were different. I asked one whether any of his friends had crappy cars.
“Not really. Maybe one.”
He meant an older Honda Civic.
I meant a car where more than two...
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Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Views my own.
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