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Avoiding being raped
A comment on a recent blog post asked for advice for a trans woman who kept making dangerous dating and sex choices, because she hadn’t received the female socialization that would have taught her to avoid threatening people and risky situa...
The DBT guide to intense negative emotions
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This is a guide for handling intense negative emotions, based on dialectical behavior therapy. Dialectical behavior therapy was developed for chronically suicidal people and people with borderline perso...
It isn’t always evil to ally with Steve Bannon
Scott Alexander wrote:1
Some of the people working with the companies think there might be a deontologic bar against certain types of mass activism. The sorts of arguments that do well on LessWrong.com won’t give us landslide wins in nat...
Think concretely about effective altruist optics
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I think, when you talk about effective altruist “optics” or “public relations” or anything like that, you should make a concrete claim like this:
[Specific person, demographic, organization, or group of organizations] should [take sp...
Effective altruism and PR
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The “effective altruists should be more concerned about PR” brigade has been out in full force on X recently. For example, the Center for New Liberalism (which is generally EA-sympathetic) wrote:
Now, FTX and Situational Awareness (pre...
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