Pat Myron's Quick takes

Radar speed signs currently seem like one of the more cost effective traffic calming measures since they don't require roadwork, but they still surprisingly cost thousands of dollars.

Mass producing cheaper radar speed signs seems like a tractable public health initiative

Surprised Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund gives equal amounts to around a dozen charities:
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/recommended-charity-fund/
Obviously uncertainty's involved, but a core tenant of EA and charity evaluators is that certain charities are more effective, so Givewell's Top Charities Fund giving different amounts to only a few charities per year makes more sense to me:
https://www.givewell.org/top-charities-fund

Offput that 80k hours advises "if you find you aren’t interested in [The Precipice: Existential Risk], we probably aren’t the best people for you to get advice from". Hoped there was more general advising beyond just those interested in existential risk

This December is the last month unlimited Manifold Markets currency redemptions for donations are assured: https://manifoldmarkets.notion.site/The-New-Deal-for-Manifold-s-Charity-Program-1527421b89224370a30dc1c7820c23ec

Highly recommend redeeming donations this month since there are orders of magnitude more currency outstanding than can be donated in future months

This forum has many comments that essentially boil down to something like "thanks/you're welcome/+1/this/me too/same/agree/disagree/great/etc" that dilute signal-to-noise

I imagine most of these commentators also voted on their parent content, and the comment itself doesn't add much more than noise beyond that

Surprised how concentrated shortform authorship is. So far in 2023:

EA Forum:
25/125 (20%) @Nathan Young 
9/125 (7%) @Evan_Gaensbauer 

Lesswrong:
26/252 (10%) @DragonGod
10/252 (4%) @lc 

assuming my code's accurate enough:
grep -Eo 'CommentUserName-author">.+?<' shortform.div | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr # outdated

grep -Eo 'UsersNameDisplay-noColor" href=".+?">.+?<' shortform.div | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr # updated

As evidence increases for cognitive effects of poor air quality:
https://patrickcollison.com/pollution

There may be initial opportunities for extra impact by prioritizing monitoring and improving air quality in important decision-making buildings like government buildings, headquarters, etc

Millions of people contract pork tapeworm infections annually, which causes ~30% of the ~50 million global active epilepsy cases:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61353-2/fulltext

Perhaps cultural pork consumption restrictions are onto something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork
 

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ is a great American nonprofit resource:

New Incentives in particular seems poised to spend much more after large ~Givewell cash grants

Ranked cost-effective public health interventions:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142580/ (high income-country policies: food, tobacco, alcohol, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552255/ (LMIC policies: medicine, condoms, food, etc.)

Diet advice since food policy tops both lists:
https://cidev.uky.edu/kentuckyhealthnews/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60/

Vaccines saved 150M+ lives over the past 50 years, including 100M+ infants and nearly 100M lives from Measles alone:
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/new-data-shows-vaccines-have-saved-154-million-lives-past-50-years
https://www.who.int/news/item/24-04-2024-global-immunization-efforts-have-saved-at-least-154-million-lives-over-the-past-50-years

Most https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/ confuse me since they're predated by Animal Charity Evaluators, Givewell, etc, and the confusion delayed me donating at all

EA funds' website only seems to mention they might grant riskier/earlier-stage, but ACE and Givewell have earlier-stage funds too

Starting more free https://www.parkrun.com/ 5k runs would be a great way to improve public health and connect people interested in improving health
 

(for local EA groups interested in volunteering ideas)

In America, dining services influence far more meals than vegans' personal consumption

Aramark, Compass Group, etc. each serve billions of meals annually, and even the largest individual correctional facilities, hospital campuses, school districts, public universities, baseball stadiums, etc. each serve millions of meals annually to largely captive audiences

Many libraries solicit book suggestions at URLs like:
https://<LOCAL>.bibliocommons.com/suggested_purchases
which seems like a solid opportunity to ensure more impactful books are available:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/effective-altruism

Reminder AmazonSmile shuts down tomorrow if anyone else wants to shop more today and/or less going forward:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact

+1 to be able to check notifications, messages, and specific posts here without seeing newsfeeds:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/issues/253
https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/issues/6640

+1 for these forum logos to be added to FontAwesome:
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/19536

Is it possible to re-collapse a shortform after expanding it on /allPosts? If so, how? If not, feature request :)