BrownHairedEevee

I'm interested in effective altruism and longtermism broadly. The topics I'm interested in change over time; they include existential risks, climate change, wild animal welfare, alternative proteins, and longtermist global development.

A comment I've written about my EA origin story

Pronouns: she/her

"It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole." —Uncle Iroh

Posts

Two questions about transgender inclusion at EAG London
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2024-04-15 | +13 | 0 comments
New Business Wars podcast season on Sam Altman and OpenAI
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2024-04-02 | +10 | 0 comments
The Case for Animal-Inclusive Longtermism
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2024-02-17 | +60 | 0 comments
What roles do GWWC and Founders Pledge play in growing the EA donor pool?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2024-01-28 | +44 | 0 comments
What's the current state of COVID-19 in the developing world?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-12-20 | +10 | 0 comments
Kathryn Mannix: What happens as we die? | TED Talk
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-12-17 | +16 | 0 comments
Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (October 16, 2023)
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-10-21 | +7 | 0 comments
Lab-grown meat (probably) won't save us | MinuteFood on the obstacles to...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-08-05 | +15 | 0 comments
Why isn't there a charity evaluator for longtermist projects?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-07-29 | +106 | 0 comments
What happens when EAs retire?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-07-05 | +14 | 0 comments
Episode #181 - What if consciousness is an illusion? - Philosophize This!
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-07-04 | +10 | 0 comments
Episode #180 - What if everything is consciousness? - Philosophize This!
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-07-04 | +8 | 0 comments
Episode #179 - Why is consciousness something worth talking about? -...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-07-04 | +9 | 0 comments
Mistakes in the moral mathematics of existential risk (Part 2: Ignoring...
by BrownHairedEevee, David Thorstad @ 2023-07-03 | +84 | 0 comments
Mistakes in the moral mathematics of existential risk (Part 1: Introduction and...
by BrownHairedEevee, David Thorstad @ 2023-07-03 | +74 | 0 comments
On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends (Michael Lewis's Against the...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-06-13 | +25 | 0 comments
Ramsey and Intergenerational Welfare Economics - Stanford Encyclopedia of...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-05-24 | +14 | 0 comments
Epistemics (Part 2: Examples) | Reflective Altruism
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-05-19 | +34 | 0 comments
Are you optimistic about the commercialization of alt proteins in 2023 and...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-04-29 | +24 | 0 comments
Which stocks or ETFs should you invest in to take advantage of a possible AGI...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-04-10 | +19 | 0 comments
Please don't criticize EAs who "sell out" to OpenAI and Anthropic
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-03-05 | –4 | 0 comments
How has the effective animal advocacy (EAA) movement responded to the decline of...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-03-05 | +24 | 0 comments
Maybe longtermism isn't for everyone
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-02-10 | +39 | 0 comments
Have you tried to bring forecasting techniques to your company? How did it work...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-02-05 | +24 | 0 comments
Have the reputations of effective giving orgs like GiveWell taken a hit due to...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-01-28 | +27 | 0 comments
Excerpts from "Doing EA Better" on x-risk methodology
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2023-01-26 | +22 | 0 comments
Should Founders Pledge focus more on recruiting EAs to become entrepreneurs?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-12-31 | +9 | 0 comments
Effective Altruism group on Mastodon
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-12-17 | +21 | 0 comments
Any EAs on Mastodon?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-11-07 | +24 | 0 comments
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors (James Choi, NBER)
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-10-16 | +39 | 0 comments
Why doesn't WWOTF mention the Bronze Age Collapse?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-09-19 | +16 | 0 comments
Rethinking longtermism and global development
by BrownHairedEevee, ruthgrace @ 2022-09-02 | +10 | 0 comments
What should we do about the proliferation of online EA community spaces?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-08-19 | +16 | 0 comments
Humanity’s vast future and its implications for cause prioritization
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-07-26 | +36 | 0 comments
What kind of organization should be the first to develop AGI in a potential arms...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-07-17 | +10 | 0 comments
How are y'all finding places to stay for EAG San Francisco?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-06-08 | +7 | 0 comments
What time does EAG San Francisco start and end?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-06-08 | +4 | 0 comments
Animal welfare orgs: what are your software and data analysis needs?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-06-04 | +37 | 0 comments
What is the difference between the San Francisco and Washington DC EAGs?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-06-01 | +16 | 0 comments
Should U.S. donors give to an EA-focused PAC like Guarding Against Pandemics...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-05-20 | +8 | 0 comments
Are there good introductory materials that explain how charity evaluation works?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-05-06 | +26 | 0 comments
What factors make EA outreach at a school valuable?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-04-26 | +10 | 0 comments
What moral philosophies besides utilitarianism are compatible with effective...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-04-16 | +19 | 0 comments
NPR's Indicator on WHO funding and pandemic preparedness
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-03-19 | +14 | 0 comments
What are the standard terms used to describe risks in risk management?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-03-05 | +11 | 0 comments
Is transformative AI the biggest existential risk? Why or why not?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-03-05 | +9 | 0 comments
Stanford Data Science for Social Good is seeking student fellows and project...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-01-21 | +21 | 0 comments
What value would Open Phil's Global Health and Wellbeing framework put on...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-01-06 | +9 | 0 comments
"Don't Look Up" and the cinema of existential risk | Slow Boring
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2022-01-05 | +24 | 0 comments
Partnerships between the EA community and GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives,...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-12-26 | +14 | 0 comments
What holiday songs, stories, etc. do you associate with effective altruism?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-12-09 | +6 | 0 comments
EA Public Interest Technologists Meeting #2
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-12-05 | +6 | 0 comments
Where should I donate?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-11-22 | +29 | 0 comments
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-11-17 | +54 | 0 comments
How to Accelerate Technological Progress - New Things Under the Sun
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-10-03 | +13 | 0 comments
Introducing the EA Public Interest Technologists Slack community
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-09-08 | +20 | 0 comments
Epistemic trespassing, or epistemic squatting? | Noahpinion
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-08-25 | +11 | 0 comments
Database dumps of the EA Forum
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-07-27 | +14 | 0 comments
World federalism and EA
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-07-14 | +45 | 0 comments
Why You Should Donate a Kidney - The Neoliberal Podcast
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-06-27 | +8 | 0 comments
[Podcast] Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-06-25 | +12 | 0 comments
Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-06-24 | +20 | 0 comments
Exporting EA discussion norms
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-06-01 | +24 | 0 comments
Should EAs in the U.S. focus more on federal or state/local politics?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-05-05 | +12 | 0 comments
If you had a large amount of money (at least $1M) to spend on philanthropy, how...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-05-01 | +13 | 0 comments
Why AI is Harder Than We Think - Melanie Mitchell
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-28 | +45 | 0 comments
To Build a Better Ballot: an interactive guide to alternative voting systems
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-18 | +11 | 0 comments
Moral pluralism and longtermism | Sunyshore
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-17 | +26 | 0 comments
What does failure look like?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-09 | +32 | 0 comments
Thoughts on "trajectory changes"
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-07 | +16 | 0 comments
Quadratic Payments: A Primer (Vitalik Buterin, 2019)
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-04-05 | +30 | 0 comments
Please stand with the Asian diaspora
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-03-20 | +23 | 0 comments
How should EAs manage their copyrights?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-03-09 | +15 | 0 comments
Is The YouTube Algorithm Radicalizing You? It’s Complicated.
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-03-01 | +44 | 0 comments
Surveillance and free expression | Sunyshore
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-02-23 | +10 | 0 comments
How can non-biologists contribute to wild animal welfare?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-02-17 | +15 | 0 comments
[Podcast] Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-01-22 | +57 | 0 comments
What I believe, part 1: Utilitarianism | Sunyshore
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2021-01-10 | +10 | 0 comments
What is the marginal impact of a small donation to an EA Fund?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-11-23 | +12 | 0 comments
Which terms should we use for "developing countries"?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-11-16 | +7 | 0 comments
Is Technology Actually Making Things Better? – Pairagraph
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-10-01 | +16 | 0 comments
Planning my birthday fundraiser for October 2020
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-09-12 | +23 | 0 comments
Is existential risk more pressing than other ways to improve the long-term...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-08-20 | +23 | 0 comments
What opportunities are there to use data science in global priorities research?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-08-18 | +15 | 0 comments
Are some SDGs more important than others? Revealed country priorities from four...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-08-16 | +10 | 0 comments
How strong is the evidence of unaligned AI systems causing harm?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-07-21 | +31 | 0 comments
What norms about tagging should the EA Forum have?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-07-14 | +11 | 0 comments
Does generality pay? GPT-3 can provide preliminary evidence.
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-07-12 | +21 | 0 comments
Which countries are most receptive to more immigration?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-07-06 | +19 | 0 comments
Will AGI cause mass technological unemployment?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-06-22 | +4 | 0 comments
Idea for a YouTube show about effective altruism
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-04-24 | +28 | 0 comments
How do you talk about AI safety?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-04-19 | +10 | 0 comments
International Affairs reading lists
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-04-08 | +17 | 0 comments
How effective are financial incentives for reaching D&I goals? Should EA orgs...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-03-24 | +6 | 0 comments
What are some software development needs in EA causes?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-03-06 | +10 | 0 comments
My Charitable Giving Report 2019
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-02-27 | +24 | 0 comments
Shoot Your Shot
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-02-18 | +7 | 0 comments
Does the President Matter as Much as You Think? | Freakonomics Radio
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-02-10 | +5 | 0 comments
Prioritizing among the Sustainable Development Goals
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-02-07 | +8 | 0 comments
Open New York is Fundraising!
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-01-16 | +5 | 0 comments
What are the most pressing issues in short-term AI policy?
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-01-14 | +9 | 0 comments
Has pledging 10% made meeting other financial goals substantially more difficult...
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2020-01-09 | +15 | 0 comments
BrownHairedEevee's Quick takes
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2019-10-14 | +1 | 0 comments
Wildness Podcast - Wild Animal Initiative
by BrownHairedEevee @ 2019-04-01 | +22 | 0 comments