Herpes is terrible, but did you know it might also be making people demented?
Studies of the effects of antivirals support this contention and show that we may be able to greatly reduce dementia rates with existing drugs.
Check out this Taiwanese result.
Julia Wise
@juliadwise
Working at the intersection of effective altruism and the fact that we're all humans.
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EA Global is a good time to get out of my meta zone and learn about the good object-level work being done. Enjoyed and on where climate funding currently goes vs where it could do more.
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People can vary a lot in their attention to subtext, which in turn can lead to miscommunication and misinterpretation. It may be helpful to bear this in mind, especially when interpreting analytic philosophers.
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Muchas gracias al equipo organizador de #EAGxLatam! Wonderful to see so many up-and-coming (and established) EAs in Latin America.
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✍️ I have just launched a Substack:
Sustainability – without the hot air.
If you like learning about how we build a sustainable world – based on data, not instinct – then I think you'll enjoy it.
Feel free to subscribe and come along for the ride.
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Two seemingly contradictory things I believe about the SBF situation:
a/ The Effective Altruism community will need to have a strong response/crucible moment
b/ The simplest explanation for his behavior does not imply utilitarianism means-justifying, as widely assumed.
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Early on, babies discover their hands and then feet, and they're fascinated. Then toddlers discover their belly buttons and that blows their mind again. Like, a level of interest that in older people is usually reserved for genitals. They literally love navel-gazing.
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If you leave broken glass in a forest and a child steps on it fifty years later, do you still have a responsibility towards them?
Many of our actions today could leave a lot of “broken glass”.
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Woah, I didn't know the EA forum had a "Take Action" tag for all those lists of research projects, ways to get involved, things it would be great if someone did. Awesome to have it all in one place!
forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/take-action
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Malaria is not a tropical disease. Rather, it is a disease that was eliminated everywhere but the tropics.
From 's post this week: ourworldindata.org/malaria-introd
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I liked how this interview ran from addressing immediate problems in global health to supporting longtermist policy:
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Highly recommend pre-ordering 's upcoming book "What We Owe the Future" for a thorough, well-rounded, provocative look at how we can make the world better for all the generations to come:
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