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Effective altruism researchers argued as early as 2014 that given the history of pandemics, there was a significant chance of a large-scale pandemic occurring during our lifetimes.
Is this proposal from a community like the Japan Academy?
However, funding to prepare for the next pandemic is vastly insufficient compared to other global issues and remains insufficient today. For example, in the United States, about $280 billion is spent annually on counterterrorism, while pandemics receive only about $8 billion in investment per year.
So we should also allocate government budgets properly to that area! Something like that? Previous companies, interviews and appearances related to oneself.icon
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Preventing terrorism is certainly important. However, the scale of this problem is vastly different from that of pandemics. From 2011 to 2022, about 260,000 people died from terrorism worldwide, while more than 20 million people have died from COVID-19.
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The problem of AI is a big problem for humanity, even from the perspective of long-termism. The "ethics" there is such a big problem that it can change the world, but there are only AI researchers and no philosophers.
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We should focus on the animals being shipped rather than the problem of pet shelters.
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Actually, the ethical proposals are completely different.
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Amazing,
I've seen this and that.
Is this what blu3mo.icon was talking about?
I don't know how this is related to EA, but here's a link:
There are some very old puzzles or observations in economics. For example, about a lawyer who works an extra hour and donates the money to hire someone else, versus spending that hour volunteering at a soup kitchen....
However, /some of the time spent working at the office should be donated/. That's because it's the power of a professional, and it's how adults really get things done. A check might buy the right to participate in the soup kitchen, or prove the time spent there. I've seen a similar tweet somewhere.
Fundraising
There was a Japanese tweet that said something like "Instead of standing on the street and asking for donations, wouldn't it be better for students to work for a few hours and donate the money?" and a tweet in context that said "That's not money, it's essentially advertising." If you have any idea, please let me know.
This is so EA-like!!!!!!!!!