The Power of Ideas and Their Impact on Charity Choices

Crossposted from my blog.

When I started this blog in high school, I did not imagine that I would cause The Daily Show to do an episode about shrimp, containing the following dialogue:

Andres: I was working in investment banking. My wife was helping refugees, and I saw how meaningful her work was. And I decided to do the same.

Ronny: Oh, so you're helping refugees?

Andres: Well, not quite. I'm helping shrimp.

(Would be a crazy rug pull if, in fact, this did not happen and the dialogue was just pulled out of thin air).

But just a few years after my blog was born, some Daily Show producer came across it. They read my essay on shrimp and thought it would make a good daily show episode. Thus, the Daily Show shrimp episode was born.

I especially love that they bring on an EA [...]

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First published:
June 3rd, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/viSRgubpKDjQcatQi/the-importance-of-blasting-good-ideas-into-the-ether

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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