EA Forum Podcast (All audio) [Linkpost] “Hank Green on recognizing invisible prevention and celebrating counterfactual lives saved” by Arthur Malone🔸
From a vlogbrothers video by Hank Green comes the most EA-flavored framing from a non-EA I've ever seen. In the following quote from the video he's referencing the work done by Partners in Health and supported by the YouTube community that exists around him, his brother John Green, and the work they do. More information on that project is in another recent video.
I think about this in the context of this community's work in Sierra Leone: already fewer women are dying in childbirth, and that victory is so quiet.
If 3,000 women in West Africa were trapped in a fallen building, there would be international news stories about it; there would be outcry to save them. But if 30,000 women each have a 10% chance of dying in childbirth that's the same 3,000 deaths. But due to, I think, just the way the human [...]
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First published:
May 27th, 2025
Linkpost URL:
https://youtu.be/ndeB_BpsRGk?feature=shared
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.