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“What I’m celebrating from EA and adjacent work in 2024” by Emma Richter🔸
As 2024 draws to a close, I’m reflecting on the work and stories that inspired me this year: those from the effective altruism community, those I found out about through EA-related channels, and those otherwise related to EA.
I’ve appreciated the celebration of wins and successes over the past few years from @Shakeel Hashim's posts in 2022 and 2023. As @Lizka and @MaxDalton put very well in a post in 2022:
We often have high standards in effective altruism. This seems absolutely right: our work matters, so we must constantly strive to do better.
But we think that it's really important that the effective altruism community celebrate successes:
- If we focus too much on failures, we incentivize others/ourselves to minimize the risk of failure, and we will probably be too risk averse.
- We're humans: we're more motivated if we celebrate things that have gone well.
Rather than attempting [...]
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Outline:
(01:54) What progress in the world did you find exciting?
(03:14) What individual stories inspired you?
(04:29) What popular media or articles did you appreciate?
(05:40) What writing from this year did you appreciate or find compelling?
(06:19) What made you grateful or excited to be involved in or related to effective altruism?
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First published:
December 31st, 2024
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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