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This is my personal take, not an organizational one. Originally written May 2025, revived for the EA Forum's Draft Amnesty Week. Cross-posted from the EA Forum but cross-posting didn't work the first time. When I discovered the beginnings of EA, it felt like coming home. I had finally found a...
Cross-posted from Otherwise. Caveats: My oldest child is 11, and I don’t have parenting experience beyond elementary school. We’re lucky that our local public school is a good fit for our kids, and we’d be looking harder at alternatives if that weren’t the case. See also: Raising children on the...
Crossposted from Otherwise I was once in a group discussion about whether wild animals might be having net negative lives. One person didn’t want to consider that possibility, essentially because “then people would want to kill all the wild animals.” Hold on! You can evaluate the question of “What is...
Cross-posted with light edits from Otherwise. I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it’s about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter. Increasingly this makes me wonder how I...
Crossposted from Otherwise Parents supervise their children way more than they used to Children spend less of their time in unstructured play than they did in past generations. Parental supervision is way up. The wild thing is that this is true even while the number of children per family has...
After hearing various people interested in nasal sprays for preventing covid or the common cold, I did a shallow dive on what might be worth trying in this area. Overall, there are several treatments that seem safe and cheap and some of them are probably effective. A few (carrageenan and...
Sometimes the Boston Secular Solstice has been hosted at my (Julia's) house because my husband runs the music and physical setup. While the adults are doing a long solstice downstairs, I’ve sometimes run a version for our kids upstairs. This year I did one heavily based on a text Dave...