Aloekine
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I set myself a calendar reminder for after the new year, will check in then :)
I’d be happy to swap my 1.5k to Lightcone for your 1.5k to Givewell All Grants.
Practical note: For my own tax reasons, I’d be looking to do this at the start of 2026 (but within Lightcone’s fundraising window of course). This doesn’t feel too hard to coordinate around even if you need to give in 2025 for your tax reasons, but might be relevant for comparison of offers.
This unfortunately is also from more of a pre-social media period than I would hope for, but Putnam’s other book (really a collection of essays by people more knowledgable on specific countries) Democracies in Flux from 2002 (https://academic.oup.com/book/8126) looks at similar trends across 8 countries: Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. To be clear, this is most focused on the aspects of social capital one would expect to be related to the functioning of democracy like trust and institutional memberships.
Their overall findings are that the declines seen in the US are less uniformly reflected elsewhere than I predicted prior to reading it, and that it’s also... (read more)
Happy New Year! Still down for this swap?