New secret blog post up, this one about mental illness and parenting.
I generally list where I’m donating in a donations post at the end of the year, but this donation is relatively time-sensitive and if I wait until December anyone who wants to copy me can’t. I have donated $100 to fund a randomized controlled trial of a sepsis treatment which my friend Sarah Constantin finds promising. I think thoughtful, independent research into potentially high-value places to donate is something that the effective altruism community doesn’t do enough of, and I have committed to donating $100 to each such opportunity I come across until I think enough such independent research is being done.
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Hm. This doesn’t fit into my normal donation interests (for lack of a better word) but I support the idea of randomized control trials and independent research and having more of this in general will probably bleed into the causes that I support, so yeah, let’s do this.
Will you be updating us on more independent research projects as you come across them? Do you want to be informed if other people come across independent research projects?
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