Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Also, BTW I was a huge fan of your Parfit biography! It was the inspiration for this! x.com/SpacedOutMat...x.com 130
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I think in both of those cases I felt like what you were going for wasn't as clear as it could have been, but I could absolutely imagine a reasonable person disagreeing! Regardless, I did really enjoy the book overall and thought it was a great history of EA! 110
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026My review of Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social. I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent history of Effective Altruism within, but had mixed feelings about the philosophy-focused second half of the book! 160
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Not sure I've ever seen straight-up chunks of styrofoam used as prop ice before lmao 100
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 31/12/2025It's that time of year again 🎉. @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @absurdlymax.bsky.social, @marigo2thepolls.bsky.social, and I are returning to raise funds for the EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund! Donate to help the animals and create some silly antics! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/... 061
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Anyone have takes on Alice is Missing? We played for the first time last night and found it to be a pretty interesting/unique experience, but also found it harder than we expected to tie up the story in a coherent way 030
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025My review of An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice by Richard Chappell, Darius Meissner, and Will MacAskill. I thought it was fantastic! 3120
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025What should I do with the ~2 dozen SWP fliers I have left over from the shrimp mall video? 120
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025MrBeast does actually end the video by saying that it's wrong that private philanthropy is needed to pay for this (not to say the MrBeast's overall politics/behavior are good) 010
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025environments, or should we intervene to help animals in certain extreme cases? 010
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025How about wild animal welfare? There can be a tension between conservation and welfare in the cases of e.g. parasites that kill their hosts in extraordinarily painful ways. screwworm.org. As we get a better understanding of ecology, should our aim be solely to preserve and restore naturalscrewworm.orgScrewworm Free Future 130
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Just because they’re happening to “someone else,” or even to a nonhuman animal, isn’t the comfort that it used to be 150
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I think it’s a nice piece of writing, but I’ve always hard the opposite emotional response to accepting the Parfitian view of personal identity. Believing that there’s no deep further fact makes all the bad things in the world more salient to me 180
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Thank you so much to everyone who donated! In the end we raised $32.8k, or about 1% of AWF's total donations for 2024. Based on the historical cost-effectiveness of AWF's grants, I expect the money will greatly benefit the lives of hundreds of thousands of farmed animals! 071
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Today is the LAST DAY to get your donations in to the 2024 Terminally Online EA Giving Season Fundraiser! We've blown through our main goal and raised $32k, but there's one last stretch goal you could help us reach! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/... 030
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Check out this year's fundraiser at www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/...!givingwhatwecan.orgGiving What We Can 000
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024And last, but certainly not least, we tried to convince strangers at the mall to care about shrimp welfare x.com/AaronBergman...x.comx.com 100
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024We recorded a drunk podcast with @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @laura-duffy.bsky.social, and I www.aaronbergman.net/p/drunk-pige...aaronbergman.netDrunk Pigeon Hour!You earned it 110
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024He also put on a santa hat and read Christmas blog post x.com/absurdlymax/...x.comx.com 100
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024First off, @absurdlymax.bsky.social went to EA Global in a shrimp costume 250
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The fundraiser is now over $12.5k! To celebrate, here's a look back at all the crazy antics we did as a result of last years, which raised $35k in the end: 1103
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Clearly the optimal strategy is to just donate extra to AWF on top of the GH&D donations 🐓🐓🐓 010
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024GH&D is awesome, and definitely do whatever you think is highest-impact! We chose AWF because we could all agree that on the current margin, they're very likely to be among the most-effective opportunities (See e.g. the discussions during debate week forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nrC5v6...)forum.effectivealtruism.orgDiscussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week — EA ForumWhen you comment on your vote on the debate week banner, your comment will appear on this thread. Use this thread to respond to other people's argume… 130
Reposted by Matt🔸Marcus A. Davis @amarcusdavis.bsky.social · 20/12/20242024 is wrapping up (or at least I'm off from work) and I'm really proud of all the impactful work Rethink Priorities did this year. I thought it'd be good to cover some my favorite pieces we did this year. 1/n 272
Matt🔸 @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It's that time of year again 🎉. @absurdlymax.bsky.social, @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @laura-duffy.bsky.social, and I are returning to raise funds for the EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund! Donate to help the animals and create some silly antics! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/... 131
