EA - 30 second action you could take by Michelle Hutchinson

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 30 second action you could take, published by Michelle Hutchinson on August 2, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Prospect Magazine is getting people to vote for the World's Top Thinkers of 2022. There were fewer names I recognised on it than I expected, though David Chalmers and Demis Hassabis are amongst them. I voted for Will MacAskill because I want more intellectual attention on really directly tackling how we can help sentient beings most over the very long run. Voting was surprisingly quick and painless. While voting for public intellectuals seems rather frivolous, ranking highly on a chart like this can open doors for Will to have more conversations with people who are in a position to seriously put EA ideas or proposals into practice (and are so stretched for time they have to use rankings like this to narrow down who's most worth meeting). Here are the nominees, or you can vote directly here. [Disclaimer: his bio includes a description of 80,000 Hours, my employer; his link to it (trustee and cofounder) is not the reason I'm voting for him] Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.