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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our book on the psychology of effective altruism is now out.

The digital version is available for free: academic.oup.com/book/56384?l...

There's also an audiobook.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

And you can save 30% on a physical copy if you use the code AUFLY30. global.oup.com/academic

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 5d

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/a072...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 7d

Midwest ligger inte i mitten av västra USA eller ens i mitten av landet.

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 7d

Ja precis, jag tycker det är ett rätt logiskt begrepp.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 7d

Zurich is the latest city to make parking more expensive for oversized cars like SUVs.

Cities including Paris and Montreal have taken similar steps to counteract car bloat.

Zürich will Parkgebühren erhöhen – SUV-Fahrer müssten deutlich mehr bezahlen

Zürich plant höhere Parkgebühren für schwere Autos in der Blauen Zone. Elektrofahrzeuge profitieren von vergünstigten Tarifen. Vorschlag geht an den Gemeinderat

www.watson.ch

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 7d

Most graphs of the fertility rate depict the 'period fertility rate', which is based on a single year's data and doesn't necessarily reflect how many children women actually have across their lifetimes.

I've used data from the Human Fertility Database to show the cumulative number instead:

Cohort fertility rates for the United States, by age 40, 45 and 50.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 12d

Twitter is a particularly stark example but in general the gap between the public and elites (left+right) on ID cards is huge

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 12d

Swedish, too. Enormous difference.

It's not just about government services - e.g. when you buy something in the UK you often need to provide your address (which you might not even remember when you need to cancel some service). In Sweden you just use your "bank-id" (also used by the government).

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 12d

I much enjoyed David's new book.

The first part of the book describes Singer's life and how the drowning child argument inspired the founding of effective altruism.

The second part discusses objections to EA.

David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 14d

Publication day today! This is the story of @petersinger.info ’s famous thought experiment, and its influence. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 15d

A fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving.

Death in a Shallow Pond by @davidedmonds100.bsky.social is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Philosophy

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 25d

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/d419...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 24

Financial Times analysis: US jobs at a high risk from generative AI have not been more likely to shed young workers since ChatGPT launched

www.ft.com/content/99b6...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 10

Study finds that Americans' policy views don't relate to basic economic literacy, and that such literacy doesn't make people think like economists.

Also if Democrats and Republicans had had perfect basic economic literacy, their policy views would diverge.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KRKRA...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 9

Not a very good article imo

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Get your analogies right!"

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jul 8

Ask me anything!

I'll be doing an AMA with EA forum today.

You can ask me about anything, whether it's about topics I write about (life expectancy, fertility, mortality, global health, data, etc.), recommendations, writing or podcasting, or anything else.

Feel free to reply with questions below.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 3

Guess the nationality of the unnamed author of this
@economist.com article on "the Big Three" 🙃

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me too. And maternal mortality rates were high. I guess it's just that death rates were high in general.

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 3

Following up on this (this is the author of the post)

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/swed...

Sweden's answer to slow tv: The great moose migration - Radio Sweden

For several thousand years, Sweden's population of moose (or European Elk) in Västernorrland in the north of Sweden have walked the same path to get to ...

www.sverigesradio.se

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yes, though the death rate seems fairly even before and after the most common age.

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

In the 18th century, there was a real chance of death at any point in life, and there wasn't a big peak in old age.

It wasn't just higher infant mortality - the whole distribution was completely different.

inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-rise-o...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's often very unlikely that we'll fail to introduce new policies.

But the phrases "by default" and "business-as-usual" - and the way people use them - often hide that.

That contributes to the flawed perception that we'll sleepwalk into disaster.

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Be alert to uses of "by default" or "business-as-usual" in the context of projections of future trends.

While they literally mean "in the absence of new policy", they often carry the association that they're likely (cf "usual").

But in fact, they're often highly unlikely.

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Arcadian

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Jul 1

I agree with this. Too often, people get away with this because of misguided norms of charity.

And yes, we should focus more on authors (relative to the audience) than we do today when trying to improve discourse norms.

www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zmfxgv...

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