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Announcing the launch of the Happier Lives Institute
MichaelPlant
3y
44
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Cause profile: mental health
MichaelPlant
3y
32
78
Effective altruism’s odd attitude to mental health
MichaelPlant
7mo
25
73
Problem area report: mental health
CaitlinWalker
1y
10
69
Update from the Happier Lives Institute
ClareDonaldson
2y
5
63
Founders Pledge Report: Psychedelic-Assisted Mental Health Treatments
AidanGoth
2y
18
48
HLI’s Mental Health Programme Evaluation Project - Update on the First Round of Evaluation
Jasper Synowski
2y
9
42
Shifts in subjective well-being scales?
Milan_Griffes
2y
7
40
Mental Health Shallow Review
Elizabeth
5y
30
35
Comparing Four Cause Areas for Founding New Charities
Joey
2y
3
33
New cause area: Improving diagnosis and treatment of bipolar spectrum disorders
Karolina Soltys
4mo
13
32
Treating Cluster Headaches Using N,N-DMT and Other Tryptamines
qfrerichs
3y
2
30
A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman
BarryGrimes
5mo
0
27
Is effective altruism overlooking human happiness and mental health? I argue it is.
MichaelPlant
6y
56
146
AMA: Tim Ferriss, Michael Pollan, and Dr. Matthew W. Johnson on psychedelics research and philanthropy
Aaron Gertler
1y
184
128
Ending The War on Drugs - A New Cause For Effective Altruists?
MichaelPlant
1y
20
49
Cash prizes for the best arguments against psychedelics being an EA cause area
Milan_Griffes
3y
125
46
OPIS initiative on access to psilocybin for cluster headaches
jonleighton
2y
5
37
Psychedelics Normalization
andzuck
3y
26
30
[Link] "A Psychedelic Renaissance" (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Milan_Griffes
3y
3
26
Using Ibogaine to Create Friendlier Opioids
qfrerichs
3y
3
17
R&D for Chemically Improving Wellbeing in Healthy Population
Jonathan Gilat
3mo
10
15
Cause: biopharma R&D productivity
BoxFan
3mo
2
13
[Link] How to contribute to the psychedelics ecosystem
John_Maxwell
3y
0
9
Pros/cons of funding more research on whether psychedelics increase altruism?
nonzerosum
3y
2
4
[Link] "Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics and the Anarchic Brain" (SSC)
Milan_Griffes
3y
1
3
What are longtermist arguments for and against psychedelics/drug reform as an EA cause area?
Carolin Basilowski
9mo
5