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Read this korrent: Sustained advocacy using effective strategies can grow safety-net programs and substantially improve outcomes for the people they serve.
Sustained advocacy using effective strategies can grow safety-net programs and substantially improve outcomes for the people they serve.
Last stated 10 months ago
5 Jan 2026
DM
Dylan Matthews — holds since 2026-01-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Relying on rapid market-income growth alone is not a viable long-term strategy for reducing poverty. — tap to centre the map on it
Relying on rapid market-income growth alone is not a viable long-term strategy for reducing poverty.
Last stated 8 months ago
3 Mar 2026
DM
Dylan Matthews — holds since 2026-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Safety net programs enacted after 1963 were beneficial to reducing poverty and probably necessary for continued progress against it. — tap to centre the map on it
Safety net programs enacted after 1963 were beneficial to reducing poverty and probably necessary for continued progress against it.
Last stated 8 months ago
3 Mar 2026
DM
Dylan Matthews — holds since 2026-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Many aid programmes will beat cash on cost-effectiveness, and the ones that do will be those that fix a market failure or a supply problem. — tap to centre the map on it
Many aid programmes will beat cash on cost-effectiveness, and the ones that do will be those that fix a market failure or a supply problem.
Last stated 13 years ago
14 Mar 2014
CB
Chris Blattman — holds since 2014-03-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending. — tap to centre the map on it
Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 Nov 2023
SA
Scott Alexander — holds since 2023-11-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: One of the best long-term investments in prevention is a very strong network of family doctors. — tap to centre the map on it
One of the best long-term investments in prevention is a very strong network of family doctors.
Last stated 6 months ago
7 May 2026
PB
Pedro Pita Barros — holds since 2026-05-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People in wealthy countries can save lives every day by giving to cost-effective charities — tap to centre the map on it
People in wealthy countries can save lives every day by giving to cost-effective charities
Last stated 2 weeks ago
20 Oct 2026
PS
Peter Singer — holds since 2026-10-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed. — tap to centre the map on it
States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed.
Last stated 3 years ago
17 Nov 2023
JM
John Mearsheimer — holds since 2023-11-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Helping children build long-term coping skills is more effective than simply implementing rules. — tap to centre the map on it
Helping children build long-term coping skills is more effective than simply implementing rules.
Last stated 9 years ago
24 Jan 2018
DB
danah boyd — holds since 2018-01-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.
Last stated a year ago
7 Oct 2025
MM
Mr. Money Mustache — holds since 2025-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail. — tap to centre the map on it
A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.
Last stated 2 years ago
7 May 2024
BS
Buck Shlegeris — holds since 2024-05-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score. — tap to centre the map on it
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
HK
Henrik Karlsson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
Last stated 4 months ago
26 Jun 2026
NB
Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.
Last stated 2 months ago
3 Sept 2026
DR
Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A carmaker's claim to be the safest is mostly an artefact of comparing a new car against a fleet average twelve years old. — tap to centre the map on it
A carmaker's claim to be the safest is mostly an artefact of comparing a new car against a fleet average twelve years old.
Last stated 3 years ago
19 Dec 2023
PK
Philip Koopman — holds since 2023-12-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated. — tap to centre the map on it
A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.
Last stated 5 months ago
4 Jun 2026
AI
Alex Imas — holds since 2026-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean. — tap to centre the map on it
A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.
Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
IS
Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted. — tap to centre the map on it
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.
Last stated a year ago
7 Jun 2025
GM
Gary Marcus — holds since 2025-06-07 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2014 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are