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“GHD discussion here is slowly dying” by NickLaing

Epistemic status: A bit sad (I know that's not an epistemic status)

The best development Forum on the internet?

3 years ago a headline “FTX SBF blah blah blah” triggered my memory “oh that's right, that effective altruism thing”.

A few years earlier I had read “Doing Good Better” in our Northern Ugandan hut, and was excited by how the ideas matched my experience of seeing the BINGOs [1] on the ground here doing not-much-good at all. Soon after my wife dragged me to Cambridge for a year and I joined an EA group. I was drawn in to a beautiful crew of good, ernest people trying to do the best they could with their lives -[2] something I’d only seen before among a few people at church. I was most impressed by their veganism, practising what they preached.

But after going back to Uganda I forgot about the whole EA thing. But 3 years later the FTX headlines and a google search led me to the EA forum, which to my delight turned out to be the best place on the internet to discuss global health and development. My first foray was a not-very-good post [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) The best development Forum on the internet?

(01:29) A steady decline

(02:59) Why?

(04:34) Is this fine?

(05:02) Is this less fine?

(06:29) How to Boost GHD discourse?

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First published:
March 15th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4jbbjTTJ87baMrkY4/ghd-discussion-here-is-slowly-dying

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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