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I work at the Centre for Effective Altruism as a contact person for the EA community. I read a lot of LessWrong around 2011 but am not up to date on whatever is happening now.

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Annapurna's Shortform
juliawise6d40

There's a difference between who plans to leave their career and who ends up leaving. 

Some paths:
- childcare is more expensive than one partner earns after taxes, and it's cheaper for one parent to stay home.
- managing work / commute / child appointments (especially if they have special needs) / child sickness / childcare is so overwhelming that a parent quits their job to have fewer things to manage. Or they feel they're failing at the combination of work and parenting and must pick one.
- the family is financially secure enough they feel they can do ok on one income, even though they're not at their wits' end. 

Once you start looking at content in this direction, the algorithms will feed you pro-full-time-mom content. Start searching for things like "homeschool preschooler" and I bet you'll get plenty of videos extolling full-time motherhood made by people hoping to become Ballerina Farm.

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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
juliawise2mo40

If you like this post, you might like the game https://flora.metazooa.com/ where you guess a plant by narrowing down its taxonomy. 

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Better Air Purifiers
juliawise2mo20

Jeff did it by burning a set number of matches to ash in the room, and testing the particulates with an air quality monitor. https://www.jefftk.com/p/testing-air-purifiers

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[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty
juliawise6mo132

And "" is a technique for figuring out what you actually want and different ways to get there. 

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Nursing doubts
juliawise8mo140

>As a community we produce more way more breastmilk than we can use!
This doesn't really seem right to me; or at least it relies on mothers' volunteer work to pump, sterilize, and store their milk. If you actually need to get rid of extra milk, pumping and dumping is way easier than keeping the milk clean and cold. And if you have an oversupply, pumping a lot is how to continue having an oversupply.

This is sort of like claims that we could produce lots of vegetables if everyone turned their front yard into a miniature farm and spent their spare time doing subsistence agriculture; technically true but not how most people want to spend their time.

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Nursing doubts
juliawise8mo60

Other health claims: breastfeeding slightly reduces risk of breast cancer in the mother and increases chance of colorectal cancer and breast cancer in the child.

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Raising children on the eve of AI
juliawise1y30

We've done the local public school, yes. More thoughts here: https://juliawise.net/school-your-mileage-may-vary/

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What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?
juliawise2y30

Generally they're opposed to using toys not as intended. It is kinda dicey given they can't easily see if anyone is at the bottom of the slide, but the worst that happens is someone gets knocked over.

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What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?
juliawise2y10

Thanks, adding!

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What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?
juliawise2y128

True. The "arm fracture" one on the Victoria chart seems pretty concrete, though.

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goal factoring
Many-Worlds Interpretation
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Many-Worlds Interpretation
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87Why we’re still doing normal school
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13Crosspost: Developing the middle ground on polarized topics
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282Raising children on the eve of AI
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228What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?
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47Nose / throat treatments for respiratory infections
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31Secular Solstice for children
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30Book notes: "The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life"
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117Experiences raising children in shared housing
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255Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog"
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186Notes on "The Anthropology of Childhood"
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