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April 29, 2025
<p> My upvotes/downvotes are worth 2 points each and my supervotes are worth 6. A person with between 10 and 100 karma on the forum has an upvote worth 1 and a supervote worth 2 (the scaling system is described in this code here I think)</p><p> My concern is that this system lends itself to groupthink, whereby the dominant views or topics are liable to get more karma, giving holders of those views more voting power, giving users that makes posts they agree with or that they see as relevant more karma, etc.</p><p> Dissenting opinions or posts not of interest to the in-group are liable to be downvoted (although karma is meant to reflect quality or relevance of a post or comment, this is of course misused), which both hides those comments but also puts off dissenting voices from commenting/posting in the future.<br> <br> The justification for the current system [...]</br></br></p> <p>---</p> <p><b>First published:</b><br/> April 28th, 2025 </p> <p><b>Source:</b><br/> <a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FZ4GkH7eiibKrb6rN/should-people-with-more-forum-karma-have-more-powerful-votes?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FZ4GkH7eiibKrb6rN/should-people-with-more-forum-karma-have-more-powerful-votes</a> </p> --- <p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=ea_forum&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p>
April 29, 2025
<p> This post is for university group student organizers. We start with the big reason you should run a social, three tips we’re highly certain of, and some additional thoughts. </p><p> We think ~40% of the value of this post is in a tentative answer to the question of how university groups can best provide value to members post intro fellowship; this is a question almost all university group organizers should think more deeply about. Another ~50% is in the “Big intro fellowship” section (tip 1), which is sufficient to run a fairly successful weekly meeting, and we are highly confident that almost all university groups should adopt the “Big intro fellowship” even if you do not choose to run a social.</p><p> We both co-lead the University of Chicago group and all data comes from the UChicago group unless otherwise noted.</p><p> If this post makes you consider a change at [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(01:48) Why a Social</p><p>(04:27) Doing a Social Well</p><p>(08:29) Some additional thoughts</p><p>---</p> <p><b>First published:</b><br/> April 28th, 2025 </p> <p><b>Source:</b><br/> <a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cCquf3RaTYuadFneL/university-groups-should-run-socials?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cCquf3RaTYuadFneL/university-groups-should-run-socials</a> </p> --- <p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=ea_forum&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p>
April 29, 2025
<p> The Guardian reported yesterday on 'The Lunar Hatch' project, which is aiming to send fertilised sea bass eggs into space, so they can farm fish for astronauts.</p><p> Lunar Hatch's ultimate aim is to create a “closed-loop food chain” on the moon, using a series of compartments. The first tanks will be filled with water from ice found at the bottom of craters at the moon's poles. The wastewater produced by fish in these tanks will be used to produce micro-algae that can then be used to feed filtering organisms, including bivalves, or zooplankton would collect some of the waste.</p><p> The faeces from the sea bass in the first tank would, meanwhile, be treated by shrimps and worms that would in turn be food for the fish.</p><p> “The aim of Lunar Hatch is to have no waste,” Przybyla [the researcher leading the project] says. “Everything is recycled through an aquaculture [...]</p> <p>---</p> <p><b>First published:</b><br/> April 29th, 2025 </p> <p><b>Source:</b><br/> <a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wzCGbdCQsNQHjL8MY/aquaculture-in-space?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wzCGbdCQsNQHjL8MY/aquaculture-in-space</a> </p> --- <p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=ea_forum&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p>
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