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Climate Change & Longtermism: new book-length report

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By John Halstead, Gideon Futerman, Vaidehi Agarwalla, Lukas Trötzmüller
| effectivealtruism.org
Since 2021, as part of the research for What We Owe the Future, I have been working on a report on climate change from a longtermist perspective. The report aims to provide the most complete treatment of that question yet produced. The executive summary is below and the full report is here, available at the What We Owe the Future supplementary materials webpage. I am grateful to the expert reviewers of the report for their comments. Views and mistakes are my own.
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Preprint is out! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder — LessWrong

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By Lukas Trötzmüller, Brendan Long, Ben Smith, Katherine Merkulova
| lesswrong.com
What do people think about the effects of such bright light on skin? I have heard anecdotally that some SAD lights can cause sunburn. The long term oxidative effects may not be desirable, either aesthetically in terms of skin ageing, or for health in terms of skin cancer risk. The health effects of stress/loneliness/depression and sheer subjective misery are powerful counter-arguments regardless. I'm currently in the middle of building a light setup based on this one by David Chapman of Meaningness.
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