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AI Mental Health Chatbots for Low-Resource Settings: A Prioritization Framework
We’re building an AI-powered mental health chatbot targeting populations with severe mental healthcare shortages.
 • Dawn Drescher, Scott D Blain, Anand Jeevanandham, and Angie Hsu
How to Donate to Alleviate Suffering in Gaza
Gemini 2.5's best guesses on how to help effectively: UNRWA, B’Tselem, +972 Magazine.
 • Dawn Drescher
With the Future of the World in Your Hands, Think for 6.77 Years!
How long should you think about a problem that could determine the future of all existence? A mathematical journey from simple bets to existential…
 • Dawn Drescher
Beyond Control: The Strategic Case for AI Rights
To prevent a dangerous conflict with AI, the answer isn't more control – it's a social contract. The pragmatic case for granting AIs legal rights.
 • Dawn Drescher
Evidential Cooperation as a Black Box
What if there’s finally a way to answer ethics’ age old question of how one should act? What if we can cooperate with countless beings to generate…
 • Dawn Drescher
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny: How Psychological Wounds Shape History
A developmental perspective on authoritarian leadership and how we can build more resilient societies
 • Dawn Drescher
Summary of Replacing Guilt
A Notebook LM summary of Nate Soares’s book, which advocates for replacing guilt with more effective tools such as intrinsic drive, cold resolve, or hot…
 • Dawn Drescher
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SquigglyPy: Alpha Version of Squiggle for Python
SquigglyPy uses sampling to allow you to do math with arbitrary probability distributions in two dimensions.
 • Dawn Drescher
Researchers Answering Questions 2020
I used a recent Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) of Rethink Priorities to ask a few researchers a series of questions about research in general.
 • Dawn Drescher
How Might Better Collective Decision-Making Backfire?
I’ve asked the titular question in the EA Forum. I also posted some answers of my own from the get go, but other people added more, and I, too, posted…
 • Dawn Drescher
Donations 2020
I’ve put approximately $7,000 into the $500,000 donor lottery and donated some odds and ends to the Center on Long-Term Risk
 • Dawn Drescher
Harnessing Cognitive Dissonance
My feeling of motivation seems to stem, in some cases, from cognitive dissonance. I consider how I may intentionally generate cognitive dissonance for…
 • Dawn Drescher
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