From some expressions on extinction risks as I have observed - extinction risks might actually be suffering risks. It could be the expectation of death is torturing.  All risks might be suffering risks.

Read some other comments, and career coaching from 80k sounds like a good suggestion!

Some other thoughts:

• if you have an area that you care about already, you could do active work in this area
• if you have not identified an area yet, AND it does not matter to you to work on things you care less about,  maybe find something interesting and relatively high paying for financial purposes and make monetary donations, or volunteering if you have time
• I believe there are all kinds of combinations of the above!

A few thoughts 

• Prohibition is a very US based concept for a specific era, and thus the env setting for this thought experiment will have to match the same level of context/available information back then in the US.
• There should also be disentanglement of policy intention and the actual way of doing executing the intention. For example banning alcohol at work place (in specific conditions basically, others includes driving), or risk of losing jobs if drinking at work, or limit max level of alcohol % could all be better approaches
• I don't know if EA actions is the ground truth of correct action or not, which is not what the question is about anyways, but just a thought (Prohibition may be an ineffective idea independent of EA values) 

I previously did some work on model diffing (base vs chat models) on llama2, llama3 and mistral (as they have similar architectures) for the final project of AISES(https://www.aisafetybook.com/), and found some interesting patterns;

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s-ymk45r_ekdPAdCHbX1hP5ZaAPb82ta/edit#slide=id.p3

Planning to explore more and expand ; Welcome any thoughts/comments/discussions
 

Could you explain how is abortion different in non democratic cultures in your opinion?

I see generally this may be good, but there are cases that require more socially aware education to be discussed. Additionally, this discussion seems to be from a view that is unfortunately only negatively affect or restrict half of the humans; it seems to be easy for the humans who are not affected to discuss on restricting; the barrier is unfairly lower unfortunately by human nature. I do think writers need to bear some responsibility for knowledge/background learning

"democratic culture" -> could you elaborate why this is a cultural thing?

I take it as about equality

I am surprised and disappointed that this got downvoted; this comment to me is a perfectly reasonable and respectful discussion

I think it is interesting to view abortion as killing "lives"; the suffering for fetus is very low if aborted, and suffering for the human is very high if not. Abortion right is quite essential for equality in my opinion.

Personal take - it feels to me MZ is more about profits (given recent events as well), and if something does not give back a monetary return, I doubt it would attract him