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Michael Plant

@MichaelDPlant

Philosopher and global happiness researcher. Founder and Director, @HappierLivesIns. Postdoctoral Fellow @OxWellResearch @UniofOxford. All views yours, weirdly.

Bristol, England Katılım Mart 2012
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
Most of Starmer's problems can be traced back to one decision: promising not to put up taxes. Labour would almost certainly have still won the election. But then he would have had fiscal headroom and avoided endless dithering and credibility-damaging U-turns.
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Looking at the rate of Tory defections to Reform, I'm surprised Labour haven't started to trot out the line the electorate will be facing a choice between the failed Tory party and the party of failed Tories.
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Wellbeing Research Centre@OxWellResearch·
💰 Giving to charity is good, but giving effectively is *great*. Wellbeing Research Centre Research Fellow Dr @MichaelDPlant recently discussed with Sam Harris how we can do the most good. Listen now to Ep. 446 of the Making Sense podcast👇 samharris.org/podcasts/makin…
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
What do happiness experts do when they feel down? Delighted to be asked for yesterday's @Telegraph. My suggestion: Get out of the house and be generous. Full article, with suggestions from the other happiness nerds 👇
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Jackson Kernion
Jackson Kernion@JacksonKernion·
I'm trying to figure out what to care about next. I joined Anthropic 4+ years ago, motivated by the dream of building AGI. I was convinced from studying philosophy of mind that we're approaching sufficient scale and that anything that can be learned can be learned in an RL env.
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
We only launched it 2 weeks ago, but we've already raised over $60k for the Happier Lives Fund, a new giving option where the @HappierLivesIns team allocates your money where it has the greatest impact. Thanks for trusting us! Link 👇
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
@patrickc you should check out what we do in @HappierLivesIns. We compare charities by how much this improve overall happiness, using WELLBYs, the same method endorsed by the UK Treasury. I chatted to Sam Harris about this on his podcast last week. samharris.org/podcasts/makin…
Patrick Collison@patrickc

Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes, woke went too far, but simply inverting it doesn't work.) • EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people. • There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics. Overall, "what is worthy and valuable?" feels like it's becoming more central.

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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
My pitch to Sam Harris on how to do the most good. This is the first time in human history where we've had the tools and data to find the best ways to improve happiness. The latest research reveals the best charities have 1,000x the impact as standard ones.
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
@algekalipso maybe more importantly, on linearity, this new working paper is fantastic. My mind is still blown by it. You'll probably worry it doesn't capture extreme states, which it might not arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16440
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Michael Plant@MichaelDPlant·
@algekalipso Cheers! Yeah, something that might not have come out of the podcast, but you're aware of, is just how far wellbeing science has come in the last few years. from 0-1. I'll try to remember to send you the pain paper!
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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso·
Michael Plant on Sam Harris(!). Cool! One thing we've never agreed on (and he didn't show interest in continuing to talk about it) was the non-linearity of pain/pleasure scales*. This to me feels like a very large blind spot in Happier Lives Institute (HLI)-type analysis. But I do think their work is very valuable :-) *See: Heavy‑Tailed Valence Hypothesis (HTV) youtu.be/c4dHsarwbwY?si…
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