Puberty as Cause X? Audio version.

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Puberty as Cause X? Audio version.

TL;DR: GiveWell-esque analysis of adolescents' suffering. Life satisfaction during puberty, ITN model, developmental neuroscience of the amygdala. A few jokes here and there.

Jan Hendrik Kirchner

Jun 13, 2022

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Puberty as Cause X?

Epistemic status: I wrote this to understand how a GiveWell-type analysis feels from the inside. I expect this would require a couple hundred hours of additional research to get to the point where I'd be confident in the conclusions. But I still think the resulting analysis is interesting, so read it like you'd read the Feuilleton. Any feedback is highl…

3 years ago · 1 like · Jan Hendrik Kirchner

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Puberty as Cause X? Audio version.

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