Florence Nightingale was totally a proto EA

I just found out that Florence Nightingale was totally a proto EA 

She starts volunteering at hospitals as a nurse, but quickly realizes but that is so low leverage and not actually the best way to help. 

She ends up doing things like focusing on nutrition among the poor and spending most of her time writing letters and looking at account sheets and campaigning to get more resources. 

It's the classic EA story of starting off with the kind of obvious do good intentions, realizing that that is incredibly low leverage and doesn't actually fix the problem, and then ends with spending a lot of time writing emails and staring at spreadsheets 

Cause real compassion is not glamorous. 

It's nitty gritty and practical.

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