Lifestyle improvements

This is an umbrella-cause for things like improving diet, exercise, sleep apnea/CPAP machines, various ergonomic improvements, etc. I think this cause tends to be tacitly assumed to be worthwhile, in the sense that people believe they personally need to improve in these dimensions, but I’m uncertain whether it gets much serious coverage as a cause. There is for instance CFAR, which tackles the even broader problem of improving rationality.

This list mentions augmentation tools to help people become more rational.

Anti-procrastination: PDF on givewell.org.

There is a lot of noise in this area so even if good interventions can be found, can they compete with fake interventions that are optimized for sales or spreading?

See also