Three Bi­ases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk

beth​13 Feb 2019 23:22 UTC
41 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Risk fac­tors for s-risks

Tobias_Baumann13 Feb 2019 17:51 UTC
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(s-risks.org)

A sys­tem for scor­ing poli­ti­cal can­di­dates. RFC (re­quest for com­ments) on method­ol­ogy and positions

kbog13 Feb 2019 10:35 UTC
24 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Small an­i­mals have enor­mous brains for their size

eukaryote13 Feb 2019 5:12 UTC
71 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Want to help an­i­mals? Fo­cus on cor­po­rate de­ci­sions, not peo­ple’s plates.

EA Handbook13 Feb 2019 0:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Rob Mather: Against Malaria Foun­da­tion — what we do, how we do it, and the challenges

EA Global12 Feb 2019 15:59 UTC
8 points
4 comments30 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo Ajantaival12 Feb 2019 7:39 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ad­minis­tra­tion costs when giv­ing to more than one organisation

LeoF12 Feb 2019 0:08 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC
51 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Where Peo­ple First Hear About EA and In­fluences on Involvement

David_Moss11 Feb 2019 6:05 UTC
34 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Group Membership

David_Moss11 Feb 2019 6:04 UTC
34 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bgarfinkel9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
128 points
20 comments18 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on do­ing good with lump sums—the re­tired per­son’s dilemma

mickofemsworth9 Feb 2019 13:34 UTC
12 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

How GiveWell’s Re­search is Evolving

GiveWell9 Feb 2019 1:17 UTC
47 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Fund­ing Pro­posal: Sup­port­ing a Cam­paign to In­crease Cana­dian Offi­cial Devel­op­ment As­sis­tance

jonathancourtney8 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

[blog cross-post] The re­mem­ber­ing self needs to get real about the ex­pe­rienc­ing self.

Holly_Elmore8 Feb 2019 18:21 UTC
16 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com)

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

richard_ngo8 Feb 2019 11:09 UTC
33 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

EA grants available to in­di­vi­d­u­als (cross­post from LessWrong)

Jameson Quinn7 Feb 2019 15:23 UTC
31 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Hit Based Giv­ing for Global Development

DavidNash6 Feb 2019 18:19 UTC
24 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Any­one has a prac­ti­cal guide for calcu­lat­ing car­bon emis­sions?

ianps6 Feb 2019 8:31 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Bos­ton 2018 Year in Review

Taymon5 Feb 2019 20:15 UTC
33 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] How to as­sess em­ploy­ment impact

Seanny1235 Feb 2019 2:37 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some lists of open ques­tions in effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Aaron Gertler5 Feb 2019 2:23 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Are there more pa­pers on dung bee­tles than hu­man ex­tinc­tion?

Aaron Gertler5 Feb 2019 2:09 UTC
19 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction

Milan_Griffes4 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 2: Cur­rent guests and their projects

Greg_Colbourn4 Feb 2019 20:41 UTC
66 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Sharks prob­a­bly do feel pain: a re­ply to Michael Tye and others

Max_Carpendale4 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Gen­der equity in the farmed an­i­mal movement

EA Forum Archives4 Feb 2019 6:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

How Can Donors In­cen­tivize Good Pre­dic­tions on Im­por­tant but Un­pop­u­lar Topics?

MichaelDickens3 Feb 2019 1:11 UTC
27 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What Courses Might Be Most Use­ful for EAs?

Risto Uuk2 Feb 2019 9:04 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the eas­iest highly pos­i­tive and effec­tive things that peo­ple can do?

zepedad2 Feb 2019 2:41 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast Dis­cus­sion Meet­ings—A Po­ten­tially High-Value Event Tem­plate For Lo­cal Groups

TomBill1 Feb 2019 20:17 UTC
17 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

My pos­i­tive ex­pe­rience tak­ing the an­tide­pres­sant Wel­lbutrin /​ Bupro­pion, & why maybe you should try it too

Robert_Wiblin1 Feb 2019 18:56 UTC
49 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Will com­pa­nies meet their an­i­mal welfare com­mit­ments?

saulius1 Feb 2019 10:24 UTC
116 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

You Should Write a Fo­rum Bio

Aaron Gertler1 Feb 2019 3:32 UTC
40 points
55 comments2 min readEA link

The case for build­ing ex­per­tise to work on US AI policy, and how to do it

80000_Hours31 Jan 2019 22:44 UTC
37 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Aging Re­search

SarahC31 Jan 2019 20:47 UTC
51 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

EA Com­mu­nity Build­ing Grants Ap­pli­ca­tions Open

KatieGlass31 Jan 2019 19:41 UTC
26 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Lat­est Re­search and Up­dates for Jan­uary 2019

DavidNash31 Jan 2019 13:06 UTC
31 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Re­search on Effec­tive Strate­gies for Equity and In­clu­sion in Move­ment-Building

kellywitwicki30 Jan 2019 21:56 UTC
47 points
9 comments28 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for De­cem­ber 2018

Aaron Gertler30 Jan 2019 21:05 UTC
46 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Invit­ing EA fore­cast­ers to AI fore­cast­ing platform

jacobjacob30 Jan 2019 14:21 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(goo.gl)

[Question] What Are Effec­tive Alter­na­tives to Party Poli­tics for Effec­tive Public Policy Ad­vo­cacy?

Evan_Gaensbauer30 Jan 2019 2:52 UTC
24 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Why we look at the limit­ing fac­tor in­stead of the prob­lem scale

Joey28 Jan 2019 19:12 UTC
64 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

We should make aca­demic knowl­edge easier

mickofemsworth27 Jan 2019 16:52 UTC
−2 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(scepticalacademic.blogspot.com)

Si­mul­ta­neous Shortage and Oversupply

Jeff Kaufman26 Jan 2019 19:35 UTC
41 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Vo­ca­tional Ca­reer Guide for Effec­tive Altruists

kbog26 Jan 2019 11:16 UTC
35 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Vox’s “Fu­ture Perfect” column fre­quently has flawed journalism

kbog26 Jan 2019 8:09 UTC
36 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Is in­tel­lec­tual work bet­ter con­strued as ex­plo­ra­tion or perfor­mance?

Milan_Griffes25 Jan 2019 22:00 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Wild An­i­mal Initiative

abrahamrowe25 Jan 2019 17:23 UTC
28 points
4 comments2 min readEA link