Gen­eral vs spe­cific ar­gu­ments for the longter­mist im­por­tance of shap­ing AI development

Sam Clarke15 Oct 2021 14:43 UTC
44 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Food Se­cu­rity: Pests and Diseases Report

OscarD🔸15 Oct 2021 12:22 UTC
13 points
2 comments14 min readEA link
(www.foodsystemshandbook.org)

[Question] Is “founder effects” EA jar­gon?

capybaralet15 Oct 2021 11:16 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Com­pute Gover­nance and Con­clu­sions—Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [3/​4]

lennart14 Oct 2021 7:55 UTC
20 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: Now with more prizes!

Aaron Gertler 🔸14 Oct 2021 7:12 UTC
35 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

De­com­pos­ing Biolog­i­cal Risks: Harm, Po­ten­tial, and Strategies

simeon_c14 Oct 2021 7:09 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Help me un­der­stand this ex­pected value calculation

AndreaSR14 Oct 2021 6:23 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is EA Dubai cur­rently ac­tive?

Arjun Yadav14 Oct 2021 4:00 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tions to im­prove pi­geons’ welfare (in South Afri­can cities)

ajmfisher13 Oct 2021 19:14 UTC
7 points
0 comments19 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Join EA Global: Lon­don as a vir­tual attendee

Barry Grimes13 Oct 2021 15:41 UTC
35 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

CSER Con­fer­ence 2022: Call for Light­ning Talks

HaydnBelfield13 Oct 2021 15:30 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On the as­sess­ment of vol­canic erup­tions as global catas­trophic or ex­is­ten­tial risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC
112 points
18 comments19 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] The Puppy Problem

Louis13 Oct 2021 14:01 UTC
13 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Les­sons learned run­ning the Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

Sam Clarke13 Oct 2021 11:33 UTC
69 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Cul­ti­vated Meat Video Series

ReimagineAg13 Oct 2021 4:30 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is it crunch time yet? If so, who can help?

Nicholas / Heather Kross13 Oct 2021 4:11 UTC
29 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] I See Dead Kids

EA Forum Archives13 Oct 2021 4:00 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, Be­fore the Memes Started

Nicholas / Heather Kross13 Oct 2021 2:51 UTC
38 points
23 comments10 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

GiveWell (Ex­plore site for 5 mins.)

GiveWell12 Oct 2021 23:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

On famines, food tech­nolo­gies and global shocks

Ramiro12 Oct 2021 14:28 UTC
16 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

A Day in the Life of a Parent

Larks12 Oct 2021 14:18 UTC
73 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sources around shame and striv­ing and EA

Nathan Young12 Oct 2021 9:11 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

AI Risk in Africa

Claude Formanek12 Oct 2021 2:28 UTC
18 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Best prac­tices for or­ga­ni­za­tional effectiveness

Michael_2358 🔸12 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:21 UTC
28 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] An Or­di­nary Plea

ColinAitken11 Oct 2021 6:04 UTC
0 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Look­ing for cofounder on EA-driven startup. Also, free in­som­nia care program

samstowers11 Oct 2021 4:23 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Con­fer­ence 7-8 Oct 2021: videos and timestamps

Matt Boyd11 Oct 2021 2:31 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Early ca­reer peo­ple should con­sider join­ing fast-grow­ing star­tups in emerg­ing technologies

billz10 Oct 2021 17:23 UTC
87 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Com­mu­ni­ties of Rigor

j_t10 Oct 2021 16:39 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link

A prac­ti­cal guide to long-term plan­ning – and sug­ges­tions for longtermism

weeatquince10 Oct 2021 15:37 UTC
140 points
13 comments24 min readEA link

The Tale Of Gandhi And The Devil

kirchner.jan10 Oct 2021 13:44 UTC
11 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] Why aren’t you freak­ing out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC
80 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Open Borders

Sam Enright10 Oct 2021 12:29 UTC
19 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

SammyDMartin10 Oct 2021 11:06 UTC
28 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

The S&P 500 Will Drop Below 3029 Be­fore July 16 (65 per­cent con­fi­dence)

FCCC10 Oct 2021 4:26 UTC
12 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How does choos­ing an effec­tive ca­reer change now that switch­ing ca­reers is more com­mon?

Madhav Malhotra9 Oct 2021 17:37 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would free tech sup­port and de­vel­op­ment be use­ful to your EA or­gani­sa­tion?

Markus Amalthea Magnuson9 Oct 2021 16:39 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one wrote some­thing us­ing moral clue­less­ness to “de­bunk” anti-con­se­quen­tial­ist thought ex­per­i­ments?

capybaralet9 Oct 2021 13:09 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The hum­bling art of catch­ing golden fish

Simon Holm9 Oct 2021 10:34 UTC
4 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How im­pact­ful is free and open source soft­ware de­vel­op­ment?

Erich_Grunewald 🔸9 Oct 2021 10:15 UTC
18 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Notes on “Manag­ing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC
195 points
27 comments26 min readEA link

Ini­tial thoughts on malaria vac­cine approval

GiveWell8 Oct 2021 23:51 UTC
43 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Near End of the World Seen Through the Eyes of a Bear

burner8 Oct 2021 22:42 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ques­tions about YIMBY

Sam Enright8 Oct 2021 14:14 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_Hours8 Oct 2021 13:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments149 min readEA link

re­mit­tances:wave as im­mi­gra­tion:startup x?

Michael_2358 🔸8 Oct 2021 12:57 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar Eld8 Oct 2021 12:35 UTC
304 points
48 comments8 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Fic­tion] The Fey Deal

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen8 Oct 2021 3:06 UTC
26 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Is­sues with Futarchy

Lizka7 Oct 2021 17:24 UTC
63 points
8 comments25 min readEA link