Draft re­port on ex­is­ten­tial risk from power-seek­ing AI

Joe_Carlsmith28 Apr 2021 21:41 UTC
88 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­ject: An on­line Mar­ket­place built on an Altru­isitc Profit Model

FelixMoo28 Apr 2021 15:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one done any work on how donat­ing to lab grown meat re­search (https://​new-har­vest.org/​) might com­pare to Giv­ing Green’s recom­men­da­tions for fight­ing cli­mate change?

freedomandutility28 Apr 2021 12:02 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: April 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸28 Apr 2021 10:52 UTC
32 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Why AI is Harder Than We Think—Me­lanie Mitchell

Eevee🔹28 Apr 2021 8:19 UTC
45 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] What pre­vi­ous work has been done on fac­tors that af­fect the pace of tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment?

Megan Kinniment27 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are mice or rats (as pests) a po­ten­tial area of an­i­mal welfare im­prove­ment?

Ben27 Apr 2021 11:30 UTC
17 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Fe­bru­ary 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸27 Apr 2021 9:32 UTC
32 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

A new pro­posal for reg­u­lat­ing AI in the EU

EdoArad26 Apr 2021 17:25 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

[Question] What are your fa­vorite ex­am­ples of moral hero­ism/​al­tru­ism in movies and books?

Caro26 Apr 2021 16:26 UTC
26 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

2020 An­nual Re­view from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldson26 Apr 2021 13:25 UTC
85 points
10 comments19 min readEA link

Which helped more? (Donat­ing to AMF in 2010 or 2020)

ethankennerly26 Apr 2021 4:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is the cur­rent defi­ni­tion of EA not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of hits-based giv­ing?

Venkatesh26 Apr 2021 4:37 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral­ism and AI alignment

Michele Campolo24 Apr 2021 16:20 UTC
17 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

EA Malaysia Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Re­port (2021)

Yi-Yang24 Apr 2021 5:48 UTC
45 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Re­search Fund: Pro­ject Highlights

Animal Charity Evaluators24 Apr 2021 1:05 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

Our in­no­va­tions in Togo and the fu­ture of cash distribution

GiveDirectly24 Apr 2021 0:52 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Up­date on Board meet­ing transparency

GiveWell24 Apr 2021 0:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Linkpost] New Oxford Malaria Vac­cine Shows ~75% Effi­cacy in Ini­tial Trial with Infants

Linch23 Apr 2021 23:50 UTC
62 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Why SoGive is not up­dat­ing char­ity rat­ings af­ter malaria vac­cine news

Sanjay23 Apr 2021 20:39 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Have an idea for an in­ter­ac­tive learn­ing mod­ule? Con­sider ap­ply­ing for a Clear­erThink­ing.org micro grant!

spencerg22 Apr 2021 18:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

(Closed) Seek­ing (paid) vol­un­teers to test in­tro­duc­tory EA content

Aaron Gertler 🔸22 Apr 2021 12:10 UTC
41 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

GWWC April 2021 Newsletter

Luke Freeman22 Apr 2021 7:09 UTC
9 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

CEA up­date: Q1 2021

MaxDalton22 Apr 2021 5:36 UTC
93 points
29 comments14 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

“Teach­ing to Give” Idea

Noah Starbuck22 Apr 2021 1:51 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive fea­tured in Vox

Wild_Animal_Initiative21 Apr 2021 17:58 UTC
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

The wild fron­tier of an­i­mal welfare

EA Handbook21 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

As part of EA Fel­low­ship need the help of ex­perts in the field of ped­a­gogy and /​ or psychology

Daniel Shechter21 Apr 2021 5:15 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

On Mike Berkow­itz’s 80k Podcast

Timothy_Liptrot21 Apr 2021 1:53 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

If Bill Gates be­lieves all lives are equal, why is he im­ped­ing vac­cine dis­tri­bu­tion?

Garrison21 Apr 2021 1:35 UTC
8 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are your ques­tions for World Malaria Day with Rob Mather (AMF), Maddy Maras­ciulo (Malaria Con­sor­tium), and Alekos Si­moni (Tar­get Malaria)?

Luke Freeman20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
17 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Silk pro­duc­tion: global scale and an­i­mal welfare is­sues

abrahamrowe20 Apr 2021 1:38 UTC
75 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion as a tool to re­duce two ex­is­ten­tial risks.

johl@umich.edu19 Apr 2021 16:51 UTC
28 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

Why we want to start a char­ity for­tify­ing feed for hens (founders needed)

KarolinaSarek🔸19 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
74 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Prob­lems of evil

Joe_Carlsmith19 Apr 2021 10:33 UTC
31 points
5 comments18 min readEA link
(joecarlsmith.com)

[Question] What key facts do you find are com­pel­ling when talk­ing about effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Luke Freeman19 Apr 2021 0:40 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] As an EA, Should I re­nounce my US cit­i­zen­ship?

anonymoususer18 Apr 2021 16:45 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

To Build a Bet­ter Bal­lot: an in­ter­ac­tive guide to al­ter­na­tive vot­ing systems

Eevee🔹18 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(ncase.me)

Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC
274 points
149 comments11 min readEA link

Cash Trans­fers as a Sim­ple First Argument

TylerMaule17 Apr 2021 15:00 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral plu­ral­ism and longter­mism | Sunyshore

Eevee🔹17 Apr 2021 0:14 UTC
26 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fan16 Apr 2021 23:31 UTC
47 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Sum­mer Re­search In­tern­ship: Stan­ford Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Ini­ti­a­tive, Dead­line April 21st

kuhanj16 Apr 2021 22:33 UTC
68 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why we want to start a shrimp welfare char­ity (founders needed)

KarolinaSarek🔸16 Apr 2021 15:57 UTC
59 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Launch­ing a new re­source: ‘Effec­tive Altru­ism: An In­tro­duc­tion’

80000_Hours15 Apr 2021 21:01 UTC
47 points
54 comments2 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing An­i­mal Welfare: Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions, Prac­ti­cal Indi­ca­tors, and Over­all Assess­ments

Animal Ask15 Apr 2021 10:33 UTC
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing geeffek­tivt.se

Henri Thunberg 🔸15 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
22 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What ma­te­rial should we cross-post for the Fo­rum’s archives?

Aaron Gertler 🔸15 Apr 2021 10:06 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

If I pay my taxes, why should I also give to char­ity?

Luke Freeman15 Apr 2021 6:44 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

EA for Chris­ti­ans An­nual Conference

JDBauman15 Apr 2021 1:08 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link