How to make the best of the most im­por­tant cen­tury?

Holden KarnofskySep 14, 2021, 9:05 PM
57 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrsonSep 14, 2021, 9:00 PM
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

LinchSep 14, 2021, 8:43 PM
286 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Fic­tion] The Adventure

Stuart ArmstrongSep 14, 2021, 8:25 PM
16 points
1 comment47 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Poetry] [Refer­ral] “The Bell-Buoys”

WSCFriedmanSep 14, 2021, 7:07 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing ries­goscatas­trofi­cos­globales.com

Jaime SevillaSep 14, 2021, 3:42 PM
39 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Refer­ral] Pas­cal’s Mug­ger Strikes Again

EJTSep 14, 2021, 8:00 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Refer­ral] [Poem] Ak­bar’s Bridge

WSCFriedmanSep 14, 2021, 6:59 AM
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Responsibility

RandSep 14, 2021, 6:59 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Inflation

RandSep 14, 2021, 6:59 AM
25 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Disen­tan­gling “Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing”

LizkaSep 13, 2021, 11:50 PM
96 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

Deep­Mind is hiring Long-term Strat­egy & Gover­nance researchers

vishalSep 13, 2021, 6:44 PM
54 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Fic­tion] [Refer­ral] A Com­mon Sense Guide to Do­ing the Most Good, by Alexan­der Wales

b_senSep 13, 2021, 10:17 AM
45 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(archiveofourown.org)

Am­bi­guity aver­sion and re­duc­tion of X-risks: A mod­el­ling situation

Benedikt SchmidtSep 13, 2021, 7:16 AM
29 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: $22,000 in prizes for good stories

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 12, 2021, 9:15 PM
149 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

AI timelines and the­o­ret­i­cal un­der­stand­ing of deep learn­ing

Venky1024Sep 12, 2021, 4:26 PM
4 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tiveAltru­is­mData.com: A Web­site for Ag­gre­gat­ing and Vi­su­al­is­ing EA Data

HmashSep 11, 2021, 10:05 PM
195 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Mag­ni­tude of un­cer­tainty with longtermism

Venky1024Sep 11, 2021, 2:48 PM
13 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing EAs’ use of non-EA op­tions for re­search train­ing, cre­den­tials, test­ing fit, etc.

MichaelA🔸Sep 11, 2021, 1:52 PM
23 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Earn­ing To Give as a Doc­tor in Switzerland

Nadia MontazeriSep 11, 2021, 1:31 PM
43 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] First vs. last name poli­cies?

Matt PutzSep 11, 2021, 10:37 AM
9 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sources on An­i­mal Ethics and Helping Animals

Eleos Arete CitriniSep 10, 2021, 11:22 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Chris Olah on work­ing at top AI labs with­out an un­der­grad degree

80000_HoursSep 10, 2021, 8:46 PM
15 points
0 comments73 min readEA link

Public Health Research

Michael_2358 🔸Sep 10, 2021, 2:50 PM
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What is the EU AI Act and why should you care about it?

MathiasKB🔸Sep 10, 2021, 7:47 AM
117 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Guide to talk­ing about effec­tive al­tru­ism and effec­tive giving

Luke FreemanSep 10, 2021, 5:15 AM
57 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

A mesa-op­ti­miza­tion per­spec­tive on AI valence and moral patienthood

jacobpfauSep 9, 2021, 10:23 PM
10 points
18 comments17 min readEA link

EA Study Hall: A Free Vir­tual Cowork­ing Space (Every Mon­day)

Paul Edward DolleteSep 9, 2021, 1:50 AM
1 point
0 commentsEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: Other Findings

Eli RoseSep 9, 2021, 1:01 AM
40 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Public In­ter­est Tech­nol­o­gists Slack community

Eevee🔹Sep 8, 2021, 5:08 PM
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Givewell vs. The Life You Can Save

TomAtlantaSep 8, 2021, 4:27 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of EA Im­pact CoLabs (beta) + re­quest for pro­jects, vol­un­teers and feedback

Mats OlsenSep 8, 2021, 1:20 PM
68 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Should Grants Fund EA Pro­jects Ret­ro­spec­tively?

FCCCSep 8, 2021, 2:58 AM
32 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Early-Ca­reer Fund­ing for In­di­vi­d­u­als In­ter­ested in Im­prov­ing the Long-Term Fu­ture—New Ap­pli­ca­tion Round

Bastian_SternSep 8, 2021, 2:46 AM
40 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

It takes 5 lay­ers and 1000 ar­tifi­cial neu­rons to simu­late a sin­gle biolog­i­cal neu­ron [Link]

Michael St Jules 🔸Sep 7, 2021, 9:53 PM
44 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

AI Timelines: Where the Ar­gu­ments, and the “Ex­perts,” Stand

Holden KarnofskySep 7, 2021, 5:35 PM
90 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

How to suc­ceed as an early-stage re­searcher: the “lean startup” approach

tsSep 7, 2021, 11:19 AM
192 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

Learn­ing, Knowl­edge, In­tel­li­gence, Mastery, Anki—TYHTL post 2

alexanderklargeSep 7, 2021, 9:31 AM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Self-Sus­tain­ing Fields Liter­a­ture Re­view: Tech­nol­ogy Fore­cast­ing, How Aca­demic Fields Emerge, and the Science of Science

Megan KinnimentSep 6, 2021, 3:04 PM
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing how tech­nol­ogy-fo­cused aca­demic fields be­come self-sustaining

Ben SnodinSep 6, 2021, 3:04 PM
43 points
4 comments42 min readEA link

List of AI safety courses and resources

Daniel del CastilloSep 6, 2021, 2:26 PM
51 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

MikeJohnsonSep 6, 2021, 11:41 AM
−10 points
87 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How do I find peo­ple who re­ally don’t care about hav­ing more money?

dzejbiSep 6, 2021, 5:25 AM
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

(Video) Why Ve­gans Are So Annoying

cryptopsyfan69420Sep 6, 2021, 4:11 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: How Our Re­spon­dents First Learned About EA/​EA-Ad­ja­cent Ideas

Eli RoseSep 6, 2021, 1:01 AM
28 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Should Form Re­gional Groups

akrivkaSep 5, 2021, 4:59 PM
64 points
18 comments11 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_KingsleySep 4, 2021, 10:39 PM
62 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] If you could send an email to ev­ery stu­dent at your uni­ver­sity (to max­i­mize im­pact), what would you in­clude in it?

kuhanjSep 4, 2021, 7:25 PM
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Mo­ral dilemma

TormentedSep 4, 2021, 6:10 PM
5 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to get more aca­demics en­thu­si­as­tic about do­ing AI Safety re­search?

PabloAMC 🔸Sep 4, 2021, 2:10 PM
25 points
19 comments1 min readEA link