[Question] Is work­ing on AI safety as dan­ger­ous as ig­nor­ing it?

jkmh20 Sep 2021 23:06 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Build­ing Blocks of Utility Maximization

NunoSempere20 Sep 2021 17:23 UTC
21 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Promis­ing ways to im­prove the lives of ur­ban rats in South Africa

ajmfisher20 Sep 2021 16:41 UTC
59 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Suggested norms about fi­nan­cial aid for EAG(x)

richard_ngo20 Sep 2021 15:13 UTC
73 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

On Scal­ing Academia

kirchner.jan20 Sep 2021 14:54 UTC
18 points
3 comments13 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Five Books In­fluen­tial On How I Think About Global Poverty

ozymandias20 Sep 2021 7:14 UTC
32 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Movie Re­view: The Story of Louis Pasteur

ozymandias20 Sep 2021 7:08 UTC
43 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

[Question] Is any­one wor­ry­ing about the In­sti­tute for Health Met­rics and Eval­u­a­tion (IHME)?

dspeyer19 Sep 2021 17:28 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Philos­o­phy PhD Ap­pli­ca­tion: Ad­vice on Writ­ten Submission

tcelferact19 Sep 2021 16:41 UTC
4 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What kind of event, tar­geted to un­der­grad­u­ate CS ma­jors, would be most effec­tive at get­ting peo­ple to work on AI safety?

CBiddulph19 Sep 2021 16:19 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link post] Sam Scheffler: Con­ser­vatism, Tem­po­ral Bias, and Fu­ture Generations

peterhartree19 Sep 2021 8:44 UTC
44 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Fund­ing pub­lic goods in iden­tity-free systems

VictorSintNicolaas19 Sep 2021 7:51 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion in Ger­man par­ties’ fed­eral elec­tion platforms

tilboy19 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC
17 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Non Profit Guidelines

jwilson01619 Sep 2021 3:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Give Collectively

harsimony18 Sep 2021 17:14 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

De­tailed tips on be­ing helpful

Madhav Malhotra18 Sep 2021 12:05 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Guard­ing Against Pandemics

Guarding Against Pandemics18 Sep 2021 11:15 UTC
72 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Dona­tion in 2021

ethankennerly17 Sep 2021 22:41 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­text][Fic­tion] Utopia, lol?

Andrew Clough17 Sep 2021 17:58 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ma­jor UN re­port dis­cusses ex­is­ten­tial risk and fu­ture gen­er­a­tions (sum­mary)

finm17 Sep 2021 15:51 UTC
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test][Refer­ral][Mostly Fic­tion] - The Parable of the Heartstone

Arepo17 Sep 2021 13:46 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How to Avoid Cal­ifor­nia Re­call Disasters (SF Chron­i­cle Op-Ed)

Mahendra Prasad17 Sep 2021 5:01 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Creative writ­ing con­test] Blue bird and black bird

Lizka16 Sep 2021 23:56 UTC
74 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance-Avoidance Effect

davidhartsough16 Sep 2021 23:16 UTC
51 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

WANBAM: Suc­cesses and challenges from our first two years

KMF16 Sep 2021 22:16 UTC
80 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] The Re­set Button

Joshua Ingle16 Sep 2021 10:08 UTC
108 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] In­tro­duc­ing EA to poli­cy­mak­ers/​re­searchers at the ECB

anonfornow16 Sep 2021 10:08 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Click­hole’s take on cause prioritization

Aaron Gertler 🔸16 Sep 2021 7:33 UTC
68 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini15 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
25 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Call to Vigilance

Holden Karnofsky15 Sep 2021 18:46 UTC
90 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing TEAMWORK—an EA Cowork­ing Space in Berlin

Sebastian Schwiecker15 Sep 2021 17:53 UTC
83 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Great Power Conflict

Zach Stein-Perlman15 Sep 2021 15:00 UTC
11 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Canva CEO com­mits at least $6 billion “to do the most good”

Tom Barnes15 Sep 2021 14:52 UTC
124 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Fair­trade and its criticism

mbb2982838215 Sep 2021 14:20 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat pre­dic­tions were overly optimistic

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 15 Sep 2021 12:32 UTC
194 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

In search of sys­tems change that lasts: 3 les­sons we’ve learned at For­tify Health

Corrina Vali15 Sep 2021 12:00 UTC
57 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: Sub­mis­sion thread for work first pub­lished elsewhere

Aaron Gertler 🔸15 Sep 2021 8:25 UTC
21 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Work­ing in the U.S. helped us get more money to in­ter­na­tional recipients

GiveDirectly15 Sep 2021 7:13 UTC
97 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

How to make the best of the most im­por­tant cen­tury?

Holden Karnofsky14 Sep 2021 21:05 UTC
54 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC
285 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Fic­tion] The Adventure

Stuart Armstrong14 Sep 2021 20:25 UTC
16 points
1 comment47 min readEA link

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

WSCFriedman14 Sep 2021 19:07 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing ries­goscatas­trofi­cos­globales.com

Jaime Sevilla14 Sep 2021 15:42 UTC
39 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

EJT14 Sep 2021 8:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

WSCFriedman14 Sep 2021 6:59 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Responsibility

Rand14 Sep 2021 6:59 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Inflation

Rand14 Sep 2021 6:59 UTC
25 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Disen­tan­gling “Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing”

Lizka13 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
92 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

Deep­Mind is hiring Long-term Strat­egy & Gover­nance researchers

vishal13 Sep 2021 18:44 UTC
54 points
1 comment1 min readEA link