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

MichaelStJules7 Sep 2021 21:53 UTC
44 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

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

Holden Karnofsky7 Sep 2021 17:35 UTC
88 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

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

ts7 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC
182 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

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

alexanderklarge7 Sep 2021 9:31 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

Megan Kinniment6 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing how tech­nol­ogy-fo­cused aca­demic fields be­come self-sustaining

Ben Snodin6 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
43 points
4 comments42 min readEA link

List of AI safety courses and resources

Daniel del Castillo6 Sep 2021 14:26 UTC
50 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

MikeJohnson6 Sep 2021 11:41 UTC
−10 points
87 comments7 min readEA link

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

dzejbi6 Sep 2021 5:25 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

(Video) Why Ve­gans Are So Annoying

cryptopsyfan694206 Sep 2021 4:11 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Eli Rose6 Sep 2021 1:01 UTC
28 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Should Form Re­gional Groups

akrivka5 Sep 2021 16:59 UTC
64 points
18 comments11 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_Kingsley4 Sep 2021 22:39 UTC
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?

kuhanj4 Sep 2021 19:25 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Mo­ral dilemma

Tormented4 Sep 2021 18:10 UTC
5 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

PabloAMC 🔸4 Sep 2021 14:10 UTC
25 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ne­glected bio­di­ver­sity pro­tec­tion by EA.

Danny Forest4 Sep 2021 8:19 UTC
13 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Crazy ideas some­times do work

Aryeh Englander4 Sep 2021 3:27 UTC
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Re­quest for Pro­pos­als Re­gard­ing Scop­ing Re­search/​Pro­ject(s) on Ne­glected yet Large-Scale An­i­mal Populations

kierangreig🔸3 Sep 2021 20:15 UTC
42 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

When pool­ing fore­casts, use the ge­o­met­ric mean of odds

Jaime Sevilla3 Sep 2021 9:58 UTC
124 points
62 comments8 min readEA link

Does se­quence obfus­ca­tion pre­sent a bio-threat? Prob­a­bly not (yet)

Ben Stewart3 Sep 2021 9:33 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury: Se­quence Introduction

Holden Karnofsky3 Sep 2021 8:10 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How would you gauge ran­dom un­der­grads’ “EA po­ten­tial”?

Jack R3 Sep 2021 6:51 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Growth of pre­dic­tion mar­kets over time?

kokotajlod2 Sep 2021 13:43 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

We are failing to see how much bet­ter off hu­man­ity could be (trans­par­ent mon­sters part 2)

Writer2 Sep 2021 10:52 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Con­cern about the EA Lon­don COVID protocol

Fods122 Sep 2021 1:11 UTC
11 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ply now | EA Global: Lon­don (29-31 Oct) | EAGxPrague (3-5 Dec)

Barry Grimes1 Sep 2021 19:19 UTC
52 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Au­gust 2021

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 16:59 UTC
24 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing Sim­ple Altruism

LiaH1 Sep 2021 15:49 UTC
20 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Frank Feed­back Given To Very Ju­nior Researchers

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 10:55 UTC
157 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

More un­der­grad­u­ate or just-grad­u­ated stu­dents should con­sider get­ting jobs as re­search techs in aca­demic labs

jvb1 Sep 2021 9:02 UTC
41 points
10 comments12 min readEA link

I In­ter­viewed Luke Free­man, the Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of GWWC. Here’s What he said about Riskier Charities

SereneDesiree1 Sep 2021 9:02 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Open Thread: Septem­ber 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸1 Sep 2021 7:00 UTC
19 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the EA Be­hav­ioral Science Newsletter

PeterSlattery1 Sep 2021 3:56 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing With Crytpo In the US (How-To & Taxes)

aaronhamlin1 Sep 2021 2:38 UTC
13 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: EA Groups

Eli Rose1 Sep 2021 1:01 UTC
35 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How valuable is lad­der-climb­ing out­side of EA for peo­ple who aren’t un­usu­ally good at lad­der-climb­ing or un­usu­ally en­trepreneurial?

Linch1 Sep 2021 0:47 UTC
39 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

NIST AI Risk Man­age­ment Frame­work re­quest for in­for­ma­tion (RFI)

Aryeh Englander31 Aug 2021 22:24 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI: the “biolog­i­cal an­chors” method in a nutshell

Holden Karnofsky31 Aug 2021 18:17 UTC
50 points
13 comments18 min readEA link

My first PhD year

Jaime Sevilla31 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC
65 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Giv­ing Green: An early in­ves­ti­ga­tion into the im­pact of in­sider and out­sider policy ad­vo­cacy on cli­mate change

Dan Stein30 Aug 2021 22:34 UTC
14 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

Lucius Caviola30 Aug 2021 17:33 UTC
173 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Are many EAs philo­soph­i­cal prag­ma­tists?

rorty30 Aug 2021 15:51 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

What would bet­ter sci­ence look like?

C Tilli30 Aug 2021 8:57 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

What we learned from a year in­cu­bat­ing longter­mist entrepreneurship

Rebecca Kagan30 Aug 2021 8:39 UTC
199 points
28 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Gifted $1 mil­lion. What to do? (Not hy­po­thet­i­cal)

BenWilder30 Aug 2021 8:39 UTC
102 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] “Epistemic maps” for AI De­bates? (or for other is­sues)

Marcel D30 Aug 2021 4:59 UTC
14 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What prob­lems in so­ciety are both math­e­mat­i­cally challeng­ing, ver­ifi­able, and com­pet­i­tively re­ward­ing?

SaraAzubuike29 Aug 2021 20:48 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The Scien­tist Mode, the Scout Mind­set and Flashcards

JaimeRV29 Aug 2021 18:56 UTC
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Mak­ing of #IAN

kirchner.jan29 Aug 2021 16:24 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)