A vi­sion of the fu­ture (fic­tional short-story)

EffAlt15 Oct 2022 12:38 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The most effec­tive ques­tion to ask your­self.

EffAlt15 Oct 2022 12:28 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ber­lin EA Shenani­gans (un­af­fili­ated) - please RSVP

Milli🔸15 Oct 2022 11:14 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

James Nor­ris from Upgrad­able on “What is Beyond Liv­ing a Prin­ci­pled Life”—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

Ti Guo15 Oct 2022 3:22 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Hackathon on Mon, 12/​5 to fol­low EAGxBerkeley

NicoleJaneway15 Oct 2022 0:06 UTC
38 points
52 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Test­ing Im­pact: Longter­mist TV Show

Anthony Fleming14 Oct 2022 23:30 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A com­mon failure for foxes

RobBensinger14 Oct 2022 22:51 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

An­swer­ing some ques­tions about wa­ter qual­ity programs

GiveWell14 Oct 2022 20:36 UTC
26 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Coun­ter­ar­gu­ments to the ba­sic AI risk case

Katja_Grace14 Oct 2022 20:30 UTC
284 points
23 comments34 min readEA link

[Job]: AI Stan­dards Devel­op­ment Re­search Assistant

Tony Barrett14 Oct 2022 20:18 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The US ex­pands re­stric­tions on AI ex­ports to China. What are the x-risk effects?

Stephen Clare14 Oct 2022 18:17 UTC
155 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches the ‘Fore­cast­ing Our World In Data’ Pro­ject to Probe the Long-Term Future

christian14 Oct 2022 17:00 UTC
65 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

The prop­erty rights ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Harry R. Lloyd14 Oct 2022 16:49 UTC
31 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

What Peter Singer Got Wrong (And Where Give Well Could Im­prove)

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Is there a UK char­i­ta­ble in­vest­ment ve­hi­cle that I could in­vest into and then later use to in­vest in a startup I make in the fu­ture?

Olly P14 Oct 2022 14:53 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] If you could 2x the num­ber of fu­ture hu­mans by re­duc­ing the QALYs per per­son by half, would you choose to do it? Why or why not?

Parmest Roy14 Oct 2022 14:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
235 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Oc­to­ber 2022

Lizka14 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
23 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

The Sig­nifi­cance, Per­sis­tence, Contin­gency Frame­work (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Val­lin­der)

Global Priorities Institute14 Oct 2022 9:24 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ship in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety is open for ap­pli­ca­tions!

Cynthia Chen14 Oct 2022 3:23 UTC
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Will Ev­i­dence-Based Man­age­ment Prac­tices In­crease Your Im­pact?

Lorenzo Gallí14 Oct 2022 3:22 UTC
25 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tra shard the­ory, in the con­text of the di­a­mond max­i­mizer problem

So8res13 Oct 2022 23:51 UTC
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Changes to EA Giv­ing Tues­day for 2022

Giving What We Can13 Oct 2022 23:37 UTC
79 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

brb24313 Oct 2022 21:56 UTC
15 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

A call for EA Hubs to post pub­lic guides

ES13 Oct 2022 18:34 UTC
43 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

An EA’s Guide to Berkeley and the Bay Area

ES13 Oct 2022 18:34 UTC
107 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] What is the ex­pected value of me giv­ing blood?

Matt Goodman13 Oct 2022 17:09 UTC
21 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Against the nor­ma­tive re­al­ist’s wager

Joe_Carlsmith13 Oct 2022 16:36 UTC
27 points
5 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] How Is EA Ra­tional?

Elliot Temple13 Oct 2022 16:21 UTC
1 point
25 comments1 min readEA link

A stub­born un­be­liever fi­nally gets the depth of the AI al­ign­ment problem

aelwood13 Oct 2022 15:16 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

When should you defer to ex­per­tise? A use­ful heuristic

Sharmake13 Oct 2022 13:59 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

EAGxVir­tual: A vir­tual venue, timings, and other up­dates

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸13 Oct 2022 13:22 UTC
47 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Let me blind my­self to Fo­rum post authors

Will Payne13 Oct 2022 13:00 UTC
154 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

How should we build meth­ods and tools to pre­pare for fu­ture pan­demics?

Sam Abbott13 Oct 2022 12:47 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(samabbott.co.uk)

Sixty years af­ter the Cuban Mis­sile Cri­sis, a new era of global catas­trophic risks

christian.r13 Oct 2022 11:25 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(thebulletin.org)

CNAS re­port: ‘Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and Arms Con­trol’

MMMaas13 Oct 2022 8:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cnas.org)

Pineap­ple Oper­a­tions is ex­pand­ing to in­clude all op­er­a­tions tal­ent (Oct ’22 Up­date)

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸13 Oct 2022 3:59 UTC
41 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

You are bet­ter at math (and al­ign­ment) than you think

trevor113 Oct 2022 3:11 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Scout Mind­set Poster

Anthony Fleming13 Oct 2022 1:53 UTC
52 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Nice­ness is unnatural

So8res13 Oct 2022 1:30 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In ex­tremely high-stakes sce­nar­ios, it’s ok not to max­imise ex­pected utility

Pivocajs13 Oct 2022 1:13 UTC
14 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

A strange twist on the road to AGI

cveres12 Oct 2022 23:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[MLSN #6]: Trans­parency sur­vey, prov­able ro­bust­ness, ML mod­els that pre­dict the future

Dan H12 Oct 2022 20:51 UTC
21 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Align­ment 201 curriculum

richard_ngo12 Oct 2022 19:17 UTC
94 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Re­spond­ing to re­cent cri­tiques of iron for­tifi­ca­tion in India

e19brendan12 Oct 2022 18:01 UTC
45 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Is “EA al­igned” a use­ful phrase? (Yes) Po­lis sur­vey and results

Nathan Young12 Oct 2022 17:14 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cul­tural EA con­sid­er­a­tions for Nordic folks

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen12 Oct 2022 17:11 UTC
155 points
32 comments10 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2022.

NunoSempere12 Oct 2022 16:37 UTC
23 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

BBC: ‘Sen­tient’ (?) mini-brains...

Forumite12 Oct 2022 16:29 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?

Maxwell Tabarrok12 Oct 2022 15:50 UTC
88 points
23 comments6 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)