All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [~monthly thread]

robertskmiles1 Nov 2022 23:21 UTC
75 points
83 comments1 min readEA link

The “In­side-Out” Model for pitch­ing EA

Nick Corvino1 Nov 2022 23:18 UTC
50 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Mildly Against Donor Lotteries

Jeff Kaufman 🔸1 Nov 2022 18:10 UTC
38 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Which are the best ex­am­ples/​re­sources of pos­i­tive fu­tures you can think of? E.g some­thing like Max Teg­mark’s utopias in Life 3.0

elteerkers1 Nov 2022 17:13 UTC
17 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Spe­cial Pro­jects Team is hiring

Rethink Priorities1 Nov 2022 16:09 UTC
63 points
4 comments6 min readEA link
(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

AI X-Risk: In­te­grat­ing on the Shoulders of Giants

TD_Pilditch1 Nov 2022 16:07 UTC
34 points
0 comments47 min readEA link

[Question] How bi­nary is longterm value?

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Nov 2022 15:21 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Dark mode (Fo­rum up­date Novem­ber 2022)

Lizka1 Nov 2022 15:09 UTC
76 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell’s ap­proach to sup­ple­men­tary ad­just­ments uses ques­tion­able priors

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:53 UTC
11 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

Dona­tions to SCI Foun­da­tion may funge with other work

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
10 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

SoGive re­view of GiveWell’s dis­count rates

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
17 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

In­sect farm­ing might cause more suffer­ing than other an­i­mal farming

ishankhire1 Nov 2022 9:54 UTC
50 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Should AI fo­cus on prob­lem-solv­ing or strate­gic plan­ning? Why not both?

oliver_siegel1 Nov 2022 9:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

How Im­por­tant is “Get­ting Out the Vote?”

Ceteris Paribus1 Nov 2022 9:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

How effec­tive are prizes at spurring in­no­va­tion?

Rethink Priorities1 Nov 2022 9:31 UTC
109 points
15 comments86 min readEA link

On the cor­re­spon­dence be­tween AI-mis­al­ign­ment and cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance us­ing a be­hav­ioral eco­nomics model

Stijn1 Nov 2022 9:15 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Re­mem­ber to trans­late your thoughts back again

brook1 Nov 2022 8:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
37 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

ML Safety Schol­ars Sum­mer 2022 Retrospective

TW1231 Nov 2022 3:09 UTC
56 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Giv­ing What We Can Oc­to­ber Newslet­ter 2022

Giving What We Can1 Nov 2022 3:08 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (24 − 30th Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams1 Nov 2022 2:58 UTC
23 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

An Ex­am­i­na­tion of GiveWell’s Water Qual­ity In­ter­ven­tion Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

MHR🔸1 Nov 2022 1:00 UTC
56 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James Broughel1 Nov 2022 0:53 UTC
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury Writ­ing Prize

michel31 Oct 2022 21:37 UTC
48 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI is nec­es­sary for an amaz­ing fu­ture, but far from sufficient

So8res31 Oct 2022 21:16 UTC
35 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Trac­tors that need to be con­nected to func­tion?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)31 Oct 2022 20:42 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Deep Time Reck­on­ing by Vin­cent Ialenti

vinegar10@gmail.com31 Oct 2022 20:00 UTC
10 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Draft Amnesty Day: an event we might run on the Forum

Lizka31 Oct 2022 16:48 UTC
82 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

The Challenges with Mea­sur­ing the Im­pact of Lobbying

Animal Ask31 Oct 2022 16:32 UTC
58 points
1 comment33 min readEA link

Why do we post our AI safety plans on the In­ter­net?

Peter S. Park31 Oct 2022 16:27 UTC
15 points
22 comments11 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Hear This Idea: Mon­rad and Pannu on Pan­demic Preparedness

jtm31 Oct 2022 14:33 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analyses

SamNolan31 Oct 2022 14:31 UTC
118 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

[Question] Does Fac­tory Farm­ing Make Nat­u­ral Pan­demics More Likely?

brook31 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Fund biose­cu­rity officers at universities

freedomandutility31 Oct 2022 11:49 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing EA Sur­vey 2022

David_Moss31 Oct 2022 10:53 UTC
251 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

You have a back­ground in psy­chol­ogy? Join our ini­ti­a­tive.

Inga31 Oct 2022 10:30 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An In­tro­duc­tion to the Mo­ral Weight Project

Bob Fischer31 Oct 2022 9:13 UTC
180 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing vo­dle, a web app for con­sen­sus-aiming col­lec­tive decisions

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)31 Oct 2022 0:37 UTC
26 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How can one eval­u­ate a char­ity’s ca­pac­ity to uti­lize funds be­yond its an­nual bud­get?

haywyer30 Oct 2022 22:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the im­pact of grant­mak­ing ca­reer paths

Joel Becker30 Oct 2022 21:00 UTC
32 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Every.org Dona­tion Match­ing for Monthly Donations

Cullen 🔸30 Oct 2022 19:10 UTC
47 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.every.org)

Map of Biose­cu­rity Interventions

James Lin30 Oct 2022 18:25 UTC
163 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

Multi-Fac­tor De­ci­sion Mak­ing Math

Elliot Temple30 Oct 2022 16:46 UTC
2 points
13 comments37 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Model­ling civil­i­sa­tion be­yond a catastrophe

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
58 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

A pro­posed hi­er­ar­chy of longter­mist concepts

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
38 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Longter­mist (es­pe­cially x-risk) ter­minol­ogy has bi­as­ing assumptions

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC
70 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] EA com­mu­nity val­ues and at­ti­tudes sur­vey /​ polls?

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)30 Oct 2022 14:44 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

I’ve solved the math for EA!

omdesign30 Oct 2022 8:44 UTC
−11 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

The So­cial Re­ces­sion: By the Numbers

Antonomon29 Oct 2022 23:35 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link