Re­sources for Phys­i­cal Engineers

Sean Lawrence3 Nov 2022 23:23 UTC
18 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Video] How hav­ing Fast Fourier Trans­forms sooner could have helped with Nu­clear Disar­ma­ment—Veritasium

mako yass3 Nov 2022 20:52 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ber­lin EA Shenani­gans Novem­ber (un­af­fili­ated) - please RSVP

Milli🔸3 Nov 2022 20:29 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Towards More Mo­du­lar Value/​Im­pact Estimates

Charlie_Guthmann3 Nov 2022 19:33 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Misquot­ing Is Con­cep­tu­ally Similar to Dead­nam­ing: A Sugges­tion to Im­prove EA Norms

Elliot Temple3 Nov 2022 18:34 UTC
−5 points
0 comments18 min readEA link
(curi.us)

Should we be do­ing poli­tics at all? Some (very rough) thoughts

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸3 Nov 2022 18:18 UTC
58 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Open Let­ter Against Reck­less Nu­clear Es­ca­la­tion and Use

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Nov 2022 15:08 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(futureoflife.org)

Re­cruit­ing Skil­led Volunteers

The BOOM3 Nov 2022 14:36 UTC
−9 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Which EA grants sup­port ser­vice providers?

The BOOM3 Nov 2022 14:36 UTC
−10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What mat­ters to shrimps? Fac­tors af­fect­ing shrimp welfare in aquaculture

Lucas Lewit-Mendes3 Nov 2022 10:31 UTC
238 points
14 comments23 min readEA link
(www.shrimpwelfareproject.org)

CE: Who un­der­rates their like­li­hood of suc­cess. Why ap­ply­ing is worth­while.

SteveThompson3 Nov 2022 10:17 UTC
163 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

The Ra­tional Utili­tar­ian Love Move­ment (A His­tor­i­cal Ret­ro­spec­tive)

CBiddulph3 Nov 2022 7:11 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ratutilove.substack.com)

GiveDirectly’s cost-effec­tive­ness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina Toth3 Nov 2022 4:39 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

A The­olo­gian’s Re­sponse to An­thro­pogenic Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Fr Peter Wyg3 Nov 2022 4:37 UTC
108 points
17 comments11 min readEA link

Up­date your be­liefs with a “Yes/​No de­bate”

jorges3 Nov 2022 0:05 UTC
18 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Mini sum­maries of GPI papers

JackM2 Nov 2022 22:33 UTC
98 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Make a $50 dona­tion into $100 (6x)

WilliamKiely🔸2 Nov 2022 18:42 UTC
79 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

10 Whacky ideas spawned from EAGxVir­tual 2022

Patrick Liu2 Nov 2022 16:37 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Progress Stud­ies Read­ing List

LMF2 Nov 2022 16:21 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] De­ci­sion mak­ing un­der model am­bi­guity, moral un­cer­tainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)2 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
16 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:53 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

AI Safety Needs Great Product Builders

James Brady2 Nov 2022 11:33 UTC
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

BBC: Should ex­trater­res­trial life be granted ‘sen­tient’ rights?

Forumite2 Nov 2022 7:15 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal Re­view of Par­ti­ci­pa­tion in the Open Philan­thropy Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prize

Gavriel Kleinwaks2 Nov 2022 6:05 UTC
30 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism—Hous­ton Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup

Keirra_W-Houston2 Nov 2022 5:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro Fel­low­ship as Re­treat: Rea­sons, Ret­ro­spec­tive, and Resources

Rachel Weinberg2 Nov 2022 3:57 UTC
55 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Study show­ing in­ter­est­ing way to re­duce both co­caine pro­duc­tion and child labor

DeborahB2 Nov 2022 1:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

robertskmiles1 Nov 2022 23:21 UTC
75 points
83 comments3 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

elte1 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

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸1 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 Can🔸1 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
64 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