Is the rea­son­ing of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion valid?

AdithyaApr 21, 2022, 11:33 PM
3 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Fuck Your Mir­a­cle Year

rogersbacon1Apr 21, 2022, 9:00 PM
−3 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

My ex­pe­rience with im­poster syn­drome — and how to (partly) over­come it

Luisa_RodriguezApr 21, 2022, 7:55 PM
289 points
20 comments23 min readEA link

Valu­ing Leisure Time

Richard BrunsApr 21, 2022, 4:17 PM
26 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Is the EA Librar­ian still a thing? If so, what is the cur­rent turnaround?

JeremyApr 21, 2022, 4:03 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Isn’t on TV.

ColdButtonIssuesApr 21, 2022, 2:06 PM
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Self-Help is look­ing for feedback

Ben WilliamsonApr 21, 2022, 1:08 PM
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How much cur­rent an­i­mal suffer­ing does longter­mism let us ig­nore?

Jacob EliosoffApr 21, 2022, 9:10 AM
40 points
50 comments6 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal Awesomeness

Antoine de Scorraille ⏸️Apr 20, 2022, 11:17 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sources for bet­ter un­der­stand­ing ap­ti­tudes?

Miranda_ZhangApr 20, 2022, 3:39 PM
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 20, 2022, 2:42 PM
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

What do we want the world to look like in 10 years?

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 20, 2022, 2:34 PM
126 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Neil Buddy Shah has been ap­pointed CEO of the Clin­ton Health Ac­cess Initiative

GiveWellApr 20, 2022, 2:23 PM
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Help with the Fo­rum; wiki edit­ing, giv­ing feed­back, mod­er­a­tion, and more

LizkaApr 20, 2022, 12:58 PM
88 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Mar­ket De­sign Meets Effec­tive Altruism

MarshallApr 19, 2022, 9:39 PM
26 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What are the num­bers in mind for the su­per-short AGI timelines so many long-ter­mists are alarmed about?

Evan_GaensbauerApr 19, 2022, 9:09 PM
41 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“Pivotal Act” In­ten­tions: Nega­tive Con­se­quences and Fal­la­cious Arguments

Andrew CritchApr 19, 2022, 8:24 PM
80 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Should you do an eco­nomics PhD (or mas­ter’s)?

david_reinsteinApr 19, 2022, 8:04 PM
62 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

Chain­ing Retroac­tive Fun­ders to Bor­row Against Un­likely Utopias

Dawn DrescherApr 19, 2022, 6:25 PM
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(impactmarkets.substack.com)

Next Gen­er­a­tion Biose­cu­rity—Sum­mary of Course by Univer­sity of Bath

Madhav MalhotraApr 19, 2022, 4:14 PM
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Can we agree on a bet­ter name than ‘near-ter­mist’? “Not-longer­mist”? “Not-full-longter­mist”?

david_reinsteinApr 19, 2022, 4:09 PM
75 points
44 comments2 min readEA link

How Many Peo­ple Are In The In­visi­ble Grave­yard?

Maxwell TabarrokApr 19, 2022, 2:03 PM
47 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

The ac­ci­den­tal ex­per­i­ment that saved 700 lives (IRS & health in­surance)

LizkaApr 19, 2022, 1:28 PM
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

The num­ber of seabirds and sea mam­mals kil­led by marine plas­tic pol­lu­tion is quite small rel­a­tive to the catch of fish

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 19, 2022, 11:22 AM
89 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What makes a state­ment a nor­ma­tive state­ment?

VynnApr 19, 2022, 8:41 AM
2 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Closed] Hiring a math­e­mat­i­cian to work on the learn­ing-the­o­retic AI al­ign­ment agenda

VanessaApr 19, 2022, 6:49 AM
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: How Much is Your Time Worth?

JeremyApr 19, 2022, 2:03 AM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Cor­po­rate gov­er­nance re­form efforts?

samstowersApr 18, 2022, 6:09 PM
9 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Will FTX Fund pub­lish re­sults from their first round?

barkbellowroarApr 18, 2022, 1:31 PM
64 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

My notes on: Why we can’t take ex­pected value es­ti­mates liter­ally (even when they’re un­bi­ased)

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 18, 2022, 1:10 PM
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

FTX/​CEA—show us your num­bers!

Jack LewarsApr 18, 2022, 12:05 PM
159 points
109 comments2 min readEA link

An un­com­fortable thought ex­per­i­ment for anti-speciesist non-vegans

JackMApr 18, 2022, 9:17 AM
34 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How will the world re­spond to “AI x-risk warn­ing shots” ac­cord­ing to refer­ence class fore­cast­ing?

Ryan KiddApr 18, 2022, 9:10 AM
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] EA “CB Ra­dio” any­time chat?

david_reinsteinApr 18, 2022, 1:28 AM
8 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

If EA Wants to Gain Rele­vance, We Need to Ex­pand Our­selves to other Languages

Sergio Rodriguez CifuentesApr 17, 2022, 8:24 PM
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Stupid Rea­sons to Have More Kids

johnburidanApr 17, 2022, 8:00 PM
11 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Is work­ing for Meta a good or bad op­tion?

warrenjordanApr 17, 2022, 6:10 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why not offer a multi-mil­lion /​ billion dol­lar prize for solv­ing the Align­ment Prob­lem?

Aryeh EnglanderApr 17, 2022, 4:08 PM
15 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Ad­vice on peo­ple man­age­ment from EA Global

Michelle_HutchinsonApr 17, 2022, 3:26 PM
38 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How I failed to form views on AI safety

Ada-Maaria HyvärinenApr 17, 2022, 11:05 AM
213 points
72 comments40 min readEA link

[Question] Money vs Ta­lent: Put­ting num­bers on the trade­off?

Aayush KucheriaApr 17, 2022, 10:50 AM
32 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would peo­ple like to see “cu­ra­tion com­ments” on posts with high num­bers of com­ments?

Marcel DApr 17, 2022, 4:40 AM
18 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism culture

PabloAMC 🔸Apr 17, 2022, 1:23 AM
35 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Pre­frosh out­reach is a low hang­ing fruit

NikolaApr 17, 2022, 1:01 AM
30 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] What moral philoso­phies be­sides util­i­tar­i­anism are com­pat­i­ble with effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Eevee🔹Apr 16, 2022, 7:53 PM
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

How to or­ganise ‘the one per­cent’ to fix cli­mate change

One Percent OrganiserApr 16, 2022, 5:18 PM
2 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

What is a neu­tral life like?

JackMApr 16, 2022, 3:57 PM
42 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

A quick poll of 105 peo­ple at EAG on Fri­day evening

Max ClarkeApr 16, 2022, 3:34 PM
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

2022 Men­tal Health Nav­i­ga­tor Progress Report

EmilyApr 16, 2022, 2:02 PM
12 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Google Sum­mer of Code: Tech-for-Good Pro­jects to Ex­plore some EA Areas

Ram AdityaApr 16, 2022, 10:45 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link