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Fu­ture Mat­ters #1: AI take­off, longter­mism vs. ex­is­ten­tial risk, and prob­a­bil­ity discounting

Pablo23 Apr 2022 23:32 UTC
57 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

EAGxAus­tralia 2022

Rowan Clements 🔸23 Apr 2022 22:22 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of donat­ing a kidney

Vasco Grilo🔸23 Apr 2022 21:50 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cal­ling for Stu­dent Sub­mis­sions: AI Safety Distil­la­tion Contest

a_e_r23 Apr 2022 20:24 UTC
102 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

My GWWC dona­tions: Switch­ing from long- to near-ter­mist op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Tom Gardiner 🔸23 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
109 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

EAG is over, but don’t delete Swapcard

Rockwell23 Apr 2022 16:45 UTC
55 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

I burnt out at EAG. Let’s talk about it.

Alastair Fraser-Urquhart23 Apr 2022 12:25 UTC
120 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Will EAIF and LTFF pub­lish its re­ports of re­cent grants?

throwaway12910323 Apr 2022 12:24 UTC
46 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Tools/​meth­ods for find­ing most pivotal un­jour­nal-wor­thy re­search

david_reinstein23 Apr 2022 1:10 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Repli­cat­ing and ex­tend­ing the grabby aliens model

Tristan Cook23 Apr 2022 0:36 UTC
137 points
27 comments51 min readEA link

Im­prove/​pro­mote a post in situ.

david_reinstein22 Apr 2022 22:03 UTC
32 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of GiveWell’s top life-sav­ing char­i­ties un­der to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism?

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare: in­vestor/​com­pany the­ory of change | FAIRR as or­gani­sa­tion work­ing in this area, jobs

Ben Yeoh22 Apr 2022 14:27 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: The Value of Giv­ing Money to Differ­ent Groups | Toby Ord

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 10:33 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary: The Im­por­tance of End-of-Life Welfare | Brown­ing & Veit

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 10:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Civ­i­liza­tional vulnerabilities

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 9:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Most effec­tive way to make a UN-based web­site?

Benjamin Start22 Apr 2022 7:00 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­ject: A web plat­form for crowd­sourc­ing im­pact es­ti­mates of in­ter­ven­tions.

Max Clarke22 Apr 2022 6:54 UTC
41 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

Edit­ing Ad­vice for EA Fo­rum Users

Justis22 Apr 2022 2:45 UTC
109 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Is the rea­son­ing of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion valid?

Adithya21 Apr 2022 23:33 UTC
3 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Fuck Your Mir­a­cle Year

rogersbacon121 Apr 2022 21:00 UTC
−3 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

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

Luisa_Rodriguez21 Apr 2022 19:55 UTC
291 points
20 comments23 min readEA link

Valu­ing Leisure Time

Richard Bruns21 Apr 2022 16:17 UTC
26 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

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

Jeremy21 Apr 2022 16:03 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Isn’t on TV.

ColdButtonIssues21 Apr 2022 14:06 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Self-Help is look­ing for feedback

Ben Williamson21 Apr 2022 13:08 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How much cur­rent an­i­mal suffer­ing does longter­mism let us ig­nore?

Jacob Eliosoff21 Apr 2022 9:10 UTC
40 points
50 comments6 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal Awesomeness

Antoine de Scorraille ⏸️20 Apr 2022 23:17 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sources for bet­ter un­der­stand­ing ap­ti­tudes?

Miranda_Zhang20 Apr 2022 15:39 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:42 UTC
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:34 UTC
126 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

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

GiveWell20 Apr 2022 14:23 UTC
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

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

Lizka20 Apr 2022 12:58 UTC
88 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Mar­ket De­sign Meets Effec­tive Altruism

Marshall19 Apr 2022 21:39 UTC
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_Gaensbauer19 Apr 2022 21:09 UTC
41 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“Pivotal Act” In­ten­tions: Nega­tive Con­se­quences and Fal­la­cious Arguments

Andrew Critch19 Apr 2022 20:24 UTC
80 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

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

david_reinstein19 Apr 2022 20:04 UTC
62 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

Chain­ing Retroac­tive Fun­ders to Bor­row Against Un­likely Utopias

Dawn Drescher19 Apr 2022 18:25 UTC
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(impactmarkets.substack.com)

Next Gen­er­a­tion Biose­cu­rity—Sum­mary of Course by Univer­sity of Bath

Madhav Malhotra19 Apr 2022 16:14 UTC
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

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

david_reinstein19 Apr 2022 16:09 UTC
75 points
44 comments2 min readEA link

How Many Peo­ple Are In The In­visi­ble Grave­yard?

Maxwell Tabarrok19 Apr 2022 14:03 UTC
47 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

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

Lizka19 Apr 2022 13:28 UTC
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🔸19 Apr 2022 11:22 UTC
94 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What makes a state­ment a nor­ma­tive state­ment?

Vynn19 Apr 2022 8:41 UTC
2 points
17 commentsEA link

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

Vanessa19 Apr 2022 6:49 UTC
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: How Much is Your Time Worth?

Jeremy19 Apr 2022 2:03 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Cor­po­rate gov­er­nance re­form efforts?

samstowers18 Apr 2022 18:09 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

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

barkbellowroar18 Apr 2022 13:31 UTC
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🔸18 Apr 2022 13:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

FTX/​CEA—show us your num­bers!

Jack Lewars18 Apr 2022 12:05 UTC
159 points
109 comments2 min readEA link