Fermi Estimate

EA Handbook20 Jun 2022 23:00 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Tran­script of a talk on The non-iden­tity prob­lem by Derek Parfit at EAGxOxford 2016

james20 Jun 2022 21:34 UTC
29 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

New cause area: train­ing health work­ers to pre­vent new­born deaths

Marshall20 Jun 2022 17:12 UTC
65 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

You don’t have to re­spond to ev­ery comment

Lizka20 Jun 2022 16:58 UTC
128 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Re­la­tion­ship Ad­vice Repository

Ruby20 Jun 2022 15:38 UTC
25 points
6 comments36 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Notes on “A World Without Email”, plus my prac­ti­cal implementation

Peter Wildeford20 Jun 2022 15:34 UTC
64 points
7 comments13 min readEA link
(www.pasteurscube.com)

Dis­rup­tive cli­mate protests in the UK didn’t lead to a loss of pub­lic sup­port for cli­mate policies

JamesÖz20 Jun 2022 15:07 UTC
34 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Key Papers in Lan­guage Model Safety

aogara20 Jun 2022 14:59 UTC
20 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

GiveDirectly to Ad­minister Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

Lizka20 Jun 2022 12:46 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(marginalrevolution.com)

My notes on: A Very Ra­tional End of the World | Thomas Moynihan

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Jun 2022 8:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

How to be­come more agen­tic, by GPT-EA-Fo­rum-v1

JoyOptimizer20 Jun 2022 6:50 UTC
24 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How to ap­proach the dilemma be­tween the law of un­in­tended con­se­quences and the con­se­quences of non­ac­tion?

kristin.h20 Jun 2022 2:20 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[linkpost] Chris­ti­ano on agree­ment/​dis­agree­ment with Yud­kowsky’s “List of Lethal­ities”

Owen Cotton-Barratt19 Jun 2022 22:47 UTC
130 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

Are poul­try birds re­ally im­por­tant? Yes...

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Jun 2022 18:24 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

On Defer­ence and Yud­kowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkel19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC
285 points
194 comments17 min readEA link

Soft­ware Devel­op­ers: How to have Im­pact? A Soft­ware Ca­reer Guide

Yonatan Cale19 Jun 2022 9:58 UTC
61 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is similar to the AI al­ign­ment prob­lem and suffers from the same difficul­ties [Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Con­test en­try]

turchin19 Jun 2022 9:01 UTC
16 points
30 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] What is the best NGO for hunger re­lief in So­ma­lia? Ask­ing for a mil­lion­aire friend who is locked in on that spe­cific cause

ezrah19 Jun 2022 5:58 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

NEW GLOBAL POOLS: IMPACT FUNDS

TPogge19 Jun 2022 0:14 UTC
18 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Where to donate goods/​text­books/​items ~effec­tively in the UK/​US/​be­yond?

david_reinstein18 Jun 2022 17:32 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A laun­dry list of anx­ieties about launch­ing my blog: any feed­back ap­pre­ci­ated!

Holly K18 Jun 2022 13:54 UTC
22 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

‘Force mul­ti­pli­ers’ for EA research

Craig Drayton18 Jun 2022 13:39 UTC
18 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

A chat with Kyle Jo­hannsen, au­thor of Wild An­i­mal Ethics: The Mo­ral and Poli­ti­cal Prob­lem of Wild An­i­mal Suffering

Michael Huang18 Jun 2022 13:00 UTC
24 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Seven ways to be­come un­stop­pably agentic

Evie18 Jun 2022 9:30 UTC
136 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

What I mean by the phrase “tak­ing ideas se­ri­ously”

Luise18 Jun 2022 1:28 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(m.facebook.com)

Pivotal out­comes and pivotal processes

Andrew Critch17 Jun 2022 23:43 UTC
49 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Things That Make Me En­joy Giv­ing Ca­reer Advice

Neel Nanda17 Jun 2022 20:49 UTC
34 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Thoughts on Wild-An­i­mal Welfare and Hunting

ozymandias17 Jun 2022 19:54 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

[Brief] Sim­ple Method for EA Com­mu­nity Build­ing Post-College

QubitSwarm9917 Jun 2022 16:50 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

Ben Williamson17 Jun 2022 15:42 UTC
104 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

[Linkpost] World Men­tal Health Re­port: Trans­form­ing Men­tal Health for All

Barry Grimes17 Jun 2022 14:49 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.who.int)

Launch of FERSTS Retreat

Theo K17 Jun 2022 11:53 UTC
26 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

FYI: I’m work­ing on a book about the threat of AGI/​ASI for a gen­eral au­di­ence. I hope it will be of value to the cause and the community

Darren McKee17 Jun 2022 11:52 UTC
32 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

EA or­ga­ni­za­tions should be more coordinated

Rafael Ruiz17 Jun 2022 11:35 UTC
20 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Pod­cast con­ver­sa­tion with cli­mate jour­nal­ist David Roberts on cli­mate and effec­tive altruism

jackva17 Jun 2022 9:59 UTC
37 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.volts.wtf)

Ap­ply to the Ma­chine Learn­ing For Good boot­camp in France

Alexandre Variengien17 Jun 2022 9:13 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Seven (more) learn­ings from LEEP

ClareDonaldson17 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC
131 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Start­ing an EA uni group is sim­ple and effec­tive, thanks to in­tro EA programs

mic17 Jun 2022 6:34 UTC
15 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

High Im­pact Medicine Speaker Event on Nu­clear Risk

Caroline Knop17 Jun 2022 3:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are too many young, highly-en­gaged longter­mist EAs do­ing move­ment-build­ing?

Anonymous_EA16 Jun 2022 20:48 UTC
115 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Per­ils of op­ti­miz­ing in so­cial contexts

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 17:23 UTC
124 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

Don’t Over-Op­ti­mize Things

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 16:28 UTC
53 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

BBC Fu­ture longform ar­ti­cle on Progress Stud­ies (in­clud­ing con­nec­tion be­tween progress and risk)

Garrison16 Jun 2022 15:13 UTC
65 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

Refer the Co­op­er­a­tive AI Foun­da­tion’s New COO, Re­ceive $5000

Lewis Hammond16 Jun 2022 13:27 UTC
42 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: May-June 2022

Lizka16 Jun 2022 9:15 UTC
32 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

How ac­cu­rate are Open Phil’s pre­dic­tions?

Javier Prieto🔸16 Jun 2022 9:15 UTC
162 points
21 comments12 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

New Video: A sim­ple guide to giv­ing effectively

Giving What We Can16 Jun 2022 2:30 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Com­mu­nity builders should fo­cus more on sup­port­ing friend­ships within their group

S.E. Montgomery15 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC
60 points
8 comments7 min readEA link