BERI is hiring a Deputy Director

sawyer🔸18 Jul 2022 22:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy Shal­low In­ves­ti­ga­tion: Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in LMICs

Lauren Gilbert18 Jul 2022 21:26 UTC
72 points
10 comments15 min readEA link

If You Were Hop­ing Musk Would Donate to EA . . .

Stuart Buck18 Jul 2022 21:05 UTC
72 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing night­mares as a cause area

Drew Housman18 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
159 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

Without spe­cific coun­ter­mea­sures, the eas­iest path to trans­for­ma­tive AI likely leads to AI takeover

Ajeya18 Jul 2022 19:07 UTC
217 points
12 comments84 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Why EAs are skep­ti­cal about AI Safety

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸18 Jul 2022 19:01 UTC
290 points
31 comments29 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions of Cost-Effec­tive­ness can be misleading

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸18 Jul 2022 17:42 UTC
70 points
49 comments1 min readEA link

arxiv.org—I might work there soon

Yonatan Cale18 Jul 2022 16:58 UTC
24 points
45 comments1 min readEA link

What’s so dan­ger­ous about AI any­way? – Or: What it means to be a superintelligence

Thomas Kehrenberg18 Jul 2022 16:14 UTC
9 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

GPT-2 as step to­ward gen­eral in­tel­li­gence (Alexan­der, 2019)

Will Aldred18 Jul 2022 16:14 UTC
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Re­duc­ing aquatic noise as a wild an­i­mal welfare intervention

saulius18 Jul 2022 16:12 UTC
56 points
7 comments29 min readEA link

Fel­low­ship al­ter­na­tive: Read­ing the EA Fo­rum (with dis­cus­sion ques­tions)

brb24318 Jul 2022 15:49 UTC
10 points
7 comments16 min readEA link

Tell 80,000 Hours how we’re doing

Bella18 Jul 2022 14:42 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A plat­form for on-de­mand vaccination

George3d618 Jul 2022 14:22 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok18 Jul 2022 11:54 UTC
66 points
18 comments31 min readEA link

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands for Ri­gor (Alexan­der, 2014)

Will Aldred18 Jul 2022 11:48 UTC
48 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

A Sur­vey of the Po­ten­tial Long-term Im­pacts of AI

Sam Clarke18 Jul 2022 9:48 UTC
63 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

On the Jour­ney Towards Action

jessefrances18 Jul 2022 7:01 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Rus­sian Re­sis­tance: a web­site about protesters and how one could sup­port them

Svetoslav Palović18 Jul 2022 7:00 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Over­think­ing “Only Be a Story”

Mica White17 Jul 2022 22:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Ex­plore Risks from Emerg­ing Tech­nol­ogy with Peers Out­side of (or New to) the AI Align­ment Com­mu­nity—Ex­press In­ter­est by Au­gust 8

Fasori17 Jul 2022 20:59 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral Weights of An­i­mals, Con­sid­er­ing View­point Uncertainty

rogersbacon117 Jul 2022 19:52 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.org)

[Question] What kind of or­ga­ni­za­tion should be the first to de­velop AGI in a po­ten­tial arms race?

Eevee🔹17 Jul 2022 17:41 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Four ques­tions I ask AI safety researchers

Akash17 Jul 2022 17:25 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion Ques­tions for Books with Ex­pe­rienced Pro­fes­sion­als’ Audience

brb24317 Jul 2022 12:29 UTC
5 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism as “nish kam karma yoga” [Larry Brilli­ant]

annaleptikon17 Jul 2022 12:17 UTC
37 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Do EA folks think that a path to zero AGI de­vel­op­ment is fea­si­ble or worth­while for safety from AI?

Noah Scales17 Jul 2022 8:47 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] In one hour, how could one donor com­pare the benefit of one marginal USD from 1921 to pro­tect civ­i­liza­tion in 2021?

ethankennerly17 Jul 2022 1:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

When Utili­tar­i­anism is Ac­tu­ally ✨Fun✨

Hmash16 Jul 2022 23:25 UTC
60 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Bayes’ rule: Guide

EA Handbook16 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(arbital.com)

Retroac­tive fund­ing with sub­sidy markets

Donald Hobson16 Jul 2022 19:41 UTC
16 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Does the idea of AGI that benev­olently con­trol us ap­peal to EA folks?

Noah Scales16 Jul 2022 19:17 UTC
6 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Red team­ing a model for es­ti­mat­ing the value of longter­mist in­ter­ven­tions—A cri­tique of Tarsney’s “The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism”

Anjay F16 Jul 2022 19:05 UTC
21 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

De­sire the­o­ries of welfare and non­hu­man animals

MichaelStJules16 Jul 2022 18:52 UTC
20 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Why did I mi­s­un­der­stand util­i­tar­i­anism so badly?

Eleni_A16 Jul 2022 16:36 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

List of Lists of Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­ject Ideas

Tessa A 🔸16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC
212 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Con­fused about “mak­ing peo­ple happy” vs. “mak­ing happy peo­ple”

tobiasleenaert16 Jul 2022 15:07 UTC
68 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How would a lan­guage model be­come goal-di­rected?

David M16 Jul 2022 14:50 UTC
113 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of sci­en­tific research

Falk Lieder16 Jul 2022 12:20 UTC
36 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] What is the jour­ney to car­ing more about 1) oth­ers and 2) what is re­ally true even if it is in­con­ve­nient?

Sophia16 Jul 2022 11:31 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Pub­lish­ing Com­pre­hen­sive Books Which Make the Case for Effec­tive Cor­po­rate An­i­mal Welfare Cam­paigns via a Writ­ing Con­test for Po­ten­tial Authors

Enginar16 Jul 2022 8:31 UTC
9 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Do EA folks want AGI at all?

Noah Scales16 Jul 2022 5:44 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

A sum­mary of ev­ery “High­lights from the Se­quences” post

Akash15 Jul 2022 23:05 UTC
47 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Risks from Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence’

EA Handbook15 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Our Fi­nal Cen­tury’

EA Handbook15 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Re­port on So­cial Re­turns to Pro­duc­tivity Growth

Tom_Davidson15 Jul 2022 22:31 UTC
55 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

My lo­cal EA group has an un­friendly and im­per­sonal vibe (via r/​Effec­tiveAltru­ism)

Tyner15 Jul 2022 22:27 UTC
62 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(old.reddit.com)

[Question] Ex­is­ten­tial Biorisk vs. GCBR

Will Aldred15 Jul 2022 21:16 UTC
37 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Man­i­fold Mar­kets in­ter­view with Joel Becker

David Chee15 Jul 2022 20:33 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ap­ply to the Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fel­low­ship!

lukeprog15 Jul 2022 19:47 UTC
93 points
3 comments5 min readEA link