PSA: Corsi-Rosen­thal Air Filters Are a Cheap and Effec­tive Way to Im­prove In­door Air Quality

Lauren Reid20 Jul 2022 23:45 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial sci­en­tists in­ter­ested in AI safety should con­sider do­ing di­rect tech­ni­cal AI safety re­search, (pos­si­bly meta-re­search), or gov­er­nance, sup­port roles, or com­mu­nity build­ing instead

Vael Gates20 Jul 2022 23:01 UTC
65 points
8 comments18 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ca­reers (Web­site to ex­plore)

EA Handbook20 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.animaladvocacycareers.org)

Top open Me­tac­u­lus forecasts

EA Handbook20 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Cere­bral organoids

Forumite20 Jul 2022 20:12 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

If you’re un­happy, con­sider leaving

Justis20 Jul 2022 15:49 UTC
139 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

The value of con­tent density

Joey🔸20 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC
207 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Reli­gion: want to talk about it?

Dov20 Jul 2022 12:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What might decor­ti­cate rats tell us about the dis­tri­bu­tion of con­scious­ness?

Derek Shiller20 Jul 2022 12:00 UTC
31 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

How to Diver­sify Con­cep­tual AI Align­ment: the Model Be­hind Refine

adamShimi20 Jul 2022 10:44 UTC
43 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Ap­pli­ca­tions are open for CFAR work­shops in Prague this fall

John Steidley20 Jul 2022 0:17 UTC
54 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Glo, a non­profit sta­ble­coin that gen­er­ates rev­enue for GiveDirectly

Seth Ariel Green19 Jul 2022 18:32 UTC
25 points
42 comments3 min readEA link

Global An­i­mal Slaugh­ter Statis­tics & Charts: 2022 Update

JLRiedi19 Jul 2022 16:07 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Spend­ing Up­date 2022

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC
35 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

What I’m doing

Chris Leong19 Jul 2022 11:31 UTC
28 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Why EA could do more good as a Poli­ti­cal In­ter­na­tional rather than a Philan­thropic Nonprofit

jessefrances19 Jul 2022 0:53 UTC
−8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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