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[Question] Is there any re­search or fore­casts of how likely AI Align­ment is go­ing to be a hard vs. easy prob­lem rel­a­tive to ca­pa­bil­ities?

Jordan Arel14 Aug 2022 15:58 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal EA fund­ing data

TylerMaule14 Aug 2022 13:21 UTC
267 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

Open Phil is hiring for a pro­gram officer in global health R&D

JacobTref14 Aug 2022 1:17 UTC
60 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(jobs.ashbyhq.com)

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

elifland14 Aug 2022 0:55 UTC
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

Will MacAskill: The Begin­ning of History

Zach Stein-Perlman13 Aug 2022 22:45 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

How to Talk to Lefties in Your In­tro Fellowship

utilistrutil13 Aug 2022 20:48 UTC
34 points
31 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why aren’t EAs talk­ing about the COVID lab leak hy­poth­e­sis more?

SiebeRozendal13 Aug 2022 20:36 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The case for Green Growth skep­ti­cism and GDP agnosticism

ErolaPons13 Aug 2022 18:36 UTC
54 points
24 comments14 min readEA link

Global Devel­op­ment → re­duced ex-risk/​long-ter­mism. (Ini­tial draft/​ques­tion)

Arno13 Aug 2022 16:29 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The an­i­mals and hu­mans anal­ogy for AI risk

freedomandutility13 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion should con­sider po­ten­tial for on­go­ing eval­u­a­tion alongside ex­pected value and ev­i­dence quality

freedomandutility13 Aug 2022 14:53 UTC
36 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Struc­tur­ing new char­i­ties (even more) like tech star­tups

tcelferact13 Aug 2022 14:19 UTC
12 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Any Le­gal Con­sul­tan­cies for Early EA Orgs?

effectiveutils13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

We’re re­ally bad at guess­ing the future

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Fix Pri­son Telecom

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC
31 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the EA Gather Town Event Hall as a global hub for on­line events

Emrik13 Aug 2022 9:01 UTC
62 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Who’s go­ing to EAG DC?

SimonM13 Aug 2022 7:36 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mism ne­glects anti-age­ing research

freedomandutility12 Aug 2022 22:52 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Miti­gat­ing chicken and fish suffer­ing by clos­ing the “dairy gap” in Asia and Africa—Longer Version

Enginar12 Aug 2022 22:14 UTC
24 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

The de­vel­oped world lives off the backs of the de­vel­op­ing world. Broadly dis­tributed eco­nomic growth re­quires mas­sive in­creases in hu­man pro­duc­tivity, not the pro-growth poli­cies which got us here

Uncorrelated Returns12 Aug 2022 20:20 UTC
−5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

More tech peo­ple are see­ing China as a threat vs push­ing for global col­lab­o­ra­tion: we should speak up about this (rele­vant to AI safety, nu­clear pro­lifer­a­tion, longter­mism)

Uncorrelated Returns12 Aug 2022 19:22 UTC
2 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

What is es­ti­ma­tional pro­gram­ming? Squig­gle in context

quinn12 Aug 2022 18:01 UTC
26 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tion­al­ism is a key value in EA

freedomandutility12 Aug 2022 16:59 UTC
52 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David Thorstad12 Aug 2022 14:42 UTC
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevin12 Aug 2022 14:05 UTC
107 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

Some con­cerns about policy work fund­ing and the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

weeatquince12 Aug 2022 13:54 UTC
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

Large-scale In­ter­na­tional Ed­u­ca­tional Mi­gra­tion: A Shal­low Investigation

Johannes Haushofer12 Aug 2022 12:42 UTC
72 points
6 comments17 min readEA link

Anti-squat­ted AI x-risk do­mains index

plex12 Aug 2022 12:00 UTC
56 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Cause ex­plo­ra­tion: im­prov­ing wild fish slaugh­ter [half-baked, post-dead­line]

Aaron Bergman12 Aug 2022 10:47 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

New cause area: Im­prov­ing di­ag­no­sis and treat­ment of bipo­lar spec­trum disorders

Karolina Soltys12 Aug 2022 9:08 UTC
39 points
13 comments22 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Risks of Ad­vanced Gene Edit­ing Technologies

Courtney Colston12 Aug 2022 9:08 UTC
5 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Can pur­pose in life be a sim­ple, pow­er­ful, and sys­temic lev­er­age point for pos­i­tive change?

Kokeb Solomon12 Aug 2022 9:06 UTC
8 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Un­cor­re­lated Bets: an easy to un­der­stand and very im­por­tant de­ci­sion the­ory con­sid­er­a­tion, which helps tease out nonob­vi­ous but pro­duc­tive crit­i­cism of the EA movement

Uncorrelated Returns12 Aug 2022 9:04 UTC
22 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How do in­de­pen­dent re­searchers get ac­cess to re­sources?

Guy Raveh12 Aug 2022 7:51 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Distil­la­tion of The Offense-Defense Balance of Scien­tific Knowledge

Arjun Yadav12 Aug 2022 7:01 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Ide­ol­ogy: want to earn money, help EA and/​or me? Then check this out; it may be a mighty ne­glected cause

Dov12 Aug 2022 5:52 UTC
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

Mind En­hance­ment Cause Exploration

timfarkas12 Aug 2022 5:49 UTC
39 points
4 comments52 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prize: Mod­ern­iz­ing the So­cial Science Re­search Infrastructure

yfu12 Aug 2022 5:42 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion: Gover­nance De­sign & Formation

RoboTeddy12 Aug 2022 5:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments15 min readEA link

New cause area: Traf­fic congestion

JeremyR12 Aug 2022 5:27 UTC
26 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan Griffes12 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
73 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Cos­mic rays could cause ma­jor elec­tronic dis­rup­tion and pose a small ex­is­ten­tial risk

M_Allcock12 Aug 2022 3:30 UTC
12 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Will longter­mists self-efface

Noah Scales12 Aug 2022 2:32 UTC
−7 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

War Between the US and China: A case study for epistemic challenges around China-re­lated catas­trophic risk

Jordan_Schneider12 Aug 2022 2:19 UTC
76 points
17 comments43 min readEA link

Cause ex­plo­ra­tion: Tobacco harm reduction

kristof12 Aug 2022 1:53 UTC
16 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

Directly Pur­chas­ing and Distribut­ing Stun­ning Equip­ment to Fish­ing Boats Which Catch Enor­mous Amounts of Small Wild Fish

Enginar12 Aug 2022 1:37 UTC
33 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

In­vest­ing for a cause

brb24312 Aug 2022 1:35 UTC
5 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

New Cause Area: Steer­ing and Sta­bil­is­ing Sta­tus Games

Wim12 Aug 2022 1:30 UTC
8 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prize: Distri­bu­tion of In­for­ma­tion Among Humans

markov_user12 Aug 2022 0:58 UTC
31 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Fam­ily Plan­ning: A Sig­nifi­cant Op­por­tu­nity for Impact

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie12 Aug 2022 0:01 UTC
99 points
9 comments14 min readEA link