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Re­search sum­mary: brain cell counts in Black Soldier Flies (Her­me­tia illu­cens; Diptera: Stra­tiomy­i­dae)

Rethink Priorities15 Aug 2022 23:44 UTC
67 points
2 comments14 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Na­ture: Nu­clear war be­tween two na­tions could spark global famine

Tyner15 Aug 2022 20:55 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Feed­back I’ve been giv­ing to ju­nior x-risk researchers

Will Aldred15 Aug 2022 20:46 UTC
145 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Avoid­ing the de­mand­ing­ness of to­tal welfarism with rights-based dis­counted welfarism

Stijn15 Aug 2022 20:35 UTC
6 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Re­view of WWOTF

Richard Y Chappell🔸15 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC
25 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

New Cause: Ra­dio Ads Against Cousin Mar­riage in LMIC

Jackson Wagner15 Aug 2022 17:36 UTC
27 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Trad­ing off ve­g­anism and wild an­i­mal suffering

Ed Hunt15 Aug 2022 16:01 UTC
18 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July-Au­gust 2022

Lizka15 Aug 2022 15:54 UTC
25 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

Kat Woods15 Aug 2022 14:22 UTC
77 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

What Skills Have You Put De­liber­ate Prac­tice Into?

lynettebye15 Aug 2022 14:02 UTC
28 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Has traf­fic to the fo­rum in­creased re­cently?

Charlie Dougherty15 Aug 2022 13:28 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does any­one have a list of his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of so­cieties seek­ing to make things bet­ter for their de­scen­dants?

freedomandutility15 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

A re­view of the Sch­warz­man Schol­ars pro­gram for EAs

KevinWei15 Aug 2022 12:07 UTC
42 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Which of Will MacAskill’s many re­cent pod­cast epi­sodes would you recom­mend to other en­gaged EAs?

Aaron Bergman15 Aug 2022 11:44 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] PDF of EA Hand­book?

Simon Holm15 Aug 2022 7:39 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

So, I Want to Be a “Think­fluencer”

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆15 Aug 2022 6:05 UTC
17 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

A Fair Vote Can Change the World

Rob Richie15 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

“Holy Shit, X-risk” talk

michel15 Aug 2022 5:04 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, the Prin­ci­ple of Ex­plo­sion and Epistemic Fragility

Eigengender15 Aug 2022 1:45 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing De­faults and So­cial Norms in EA giv­ing.

Dr Dan Epstein15 Aug 2022 0:03 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[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