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

Rethink PrioritiesAug 15, 2022, 11:44 PM
67 points
2 comments14 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Na­ture: Nu­clear war be­tween two na­tions could spark global famine

Tyner🔸Aug 15, 2022, 8:55 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

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

Will AldredAug 15, 2022, 8:46 PM
146 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸Aug 15, 2022, 8:35 PM
6 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Re­view of WWOTF

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 15, 2022, 6:53 PM
25 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

New Cause: Ra­dio Ads Against Cousin Mar­riage in LMIC

Jackson WagnerAug 15, 2022, 5:36 PM
27 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Trad­ing off ve­g­anism and wild an­i­mal suffering

Ed HuntAug 15, 2022, 4:01 PM
18 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July-Au­gust 2022

LizkaAug 15, 2022, 3:54 PM
25 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️Aug 15, 2022, 2:22 PM
80 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

What Skills Have You Put De­liber­ate Prac­tice Into?

lynettebyeAug 15, 2022, 2:02 PM
28 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Has traf­fic to the fo­rum in­creased re­cently?

Charlie DoughertyAug 15, 2022, 1:28 PM
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?

freedomandutilityAug 15, 2022, 1:13 PM
6 points
6 commentsEA link

A re­view of the Sch­warz­man Schol­ars pro­gram for EAs

KevinWeiAug 15, 2022, 12:07 PM
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 BergmanAug 15, 2022, 11:44 AM
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] PDF of EA Hand­book?

Simon HolmAug 15, 2022, 7:39 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

So, I Want to Be a “Think­fluencer”

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Aug 15, 2022, 6:05 AM
17 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

A Fair Vote Can Change the World

Rob RichieAug 15, 2022, 5:26 AM
3 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

“Holy Shit, X-risk” talk

michelAug 15, 2022, 5:04 AM
13 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, the Prin­ci­ple of Ex­plo­sion and Epistemic Fragility

EigengenderAug 15, 2022, 1:45 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing De­faults and So­cial Norms in EA giv­ing.

Dr Dan EpsteinAug 15, 2022, 12:03 AM
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 ArelAug 14, 2022, 3:58 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal EA fund­ing data

TylerMauleAug 14, 2022, 1:21 PM
267 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

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

JacobTrefAug 14, 2022, 1:17 AM
60 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(jobs.ashbyhq.com)

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

eliflandAug 14, 2022, 12:55 AM
183 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

Will MacAskill: The Begin­ning of History

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 13, 2022, 10:45 PM
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

How to Talk to Lefties in Your In­tro Fellowship

utilistrutilAug 13, 2022, 8:48 PM
35 points
31 comments5 min readEA link

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

SiebeRozendalAug 13, 2022, 8:36 PM
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The case for Green Growth skep­ti­cism and GDP agnosticism

ErolaPonsAug 13, 2022, 6:36 PM
54 points
24 comments14 min readEA link

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

ArnoAug 13, 2022, 4:29 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The an­i­mals and hu­mans anal­ogy for AI risk

freedomandutilityAug 13, 2022, 3:35 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

freedomandutilityAug 13, 2022, 2:53 PM
36 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Struc­tur­ing new char­i­ties (even more) like tech star­tups

tcelferactAug 13, 2022, 2:19 PM
12 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Any Le­gal Con­sul­tan­cies for Early EA Orgs?

effectiveutilsAug 13, 2022, 9:11 AM
5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

We’re re­ally bad at guess­ing the future

Benj AzoseAug 13, 2022, 9:11 AM
20 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Fix Pri­son Telecom

Benj AzoseAug 13, 2022, 9:11 AM
31 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

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

EmrikAug 13, 2022, 9:01 AM
62 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Who’s go­ing to EAG DC?

SimonMAug 13, 2022, 7:36 AM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mism ne­glects anti-age­ing research

freedomandutilityAug 12, 2022, 10:52 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

EnginarAug 12, 2022, 10:14 PM
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 ReturnsAug 12, 2022, 8:20 PM
−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 ReturnsAug 12, 2022, 7:22 PM
2 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

What is es­ti­ma­tional pro­gram­ming? Squig­gle in context

quinnAug 12, 2022, 6:01 PM
31 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tion­al­ism is a key value in EA

freedomandutilityAug 12, 2022, 4:59 PM
52 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevinAug 12, 2022, 2:05 PM
108 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

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

weeatquinceAug 12, 2022, 1:54 PM
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

Large-scale In­ter­na­tional Ed­u­ca­tional Mi­gra­tion: A Shal­low Investigation

Johannes HaushoferAug 12, 2022, 12:42 PM
72 points
6 comments17 min readEA link

Anti-squat­ted AI x-risk do­mains index

plexAug 12, 2022, 12:00 PM
56 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

Aaron BergmanAug 12, 2022, 10:47 AM
14 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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

Karolina SoltysAug 12, 2022, 9:08 AM
39 points
13 comments22 min readEA link