EA has a ly­ing prob­lem [Link Post]

Nathan YoungAug 16, 2022, 9:57 PM
−3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Sup­ple­ment to “The Brus­sels Effect and AI: How EU AI reg­u­la­tion will im­pact the global AI mar­ket”

MarkusAnderljungAug 16, 2022, 8:55 PM
109 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Is Civ­i­liza­tion on the Brink of Col­lapse? - Kurzgesagt

GabeMAug 16, 2022, 8:06 PM
33 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Case for Short­ter­mism—by Robert Wright

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Aug 16, 2022, 8:00 PM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

The Cred­i­bil­ity of Apoca­lyp­tic Claims: A Cri­tique of Techno-Fu­tur­ism within Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

EmberAug 16, 2022, 7:48 PM
25 points
35 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Any­one has a refer­ence for “It’s es­ti­mated that abo­li­tion cost Bri­tain 2% of its GDP for 50 years”?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Aug 16, 2022, 7:26 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture, Chap­ter 1

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 6:31 PM
42 points
6 comments18 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoelAug 16, 2022, 5:16 PM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

“How many peo­ple might ever ex­ist, calcu­lated” by Primer [Video]

Ezra NewmanAug 16, 2022, 4:33 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Should We Help Fu­ture Peo­ple? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸Aug 16, 2022, 4:00 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: Epistemic Legibility

JeremyAug 16, 2022, 3:55 PM
5 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] EA Public­ity Drive—What are the best signs of in­creased, in-depth en­gage­ment with EA?

slgAug 16, 2022, 3:14 PM
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 3:13 PM
293 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

A con­cern about the “evolu­tion­ary an­chor” of Ajeya Co­tra’s re­port on AI timelines.

NunoSempereAug 16, 2022, 2:44 PM
75 points
40 comments5 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A re­view and sum­mary of what I learned

Michael Townsend🔸Aug 16, 2022, 2:19 PM
45 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

Allen BellAug 16, 2022, 2:04 PM
83 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

We can make the fu­ture a mil­lion years from now go bet­ter [video]

WriterAug 16, 2022, 1:03 PM
12 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Short ac­tion you can take: pro­pos­als for the UK House of Com­mons Science and Tech­nol­ogy Committee

helmetedhornbillAug 16, 2022, 12:38 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­fut­ing longter­mism with Fer­mat’s Last Theorem

astuppleAug 16, 2022, 12:26 PM
3 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

How should we in­vest in democ­racy as an EA-ad­ja­cent is­sue? Some early thoughts

AlishaandomedaAug 16, 2022, 11:54 AM
16 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

jasoncrawfordAug 16, 2022, 5:21 AM
7 points
21 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Philan­thropic util­i­tar­ian algorithm

Richard BaxterAug 16, 2022, 5:07 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Yale EA got an office. How did it go?

Empty BeeAug 16, 2022, 4:06 AM
91 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

De­cep­tion as the op­ti­mal: mesa-op­ti­miz­ers and in­ner al­ign­ment

Eleni_AAug 16, 2022, 3:45 AM
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Your first posts will be cringe. It’s fine.

CoafosAug 16, 2022, 2:20 AM
48 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Crowd­sourc­ing Anki Decks

EarthlingAug 16, 2022, 1:30 AM
10 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

TynerAug 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 WoodsAug 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
2 points
2 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
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)