Con­crete Ad­vice for Form­ing In­side Views on AI Safety

Neel NandaAug 17, 2022, 11:26 PM
58 points
4 comments10 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

[Question] How should oth­ers’ dona­tions be ac­counted for in cost-effec­tive­ness analy­ses?

brb243Aug 17, 2022, 8:57 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How and when should we in­cen­tivize peo­ple to leave EA bub­bles and ex­plore?

Owen Cotton-BarrattAug 17, 2022, 8:34 PM
165 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does ‘do­ing the most good’ also risk ‘do­ing the most bad’?

Louis ShekhtmanAug 17, 2022, 8:01 PM
−1 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Help with Up­com­ing NPR In­ter­view with William MacAskill

Avery J.C. KleinmanAug 17, 2022, 8:01 PM
62 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Home­less Relief

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:35 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Sickle Cell Disease

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:34 PM
28 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Vot­ing Methods

Marcus_OgrenAug 17, 2022, 7:32 PM
38 points
5 comments22 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Mea­sur­ing civic en­gage­ment—an im­por­tant yet un­der­val­ued well-be­ing met­ric?

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:31 PM
10 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Changes to our top char­ity crite­ria, and a new giv­ing option

GiveWellAug 17, 2022, 7:30 PM
99 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Trans­porta­tion Is­sues in Devel­op­ing Countries

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:17 PM
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Vol­un­tary Fam­ily Planning

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:05 PM
12 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] In­vest­ment in Fe­tal, Neona­tal and In­fant Devel­op­ment

Sofia PanasiukAug 17, 2022, 7:02 PM
11 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Fix Pri­son Telecoms

Open PhilanthropyAug 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
11 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Vol­un­tary Male Cir­cum­ci­sion in the pre­ven­tion of HIV in Nyanza and Western Re­gions of Kenya

Edward KusewaAug 17, 2022, 6:59 PM
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

An Ex­er­cise in Speed-Read­ing: The Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on AI (NSCAI) Fi­nal Report

abiolveraAug 17, 2022, 4:55 PM
47 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

Ac­cept­ing the Inevita­bil­ity of Am­bi­tious Ego­ism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenesAug 17, 2022, 2:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

EJOR spe­cial is­sue on role of op­er­a­tional re­search in fu­ture pandemics

wesgAug 17, 2022, 1:34 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Nu­clear Fine-Tun­ing: How Many Wor­lds Have Been De­stroyed?

EmberAug 17, 2022, 1:13 PM
18 points
28 comments23 min readEA link

What hap­pens on the av­er­age day?

rosehadsharAug 17, 2022, 10:09 AM
361 points
33 comments6 min readEA link

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk LiederAug 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
103 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Mon­key­pox: Is it worth wor­ry­ing about?

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸Aug 17, 2022, 5:59 AM
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

It seems that too much short-ter­mism and too much long-ter­mism are both of­ten cri­tiqued. So is what’s nor­mal/​main­stream a medium-term view?

Shannon H.Aug 17, 2022, 5:14 AM
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

EA fo­rum sug­ges­tion: In-line com­ments(Similar to google docs com­ment­ing)

Yellow (Daryl)Aug 17, 2022, 4:56 AM
54 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[AMA] Open Philan­thropy is still seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach and com­mu­nity-build­ing projects

Eli RoseAug 17, 2022, 4:01 AM
50 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion on Erik Hoel’s “Why I am not an effec­tive al­tru­ist”

Robert HoglundAug 17, 2022, 3:42 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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
81 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