Sym­pa­thec­tomies—The New Lobotomy

handoftheenemyAug 27, 2022, 8:28 AM
38 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Was cen­tral place food shar­ing the origi­nal effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Lee CronkAug 27, 2022, 8:27 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What if our an­ces­tors had thought more about the long term?

Lee CronkAug 27, 2022, 8:27 AM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_HarrisAug 27, 2022, 8:14 AM
48 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

An­nual AGI Bench­mark­ing Event

MetaculusAug 26, 2022, 9:31 PM
20 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Gaps and op­por­tu­ni­ties in the EA tal­ent & re­cruit­ing landscape

Anya HuntAug 26, 2022, 9:15 PM
121 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

ARIA is look­ing for top­ics for roundtables

Nathan_BarnardAug 26, 2022, 7:14 PM
34 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing some­times EA critic Jeffrey Lewis (AKA Arms Con­trol Wonk) about what we get right and wrong when it comes to nu­clear weapons and nu­clear se­cu­rity. What should I ask him?

Robert_WiblinAug 26, 2022, 6:06 PM
33 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

AI strat­egy nearcasting

Holden KarnofskyAug 26, 2022, 4:25 PM
61 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals pro­gramme is con­tract­ing a low-code engineer

Jamie BAug 26, 2022, 3:43 PM
39 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day will likely hi­ber­nate in 2022, un­less handed off to an­other EA-al­igned or­ga­ni­za­tion

mjamer 🔸Aug 26, 2022, 3:30 PM
91 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

The col­lab­o­ra­tive ex­plo­ra­tion of al­ter­na­tive fu­tures—a free to use on­line tool

rickjdaviesAug 26, 2022, 2:37 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Our Re­la­tion­ship With Knowledge

Phil TannyAug 26, 2022, 1:25 PM
−13 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

What Is The Most Effec­tive Way To Look At Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

Phil TannyAug 26, 2022, 11:21 AM
−2 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Fermi estimates

NunoSempereAug 26, 2022, 10:03 AM
47 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Transna­tional Surrogacy

Kelly GeddesAug 26, 2022, 9:59 AM
19 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Emer­gence re­search as a high-im­pact cause area

Open PhilanthropyAug 26, 2022, 9:58 AM
13 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ex­pand­ing Cir­cles, Im­prov­ing Lives

Chad Patrick OsorioAug 26, 2022, 9:55 AM
6 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Train­ing ex­perts to be forecasters

Sam AbbottAug 26, 2022, 9:52 AM
49 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change & Longter­mism: new book-length report

John G. HalsteadAug 26, 2022, 9:13 AM
319 points
161 comments13 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] NOT Get­ting Ab­solutely Hosed by a So­lar Flare

aurellemAug 26, 2022, 8:23 AM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] So­cial En­ter­prises in Africa

elvinAug 26, 2022, 7:18 AM
5 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Build­ing a new milk

Open PhilanthropyAug 26, 2022, 7:09 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Trans­for­ma­tive Gen­der Norms

dan maxsonAug 26, 2022, 7:05 AM
5 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Hyper­bolic Science: Or, Play­ing Games with Growth

Adam GreenAug 26, 2022, 2:41 AM
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(markov.bio)

New Guest Es­says on He­donism [Utili­tar­i­anism.net]

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 26, 2022, 12:36 AM
39 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianism.net)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: April 2022 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸Aug 25, 2022, 11:47 PM
59 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

New In­tro (Fel­low­ship) Pro­gram Cur­ricu­lum for Groups and EA Vir­tual Programs

Jesse RothmanAug 25, 2022, 3:40 PM
40 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

FroolowAug 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
234 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

Com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about OpenAI

Jacob_HiltonAug 25, 2022, 2:08 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Who would you have on your dream team for solv­ing AGI Align­ment?

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ Aug 25, 2022, 1:34 PM
10 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

EA Hous­ton So­cial @ Mon­goose ver­sus Cobra

WillaAug 25, 2022, 12:51 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are cool things uni­ver­sity groups can do for Petrov day on 26 Septem­ber?

Quadratic ReciprocityAug 25, 2022, 3:34 AM
10 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are EAs in­ter­ested in us­ing or con­sum­ing more di­a­grams or data vi­su­al­i­sa­tions?

Joseph BloomAug 25, 2022, 2:05 AM
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture is an NYT bestseller

Anonymous_EAAug 25, 2022, 12:18 AM
114 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety For Dum­mies (Like Me)

Madhav MalhotraAug 24, 2022, 8:26 PM
22 points
7 comments20 min readEA link

Our UK sup­port­ers can now make tax-de­ductible dona­tions through GiveWell UK

GiveWellAug 24, 2022, 8:19 PM
33 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Scrutiny Around Billion­aire Giv­ing—A Good Idea?

Rob PercivalAug 24, 2022, 5:51 PM
10 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should I force my­self to work on AGI al­ign­ment?

Isaac BensonAug 24, 2022, 5:25 PM
19 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost—Beyond Hyper­an­thro­po­mor­phism: Or, why fears of AI are not even wrong, and how to make them real

LockeAug 24, 2022, 4:24 PM
−4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(studio.ribbonfarm.com)

Max­imis­ing im­pact: the case for re­search to sup­port an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy efforts

Animal AskAug 24, 2022, 2:41 PM
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Where are the long-ter­mist the­o­ries of vic­tory /​ im­pact?

howdoyousay?Aug 24, 2022, 1:45 PM
10 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Re­duc­ing global child­hood sex­ual abuse

Thomas_ReillyAug 24, 2022, 10:55 AM
17 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Dy­namic democ­racy to guard against au­thor­i­tar­ian lock-in

Open PhilanthropyAug 24, 2022, 10:53 AM
12 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Les­sons from Covid

Marcel MüllerAug 24, 2022, 10:51 AM
13 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Eco­nomic Growth and State Ca­pac­ity

Jeffrey MasonAug 24, 2022, 10:47 AM
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] In­creas­ing Cause Area Im­pact Lev­er­age via Em­pow­er­ment of Communities

Open PhilanthropyAug 24, 2022, 10:45 AM
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Fix the Money, Fix the world

Open PhilanthropyAug 24, 2022, 10:44 AM
10 points
10 comments12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Ob­stet­ric Violence

Tracy BrinkerhoffAug 24, 2022, 10:43 AM
42 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of In­ter­causal Impacts

Sebastian Joy 樂百善Aug 24, 2022, 10:41 AM
61 points
2 comments8 min readEA link