‘Psy­chol­ogy of Effec­tive Altru­ism’ course syllabus

Geoffrey Miller7 Sep 2022 17:31 UTC
50 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

New Fau­n­a­lyt­ics’ Study On The Bar­ri­ers And Strate­gies For Suc­cess When Go­ing Ve­gan or Vegetarian

JLRiedi7 Sep 2022 16:20 UTC
42 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni_A7 Sep 2022 13:28 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartree7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

Agree/​dis­agree vot­ing (& other new fea­tures Septem­ber 2022)

Lizka7 Sep 2022 11:07 UTC
142 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Fundrais­ing Cam­paigns at Your Or­ga­ni­za­tion: A Reli­able Path to Coun­ter­fac­tual Impact

High Impact Professionals7 Sep 2022 10:40 UTC
94 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is there more guidance/​re­sources on what to do if one feels like they are part of a sug­nifi­cant minor­ity that should fo­cus on po­ten­tially press­ing global is­sues be­yond cur­rent 80 000h pri­ori­ties?

Elskivi7 Sep 2022 9:24 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What highly-im­pact­ful work is the most similar to solv­ing fun math puz­zles (if any)?

oh543217 Sep 2022 6:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA jobs for peo­ple with dyslexia?

Yitz7 Sep 2022 5:56 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

13 back­ground claims about EA

Akash7 Sep 2022 3:54 UTC
70 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Would cre­at­ing and bury­ing a se­ries of dooms­day chests to re­boot civ­i­liza­tion be a wor­thy use of re­sources?

ewu7 Sep 2022 2:45 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link post] Op­ti­mistic “Longter­mism” Is Ter­rible For Animals

BrianK6 Sep 2022 22:38 UTC
47 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forbes.com)

Im­pact Shares For Spec­u­la­tive Projects

Elizabeth6 Sep 2022 21:20 UTC
20 points
7 comments7 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

Like The Set­ting Sun

Conor Barnes6 Sep 2022 19:23 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(conorbarnes.com)

An­nounc­ing the Change Our Mind Con­test for cri­tiques of our cost-effec­tive­ness analyses

GiveWell6 Sep 2022 18:10 UTC
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

De­sign­ing Effec­tive Crowd­fund­ing Campaigns

Creator20226 Sep 2022 16:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The dis­count rate effec­tively de­ter­mines whether long- or near-ter­mism is the best use of philan­thropic resources

Froolow6 Sep 2022 14:52 UTC
14 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How can we se­cure more re­search po­si­tions at our uni­ver­si­ties for x-risk re­searchers?

Neil Crawford6 Sep 2022 14:41 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Value of Life: VSL Es­ti­mates vs Com­mu­nity Per­spec­tive Evaluations

Joel Tan🔸6 Sep 2022 14:35 UTC
53 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Who are some less-known peo­ple like Petrov?

Lizka6 Sep 2022 13:22 UTC
54 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Say “nay!” to the Bay (as the de­fault)!

Kaleem6 Sep 2022 12:58 UTC
89 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

EAGx Ber­lin Warmup @ TEAMWORK

Antonia B6 Sep 2022 12:32 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would you like to host an effec­tive giv­ing talk in your work­place this Giv­ing Sea­son?

Jack Lewars6 Sep 2022 11:04 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)

Zoe Williams6 Sep 2022 10:46 UTC
42 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

Alex Lawsen On Fore­cast­ing AI Progress

Michaël Trazzi6 Sep 2022 9:53 UTC
38 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

Time/​Ta­lent/​Money Con­trib­u­tors to Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Ventures

RubyT6 Sep 2022 9:52 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Ex­ec­u­tive Summary

Sean Osier6 Sep 2022 8:26 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(seanosier.notion.site)

How to Prevent Wars—Defluffed

Trev Prew6 Sep 2022 7:14 UTC
−8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

Jeremy6 Sep 2022 3:06 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A New York Times ar­ti­cle on AI risk

Eleni_A6 Sep 2022 0:46 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

AI Gover­nance Needs Tech­ni­cal Work

Mau5 Sep 2022 22:25 UTC
118 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

When should you trust your in­tu­ition/​gut check/​hunch over ex­plicit rea­son­ing?

Sharmake5 Sep 2022 22:18 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Selfish Rea­sons to Move to DC

Anonymous_EA5 Sep 2022 21:30 UTC
96 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

Three sce­nar­ios of pseudo-al­ign­ment

Eleni_A5 Sep 2022 20:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Policy en­trepreneur­ship: the ne­glected EA policy arm

Alishaandomeda5 Sep 2022 17:25 UTC
23 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Fo­rum rank­ing sys­tem pro­to­type: Cause Pri­orit­sa­tion Con­test posts ranked by pre­dic­tion markets

Nathan Young5 Sep 2022 15:55 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

An en­tire cat­e­gory of risks is un­der­val­ued by EA [Sum­mary of pre­vi­ous fo­rum post]

Richard R5 Sep 2022 15:07 UTC
76 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Do AI com­pa­nies make their safety re­searchers sign a non-dis­par­age­ment clause?

Ofer5 Sep 2022 13:40 UTC
73 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

ColdButtonIssues5 Sep 2022 13:29 UTC
220 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What are VISAs available for non-profit/​char­ity founders in the U.S?

effectiveutils5 Sep 2022 10:41 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA is too fo­cused on the Man­hat­tan Project

trevor15 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­re­lat­ed­ness of x-risks and sys­temic fragilities

Naryan4 Sep 2022 21:36 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Valu­ing lives in­stru­men­tally leads to un­com­fortable conclusions

Karthik Tadepalli4 Sep 2022 21:32 UTC
17 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Two Types of Aver­age Utilitarianism

Gil4 Sep 2022 17:15 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back/​gaug­ing in­ter­est: Crowd­sourc­ing x crowd­fund­ing for ex­is­ten­tial risk ven­tures

RubyT4 Sep 2022 16:18 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Style Writ­ing Prej­u­dice At EA

Trev Prew4 Sep 2022 8:06 UTC
−5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Neu­ro­science of time per­cep­tion?

TerracottaKleinBottle4 Sep 2022 4:07 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Sen­tience or Silos?

Jeffrey Kursonis4 Sep 2022 4:03 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EV Max­i­miza­tion for Humans

Sharmake3 Sep 2022 23:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An Episte­molog­i­cal Ac­count of In­tu­itions in Science

Eleni_A3 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments17 min readEA link