Ar­gu­ments for util­i­tar­i­anism are im­pos­si­bil­ity ar­gu­ments un­der un­bounded prospects

MichaelStJules7 Oct 2023 21:09 UTC
39 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKee7 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Healthier Hens’ Lukas Jasiū­nas on im­prov­ing hen welfare worldwide

Karthik Palakodeti7 Oct 2023 17:31 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(karthiklogic.substack.com)

How EA is por­trayed in “Go­ing In­finite”

EA Lifestyles7 Oct 2023 14:37 UTC
95 points
17 comments8 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

Fix­ing In­sider Threats in the AI Sup­ply Chain

Madhav Malhotra7 Oct 2023 10:49 UTC
9 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Risk-averse Batch Ac­tive In­verse Re­ward Design

Panagiotis Liampas7 Oct 2023 8:56 UTC
11 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity-Driven Solu­tions: Em­pow­er­ing Lo­cal Voices in Afri­can Development

Kuiyaki7 Oct 2023 8:28 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Strate­gies for man­ag­ing jet lag and recom­men­da­tion for Timeshifter app

Alexander Saeri7 Oct 2023 2:03 UTC
29 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s 2023-2025 fund­ing of $300 mil­lion to­tal for GiveWell’s recommendations

GiveWell6 Oct 2023 23:13 UTC
82 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Our planned al­lo­ca­tion to GiveWell’s recom­men­da­tions for the next few years

Alexander_Berger6 Oct 2023 18:10 UTC
105 points
18 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Po­ten­tially ac­tion­able op­por­tu­nity: elimi­nat­ing the New World screw­worm (flesh-de­vour­ing mag­gots that af­fect a billion an­i­mals each year)

Forumite6 Oct 2023 17:07 UTC
134 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] To what de­gree does a threat to a na­tion’s hu­man­ity pose an ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

emmannaemeka6 Oct 2023 16:35 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

£5,000 UK Progress Policy Blog Prize

TomWestgarth6 Oct 2023 15:35 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Which Effec­tive Altru­ism groups are ad­dress­ing the is­sue of fer­til­ity rates?

MysteryMeat6 Oct 2023 13:09 UTC
−18 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

What AI could mean for animals

Max Taylor6 Oct 2023 8:36 UTC
114 points
8 comments17 min readEA link

Party Poli­tics for An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy: Part 1: An­i­mal-fo­cused minor poli­ti­cal parties

Animal Ask6 Oct 2023 5:57 UTC
130 points
10 comments70 min readEA link

Deep Re­port on Diabetes

Joel Tan6 Oct 2023 2:33 UTC
26 points
39 comments4 min readEA link

How to Get More Im­por­tant Things Done with the Eisen­hower [Effort] Matrix

Harry Luk6 Oct 2023 1:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Stampy’s AI Safety Info soft launch

StevenKaas5 Oct 2023 22:20 UTC
54 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] So, what are we do­ing wrong?

HugeMDB5 Oct 2023 18:43 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Best pro­ject man­age­ment soft­ware for re­search pro­jects and labs?

PeterSlattery5 Oct 2023 18:38 UTC
19 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Vol­un­teer­ing Op­por­tu­nity: Trus­tee at CEEALAR

Beth Anderson5 Oct 2023 14:55 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Oper­a­tions: We only have two (types of) meet­ings now.

Weaver5 Oct 2023 13:27 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] Drugs Without the Hot Air: Min­i­miz­ing the Harms of Le­gal and Ille­gal Drugs

Tristan Williams5 Oct 2023 13:26 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Be­ware Profit-Driven Au­toma­tion that Shrinks the Economy

Artūrs Kaņepājs5 Oct 2023 13:00 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing For Fu­ture—A Plat­form to Dis­cover and Col­lab­o­rate on Longter­mist Solutions

RubyT5 Oct 2023 12:54 UTC
0 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Pause For Thought: The AI Pause De­bate (As­tral Codex Ten)

David M5 Oct 2023 9:32 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Mea­sur­ing Im­pact: Eval­u­at­ing Suc­cess in the Pur­suit of Do­ing Good Better

Kuiyaki5 Oct 2023 7:44 UTC
−1 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Egyp­tol­ogy and Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities Institute5 Oct 2023 6:32 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Famine’s Role in So­cietal Collapse

FJehn5 Oct 2023 6:19 UTC
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

The Long-Term Fu­ture Fund is look­ing for a full-time fund chair

Linch5 Oct 2023 1:49 UTC
101 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

A re­sponse to Michael Plant’s re­view of What We Owe The Future

JackM4 Oct 2023 23:40 UTC
61 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Fis­cal spon­sor­ship, ops sup­port, or in­cu­ba­tion?

Harry Luk4 Oct 2023 22:06 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

How Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Re­search could in­form your grantmaking

kierangreig4 Oct 2023 18:24 UTC
59 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

AISN #23: New OpenAI Models, News from An­thropic, and Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Engineering

Center for AI Safety4 Oct 2023 17:10 UTC
7 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Ap­ply to Spring 2024 policy in­tern­ships (we can help)

Elika4 Oct 2023 14:45 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Cults that want to kill ev­ery­one, stealth vs wild­fire pan­demics, and how he felt in­vent­ing gene drives (Kevin Esvelt on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Oct 2023 13:58 UTC
38 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Why a Mars colony would lead to a first strike situation

Remmelt4 Oct 2023 11:29 UTC
−18 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(mflb.com)

Healthier Hens Y2 up­date in­clud­ing im­pact es­ti­mates and pos­si­ble next steps

lukasj104 Oct 2023 10:26 UTC
43 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

UK—char­ity shops

fergusb12324 Oct 2023 10:09 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Eth­i­cal Con­sid­er­a­tions in re­gard to Out­sourc­ing Labour Needs to the Global South

Nicole Mutung'a4 Oct 2023 9:18 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­pact Case for Tak­ing a Break from Your Non-EA Job

SarahPomeranz4 Oct 2023 7:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Ner­vous Sys­tems, Func­tion­al­ism, and Ar­tifi­cial Minds

Group Organizer4 Oct 2023 3:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why isn’t there a Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship pro­gram for AI Safety?

yanni4 Oct 2023 2:12 UTC
11 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Talk: The fu­ture of effec­tive al­tru­ism re­lies on effec­tive giving

GraceAdams4 Oct 2023 1:25 UTC
68 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

“Go­ing In­finite”—New book on FTX/​SBF re­leased to­day + my TL;DR

Nicky Pochinkov3 Oct 2023 22:10 UTC
65 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

De Dicto and De Se Refer­ence Mat­ters for Alignment

philgoetz3 Oct 2023 21:57 UTC
5 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Wealth re­dis­tri­bu­tion: are we on the same page?

dEAsign3 Oct 2023 21:34 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus An­nounces Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment to Eval­u­ate Fo­cused Re­search Or­ga­ni­za­tions, in Part­ner­ship With the Fed­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can Scien­tists

christian3 Oct 2023 16:44 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

The Two Faces of Mo­ral Con­cern: Welfare Pro­mo­tion & Suffer­ing Reduction

Maryam Ali Khan3 Oct 2023 13:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link