#173 – Digi­tal minds, and how to avoid sleep­walk­ing into a ma­jor moral catas­tro­phe (Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 29, 2023, 7:18 PM
43 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

“Clean” vs. “messy” goal-di­rect­ed­ness (Sec­tion 2.2.3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_CarlsmithNov 29, 2023, 4:32 PM
7 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

2023 Fu­ture Perfect 50

Toby Tremlett🔹Nov 29, 2023, 3:12 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

80,000 Hours is look­ing for a new CEO (or to fill a va­cancy left by some­one pro­moted to be CEO). Could that be you?

80000_HoursNov 29, 2023, 2:45 PM
56 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ele­ments of EA: your (EA) iden­tity can be bespoke

Amber DawnNov 29, 2023, 2:13 PM
97 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties: Seek­ing Ex­pres­sions of In­ter­est for Spe­cial Pro­jects Next Year

kierangreig🔸Nov 29, 2023, 1:44 PM
57 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

High­lights From Our 2023 Red­dit AMA

Animal Charity EvaluatorsNov 29, 2023, 11:41 AM
16 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Effec­tive Selfishism?

ventureguessNov 29, 2023, 10:42 AM
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In Con­tinued Defense Of Effec­tive Altru­ism — Scott Alexander

PabloNov 29, 2023, 10:37 AM
163 points
30 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

LaurianderNov 29, 2023, 9:12 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How I feel about my GWWC Pledge

Michael Townsend🔸Nov 29, 2023, 4:22 AM
146 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Save the date—EAGxLATAM 2024

Daniela TiznadoNov 28, 2023, 10:35 PM
91 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Dialogue on Dona­tion Splitting

JP Addison🔸Nov 28, 2023, 10:20 PM
58 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

#Giv­ingTues­day: My Giv­ing Story and Some of My Fa­vorite Charities

Kyle J. Lucchese 🔸Nov 28, 2023, 9:22 PM
64 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Up­dates to Open Phil’s ca­reer de­vel­op­ment and tran­si­tion fund­ing program

Bastian_SternNov 28, 2023, 8:47 PM
89 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

AI Safety & Risk Din­ner w/​ En­trepreneur First CEO & ARIA Chair, Matt Clifford in New York

SimonPastorNov 28, 2023, 7:45 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

It’s Time We Pay In­ter­view-Stage Job Ap­pli­cants For Their Time

YellowChienNov 28, 2023, 7:45 PM
−6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How We Think about Ex­pected Im­pact in Cli­mate Philanthropy

jackvaNov 28, 2023, 7:02 PM
39 points
8 comments25 min readEA link

EA is good, actually

Amy LabenzNov 28, 2023, 3:59 PM
272 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Road safety: Land­scape of the prob­lem and routes to effec­tive policy advocacy

Rethink PrioritiesNov 28, 2023, 3:38 PM
40 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

How to in­crease EAs pro­duc­tive hours by up to 35%

IngaNov 28, 2023, 2:49 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Meet the can­di­dates in the Fo­rum’s Dona­tion Elec­tion (2023)

LizkaNov 28, 2023, 2:23 PM
67 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

HLI’s Giv­ing Sea­son 2023 Re­search Overview

Happier Lives InstituteNov 28, 2023, 2:03 PM
53 points
4 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Two sources of be­yond-epi­sode goals (Sec­tion 2.2.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_CarlsmithNov 28, 2023, 1:49 PM
8 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive Strat­egy Up­date: Broad­en­ing Our Re­search Man­date in India

havenNov 28, 2023, 1:37 PM
38 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How to count matched dona­tions for GWWC pledge?

Christoph Hartmann 🔸Nov 28, 2023, 12:27 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Three new re­ports re­view­ing re­search and con­cepts in ad­vanced AI governance

MMMaasNov 28, 2023, 9:21 AM
32 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.legalpriorities.org)

[Question] Are pas­ture-raised eggs real?

jvbNov 28, 2023, 2:15 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Apoca­lypse in­surance, and the hardline liber­tar­ian take on AI risk

So8resNov 28, 2023, 2:09 AM
21 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Join GWWC’s gov­er­nance or ad­vi­sory boards

Luke FreemanNov 28, 2023, 1:46 AM
61 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Re­think’s CURVE Se­quence—The Good and the Gaps

JackMNov 28, 2023, 1:06 AM
96 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing: Best Prac­tices, Key Con­sid­er­a­tions, and Resources

Pete RowlettNov 28, 2023, 12:36 AM
27 points
1 comment40 min readEA link

Talk­ing through de­pres­sion: The cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy in LMICs, re­vised and expanded

JoelMcGuireNov 27, 2023, 11:08 PM
72 points
34 comments4 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

AISC 2024 - Pro­ject Summaries

Nicky PochinkovNov 27, 2023, 10:35 PM
13 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

2023 EA con­fer­ence talks are now live

Eli_NathanNov 27, 2023, 7:10 PM
33 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Two con­cepts of an “epi­sode” (Sec­tion 2.2.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_CarlsmithNov 27, 2023, 6:01 PM
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

[Question] Can AI safely ex­ist at all?

Hayven FrienbyNov 27, 2023, 5:33 PM
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Prob­a­bly Good has a new sec­tion on cli­mate change

Probably GoodNov 27, 2023, 3:53 PM
16 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Welfare and felt du­ra­tion (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 27, 2023, 3:40 PM
24 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

GWWC’s new recom­men­da­tions and cause area funds

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Nov 27, 2023, 1:29 PM
70 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(givingwhatwecan.org)

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2023 End of Year Summary

MichaelDelloNov 27, 2023, 12:11 PM
29 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Shal­low re­view of live agen­das in al­ign­ment & safety

technicalitiesNov 27, 2023, 11:33 AM
76 points
8 comments29 min readEA link

2 Other tips on how to get things done

Amateur Systems AnalystNov 27, 2023, 4:47 AM
−8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Should you donate to Sandy Hook Promise?

Amateur Systems AnalystNov 27, 2023, 3:00 AM
−6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Si­tu­a­tional aware­ness (Sec­tion 2.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_CarlsmithNov 26, 2023, 11:00 PM
12 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tions about school shootings

Amateur Systems AnalystNov 26, 2023, 7:15 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is There a Pro­ject Track­ing Sys­tem in EA?

Aaron GraifmanNov 26, 2023, 5:34 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial on­line group for neu­ro­di­ver­gent EAs

VictorWNov 26, 2023, 11:11 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Paper out now on cre­a­tine and cog­ni­tive performance

FabienneNov 26, 2023, 10:49 AM
125 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should I prove my­self first by pres­ti­gious em­ploy­ers or go di­rectly into the fields I want to end up in?

Sven SpehrNov 26, 2023, 8:08 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link