Quick takes on “AI is easy to con­trol”

So8res2 Dec 2023 22:33 UTC
−12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What do we re­ally know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sec­toral trans­for­ma­tion)

Karthik Tadepalli2 Dec 2023 17:04 UTC
161 points
42 comments8 min readEA link

GWWC Lon­don Group Co-leads: Reflec­tions on our first event

Chris Rouse2 Dec 2023 15:34 UTC
39 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The goal-guard­ing hy­poth­e­sis (Sec­tion 2.3.1.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith2 Dec 2023 15:20 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

Jeff Kaufman 🔸2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC
70 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Aging should be effec­tive al­tru­ism’s 5th cause area

Yarrow B.2 Dec 2023 8:28 UTC
20 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Can a ter­ror­ist at­tack cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Dec 2023 8:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

MATS Sum­mer 2023 Retrospective

utilistrutil2 Dec 2023 0:12 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A New Paradigm For Emo­tional Work And Men­tal Health

Milli🔸1 Dec 2023 22:12 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Speci­fi­ca­tion Gam­ing: How AI Can Turn Your Wishes Against You [RA Video]

Writer1 Dec 2023 19:30 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Tak­ing Into Ac­count Sen­tient Non-Hu­mans in AI Am­bi­tious Value Learn­ing: Sen­tien­tist Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Adrià Moret1 Dec 2023 18:01 UTC
39 points
2 comments42 min readEA link

Do­ing Good Effec­tively is Unusual

Richard Y Chappell🔸1 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC
174 points
26 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

The 8-Week Mar­ket­ing Plan—A Real­is­tic and Prac­ti­cal Roadmap For EAs

Igor Scaldini1 Dec 2023 16:23 UTC
39 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Why Did NEPA Peak in 2016?

Maxwell Tabarrok1 Dec 2023 16:18 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Philoso­phers Against Malaria Fundraiser

mhendric🔸1 Dec 2023 16:12 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Well-Be­ing In­dex (WBI): Redefin­ing So­cietal Progress Together

Max Kusmierek1 Dec 2023 15:23 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

How can EA bring about the so­cial change it de­sires? An anal­y­sis of his­tor­i­cal so­cial change port­fo­lios

James Herbert1 Dec 2023 14:55 UTC
26 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

How use­ful for al­ign­ment-rele­vant work are AIs with short-term goals? (Sec­tion 2.2.4.3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith1 Dec 2023 14:51 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­tend­ing Ex­ist­ing An­i­mal Pro­tec­tion Laws

Moritz Stumpe 🔸1 Dec 2023 14:44 UTC
44 points
2 comments35 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Lant Pritch­ett ‘The poli­ti­cal ac­cept­abil­ity of time-limited la­bor mo­bil­ity: Five lev­ers open­ing the Over­ton win­dow’

John G. Halstead1 Dec 2023 13:52 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

My Per­sonal Pri­ori­ties, Char­ity, Ju­daism, and Effec­tive Altruism

Davidmanheim1 Dec 2023 11:23 UTC
96 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: vaccines

Erwan Sallard1 Dec 2023 10:35 UTC
20 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Hi Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity, Hav­ing ab­sorbed in­sights from “80,000 Hours,” a re­source pri­mar­ily tai­lored to the United States, I’m ea­ger to adapt its in­come and hap­piness con­sid­er­a­tions for In­dia. Can you please help me?

Mohit Gaur1 Dec 2023 10:35 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject #4 - Gen­eral In­ter­ven­tion Refine­ment and Cost-Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of So­lar Elec­tric Cook­ing Sys­tems: Pro­ject Overview and Methodology

shanemurray1 Dec 2023 10:35 UTC
11 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Im­mutable Spirits: Not One More Lost; Not One Forgotten

Tim Sankara1 Dec 2023 10:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effek­tiv Spen­den’s Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion 2019-2023 (exec. sum­mary)

Sebastian Schienle1 Dec 2023 8:16 UTC
140 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

The AI Endgame: A coun­ter­fac­tual to AI al­ign­ment by an AI Safety newcomer

Andreas P1 Dec 2023 5:49 UTC
2 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_Cassidy1 Dec 2023 0:47 UTC
61 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

Is schem­ing more likely in mod­els trained to have long-term goals? (Sec­tions 2.2.4.1-2.2.4.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith30 Nov 2023 16:43 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Red-team­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI

Zed Tarar30 Nov 2023 14:35 UTC
30 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Ven­ture Philan­thropy, dis­cus­sion of pro­cess and philosophy

Ben Yeoh30 Nov 2023 13:21 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal data on how teenagers hear about EA

Jamie_Harris30 Nov 2023 12:41 UTC
39 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Poor “fraud ex­pert” Yan Limeng

Jody Levinson30 Nov 2023 10:32 UTC
−8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Yan Li­meng: a com­plete ru­mor maker

Jody Levinson30 Nov 2023 10:32 UTC
−8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Fraud sus­pect Guo Wen­gui: an anti-Com­mu­nist “on­line celebrity”

Jody Levinson30 Nov 2023 10:32 UTC
−13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Or­ga­ni­za­tions That Eval­u­ate Charities

We Are One Love Thyself30 Nov 2023 10:18 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Life Is Something

olin2130 Nov 2023 10:17 UTC
−9 points
0 comments39 min readEA link

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

rnk830 Nov 2023 10:15 UTC
−9 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

80000_Hours29 Nov 2023 19:18 UTC
43 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

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

Joe_Carlsmith29 Nov 2023 16:32 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2023 Fu­ture Perfect 50

Toby Tremlett🔹29 Nov 2023 15:12 UTC
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_Hours29 Nov 2023 14:45 UTC
56 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Amber Dawn29 Nov 2023 14:13 UTC
95 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

kierangreig🔸29 Nov 2023 13:44 UTC
58 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

High­lights From Our 2023 Red­dit AMA

Animal Charity Evaluators29 Nov 2023 11:41 UTC
16 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Effec­tive Selfishism?

ventureguess29 Nov 2023 10:42 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In Con­tinued Defense Of Effec­tive Altru­ism — Scott Alexander

Pablo29 Nov 2023 10:37 UTC
163 points
30 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

Lauriander29 Nov 2023 9:12 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How I feel about my GWWC Pledge

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

Save the date—EAGxLATAM 2024

Daniela Tiznado28 Nov 2023 22:35 UTC
91 points
0 comments2 min readEA link