Early find­ings from the world’s largest UBI study

GiveDirectly6 Dec 2023 22:10 UTC
157 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

How we work, #3: Our analy­ses in­volve judg­ment calls

GiveWell6 Dec 2023 22:09 UTC
32 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

The count­ing ar­gu­ment for schem­ing (Sec­tions 4.1 and 4.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith6 Dec 2023 19:28 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cru­cial consideration

EA Handbook6 Dec 2023 18:11 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Donat­ing like a startup in­vestor: Hits-based giv­ing, explained

EA Handbook6 Dec 2023 18:11 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Google Deep­Mind re­leases Gemini

Yarrow B.6 Dec 2023 17:39 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(deepmind.google)

The his­tory of 80,000 Hours (Ben­jamin Todd on the 80k After Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours6 Dec 2023 15:05 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why Yud­kowsky is wrong about “co­va­lently bonded equiv­a­lents of biol­ogy”

titotal6 Dec 2023 14:09 UTC
20 points
20 comments16 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Hiring a CEO & EU Tech Policy Lead to launch an AI policy ca­reer org in Europe

Cillian_6 Dec 2023 13:52 UTC
50 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Launches Chi­nese AI Chips Tour­na­ment, Sup­port­ing In­sti­tute for AI Policy and Strat­egy Research

christian6 Dec 2023 11:26 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Long list of AI ques­tions

NunoSempere6 Dec 2023 11:12 UTC
124 points
11 comments86 min readEA link

Case study: Safety stan­dards on Cal­ifor­nia util­ities to pre­vent wildfires

Coby Joseph6 Dec 2023 10:32 UTC
7 points
1 comment26 min readEA link

EA thoughts from Is­rael-Ha­mas war

ezrah6 Dec 2023 8:53 UTC
271 points
64 comments9 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund’s Plan to Fo­cus on Prin­ci­ples-First EA

Linch6 Dec 2023 3:24 UTC
223 points
41 comments9 min readEA link

Dona­tion Op­por­tu­nity: A Pivotal Mo­ment for Vot­ing Reform

aaronhamlin6 Dec 2023 1:32 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for/​against schem­ing that fo­cus on the path SGD takes (Sec­tion 3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith5 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­er­cise for ‘Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?’

EA Handbook5 Dec 2023 18:26 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

To Do a PhD, or Not to Do a PhD: That is the Question

Hugh Irving5 Dec 2023 17:21 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing In­cu­ba­tion—ap­ply to CE & GWWC’s new pro­gram!

CE5 Dec 2023 16:08 UTC
154 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Im­pact Ops

Impact Ops5 Dec 2023 14:03 UTC
35 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(carado.moe)

We pi­loted a zero-home­work in­tro to EA Fellowship

gergo5 Dec 2023 10:19 UTC
18 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

On­board­ing stu­dents to EA/​AIS in 4 days with an in­ten­sive fellowship

gergo5 Dec 2023 10:07 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Re­port: Oral Ra­bies Vac­ci­na­tion of Dogs

Helene_K5 Dec 2023 8:49 UTC
67 points
10 comments42 min readEA link

2023 Align­ment Re­search Up­dates from FAR AI

AdamGleave4 Dec 2023 22:32 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(far.ai)

What’s new at FAR AI

AdamGleave4 Dec 2023 21:18 UTC
68 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(far.ai)

How the cricket feels and what the meal­worm has to say: The in­fluence of rear­ing en­vi­ron­ments on in­sect welfare in differ­ent food and feed pro­duc­tion systems

Group Organizer4 Dec 2023 21:16 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Non-clas­sic sto­ries about schem­ing (Sec­tion 2.3.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith4 Dec 2023 18:44 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­search Re­port: Us­ing Mass Me­dia to In­crease Care­giver Aware­ness in Sub-Sa­haran Africa

KT Hobbs4 Dec 2023 18:18 UTC
26 points
2 comments39 min readEA link

An ex­haus­tive list of cos­mic threats

JordanStone4 Dec 2023 17:59 UTC
74 points
19 comments6 min readEA link

Biolog­i­cal su­per­in­tel­li­gence: a solu­tion to AI safety

Yarrow B.4 Dec 2023 13:09 UTC
−1 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Is the An­i­mal & Ve­gan Ad­vo­cacy (AVA) Sum­mit an EA Event?

Julia Reinelt4 Dec 2023 10:11 UTC
85 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Link post: Euro­pean philan­thropy man­i­festo calls for a sin­gle mar­ket for philanthropy

Hedgie4 Dec 2023 9:36 UTC
−3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Taiwan’s mil­i­tary com­pla­cency.

JKitson4 Dec 2023 9:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Why microplas­tics should mat­ter to EAs

BiancaCojocaru4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

ai-plans.com De­cem­ber Cri­tique-a-Thon

Kabir_Kumar4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

En­gag­ing UK Cen­tre-Right Types in Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Max_Thilo4 Dec 2023 9:26 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is The Free­dom Fund still the best char­ity ad­dress­ing hu­man traf­fick­ing /​ mod­ern slav­ery, and why is this cause area not of more in­ter­est to EA?

Brain_in_a_Vat4 Dec 2023 9:24 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

En­gag­ing with AI in a Per­sonal Way

Spyder Rex4 Dec 2023 9:23 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul Bricman4 Dec 2023 7:41 UTC
3 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] What am I miss­ing re. open-source LLM’s?

another-anon-do-gooder4 Dec 2023 4:48 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

X% of your pur­chase goes to Y

dEAsign4 Dec 2023 4:14 UTC
17 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

All Tech is Hu­man <-> EA

tae3 Dec 2023 21:01 UTC
29 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Does schem­ing lead to ad­e­quate fu­ture em­pow­er­ment? (Sec­tion 2.3.1.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe_Carlsmith3 Dec 2023 18:32 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

On Sto­ries, their im­pact and how to im­prove them

Timon Renzelmann3 Dec 2023 15:58 UTC
35 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

The benefits and risks of op­ti­mism (about AI safety)

Karl von Wendt3 Dec 2023 12:45 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] ai safety ques­tion

David turner3 Dec 2023 12:42 UTC
−13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Best free we­bi­nars /​ videos for stu­dents to learn to con­duct cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis?

freedomandutility3 Dec 2023 12:04 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I donated $35 to offset my car­bon foot­print for this year

Luke Eure3 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC
40 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Farewell mes­sages from the EA Philip­pines Core Team

Elmerei Cuevas3 Dec 2023 1:07 UTC
78 points
1 comment3 min readEA link