On value in hu­mans, other an­i­mals, and AI

Michele Campolo31 Jan 2023 23:48 UTC
8 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Alexan­der and Yud­kowsky on AGI goals

Scott Alexander31 Jan 2023 23:36 UTC
29 points
1 comment26 min readEA link

Google Maps nuke-mode

AndreFerretti31 Jan 2023 21:37 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

What Are The Biggest Threats To Hu­man­ity? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸31 Jan 2023 19:50 UTC
17 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

What I thought about child mar­riage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

Catherine F31 Jan 2023 19:50 UTC
218 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Hu­man-nar­rated au­dio ver­sion of “Is Power-Seek­ing AI an Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?”

Joe_Carlsmith31 Jan 2023 19:19 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Post-Mortem: McGill EA x Law Pre­sents: Ex­is­ten­tial Ad­vo­cacy with Prof. John Bliss

McGill EA x Law31 Jan 2023 18:57 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Post-Mortem: Effec­tive Altru­ism x Law Pre­sents: Im­pact Liti­ga­tion for An­i­mal Welfare

McGill EA x Law31 Jan 2023 18:52 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

More Is Prob­a­bly More—Fore­cast­ing Ac­cu­racy and Num­ber of Fore­cast­ers on Metaculus

nikos31 Jan 2023 17:20 UTC
36 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Pro­ject for Awe­some 2023: Make a short video for an EA char­ity!

EA_ProjectForAwesome31 Jan 2023 14:57 UTC
54 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

On­line EA book­club, any­one?

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹31 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing tools and Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets: Why and How

brook31 Jan 2023 12:55 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing: How and Why

brook31 Jan 2023 12:54 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Law & Longter­mism Din­ner—EAG Bay Area 2023

Alfredo Parra 🔸31 Jan 2023 10:47 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Longter­mism and an­i­mals: Re­sources + join our Dis­cord com­mu­nity!

Ren Ryba31 Jan 2023 10:45 UTC
102 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How to hedge in­vest­ment port­fo­lio against AI risk?

Timothy_Liptrot31 Jan 2023 8:04 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tions about AI that bother me

Eleni_A31 Jan 2023 6:50 UTC
33 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

How to use AI speech tran­scrip­tion and anal­y­sis to ac­cel­er­ate so­cial sci­ence research

Alexander Saeri31 Jan 2023 4:01 UTC
39 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rum Weekly Sum­mary (23rd − 29th Jan ’23)

Zoe Williams31 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC
16 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

FIRE & EA: Seek­ing feed­back on “Fi-lan­thropy” Calculator

Rebecca Herbst30 Jan 2023 20:20 UTC
121 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

We’re no longer “paus­ing most new longter­mist fund­ing com­mit­ments”

Holden Karnofsky30 Jan 2023 19:29 UTC
201 points
39 comments6 min readEA link

Karma over­rates some top­ics; re­sult­ing is­sues and po­ten­tial solutions

Lizka30 Jan 2023 18:32 UTC
295 points
51 comments3 min readEA link

An in-progress ex­per­i­ment to test how Laplace’s rule of suc­ces­sion performs in prac­tice.

NunoSempere30 Jan 2023 17:41 UTC
57 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] In­vest­ing in cli­mate miti­ga­tion in Africa

drbrake 🔸30 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What I mean by “al­ign­ment is in large part about mak­ing cog­ni­tion aimable at all”

So8res30 Jan 2023 15:22 UTC
57 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Reg­u­la­tory in­quiry into Effec­tive Ven­tures Foun­da­tion UK

Howie_Lempel30 Jan 2023 14:33 UTC
183 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

EA logic cre­ates men­tal suffer­ing. Here is how the mis­ery trap might be fixed.

Davidh9630 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC
−6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing In­terim CEOs of EVF

Owen Cotton-Barratt30 Jan 2023 14:21 UTC
163 points
37 comments6 min readEA link

Squig­gle: Why and How to Use it

brook30 Jan 2023 14:17 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Squig­gle: Why and how to use it

brook30 Jan 2023 14:14 UTC
44 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What does a good re­sponse to crit­i­cism look like? [Poll post]

Nathan Young30 Jan 2023 13:41 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Time-stamp­ing: An ur­gent, ne­glected AI safety measure

Axel Svensson30 Jan 2023 11:21 UTC
57 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Com­pendium of prob­lems with RLHF

Raphaël S30 Jan 2023 8:48 UTC
18 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What do you think the effec­tive al­tru­ism move­ment sucks at?

Evan_Gaensbauer30 Jan 2023 6:38 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

ES30 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
62 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­tect Our Fu­ture’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath Ismam29 Jan 2023 21:07 UTC
67 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] A Use­ful Distinc­tion: Card-Car­ry­ing Effec­tive Altru­ists Ver­sus Philo­soph­i­cal Effec­tive Altruists

Bentham's Bulldog29 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

De­con­fus­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism: The Philosophy

Davidmanheim29 Jan 2023 18:09 UTC
39 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity newslet­ters you should sub­scribe to

Swan 🔸29 Jan 2023 17:00 UTC
104 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

EA is go­ing through a bunch of con­flict. Here’s some so­cial tech­nolo­gies that may help.

Severin29 Jan 2023 12:55 UTC
66 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Why are we not talk­ing more about the metacrisis per­spec­tive on ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Alexander Herwix 🔸29 Jan 2023 9:35 UTC
53 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

EA novel pub­lished on Amazon

timunderwood29 Jan 2023 8:33 UTC
33 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Non-util­i­tar­ian effec­tive altruism

keir bradwell29 Jan 2023 6:07 UTC
42 points
10 comments17 min readEA link
(keirbradwell.substack.com)

[Question] Would it be bet­ter to start a biotech­nol­ogy grad­u­a­tion next year or to start a biolog­i­cal sci­ences one now?

Eduardo28 Jan 2023 21:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing Mul­ti­plier Paper

JMonty🔸28 Jan 2023 19:06 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.science.org)

OpenBook: New EA Grants Database

Rachel Weinberg28 Jan 2023 17:42 UTC
205 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­cal­i­draw: Why and How to Use it

brook28 Jan 2023 11:09 UTC
29 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

So­cial im­pact of the dona­tions of the 10 rich­est peo­ple in the world—very shal­low analysis

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Jan 2023 7:40 UTC
−8 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] A $1 mil­lion dol­lar prize to in­cen­tivize global par­ti­ci­pa­tion in a video com­pe­ti­tion to crowd­source an at­trac­tive plan for the long-term de­vel­op­ment of civilization

Nathaniel Ryan28 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Have the rep­u­ta­tions of effec­tive giv­ing orgs like GiveWell taken a hit due to the FTX crisis?

Eevee🔹28 Jan 2023 5:23 UTC
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link