How evals might (or might not) pre­vent catas­trophic risks from AI

AkashFeb 7, 2023, 8:16 PM
28 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Fram­ing AI strategy

Zach Stein-PerlmanFeb 7, 2023, 8:03 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Speedrun: Develop an af­ford­able su­per PPE

BuhlFeb 7, 2023, 6:43 PM
101 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Scal­able longter­mist pro­jects: Speedrun se­ries – In­tro­duc­tion

BuhlFeb 7, 2023, 6:43 PM
63 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

An up­date to our poli­cies on re­veal­ing per­sonal in­for­ma­tion on the Forum

LizkaFeb 7, 2023, 6:22 PM
107 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

A per­sonal re­flec­tion on SBF

So8resFeb 7, 2023, 5:56 PM
321 points
23 comments19 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Michael Hue­mer on the case for Bayesian statistics

John G. HalsteadFeb 7, 2023, 5:52 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

ConcernedEAsFeb 7, 2023, 4:02 PM
3 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

[Our World in Data] AI timelines: What do ex­perts in ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence ex­pect for the fu­ture? (Roser, 2023)

Will AldredFeb 7, 2023, 2:52 PM
98 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

The Im­por­tance of A Strong Com­mu­nity Net­work.

BillFeb 7, 2023, 1:13 PM
32 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Stuff I Recom­mend You Use

Arjun PanicksseryFeb 7, 2023, 12:18 PM
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

A Manifesto

sophiathephirstFeb 7, 2023, 9:17 AM
77 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

The num­ber of burner ac­counts is too damn high

quinnFeb 7, 2023, 7:04 AM
110 points
129 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posal: Create A New Longter­mism Organization

Brian LuiFeb 7, 2023, 5:59 AM
25 points
37 comments6 min readEA link

AXRP: Store, Pa­treon, Video

DanielFilanFeb 7, 2023, 5:12 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The base level of achieve­ment in life is sim­ply to min­i­mize harm. Noth­ing more.

Dave Cortright 🔸Feb 7, 2023, 3:52 AM
1 point
6 comments3 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rum Weekly Sum­mary (30th Jan − 5th Feb 2023)

Zoe WilliamsFeb 7, 2023, 2:13 AM
21 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Afri­can Wild Dogs Vote By Sneez­ing—Can AI Help Us Do Bet­ter?

Augmented AssemblyFeb 6, 2023, 10:11 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Mov­ing com­mu­nity dis­cus­sion to a sep­a­rate tab (a test we might run)

LizkaFeb 6, 2023, 9:36 PM
197 points
38 comments7 min readEA link

Dona­tion recom­men­da­tions for xrisk + ai safety

vincentweisserFeb 6, 2023, 9:25 PM
17 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal’s 1st eval is up: Re­silient foods pa­per (Denken­berger et al) & AMA ~48 hours

david_reinsteinFeb 6, 2023, 7:18 PM
77 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(sciety.org)

[Question] Have there been any de­tailed, cross-cul­tural sur­veys into global moral pri­ori­ties?

Amber DawnFeb 6, 2023, 6:16 PM
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors was ac­cused of steal­ing millions

Wobb1yP@ndaFeb 6, 2023, 5:24 PM
−14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.reddit.com)

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion: Loneliness

EmFeb 6, 2023, 5:20 PM
153 points
14 comments30 min readEA link

Launch­ing The Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence Pro­ject: Whitepa­per and Pilots

jasmine_wangFeb 6, 2023, 5:00 PM
38 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(cip.org)

Pod­cast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong /​ Light­cone Infrastructure

DanielFilanFeb 6, 2023, 4:42 PM
85 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(thefilancabinet.com)

[Question] What’s the so­cial/​his­tor­i­cal story of EA’s longter­mist turn?

David MFeb 6, 2023, 4:38 PM
26 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

If Adult In­sects Mat­ter, How Much Do Ju­ve­niles Mat­ter?

Bob FischerFeb 6, 2023, 1:33 PM
93 points
11 comments25 min readEA link

Pro­ject Idea: Lots of Cause-area-spe­cific On­line Un­con­fer­ences

Linda LinseforsFeb 6, 2023, 11:05 AM
37 points
13 comments5 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Oxford Es­say Writing

Flourish JournalFeb 6, 2023, 8:27 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link] How effec­tive al­tru­ists ig­nored risk

Milan GriffesFeb 6, 2023, 7:40 AM
23 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral se­lec­tion trends to a clearer un­der­stand­ing of re­al­ity and im­pli­ca­tions for our re­sponse to the cli­mate change emergency

Trev PrewFeb 6, 2023, 6:36 AM
−7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

disgruntled_eaFeb 5, 2023, 8:45 PM
2 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

What policy ideas do you think are both tractable and high im­pact?

freedomandutilityFeb 5, 2023, 8:15 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Call for sub­mis­sions: AI Safety Spe­cial Ses­sion at the Con­fer­ence on Ar­tifi­cial Life (ALIFE 2023)

Rory GreigFeb 5, 2023, 4:37 PM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(humanvaluesandartificialagency.com)

[No Longer En­dorsed] The EA Fo­rum should re­move com­mu­nity posts from search-en­g­ine in­dex­ing.

devanshFeb 5, 2023, 4:18 PM
109 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic Pre­dic­tion Check­list: H5N1 (6/​14)

DirectedEvolutionFeb 5, 2023, 2:56 PM
70 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Have an idea? Come to Oxford to dis­cuss and write (20 – 24 March)

Flourish JournalFeb 5, 2023, 2:51 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Se­cond call: CFP for Re­bel­lion and Di­sobe­di­ence in AI workshop

Ram RachumFeb 5, 2023, 12:19 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

H5N1 - thread for in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, plan­ning, and action

MathiasKB🔸Feb 5, 2023, 11:08 AM
202 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism De­con­fu­sion, Part 2: Causes, Philos­o­phy, and So­cial Con­straints

DavidmanheimFeb 5, 2023, 10:13 AM
44 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Ap­pre­ci­a­tion thread Feb 2023

Michelle_HutchinsonFeb 5, 2023, 10:09 AM
156 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s weird­ness makes it un­usu­ally sus­cep­ti­ble to bad behavior

OutsideViewFeb 5, 2023, 6:01 AM
208 points
69 comments4 min readEA link

Should EVF con­sider ap­point­ing new board mem­bers?

BurnerAcctFeb 5, 2023, 6:01 AM
188 points
88 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion about con­tact­ing EAs in China

puratchi_vinnaniFeb 5, 2023, 6:00 AM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Have you tried to bring fore­cast­ing tech­niques to your com­pany? How did it work out?

Eevee🔹Feb 5, 2023, 12:42 AM
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Thank you so much to ev­ery­one who helps with our com­mu­nity’s health and fo­rum.

ArvinFeb 4, 2023, 8:38 PM
330 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] [At­las Fel­low­ship] Why do 100 high-school­ers need $50k each from Open Philan­thropy?

Sparcalum2Feb 4, 2023, 4:57 PM
75 points
89 comments4 min readEA link

A dis­cus­sion with ChatGPT on value-based mod­els vs. large lan­guage mod­els, etc..

MiguelFeb 4, 2023, 4:49 PM
4 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.whitehatstoic.com)

[Question] What do EA’s think about Bayesian in­fer­ences ver­sus other types?

Noah ScalesFeb 4, 2023, 11:09 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link