The Wizard of Oz Prob­lem: How in­cen­tives and nar­ra­tives can skew our per­cep­tion of AI developments

AkashMar 20, 2023, 10:36 PM
16 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Our clubs’ day tabling went well, AND wasn’t that effec­tive.

TJPHutton🔸Mar 20, 2023, 10:09 PM
35 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Co­op­er­a­tive or Com­pet­i­tive Altru­ism, and An­ti­so­cial Counterfactuals

DavidmanheimMar 20, 2023, 5:54 PM
53 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

Some Com­ments on the Re­cent FTX TIME Article

Ben_West🔸Mar 20, 2023, 5:36 PM
302 points
38 comments5 min readEA link

EA for Chris­ti­ans 2023 An­nual Con­fer­ence | Lon­don, 14-15 April

JDBaumanMar 20, 2023, 5:32 PM
67 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Our re­search pro­cess: an overview from Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Global Health and Devel­op­ment team

Rethink PrioritiesMar 20, 2023, 5:02 PM
64 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Save the Date April 1st 2023 EAGatherTown: UnUnConference

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Mar 20, 2023, 4:06 PM
48 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The He­donic Tread­mill Dilemma – Reflect­ing on the Sto­ries of Wile E. Coyote

Alexander Herwix 🔸Mar 20, 2023, 9:06 AM
28 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Sen­tience in Machines—How Do We Test for This Ob­jec­tively?

Mayowa OsiboduMar 20, 2023, 5:20 AM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.researchgate.net)

The Nat­u­ral State is Goodhart

devanshMar 20, 2023, 5:01 AM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s make the truth eas­ier to find

DPiepgrassMar 20, 2023, 4:28 AM
39 points
10 comments24 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rum Weekly Sum­mary (13th − 19th March 2023)

Zoe WilliamsMar 20, 2023, 4:18 AM
31 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Fore­casts on Moore v Harper from Samotsvety

gregjusticeMar 20, 2023, 4:03 AM
37 points
1 comment27 min readEA link
(samotsvety.org)

Ten­sions be­tween differ­ent ap­proaches to do­ing good

JamesÖz 🔸Mar 19, 2023, 6:14 PM
111 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

EJTMar 19, 2023, 4:50 PM
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Con­sul­tants and the Cri­sis of Cap­i­tal­ism—Maz­zu­cato & Collington

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Mar 19, 2023, 10:46 AM
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.project-syndicate.org)

Scale of the welfare of var­i­ous an­i­mal populations

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 19, 2023, 7:10 AM
58 points
24 comments5 min readEA link

Some pre­limi­nary notes to­wards a *real* Cost-Benefit anal­y­sis of prisons

Philosophy BearMar 19, 2023, 2:34 AM
8 points
2 comments12 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

Po­ten­tial em­ploy­ees have a unique lever to in­fluence the be­hav­iors of AI labs

oxalisMar 18, 2023, 8:58 PM
139 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] What would need to be true for AI to trans­late a le­gal con­tract to a smart con­tract?

Patrick LiuMar 18, 2023, 4:42 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Young Peo­ple of EA—Database of Friendly Contacts

Madhav MalhotraMar 18, 2023, 12:39 PM
22 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search­ing Pri­ori­ties in Lo­cal Contexts

Luis Mota FreitasMar 18, 2023, 11:24 AM
95 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

Pros and Cons of boy­cotting paid Chat GPT

NickLaingMar 18, 2023, 8:50 AM
14 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Why I’m suss on wellbe­ing surveys

Henry Howard🔸Mar 18, 2023, 7:07 AM
9 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Would you pur­sue soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing as a ca­reer to­day?

justapersonMar 18, 2023, 3:33 AM
8 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

We can guaran­tee (at least) $1100 to Against Malaria Foun­da­tion by win­ning each round of this Twit­ter poll con­test.

figolamboMar 17, 2023, 11:15 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Event] Join Me­tac­u­lus for Fore­cast Fri­day on March 24th!

christianMar 17, 2023, 10:47 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eventbrite.com)

Why SoGive is pub­lish­ing an in­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tion of StrongMinds

ishaanMar 17, 2023, 10:46 PM
100 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

How to make in­de­pen­dent re­search more fun (80k After Hours)

rgbMar 17, 2023, 10:25 PM
28 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

The illu­sion of con­sen­sus about EA celebrities

Ben Millwood🔸Mar 17, 2023, 9:16 PM
131 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal: Eval­u­a­tions of “Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and Eco­nomic Growth”, and new host­ing space

david_reinsteinMar 17, 2023, 8:20 PM
47 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

EA Lon­don So­cial for Women and Un­der­rep­re­sented Genders

Gemma 🔸Mar 17, 2023, 5:00 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Get­ting Bet­ter at Writ­ing: Why and How

bgarfinkelMar 17, 2023, 3:31 PM
97 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Al­paca 7B re­lease | Bud­get ChatGPT for ev­ery­body?

Felix Wolf 🔸Mar 17, 2023, 1:08 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Sym­bio­sis, not al­ign­ment, as the goal for liberal democ­ra­cies in the tran­si­tion to ar­tifi­cial gen­eral intelligence

simonfriederichMar 17, 2023, 1:04 PM
18 points
2 comments24 min readEA link
(rdcu.be)

Sur­vey on in­ter­me­di­ate goals in AI governance

MichaelA🔸Mar 17, 2023, 12:44 PM
155 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2023 CLR Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

stefan.torgesMar 17, 2023, 12:11 PM
81 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Le­gal As­sis­tance for Vic­tims of AI

bobMar 17, 2023, 11:42 AM
52 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Can we trust wellbe­ing sur­veys? A pi­lot study of com­pa­ra­bil­ity, lin­ear­ity, and neutrality

Conrad SMar 17, 2023, 10:17 AM
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey LadishMar 16, 2023, 11:11 PM
76 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Some prob­lems in op­er­a­tions at EA orgs: in­puts from a dozen ops staff

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Mar 16, 2023, 8:32 PM
118 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus’s Cli­mate Tip­ping Points Tour­na­ment En­ters Round 2

christianMar 16, 2023, 6:48 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

[Linkpost] Why pesc­etar­i­anism is bad for an­i­mal welfare—Vox, Fu­ture Perfect

GarrisonMar 16, 2023, 3:33 PM
68 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(bit.ly)

Fore­cast­ing in the Czech pub­lic ad­minis­tra­tion—pre­limi­nary findings

janklenhaMar 16, 2023, 2:47 PM
45 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Giv­ing Green team re­flects on 2022 cli­mate giv­ing research

Giving GreenMar 16, 2023, 2:39 PM
30 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

We are fight­ing a shared bat­tle (a call for a differ­ent ap­proach to AI Strat­egy)

GideonFMar 16, 2023, 2:37 PM
59 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the ERA Cam­bridge Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

nandiniMar 16, 2023, 11:37 AM
83 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Women and un­der­rep­re­sented gen­ders meetup @ EAGx Cambridge

Amber DawnMar 16, 2023, 10:08 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Here, have a calm­ness video

Kaj_SotalaMar 16, 2023, 10:00 AM
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Offer an op­tion to Mus­lim donors; grow effec­tive giving

GiveDirectlyMar 16, 2023, 7:26 AM
270 points
34 comments4 min readEA link