Sav­ing drown­ing chil­dren in light of per­ilous maximisation

calebpApr 2, 2023, 12:46 AM
278 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing CEA’s In­terim Manag­ing Director

Ben_West🔸Apr 4, 2023, 6:35 PM
267 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

The EA Re­la­tion­ship Escalator

ProbablyGoodCoupleApr 1, 2023, 4:26 PM
243 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Cur­rent plans as the in­com­ing di­rec­tor of the Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

EvaApr 26, 2023, 5:23 PM
236 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

New 80,000 Hours fea­ture: Listen to au­dio ver­sions of our pod­cast transcripts

BellaApr 1, 2023, 5:46 AM
195 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a new an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy pod­cast: How I Learned to Love Shrimp

JamesÖz 🔸Apr 13, 2023, 9:32 AM
193 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

AISafety.world is a map of the AIS ecosystem

Hamish McDoodlesApr 6, 2023, 11:47 AM
192 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Ghana has ap­proved the use of a malaria vac­cine with >70% efficacy

Henry Howard🔸Apr 19, 2023, 1:51 PM
191 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Story of a ca­reer/​men­tal health failure

zekeshermanApr 27, 2023, 6:09 AM
187 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

Things that can make EA a good place for women

lillyApr 6, 2023, 5:09 PM
183 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

A fresh­man year dur­ing the AI midgame: my ap­proach to the next year

BuckApr 14, 2023, 12:38 AM
179 points
30 comments7 min readEA link

Life in a Day: The film that opened my heart to effec­tive altruism

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 27, 2023, 10:44 PM
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

List of Short-Term (<15 hours) Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects to Test Your Fit

Swan 🔸Apr 17, 2023, 5:10 AM
178 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

It’s “The EA-Ad­ja­cent Fo­rum” now

LizkaApr 1, 2023, 8:15 PM
175 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

We’re los­ing cre­ators due to our nit­pick­ing culture

TheAtheniansApr 17, 2023, 5:24 PM
168 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Planned Up­dates to U.S. Reg­u­la­tory Anal­y­sis Meth­ods are Likely Rele­vant to EAs

MHR🔸Apr 7, 2023, 12:36 AM
163 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Ap­ply or nom­i­nate some­one to join the boards of Effec­tive Ven­tures Foun­da­tion (UK and US)

Zachary Robinson🔸Apr 20, 2023, 10:01 PM
163 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ply to >50 AI safety fun­ders in one ap­pli­ca­tion with the Non­lin­ear Net­work [Round Closed]

Drew SpartzApr 12, 2023, 9:06 PM
157 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Talk­ing pub­li­cly about AI risk

Jan_KulveitApr 24, 2023, 9:19 AM
152 points
13 commentsEA link

Seek­ing ex­per­tise to im­prove EA organizations

Julia_Wise🔸Apr 27, 2023, 8:00 PM
148 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the April 1st Pur­chase of Bodhi Kosher Vege­tar­ian Res­tau­rant by EA NYC

RockwellApr 1, 2023, 4:01 AM
148 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

New sur­vey: 46% of Amer­i­cans are con­cerned about ex­tinc­tion from AI; 69% sup­port a six-month pause in AI development

AkashApr 5, 2023, 1:26 AM
143 points
34 commentsEA link

Meetup: EA Burner Ac­counts Anonymous

BurnerMeetupBurnerApr 1, 2023, 3:11 PM
135 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing drama cur­fews on the Forum

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸Apr 1, 2023, 3:22 PM
134 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Suggest can­di­dates for CEA’s next Ex­ec­u­tive Director

MaxDaltonApr 26, 2023, 8:18 AM
133 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An EA’s Guide to Wash­ing­ton DC

Andy MasleyApr 10, 2023, 9:10 PM
133 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Some lesser-known megapro­ject ideas

LinchApr 2, 2023, 1:03 AM
132 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Epoch’s dash­board of key trends and figures in Ma­chine Learning

Jaime SevillaApr 13, 2023, 7:33 AM
127 points
4 commentsEA link

Leaked EU Draft Pro­poses Sub­stan­tial An­i­mal Welfare Improvements

Ben_West🔸Apr 21, 2023, 7:15 PM
126 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurogroupforanimals.org)

April’s Fools Posts Can Be Short

EdoAradApr 1, 2023, 1:22 PM
124 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

The ‘Wild’ and ‘Wacky’ Claims of Karnofsky’s ‘Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury’

carboniferous_umbraculumApr 26, 2023, 3:45 PM
122 points
16 comments18 min readEA link

12 ten­ta­tive ideas for US AI policy (Luke Muehlhauser)

LizkaApr 19, 2023, 9:05 PM
117 points
12 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

David Ed­monds’s bi­og­ra­phy of Parfit is out

PabloApr 23, 2023, 12:25 PM
115 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

New 80,000 Hours Pod­cast on high-im­pact cli­mate philanthropy

jackvaApr 4, 2023, 3:55 PM
115 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [April 2023]

StevenKaasApr 8, 2023, 4:21 AM
111 points
173 commentsEA link

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

Cullen 🔸Apr 7, 2023, 1:06 AM
107 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurosurveillance.org)

Keep Chas­ing AI Safety Press Coverage

GilApr 4, 2023, 8:40 PM
106 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Prospects for AI safety agree­ments be­tween countries

oegApr 14, 2023, 5:41 PM
104 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

Is it time for a pause?

Kelsey PiperApr 6, 2023, 11:48 AM
103 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Hooray for step­ping out of the limelight

So8resApr 1, 2023, 2:45 AM
103 points
0 commentsEA link

Wis­dom of the Crowd vs. “the Best of the Best of the Best”

nikosApr 4, 2023, 3:32 PM
101 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Two things that I think could make the com­mu­nity better

KaleemApr 26, 2023, 2:59 PM
92 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

U.S. is launch­ing a $5 billion fol­low-up to Oper­a­tion Warp Speed

Juan CambeiroApr 11, 2023, 11:07 AM
89 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

Hid­ing in Plain Sight: Mex­ico’s Oc­to­pus Farm/​Re­search Facade

Tessa @ ALIApr 19, 2023, 2:37 PM
88 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

World Malaria Day: Reflect­ing on Past Vic­to­ries and En­vi­sion­ing a Malaria-Free Future

Emma Richter🔸Apr 25, 2023, 12:51 PM
88 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Case for Earn­ing to Live

Spending What We CanApr 1, 2023, 4:56 PM
86 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Re­quest to AGI or­ga­ni­za­tions: Share your views on paus­ing AI progress

AkashApr 11, 2023, 5:30 PM
85 points
1 commentEA link

AIs ac­cel­er­at­ing AI research

AjeyaApr 12, 2023, 11:41 AM
84 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How come there isn’t that much fo­cus in EA on re­search into whether /​ when AI’s are likely to be sen­tient?

callumApr 27, 2023, 10:09 AM
83 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

No, the EMH does not im­ply that mar­kets have long AGI timelines

JakobApr 24, 2023, 8:27 AM
83 points
21 comments8 min readEA link