Sav­ing drown­ing chil­dren in light of per­ilous maximisation

calebp2 Apr 2023 0:46 UTC
274 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing CEA’s In­terim Manag­ing Director

Ben_West4 Apr 2023 18:35 UTC
266 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

The EA Re­la­tion­ship Escalator

ProbablyGoodCouple1 Apr 2023 16:26 UTC
238 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Cur­rent plans as the in­com­ing di­rec­tor of the Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

Eva26 Apr 2023 17:23 UTC
236 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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

Henry Howard19 Apr 2023 13:51 UTC
191 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

AISafety.world is a map of the AIS ecosystem

Hamish McDoodles6 Apr 2023 11:47 UTC
189 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

James Özden13 Apr 2023 9:32 UTC
187 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Story of a ca­reer/​men­tal health failure

zekesherman27 Apr 2023 6:09 UTC
185 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

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

Bella1 Apr 2023 5:46 UTC
185 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Things that can make EA a good place for women

lilly6 Apr 2023 17:09 UTC
182 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

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

Buck14 Apr 2023 0:38 UTC
179 points
30 comments7 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler27 Apr 2023 22:44 UTC
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

It’s “The EA-Ad­ja­cent Fo­rum” now

Lizka1 Apr 2023 20:15 UTC
174 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

We’re los­ing cre­ators due to our nit­pick­ing culture

TheAthenians17 Apr 2023 17:24 UTC
167 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

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

Sofya Lebedeva17 Apr 2023 5:10 UTC
167 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

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

MHR7 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC
163 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

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

Zachary Robinson20 Apr 2023 22:01 UTC
163 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

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

Drew Spartz12 Apr 2023 21:06 UTC
157 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Talk­ing pub­li­cly about AI risk

Jan_Kulveit24 Apr 2023 9:19 UTC
150 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing ex­per­tise to im­prove EA organizations

Julia_Wise27 Apr 2023 20:00 UTC
146 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

Rockwell1 Apr 2023 4:01 UTC
144 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

Akash5 Apr 2023 1:26 UTC
143 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup: EA Burner Ac­counts Anonymous

BurnerMeetupBurner1 Apr 2023 15:11 UTC
135 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Suggest can­di­dates for CEA’s next Ex­ec­u­tive Director

MaxDalton26 Apr 2023 8:18 UTC
133 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An EA’s Guide to Wash­ing­ton DC

Andy Masley10 Apr 2023 21:10 UTC
132 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Some lesser-known megapro­ject ideas

Linch2 Apr 2023 1:03 UTC
132 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing drama cur­fews on the Forum

Lorenzo Buonanno1 Apr 2023 15:22 UTC
129 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jaime Sevilla13 Apr 2023 7:33 UTC
127 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Leaked EU Draft Pro­poses Sub­stan­tial An­i­mal Welfare Improvements

Ben_West21 Apr 2023 19:15 UTC
126 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurogroupforanimals.org)

April’s Fools Posts Can Be Short

EdoArad1 Apr 2023 13:22 UTC
123 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

12 ten­ta­tive ideas for US AI policy (Luke Muehlhauser)

Lizka19 Apr 2023 21:05 UTC
117 points
12 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

Spencer Becker-Kahn26 Apr 2023 15:45 UTC
116 points
17 comments18 min readEA link

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

jackva4 Apr 2023 15:55 UTC
115 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

David Ed­monds’s bi­og­ra­phy of Parfit is out

Pablo23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC
115 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

StevenKaas8 Apr 2023 4:21 UTC
111 points
174 comments1 min readEA link

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

Cullen7 Apr 2023 1:06 UTC
106 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurosurveillance.org)

Keep Chas­ing AI Safety Press Coverage

RedStateBlueState4 Apr 2023 20:40 UTC
106 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Prospects for AI safety agree­ments be­tween countries

oeg14 Apr 2023 17:41 UTC
104 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

Hooray for step­ping out of the limelight

So8res1 Apr 2023 2:45 UTC
103 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Is it time for a pause?

Kelsey Piper6 Apr 2023 11:48 UTC
103 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

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

nikos4 Apr 2023 15:32 UTC
96 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Two things that I think could make the com­mu­nity better

Kaleem26 Apr 2023 14:59 UTC
92 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

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

Juan Cambeiro11 Apr 2023 11:07 UTC
89 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

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

Tessa @ ALI19 Apr 2023 14:37 UTC
88 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

2ndRichter25 Apr 2023 12:51 UTC
88 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Risks from GPT-4 Byproduct of Re­cur­sively Op­ti­miz­ing AIs

ben hayum6 Apr 2023 5:52 UTC
87 points
5 comments10 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The Case for Earn­ing to Live

Spending What We Can1 Apr 2023 16:56 UTC
85 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

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

Akash11 Apr 2023 17:30 UTC
85 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

AIs ac­cel­er­at­ing AI research

Ajeya12 Apr 2023 11:41 UTC
84 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

EA & “The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed”

Lizka9 Apr 2023 16:39 UTC
83 points
9 comments5 min readEA link