Up­dated ‘Psy­chol­ogy of EA’ course: read­ing, videos, and syllabus

Geoffrey MillerApr 28, 2023, 8:43 PM
46 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

EA for Jews—Events and Op­por­tu­ni­ties

EA for JewsApr 28, 2023, 6:30 PM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Weigh­ing in solipsism

Liam 🔸Apr 28, 2023, 4:57 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Bet­ter weather fore­cast­ing: Agri­cul­tural and non-agri­cul­tural benefits in low- and lower-mid­dle-in­come countries

Rethink PrioritiesApr 28, 2023, 4:25 PM
41 points
6 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Question] What are some (po­ten­tially) effec­tive policy ad­vo­cacy or­ga­ni­za­tions in global health and de­vel­op­ment?

Maxim VandaeleApr 28, 2023, 3:48 PM
24 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

New open let­ter on AI — “In­clude Con­scious­ness Re­search”

Jamie_HarrisApr 28, 2023, 7:50 AM
55 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(amcs-community.org)

AI safety logo de­sign con­test, due end of May (ex­tended)

Adrian CiprianiApr 28, 2023, 2:53 AM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Re­search find­ings pre­sen­ta­tion: “Food se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)”.

Roberto TinocoApr 27, 2023, 10:48 PM
13 points
0 comments1 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

Risk and Re­silience in the Face of Global Catas­tro­phe: A Closer Look at New Zealand’s Food Se­cu­rity [link(s)post]

Matt BoydApr 27, 2023, 10:23 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­port: Food Se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in the event of an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresCApr 27, 2023, 9:00 PM
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

The AI guide I’m send­ing my grandparents

James MartinApr 27, 2023, 8:04 PM
41 points
3 comments30 min readEA link

Seek­ing ex­per­tise to im­prove EA organizations

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

[Question] What are work prac­tices that you’ve adopted that you now think are un­der­rated?

LizkaApr 27, 2023, 7:18 PM
81 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­view: SK Aditya on grass­roots an­i­mal ac­tivism and wild an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy! (Re­post from Karthik Logic Blog)

Karthik PalakodetiApr 27, 2023, 11:18 AM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Set up a co-op to donate your rent

Ben Dunn FloresApr 27, 2023, 10:58 AM
47 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Pro­pos­als for the AI Reg­u­la­tory Sand­box in Spain

Guillem BasApr 27, 2023, 10:33 AM
55 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

[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

Story of a ca­reer/​men­tal health failure

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

Me­tac­u­lus’s Fore­cast Fri­day, April 28th at 12pm ET

christianApr 26, 2023, 9:01 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My ver­sion of Si­mu­lacra Levels

kokotajlodApr 26, 2023, 7:06 PM
24 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

what is wrong with app.efffec­tivealtru­ism.org show­ing not pri­vate?

Erik NelsonApr 26, 2023, 7:03 PM
1 point
0 commentsEA 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

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

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

New Fau­n­a­lyt­ics Study on Com­par­ing U.S. Groups’ Open­ness to Pro-An­i­mal Actions

JLRiediApr 26, 2023, 3:18 PM
23 points
1 comment10 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

[Question] Is there EA dis­cus­sion on non-x-risk trans­for­ma­tive AI?

Franziska FischerApr 26, 2023, 1:50 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“Mak­ing ev­ery dol­lar count,” EA-re­lated epi­sode of In Pur­suit of Devel­op­ment (pod­cast)

ryancbriggsApr 26, 2023, 1:37 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globaldevpod.substack.com)

Join a ‘learn­ing by writ­ing’ group

Jordan Pieters 🔸Apr 26, 2023, 11:36 AM
26 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some of the best EA-re­lated work­shops you’re aware of?

smorApr 26, 2023, 9:25 AM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What will in­sect farm­ing look like and ac­tu­ally mean for an­i­mal welfare? (Re­post from my blog Karthik Logic)

Karthik PalakodetiApr 26, 2023, 8:33 AM
36 points
6 comments10 min readEA link
(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Suggest can­di­dates for CEA’s next Ex­ec­u­tive Director

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

Overview of Shrimp Farm­ing and Ques­tions Sur­round­ing it

ishankhireApr 26, 2023, 5:57 AM
28 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Archety­pal Trans­fer Learn­ing: a Pro­posed Align­ment Solu­tion that solves the In­ner x Outer Align­ment Prob­lem while adding Cor­rigible Traits to GPT-2-medium

MiguelApr 26, 2023, 12:40 AM
13 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Count­ing An­i­mals Affected By In­sti­tu­tional Food Purchase

JLRiediApr 25, 2023, 8:49 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(faunalytics.org)

Briefly how I’ve up­dated since ChatGPT

rimeApr 25, 2023, 7:39 PM
29 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Ge­netic Se­quenc­ing of Wastew­a­ter: Prevalence to Rel­a­tive Abundance

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 25, 2023, 7:35 PM
56 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Refram­ing the bur­den of proof: Com­pa­nies should prove that mod­els are safe (rather than ex­pect­ing au­di­tors to prove that mod­els are dan­ger­ous)

AkashApr 25, 2023, 6:49 PM
35 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(childrenoficarus.substack.com)

Is China Be­com­ing a Science and Tech­nol­ogy Su­per­power? Jeffrey Ding’s In­sight on China’s Diffu­sion Deficit

Wyman KwokApr 25, 2023, 5:00 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­views with former EA teens

KirstenApr 25, 2023, 4:58 PM
39 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

Think­ing more on a doc­tor’s value

jackchang110Apr 25, 2023, 4:55 PM
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #3: AI policy pro­pos­als and a new challenger approaches

Oliver ZApr 25, 2023, 4:15 PM
35 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

[Child Health] Open Re­quest for Pro­pos­als for Frontline Organizations

ChrisCApr 25, 2023, 4:10 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA might sys­tem­at­i­cally gen­er­ate a scarcity mind­set that pro­duces low-in­tegrity actors

SeverinApr 25, 2023, 3:49 PM
53 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Max Teg­mark’s new Time ar­ti­cle on how we’re in a Don’t Look Up sce­nario [Linkpost]

Jonas Hallgren 🔸Apr 25, 2023, 3:47 PM
41 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(time.com)

[CROSS POST] The Malaria Vac­ci­na­tion Era—How En­demic Coun­tries and Donors Can Make the Most of R21

TomDrakeApr 25, 2023, 2:48 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

EAGxNordics Unoffi­cial Re­view Thread

RobPraApr 25, 2023, 1:51 PM
59 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing Farmed An­i­mal Welfare in China—En­gag­ing Stake­hold­ers in Re­search for Im­proved Effectiveness

Jack_SApr 25, 2023, 1:46 PM
52 points
3 comments19 min readEA link

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

UK Govern­ment an­nounces £100 mil­lion in fund­ing for Foun­da­tion Model Task­force.

Jordan Pieters 🔸Apr 25, 2023, 11:29 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)