AI Doom and David Hume: A Defence of Em­piri­cism in AI Safety

Matt Beard30 May 2023 20:45 UTC
33 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Up­date from the EA res­i­dency in Zanzibar

Kirsten30 May 2023 19:17 UTC
55 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(ealifestyles.substack.com)

Im­pli­ca­tions of AGI on Sub­jec­tive Hu­man Experience

Erica S. 30 May 2023 18:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments19 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

The Case for AI Adap­ta­tion: The Per­ils of Liv­ing in a World with Aligned and Well-De­ployed Trans­for­ma­tive Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

HTC30 May 2023 18:29 UTC
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Rel­a­tive val­ues for an­i­mal suffer­ing and ACE Top Charities

NunoSempere30 May 2023 16:37 UTC
33 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

Boomerang—pro­to­col to dis­solve some com­mit­ment races

Filip Sondej30 May 2023 16:24 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

An­nounc­ing Apollo Research

mariushobbhahn30 May 2023 16:17 UTC
156 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Ad­vice for new al­ign­ment peo­ple: Info Max

Jonas Hallgren30 May 2023 15:42 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounce­ment: you can now listen to all new EA Fo­rum posts

peterhartree30 May 2023 14:24 UTC
126 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Fund­ing Op­por­tu­nity: AI in LMICs (100k per pro­ject, Dead­line June 5)

Constance Li30 May 2023 13:42 UTC
33 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(gcgh.grandchallenges.org)

Look­ing for part­ners in the Car­bon Policy space

Arno30 May 2023 12:04 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The bul­ls­eye frame­work: My case against AI doom

titotal30 May 2023 11:52 UTC
69 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #8: Rogue AIs, how to screen for AI risks, and grants for re­search on demo­cratic gov­er­nance of AI

Center for AI Safety30 May 2023 11:44 UTC
16 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Up­dates from the Dutch EA community

James Herbert30 May 2023 10:40 UTC
61 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

State­ment on AI Ex­tinc­tion—Signed by AGI Labs, Top Aca­demics, and Many Other Notable Figures

Center for AI Safety30 May 2023 9:06 UTC
427 points
28 comments1 min readEA link
(www.safe.ai)

CEARCH Mo­ral Weights Sur­vey: Sodium & Soda Tax

Joel Tan30 May 2023 8:32 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

A book re­view for “An­i­mal Weapons” and cross-ap­ply­ing the les­sons to x-risk.

Habeeb Abdul30 May 2023 8:24 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.super-linear.org)

Utility Func­tions and Their Proxies

Max Reddel30 May 2023 6:03 UTC
7 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

New Video: What to Eat in a Global Catastrophe

Christian Pearson30 May 2023 1:51 UTC
42 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Without a tra­jec­tory change, the de­vel­op­ment of AGI is likely to go badly

Max H30 May 2023 0:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

Ob­sta­cles to the Im­ple­men­ta­tion of In­door Air Qual­ity Improvements

JesseSmith29 May 2023 19:15 UTC
187 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

No­madic EA Co-liv­ing House for Jan-Apr 2024

Constance Li29 May 2023 18:39 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions fol­low­ing EAG Lon­don: con­fer­ence strat­egy and in/​out­group dynamics

Jonny Spicer29 May 2023 17:59 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Should the EA com­mu­nity be cause-first or mem­ber-first?

EdoArad29 May 2023 15:50 UTC
205 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

Linkpost: the Emer­gence of Cooperation

Lauro Langosco29 May 2023 15:20 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.jstor.org)

Govern­ments Might Pre­fer Bring­ing Re­sources Back to the So­lar Sys­tem Rather than Space Set­tle­ment in Order to Main­tain Con­trol, Given that Govern­ing In­ter­stel­lar Set­tle­ments Looks Al­most Im­pos­si­ble

David Mathers29 May 2023 11:16 UTC
36 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

List of Masters Pro­grams in Tech Policy, Public Policy and Se­cu­rity (Europe)

sberg29 May 2023 10:23 UTC
47 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA Es­to­nia’s Im­pact in 2022

RichardAnnilo29 May 2023 10:03 UTC
46 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Lan­guage Agents Re­duce the Risk of Ex­is­ten­tial Catastrophe

cdkg29 May 2023 9:59 UTC
29 points
6 comments26 min readEA link

[Question] How fo­cused do you think EA is on top­ics of race and gen­der equity/​jus­tice, hu­man rights, and anti-dis­crim­i­na­tion? What do you think are fac­tors that shape the com­mu­nity’s fo­cus?

KJonEA29 May 2023 9:56 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

As­set pro­tec­tion strategies

WobblyPanda229 May 2023 9:56 UTC
4 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Sta­tus Quo Eng­ines—AI essay

Ilana_Goldowitz_Jimenez28 May 2023 14:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments15 min readEA link

Draw­ing at­ten­tion to in­va­sive Ly­man­tria dis­par dis­par spongy moth out­breaks as an im­por­tant, ne­glected is­sue in wild an­i­mal welfare

Meghan Barrett28 May 2023 14:18 UTC
93 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

My AI Align­ment Re­search Agenda and Threat Model, right now (May 2023)

NicholasKross28 May 2023 3:23 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why and When In­ter­pretabil­ity Work is Dangerous

NicholasKross28 May 2023 0:27 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Has Rus­sia’s In­va­sion of Ukraine Changed Your Mind?

JoelMcGuire27 May 2023 18:35 UTC
60 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

[Grant op­por­tu­nity] EA Oxford is look­ing for com­mu­nity builders to join our team

Alejandro Ortega27 May 2023 13:27 UTC
25 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Diminish­ing Re­turns in Ma­chine Learn­ing Part 1: Hard­ware Devel­op­ment and the Phys­i­cal Frontier

Brian Chau27 May 2023 12:39 UTC
16 points
3 comments12 min readEA link
(www.fromthenew.world)

Why Africa Needs a Cage Free Model Farm and Pro­ducer’s Directory

Daniel Abiliba27 May 2023 9:23 UTC
52 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do you think de­creas­ing the con­sump­tion of an­i­mals is good/​bad? Think again?

Vasco Grilo27 May 2023 8:22 UTC
89 points
39 comments5 min readEA link

Case Study of An­i­mal Welfare League’s Cage Free Pro­ject in Ghana

Daniel Abiliba27 May 2023 7:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.animaladvocacyafrica.org)

[Linkpost] Longter­mists Are Push­ing a New Cold War With China

Radical Empath Ismam27 May 2023 6:53 UTC
37 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(jacobin.com)

Spe­cial­iza­tion and Giv­ing to Charity

carter allen27 May 2023 4:27 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

By failing to take se­ri­ous AI ac­tion, the US could be in vi­o­la­tion of its in­ter­na­tional law obligations

Cecil Abungu 27 May 2023 4:25 UTC
44 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Biomimetic al­ign­ment: Align­ment be­tween an­i­mal genes and an­i­mal brains as a model for al­ign­ment be­tween hu­mans and AI sys­tems.

Geoffrey Miller26 May 2023 21:25 UTC
31 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Seek­ing (Paid) Case Stud­ies on Standards

Holden Karnofsky26 May 2023 17:58 UTC
92 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

How to eval­u­ate rel­a­tive im­pact in high-un­cer­tainty con­texts? An up­date on re­search method­ol­ogy & grant­mak­ing of FP Cli­mate

jackva26 May 2023 17:30 UTC
84 points
8 comments16 min readEA link

In­group Deference

trammell26 May 2023 16:44 UTC
120 points
24 comments17 min readEA link

Bandgaps, Brains, and Bioweapons: The limi­ta­tions of com­pu­ta­tional sci­ence and what it means for AGI

titotal26 May 2023 15:57 UTC
54 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

[Linkpost] OpenAI is award­ing ten 100k grants for build­ing pro­to­types of a demo­cratic pro­cess for steer­ing AI

pseudonym26 May 2023 12:49 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openai.com)