Man­i­fund: 2023 in Review

Austin18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC
29 points
1 comment23 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

The True Story of How GPT-2 Be­came Max­i­mally Lewd

Writer18 Jan 2024 21:03 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for the Next Non­profit Org Ac­cel­er­a­tor Cohort

Deena Englander18 Jan 2024 20:29 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Good job op­por­tu­ni­ties for helping with the most im­por­tant century

Holden Karnofsky18 Jan 2024 19:21 UTC
46 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

On the abo­li­tion of man

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2024 18:17 UTC
71 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

US Poverty In­ter­ven­tions: how should we pri­ori­tize?

Abbey Chaver18 Jan 2024 17:46 UTC
5 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

CEA is spin­ning out of Effec­tive Ventures

Eli_Nathan18 Jan 2024 16:57 UTC
68 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Elec­tric Ve­hi­cles and re­new­able electricity

Arturo Macias18 Jan 2024 16:12 UTC
1 point
1 comment4 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Jan­uary 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹18 Jan 2024 15:28 UTC
18 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Feed­back of a CEA?

Iska Knuuttila18 Jan 2024 15:19 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

When safety is dan­ger­ous: risks of an in­definite pause on AI de­vel­op­ment, and call for re­al­is­tic alternatives

Hayven Frienby18 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

We are shar­ing a new web­site tem­plate for EA Groups

gergo18 Jan 2024 11:40 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Could poverty in­ter­ven­tions in the US be cost-effec­tive for global health?

Abbey Chaver18 Jan 2024 10:53 UTC
18 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What ev­i­dence is there for (or against) the­o­ries about the ex­tent to which effec­tive al­tru­ist in­ter­ests mo­ti­vated the ouster of Sam Alt­man last year?

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Jan 2024 5:14 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Some heuris­tics I use for de­cid­ing how much I trust sci­en­tific results

Nathan_Barnard18 Jan 2024 2:50 UTC
74 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the SoS Re­search Col­lec­tive for in­de­pen­dent researchers

rogersbacon118 Jan 2024 0:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

[Question] How do I get in touch with peo­ple work­ing in fields I’m in­ter­ested in for the pur­pose of in­ter­views?

Mechaluke17 Jan 2024 22:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should I finish my un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree in the US or the EU?

Mechaluke17 Jan 2024 22:08 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

Can you help re­view my ap­pli­ca­tion for a Ca­reer Cap­i­tal Ac­tivity on Sal­monella Typhi Vac­cine Development

emmannaemeka17 Jan 2024 21:02 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Last days to ap­ply to EAGxLATAM 2024

Daniela Tiznado17 Jan 2024 20:24 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Dis­clo­sure Bal­lot Ini­ti­a­tive (and vot­ing method)

aaronhamlin17 Jan 2024 20:01 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given New Biotech Risks

Matt Clancy17 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC
78 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing ac­ci­den­tally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlake17 Jan 2024 19:36 UTC
48 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Against Learn­ing From Dra­matic Events (by Scott Alexan­der)

bern17 Jan 2024 16:34 UTC
46 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Chi­nese and US Semi­con­duc­tor competition

JKitson17 Jan 2024 16:27 UTC
12 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

First book fo­cus­ing on EA and Farmed An­i­mals: The Farm An­i­mal Move­ment: Effec­tive Altru­ism, Ven­ture Philan­thropy, and the Fight to End Fac­tory Farm­ing in America

Jeff Thomas17 Jan 2024 16:09 UTC
103 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Does a DALY ap­proach un­der­rate the bad­ness of men­tal ill­ness?

Stan Pinsent17 Jan 2024 15:17 UTC
10 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Men­tal ill­ness is grow­ing as a pro­por­tion of the global dis­ease burden

Stan Pinsent17 Jan 2024 15:16 UTC
14 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Men­tal Health Re­port (CEARCH) [Ex­ec­u­tive Sum­mary]

Stan Pinsent17 Jan 2024 15:16 UTC
41 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

An overview of promis­ing men­tal health interventions

Stan Pinsent17 Jan 2024 15:14 UTC
53 points
5 comments41 min readEA link

£1 mil­lion prize for the most cut­ting-edge AI solu­tion for pub­lic good [link post]

rileyharris17 Jan 2024 14:36 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(manchesterprize.org)

Vege­tar­i­anism is mostly ge­netic, claim Wes­seldijk et al.

Batbridge17 Jan 2024 12:24 UTC
21 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

CAISH Hiring: AI Safety Policy Fel­low­ship Facilitators

Chloe Li17 Jan 2024 9:21 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

An­i­mal ethics in ChatGPT and Claude

Elijah Whipple16 Jan 2024 21:38 UTC
46 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Be­ing nicer than Clippy

Joe_Carlsmith16 Jan 2024 19:44 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Sum­mary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward

Joey🔸16 Jan 2024 11:16 UTC
107 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

EA Nige­ria: Reflect­ing on 2023 and Look­ing Ahead to 2024

EA Nigeria16 Jan 2024 9:26 UTC
118 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing New Biose­cu­rity In­ter­ven­tions Syllabus

Lin BL15 Jan 2024 20:53 UTC
48 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Giv­ing Farm An­i­mals a Name and a Face: The Power of The Iden­ti­fi­able Vic­tim Effect

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye15 Jan 2024 14:49 UTC
63 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Sum­mary: In Defence of Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Nicholas Kruus🔸15 Jan 2024 14:21 UTC
30 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A cri­tique of the EA com­mu­nity’s ap­proach to in­fluenc­ing non-EA actors

Stephen Robcraft15 Jan 2024 11:50 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Var­i­ous roles at The School for Mo­ral Ambition

Toby Tremlett🔹15 Jan 2024 11:17 UTC
73 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(www.moreleambitie.nl)

For­mal Sciences vs. So­cial Sciences: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion About Differ­ent Knowl­edge Structures

erug15 Jan 2024 9:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC
67 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Main­tain­ing differ­en­tial pres­sure gra­di­ents does not in­crease safety in­side mod­ern BSL-4 laboratories

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jan 2024 8:01 UTC
13 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(www.frontiersin.org)

De­tach­ment vs at­tach­ment [AI risk and men­tal health]

Neil Warren15 Jan 2024 0:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should I Re­port A Co­caine User?

dstudioscode14 Jan 2024 21:16 UTC
−18 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Prob­a­bly The Cur­rent Most Effec­tive Altru­ism: Donat­ing Blood/​Platelets/​Plasma

dstudioscode14 Jan 2024 19:45 UTC
−15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies

Matthew_Barnett14 Jan 2024 19:13 UTC
43 points
9 comments1 min readEA link