#204 – Mak­ing sense of SBF, and his biggest cri­tiques of effec­tive al­tru­ism (Nate Silver on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours17 Oct 2024 20:41 UTC
22 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

Recom­mend­ing How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Siya Sawhney17 Oct 2024 18:37 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Con­ven­tion: pos­si­bil­ities to act

Manfred Kohler17 Oct 2024 17:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Job op­por­tu­ni­ties at Devel­op­ment In­no­va­tion Lab

Arthur Baker17 Oct 2024 15:34 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA op­por­tu­nity with GFI Europe’s Science and Tech­nol­ogy Team

Filip Gavranović17 Oct 2024 14:53 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Con­crete benefits of mak­ing predictions

Jonny Spicer 🔸17 Oct 2024 14:25 UTC
29 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(fatebook.io)

Build­ing back­wards: How to get more peo­ple into im­pact­ful, high ab­sorbency careers

Joey🔸17 Oct 2024 13:43 UTC
106 points
2 comments31 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing an­i­mal suffer­ing and the im­pact of in­ter­ven­tions us­ing the Welfare Foot­print Framework

Wladimir J. Alonso17 Oct 2024 13:39 UTC
52 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

BERI is Hiring: My Ex­pe­rience as Deputy Direc­tor and Why You Should Apply

elizabethcooper17 Oct 2024 11:59 UTC
27 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

AI data gaps could lead to on­go­ing An­i­mal Suffering

Darkness8i817 Oct 2024 10:52 UTC
7 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

It is time to start war gam­ing for AGI

yanni kyriacos17 Oct 2024 5:14 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What wheels do EAs and ra­tio­nal­ists rein­vent?

Arepo17 Oct 2024 4:42 UTC
26 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

We’re launch­ing a new pro­gram for eco­nomic growth in LMICs (and look­ing for a pro­gram officer)

Open Philanthropy16 Oct 2024 22:52 UTC
90 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Are Or­gan­i­cally Farmed An­i­mals Already Liv­ing a Net-Pos­i­tive Life?

Christoph Hartmann 🔸16 Oct 2024 21:08 UTC
55 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­mals mat­ter a lot on non-he­do­nic views

MichaelStJules16 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC
41 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC
59 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

Eth­i­cal Con­sumerism (Philip Tram­mell)

Global Priorities Institute16 Oct 2024 14:13 UTC
37 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Oc­to­ber 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹16 Oct 2024 13:54 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Dispel­ling the An­thropic Shadow (Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities Institute16 Oct 2024 13:25 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Fringe Ideas and Un­con­ven­tional Cause Areas

Brandon Riggs16 Oct 2024 12:12 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The ELYSIUM Proposal

Roko16 Oct 2024 2:14 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

Op­por­tu­ni­ties to im­prove EA com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Good Impressions15 Oct 2024 20:49 UTC
108 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Eric Sch­midt’s blueprint for US tech­nol­ogy strategy

OscarD🔸15 Oct 2024 19:54 UTC
29 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] 8 years ago MMM donated to GiveWell, what hap­pened next?

Tyner15 Oct 2024 18:39 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Two En­velopes Prob­lem and the Mo­ral Weights Project

Derek Shiller15 Oct 2024 18:12 UTC
91 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

Read­ing glasses might be one of the best buys in global health.

Lauren Gilbert15 Oct 2024 15:39 UTC
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

DC Butcher Shop Sued for De­cep­tively Ad­ver­tis­ing the “Fatty Liver” as Hu­mane

Sage Max15 Oct 2024 15:24 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing men­tal health challenges in global catas­trophic risk fields

Ewelina_Tur15 Oct 2024 14:46 UTC
40 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

An­thropic rewrote its RSP

Zach Stein-Perlman15 Oct 2024 14:30 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

UK Na­tional Cur­ricu­lum re­view

Forumite15 Oct 2024 11:34 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Should we reg­ister new char­i­ties in France/​Europe?

acristia15 Oct 2024 8:49 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Value lock-in is hap­pen­ing *now*

Isaac King15 Oct 2024 1:40 UTC
12 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

EAGxVir­tual 2024

AllisonA14 Oct 2024 23:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing Your Ca­reer Beyond Effec­tive Giving

Giving What We Can14 Oct 2024 23:02 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing as a High-Im­pact Ca­reer Path

Giving What We Can14 Oct 2024 22:59 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Launch­ing the Health Progress Hub (and how you can help us!)

Berke14 Oct 2024 22:19 UTC
49 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

As­ter­isk Mag 07: Development

Clara Collier14 Oct 2024 15:12 UTC
40 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

Reg­u­la­tion of AI Use for Per­sonal Data Pro­tec­tion: Com­par­i­son of Global Strate­gies and Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Latin Amer­ica

Lisbeth Guzman 14 Oct 2024 13:22 UTC
10 points
1 comment21 min readEA link

Challenges and Op­por­tu­ni­ties of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing in Robotics: Anal­y­sis of Cur­rent Trends

Lobeznorojo1514 Oct 2024 13:22 UTC
11 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

Net­work­ing ad­vice for EAGx

YsalineB14 Oct 2024 11:46 UTC
45 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing the dis­crep­an­cies in cost effec­tive­ness rat­ings: A repli­ca­tion and break­down of RP’s an­i­mal welfare cost effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions

titotal14 Oct 2024 11:34 UTC
149 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Why Stop AI is bar­ri­cad­ing OpenAI

Remmelt14 Oct 2024 7:12 UTC
−22 points
28 comments6 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸13 Oct 2024 21:25 UTC
188 points
64 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are your fa­vorite books or blogs that are out of print, or whose do­mains have ex­pired (es­pe­cially if they also aren’t on LibGen/​Way­back/​etc, or on Ama­zon)?

Arjun Panickssery13 Oct 2024 20:21 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Max Teg­mark — The AGI En­tente Delusion

Matrice Jacobine13 Oct 2024 17:42 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Farma: A GMO and Food Tech For­ward Restaurant

xander_balwit13 Oct 2024 16:46 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

YOU can help make $20 billion of aid (each year) more effective

Ben Anderson13 Oct 2024 15:02 UTC
31 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How to Ad­dress EA Dilem­mas – What is Miss­ing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaub13 Oct 2024 9:33 UTC
6 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

In­sights and Best Prac­tices for CEA Group Sup­port-Funded Re­treats

Amalie Farestvedt13 Oct 2024 9:22 UTC
25 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] Tran­si­tion­ing from Bat­tery Cages: How Can Farm­ers Ac­cess Sup­port for Hu­mane Poul­try Sys­tems?

emmannaemeka13 Oct 2024 2:20 UTC
52 points
5 comments1 min readEA link