GiveWell is hiring a Man­ager of Em­ployee Experience

GiveWell22 Oct 2024 18:31 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Test­ing Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing De­tec­tion with Spike-Ins

Jeff Kaufman 🔸22 Oct 2024 17:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

How Likely Are Var­i­ous Pre­cur­sors of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

NunoSempere22 Oct 2024 16:51 UTC
47 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(samotsvety.org)

Pre­dic­tions as Public Works Pro­ject — What Me­tac­u­lus Is Build­ing Next

Sylvain22 Oct 2024 16:35 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸22 Oct 2024 15:45 UTC
124 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Our fight for the fu­ture of one billion chick­ens.

Molly Archer-Zeff22 Oct 2024 13:29 UTC
240 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Author of Much-Dis­cussed Fo­rum Piece Defend­ing Eu­gen­ics Works for a Magaz­ine with Far-Right Links

David Mathers🔸22 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readEA link
(investigations.hopenothate.org.uk)

New Open Ac­cess Book: Weigh­ing An­i­mal Welfare, ed­ited by Bob Fischer

Bob Fischer22 Oct 2024 11:25 UTC
145 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Giv­ing Sea­son 2024 Announcement

Toby Tremlett🔹22 Oct 2024 9:28 UTC
95 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Dist­in­guish­ing ways AI can be “con­cen­trated”

Matthew_Barnett21 Oct 2024 22:14 UTC
30 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Weighted Fac­tor Models: Con­sider us­ing the ge­o­met­ric mean in­stead of the ar­ith­metic mean

Soemano Zeijlmans21 Oct 2024 19:57 UTC
59 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Achiev­ing Pareto Pro­duc­tivity. Sim­ple Task Man­age­ment and Pro­duc­tivity Rules that Go a Long Way

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Oct 2024 16:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.charityentrepreneurship.com)

What AI com­pa­nies should do: Some rough ideas

Zach Stein-Perlman21 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A Rocket–In­ter­pretabil­ity Analogy

plex21 Oct 2024 13:55 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Paus­ing for what?

MountainPath21 Oct 2024 12:18 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

OpenAI defected, but we can take hon­est actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: biose­cu­rity.world

Alix Pham21 Oct 2024 7:43 UTC
84 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

The con­se­quences of large-scale blackouts

FJehn21 Oct 2024 6:12 UTC
15 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Should you pur­sue an MA de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions?

Shaan Shaikh20 Oct 2024 22:45 UTC
21 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Safety tax functions

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Oct 2024 14:13 UTC
23 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

A brief the­ory of why we think things are good or bad

David Johnston20 Oct 2024 12:15 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Start an Up­per-Room UV In­stal­la­tion Com­pany?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Oct 2024 23:43 UTC
38 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

If far-UV is so great, why isn’t it ev­ery­where?

Austin19 Oct 2024 18:56 UTC
65 points
3 comments9 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

PSA: the Effec­tive Altru­ism Polls FB group is great and you should use it

Arepo19 Oct 2024 4:44 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Bar­gain­ing among worldviews

Hayley Clatterbuck18 Oct 2024 18:32 UTC
57 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

QB: How Much do Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Mat­ter?

Richard Y Chappell🔸18 Oct 2024 15:22 UTC
26 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Ad­ja­cent News—Ar­ti­cles driven by fore­cast­ing platforms

Lucas Kohorst18 Oct 2024 13:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

An am­bi­tious pro­ject of re­defin­ing what sci­ence is based on pro­cess philosophy

Michał Terpiłowski18 Oct 2024 5:14 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

[Question] Help with an or­di­nary career

Hank_B18 Oct 2024 2:45 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

NAO Up­dates, Fall 2024

Jeff Kaufman 🔸18 Oct 2024 0:00 UTC
33 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

#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
98 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
54 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­mals mat­ter a lot on non-he­do­nic views

MichaelStJules16 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC
40 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
58 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