Miles Brundage re­signed from OpenAI, and his AGI readi­ness team was disbanded

Garrison23 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC
57 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of Lafiya Nige­ria intervention

Rethink Priorities23 Oct 2024 22:41 UTC
99 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Tech­ni­cal Risks of (Lethal) Au­tonomous Weapons Systems

Heramb Podar23 Oct 2024 20:43 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Fore­cast With GiveWell

christian23 Oct 2024 19:50 UTC
35 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Are we drop­ping the ball on Recom­men­da­tion AIs?

Raphaël S23 Oct 2024 19:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­peal­ing to the Public

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Oct 2024 19:27 UTC
43 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

The Science of AI Is Too Im­por­tant to Be Left to the Scientists

AndrewDoris23 Oct 2024 19:10 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(foreignpolicy.com)

Fund­ing Cir­cles: An AIM Guide to im­prov­ing donor coordination

Joey🔸23 Oct 2024 15:33 UTC
70 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Im­pul­soGov: Pro­mot­ing Effec­tive In­ter­ven­tions in the Brazilian Public Health System

IsabelOpice23 Oct 2024 12:44 UTC
18 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Call for Ab­stracts: Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare Con­fer­ence @ Paris School of Eco­nomics

Bob Fischer23 Oct 2024 12:23 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI safety tax dynamics

Owen Cotton-Barratt23 Oct 2024 12:21 UTC
21 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Ag­gre­gat­ing Small Risks of Se­ri­ous Harms (Tomi Fran­cis)

Global Priorities Institute23 Oct 2024 10:58 UTC
14 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

What is malev­olence? On the na­ture, mea­sure­ment, and dis­tri­bu­tion of dark traits

David_Althaus23 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC
106 points
5 comments52 min readEA link

How Neil King and David Baker are us­ing AI to cre­ate more effec­tive vaccines

Open Philanthropy23 Oct 2024 0:17 UTC
27 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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
55 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
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Our fight for the fu­ture of one billion chick­ens.

Molly Archer-Zeff22 Oct 2024 13:29 UTC
241 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
−3 points
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
104 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
13 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)