LawAI’s Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship – ap­ply by Fe­bru­ary 16

LawAIFeb 7, 2024, 9:01 PM
51 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How Eng­ineers can Con­tribute to Progress Studies

Jessica WenFeb 7, 2024, 8:45 PM
21 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Up­com­ing changes to the EV US and EV UK lead­er­ship teams

Rob GledhillFeb 7, 2024, 6:33 PM
48 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Com­pli­ance Mon­i­tor­ing as an Im­pact­ful Mechanism of AI Safety Policy

CAISIDFeb 7, 2024, 4:10 PM
6 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Emo­tional Work Week Retreat

Raymond KoopmanschapFeb 7, 2024, 3:49 PM
11 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for: songs or art that in­spire EA values

Caitlin BorkeFeb 7, 2024, 3:08 PM
39 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Digest #175 [short]

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 7, 2024, 2:12 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Digest #175 [nor­mal]

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 7, 2024, 2:11 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Effek­tiv Spen­den “Defend­ing Democ­racy” fund

Sebastian SchienleFeb 7, 2024, 1:12 PM
86 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

Why I think it’s net harm­ful to do tech­ni­cal safety re­search at AGI labs

RemmeltFeb 7, 2024, 4:17 AM
42 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Gen­er­at­ing More Sur­plus in Mo­ral Trades

Pete RowlettFeb 6, 2024, 7:58 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

From Lab­o­ra­to­ries to Lan­guage Models: Can AI Sup­port Ri­gor in the Jun­gle of Policy Anal­y­sis? (Linkpost)

Marcel DFeb 6, 2024, 6:51 PM
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org)

The Cam­paign Lab Tool Box Hack Day

DanRFeb 6, 2024, 4:39 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Max­i­mal Clue­less­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Noah Varley🔸Feb 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
40 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Diet that is ve­gan, fru­gal, time-effi­cient, ~ev­i­dence-based and as­cetic: An ex­am­ple of a non-Huel EA diet?

Benevolent_RainFeb 6, 2024, 8:33 AM
41 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

A Spe­cial Is­sue on Effec­tive Altru­ism in the Ge­orge­town Jour­nal of Law and Public Policy

Artūrs KaņepājsFeb 6, 2024, 7:29 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.law.georgetown.edu)

My Proven AI Safety Ex­pla­na­tion (as a com­put­ing stu­dent)

Mica WhiteFeb 6, 2024, 3:58 AM
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Fo­rum — a space for those in­volved or in­ter­ested in An­i­mal Welfare & re­lated topics

David van BeverenFeb 6, 2024, 12:52 AM
109 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

AI al­ign­ment as a trans­la­tion problem

Roman LeventovFeb 5, 2024, 2:14 PM
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Safe Sta­sis Fallacy

DavidmanheimFeb 5, 2024, 10:54 AM
23 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

A re­view of how nu­cleic acid (or DNA) syn­the­sis is cur­rently reg­u­lated across the world, and some ideas about re­form (sum­mary of and link to Law dis­ser­ta­tion)

Isaac HeronFeb 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
53 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(acrobat.adobe.com)

An­nounc­ing the Lon­don Ini­ti­a­tive for Safe AI (LISA)

JamesFoxFeb 5, 2024, 10:36 AM
67 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How im­pact­ful is be­ing a suicide hotline vol­un­teer?

OliverHaymanFeb 5, 2024, 5:02 AM
13 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

UK AI Bill Anal­y­sis & Opinion

CAISIDFeb 5, 2024, 12:12 AM
18 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Will scal­ing work?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 4, 2024, 9:29 AM
19 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

The Jour­nal of Danger­ous Ideas

rogersbacon1Feb 3, 2024, 3:43 PM
−26 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Prac­tic­ing my Hand­writ­ing in 1439

Maxwell TabarrokFeb 3, 2024, 1:22 PM
19 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

A sim­ple and generic frame­work for im­pact es­ti­ma­tion and attribution

Christoph Hartmann 🔸Feb 3, 2024, 12:26 PM
36 points
8 comments16 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of re­stricted donations

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2024, 9:36 AM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How did you find your MITx MicroMasters?

Mitchell Laughlin🔸Feb 3, 2024, 7:22 AM
11 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing al­ign­ment isn’t enough for a flour­ish­ing future

micFeb 2, 2024, 6:22 PM
27 points
0 comments22 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

#178 – What the ev­i­dence ac­tu­ally says about preg­nancy and par­ent­ing (Emily Oster on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursFeb 2, 2024, 6:13 PM
25 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Africa’s 2023 Re­view and Plans for 2024

AnimalAdvocacyAfricaFeb 2, 2024, 5:26 PM
26 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

How Effec­tive Altru­ism im­pacts the views on Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

Daniel PidgornyiFeb 2, 2024, 3:34 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven RoukFeb 2, 2024, 2:20 PM
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Refin­ing My Mo­ral Values Us­ing Steel­man Solitaire

Evan LaForgeFeb 2, 2024, 10:07 AM
19 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Types of sub­jec­tive welfare

Michael St Jules 🔸Feb 2, 2024, 9:56 AM
42 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

AI safety needs to scale, and here’s how you can do it

Esben KranFeb 2, 2024, 7:17 AM
33 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(apartresearch.com)

GiveWell is hiring for se­nior roles: Head of Peo­ple Oper­a­tions and Head of Communications

GiveWellFeb 2, 2024, 1:16 AM
28 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Slow­ing down fac­tory farm­ing in Sub Sa­haran Africa: In­fluenc­ing na­tional poli­cies on sub­sidies to hin­der the in­ten­sifi­ca­tion of an­i­mal agri­cul­ture

adkukFeb 1, 2024, 6:27 PM
79 points
15 comments43 min readEA link

The In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel On Global Catas­trophic Risks (IPGCR)

DannyBresslerFeb 1, 2024, 5:36 PM
46 points
9 comments19 min readEA link

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyWFeb 1, 2024, 2:40 PM
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

Manag­ing risks while try­ing to do good

Wei DaiFeb 1, 2024, 2:24 PM
42 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How did you find a re­mote en­g­ineer­ing job?

CalmCobraFeb 1, 2024, 2:11 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

How would you ap­proach an in­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism in 1 hour in a class of sec­ond-year Philos­o­phy stu­dents?

jrcl39Feb 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

No, The Op­ti­mal Cor­po­rate In­come Tax Isn’t (Ne­c­es­sar­ily) Zero

ParetoOptimalFeb 1, 2024, 10:16 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

In­creas­ingly vague in­ter­per­sonal welfare comparisons

Michael St Jules 🔸Feb 1, 2024, 6:12 AM
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive’s 2023 in Review

havenFeb 1, 2024, 5:27 AM
84 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Se­quenc­ing Swabs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 1, 2024, 1:54 AM
24 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

#177 – Re­cent AI break­throughs and nav­i­gat­ing the grow­ing rift be­tween AI safety and ac­cel­er­a­tionist camps (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJan 31, 2024, 7:37 PM
15 points
0 comments16 min readEA link