AI scal­ing myths

Noah Varley🔸Jun 27, 2024, 8:29 PM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

#191 (Part 1) – The econ­omy and na­tional se­cu­rity af­ter AGI (Carl Shul­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 27, 2024, 7:10 PM
45 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

How can we get the world to talk about fac­tory farm­ing?

LewisBollardJun 27, 2024, 6:24 PM
159 points
11 comments6 min readEA link
(farmanimalwelfare.substack.com)

Reza Ne­garestani’s In­tel­li­gence & Spirit

ukc10014Jun 27, 2024, 6:17 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jun 27, 2024, 2:01 PM
207 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Call for Pre­sen­ta­tion Pro­pos­als for 3rd An­nual Fauna Connections

JLRiediJun 26, 2024, 10:21 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Path­ways to Im­pact: An In­ter­na­tional Study of Ad­vo­cates’ Strate­gies and Needs

JLRiediJun 26, 2024, 10:20 PM
17 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

“Den­mark will be first to im­pose CO2 tax on farms, gov­ern­ment says”

defun 🔸Jun 26, 2024, 7:27 PM
22 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.reuters.com)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from May 2022 to March 2024

LinchJun 26, 2024, 1:33 PM
134 points
11 comments24 min readEA link

My Cur­rent Claims and Cruxes on LLM Fore­cast­ing & Epistemics

Ozzie GooenJun 26, 2024, 12:40 AM
47 points
7 comments24 min readEA link

In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 25, 2024, 11:52 PM
90 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Can AI power the Global Map­ping and Quan­tifi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Suffer­ing? The Pain At­las Project

Wladimir J. AlonsoJun 25, 2024, 9:48 PM
33 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(welfarefootprint.org)

An­nounc­ing The Mo­ral Cir­cle: Who Mat­ters, What Mat­ters, and Why

jeffseboJun 25, 2024, 9:10 PM
135 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­tanc­ing EA from ra­tio­nal­ity is foolish

Jan_KulveitJun 25, 2024, 9:02 PM
135 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Scal­ing your im­pact: A polyno­mial model of ca­reer growth

stuhlmuellerJun 25, 2024, 8:35 PM
7 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(blog.elicit.com)

Open Sourc­ing Metaculus

christianJun 25, 2024, 6:40 PM
75 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Chom­sky vs. Pax Democratica

Arturo MaciasJun 25, 2024, 3:24 PM
4 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Re­sponses to Man­i­fest are not about Manifest

timunderwoodJun 25, 2024, 3:10 PM
92 points
38 comments2 min readEA link

Ger­man trans­la­tion and nar­ra­tion of util­i­tar­i­anism.net

stephan dalueggeJun 25, 2024, 1:59 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­traor­di­nary cost-effec­tive­ness analy­ses call for sup­port­ing the­ory

Seth Ariel Green 🔸Jun 25, 2024, 1:36 PM
55 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does GiveWell still plan to model the un­cer­tainty of their cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates?

AnonymousAntelopeJun 25, 2024, 1:12 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Scope-Sen­si­tive Biose­cu­rity Policy in France: An Op­por­tu­nity?

Alix PhamJun 25, 2024, 12:08 PM
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Day in the Life: Anna Wel­don, Direc­tor of In­ter­nal Operations

Open PhilanthropyJun 24, 2024, 10:30 PM
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

EA has a PR prob­lem (in that it cares about PR)

EneaszJun 24, 2024, 10:03 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link
(deathisbad.substack.com)

The Fu­ture of Work: How Can Poli­cy­mak­ers Pre­pare for AI’s Im­pact on La­bor Mar­kets?

DavidConradJun 24, 2024, 9:43 PM
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

William Shat­ner joins Pa­cific Wild in mes­sage against fish farms.

Nathan CashionJun 24, 2024, 9:33 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(x.com)

An­i­mal ad­vo­cacy re­search fund­ing op­por­tu­nity: Food Sys­tems Re­search Fund

Jacob_PeacockJun 24, 2024, 6:10 PM
24 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Farmed an­i­mals are neglected

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 24, 2024, 4:49 PM
108 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

China State Ship­build­ing Cor­po­ra­tion

JKitsonJun 24, 2024, 3:27 PM
10 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing prob­lems with U.S.-China hotlines

christian.rJun 24, 2024, 1:39 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(thebulletin.org)

In defense of stan­dards: A fe­cal thought experiment

titotalJun 24, 2024, 12:18 PM
6 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

(Linkpost) ‘No plat­form­ing’ by Simp­son & Srinivasan

Ben StewartJun 24, 2024, 12:10 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Altru­is­tic Retreat

JoeJonesJun 24, 2024, 9:37 AM
18 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Ten min­utes to speak up for ~4.5 mil­lion caged chickens

Ben StevensonJun 24, 2024, 12:31 AM
136 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Talk: AI safety field­build­ing at MATS

Ryan KiddJun 23, 2024, 11:06 PM
14 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

35 In­ter­ac­tive Learn­ing Mo­d­ules Rele­vant to EAs /​ Effec­tive Altru­ism (that are all free)

spencergJun 23, 2024, 5:57 PM
72 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

EAs Shouldn’t Talk About (Most) Politics

Noah BirnbaumJun 23, 2024, 5:19 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

Truth-seek­ing vs In­fluence-seek­ing—a nar­rower discussion

Nathan YoungJun 23, 2024, 12:47 PM
11 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

We should value in­come dou­blings equally across time and place (Founders Pledge)

NicoTJun 23, 2024, 9:38 AM
67 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Im­par­tial­ist Sen­tien­tism and Ex­is­ten­tial Anx­iety about Mo­ral Cir­cle Explosion

Rafael RuizJun 22, 2024, 7:53 PM
92 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

When “hu­man-level” is the wrong thresh­old for AI

Ben Millwood🔸Jun 22, 2024, 2:34 PM
38 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion: Me­dia Mo­ral Misdirection

Siya SawhneyJun 22, 2024, 10:39 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why I’m leaving

MRoJun 21, 2024, 9:20 PM
40 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

[US time] In­fosec: What even is zero trust?

JarrahJun 21, 2024, 6:11 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[EU time] In­fosec: What even is zero trust?

JarrahJun 21, 2024, 6:09 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI gov­er­nance needs a the­ory of victory

Corin KatzkeJun 21, 2024, 4:08 PM
84 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

In­tro­duc­ing the AI for An­i­mals newsletter

Max TaylorJun 21, 2024, 1:24 PM
40 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why UFOs matter

Magnus VindingJun 21, 2024, 10:53 AM
31 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Risks from Ad­vanced Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: A Guide for Philan­thropists [Founders Pledge]

Tom Barnes🔸Jun 21, 2024, 9:48 AM
101 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

[Question] Ca­reer Op­tions for EA-al­igned Ca­reers in Non-Profit or So­cial Im­pact—Em­manuel Katto Uganda

EmmanuelKattoJun 21, 2024, 5:22 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link