Why Peo­ple in Poverty Make Bad Decisions

Non-zero-sum James15 Jul 2024 23:34 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

War­ren Buffett changes giv­ing plans (for the worse)

katriel15 Jul 2024 22:02 UTC
150 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(mailchi.mp)

Effec­tive Altru­ism NYC is Hiring an Ex­ec­u­tive Director

Alex Rahl-Kaplan 🔸15 Jul 2024 21:15 UTC
66 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ad­dress­ing cli­mate change?

Donald Zepeda15 Jul 2024 20:32 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cli­mate re­search in effec­tive altruism

Rethink Priorities15 Jul 2024 17:44 UTC
30 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Silent cos­mic rulers

Magnus Vinding15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC
37 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Can a pan­demic cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Pos­si­bly, at least on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC
29 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Against Aschen­bren­ner: How ‘Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness’ con­structs a nar­ra­tive that un­der­mines safety and threat­ens humanity

Gideon Futerman15 Jul 2024 16:21 UTC
238 points
22 comments21 min readEA link

In­creas­ing the speed of blood transfusion

AlexIV15 Jul 2024 15:09 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

An Epistemic Defense of Round­ing Down

Hayley Clatterbuck15 Jul 2024 14:51 UTC
49 points
7 comments27 min readEA link

Ap­ply now: Get “un­stuck” with the New IFS Self-Care Fel­low­ship Program

Inga15 Jul 2024 13:02 UTC
44 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

[Question] Are older peo­ple over­looked within EA? If so, how should we change that?

DLMRBN 🔸15 Jul 2024 11:35 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

AI and Work: Sum­maris­ing a New Liter­a­ture Review

cpeppiatt15 Jul 2024 10:27 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

A non-alarmist model of nu­clear winter

Stan Pinsent15 Jul 2024 10:00 UTC
22 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ethics web­site now in Arabic

Animal_Ethics15 Jul 2024 7:41 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Mis­nam­ing and Other Is­sues with OpenAI’s “Hu­man Level” Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Hierarchy

Davidmanheim15 Jul 2024 5:50 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Desta­bi­liza­tion of the United States: The top X-fac­tor EA ne­glects?

Yelnats T.J.15 Jul 2024 2:54 UTC
176 points
29 comments39 min readEA link

Philan­thropy Day—New Or­leans (11/​11)

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth14 Jul 2024 23:14 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Linkpost: Epis­tle to the Successors

ukc1001414 Jul 2024 20:07 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ukc10014.github.io)

[Question] Effec­tive char­i­ties that re­duce suffer­ing but don’t save hu­man lives? [Meat-eater prob­lem]

Ávila Carmesí14 Jul 2024 18:34 UTC
25 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Ten­ta­tively against mak­ing AIs ‘wise’

OscarD🔸14 Jul 2024 18:32 UTC
11 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How to bal­ance per­sonal sav­ings and giv­ing?

Moritz Linder14 Jul 2024 16:02 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Cur­rent State of Press Freedom

Siya Sawhney14 Jul 2024 13:56 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Ad­verse Selec­tion In Min­i­miz­ing Cost Per Life Saved

Vaishnav Sunil14 Jul 2024 6:15 UTC
54 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: De­ci­sion Fore­cast­ing AI & Futarchy

Jordan Arel14 Jul 2024 5:10 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

LLMs as a Plan­ning Overhang

Larks14 Jul 2024 4:57 UTC
49 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How Do You Prac­tice EA?

DavidB14 Jul 2024 4:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

10 Per­cent Pledge

Michael_2358 🔸13 Jul 2024 19:07 UTC
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

How EAs Can Em­bolden Em­ploy­ees (es­pe­cially those close to Bi­den)

Woody Campbell13 Jul 2024 16:25 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The world is awful. The world is much bet­ter. The world can be much bet­ter: The An­i­ma­tion.

Writer13 Jul 2024 14:03 UTC
35 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: GitWise and AlphaWise

Jordan Arel13 Jul 2024 0:04 UTC
6 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Con­sider at­tend­ing the AI Se­cu­rity Fo­rum ’24, a 1-day pre-DEFCON event

Charlie Rogers-Smith12 Jul 2024 23:01 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Public tran­sit ad­vo­cacy as an effec­tive cause area

Eevee🔹12 Jul 2024 19:53 UTC
19 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

#192 – What would hap­pen if North Korea launched a nu­clear weapon at the US (An­nie Ja­cob­sen on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours12 Jul 2024 19:38 UTC
13 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Differ­ence-Mak­ing Risk Aver­sion: An Exploration

Hayley Clatterbuck12 Jul 2024 15:00 UTC
20 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

The Precipice Revisited

Toby_Ord12 Jul 2024 14:06 UTC
279 points
41 comments17 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions are open for EAGxBer­lin, 13-15 Septem­ber 2024!

Milena Canzler🔸12 Jul 2024 12:42 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Most smart and skil­led peo­ple are out­side of the EA/​ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity: an analysis

titotal12 Jul 2024 12:13 UTC
213 points
25 comments14 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: The Wise Work­flow Re­search Organization

Jordan Arel12 Jul 2024 6:57 UTC
14 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

EAs should prob­a­bly fo­cus on re­cruit­ing the ul­tra-wealthy

Nicholas Decker12 Jul 2024 2:06 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Two-Ques­tion Sur­vey for Re­search on EA

DavidB11 Jul 2024 21:07 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Hear Me Out: What If We Made Lifelong Learn­ing a Reli­gion?

Nicolas Forero11 Jul 2024 20:28 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

GiveWell is hiring a Se­nior Accountant

GiveWell11 Jul 2024 20:21 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

#191 (Part 2) – Govern­ment and so­ciety af­ter AGI (Carl Shul­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours11 Jul 2024 19:26 UTC
23 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Noise in Char­ity Evaluations

Malin Ploder11 Jul 2024 18:32 UTC
55 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Could Reg­u­la­tory Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis Stop Fron­tier AI Reg­u­la­tions in the US?

Luise11 Jul 2024 15:25 UTC
21 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

[Question] What are the most tractable FAW in­ter­ven­tions?

Kaleem11 Jul 2024 15:16 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Best Bits From Build, Baby, Build

Maxwell Tabarrok11 Jul 2024 14:10 UTC
13 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Thoughts on these $1M and $500k AI safety grants?

defun 🔸11 Jul 2024 13:37 UTC
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

On the Value of Ad­vanc­ing Progress

Toby_Ord11 Jul 2024 11:20 UTC
119 points
39 comments9 min readEA link