Not un­der­stand­ing sen­tience is a sig­nifi­cant x-risk

Cameron Berg1 Jul 2024 15:38 UTC
27 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the moral sta­tus of cur­rent and fu­ture AI systems

rgb1 Jul 2024 15:34 UTC
62 points
24 comments12 min readEA link
(experiencemachines.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing a New S-Risk In­tro­duc­tory Fellowship

Alistair Webster1 Jul 2024 14:37 UTC
54 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How can I jus­tify not ded­i­cat­ing my life to helping oth­ers?

Anton1 Jul 2024 14:32 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Bridg­ing the Gap: Real­is­tic Im­pact Mea­sure­ment in Effec­tive Altruism

Jonathan Coburn1 Jul 2024 14:31 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

We’ve re­named the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge

Alana HF1 Jul 2024 14:29 UTC
193 points
24 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

The Weight of Small Altru­is­tic Actions

Siya Sawhney1 Jul 2024 14:07 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Shortlived sen­tience/​consciousness

Martin (Huge) Vlach1 Jul 2024 13:59 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­man­tling re­stric­tive gen­der norms in low-in­come coun­tries as an EA op­por­tu­nity

Seema Jayachandran1 Jul 2024 12:29 UTC
74 points
7 comments25 min readEA link

Do What You Can (A Poem)

ElliotTep1 Jul 2024 10:53 UTC
166 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

How do AI welfare and AI safety in­ter­act?

Lucius Caviola1 Jul 2024 10:39 UTC
77 points
21 comments7 min readEA link
(outpaced.substack.com)

[Question] EA folks in Prague, 2-7th of July?

Vaipan1 Jul 2024 10:23 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Open thread: July—Septem­ber 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹1 Jul 2024 10:12 UTC
10 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ta­lent Survey

Animal Advocacy Careers1 Jul 2024 9:42 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My cur­rent takes on AI Welfare

Toby Tremlett🔹1 Jul 2024 8:43 UTC
24 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

10 Cruxes of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jordan Arel1 Jul 2024 2:46 UTC
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Out­landish Claims

HonoreDB30 Jun 2024 19:01 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Cost-effec­tive­ness of epi­demic/​pan­demic preparedness

Vasco Grilo🔸30 Jun 2024 13:37 UTC
32 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

The Myth of the ‘Perfect Altru­ist’

JoeJones30 Jun 2024 12:57 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

How to re­al­is­ti­cally re­duce most suffer­ing on earth

Stijn30 Jun 2024 8:10 UTC
45 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Num­ber of EAs per cap­ita by country

OscarD🔸29 Jun 2024 21:55 UTC
95 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

Space set­tlers will favour meat al­ter­na­tives?

OscarD🔸29 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC
6 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Anal­y­sis of key AI analogies

Kevin Kohler29 Jun 2024 18:16 UTC
35 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Futarchy and prefer­ences over variance

Nicholas Decker29 Jun 2024 2:36 UTC
2 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Pod­cast: Eliz­a­beth & Austin on “What Man­i­fold was al­lowed to do”

Austin28 Jun 2024 22:10 UTC
5 points
1 comment24 min readEA link
(share.descript.com)

Sav­ing Lives Re­duces Over-Pop­u­la­tion—A Counter-In­tu­itive Non-Zero-Sum Game

Non-zero-sum James28 Jun 2024 19:24 UTC
6 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Gover­nance Strate­gies for Dual-Use Re­search of con­cern: Balanc­ing Scien­tific Progress and Global Security

Diane Letourneur28 Jun 2024 17:01 UTC
8 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Ad­vice for cur­rent /​ po­ten­tial PhD students

JoshuaBlake28 Jun 2024 15:43 UTC
27 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Men­tor­ship in AGI Safety: Ap­pli­ca­tions for men­tor­ship are open!

Joe Rogero28 Jun 2024 15:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Failure: The Hid­den Face Of The Tragedy Of The Com­mons (Philippe Colo)

Nicholas Kruus🔸28 Jun 2024 14:03 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Con­tra Ace­moglu on AI

Maxwell Tabarrok28 Jun 2024 13:14 UTC
51 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

A Re­search Agenda for Psy­chol­ogy and AI

carter allen🔸28 Jun 2024 12:56 UTC
53 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

1-year up­date on im­pactRIO, the first AI Safety group in Brazil

João Lucas Duim28 Jun 2024 10:59 UTC
55 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Tak­ing Life Crit­i­cal Safety In­for­ma­tion Directly To Drug Users

DMTrott28 Jun 2024 9:24 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience found­ing what will hope­fully be a high-im­pact for-profit

PV28 Jun 2024 9:16 UTC
38 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

AI scal­ing myths

Nicholas Kruus🔸27 Jun 2024 20:29 UTC
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_Hours27 Jun 2024 19:10 UTC
45 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

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

LewisBollard27 Jun 2024 18:24 UTC
154 points
11 comments6 min readEA link
(farmanimalwelfare.substack.com)

Reza Ne­garestani’s In­tel­li­gence & Spirit

ukc1001427 Jun 2024 18:17 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

Jeff Kaufman 🔸27 Jun 2024 14:01 UTC
203 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Call for Pre­sen­ta­tion Pro­pos­als for 3rd An­nual Fauna Connections

JLRiedi26 Jun 2024 22:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

JLRiedi26 Jun 2024 22:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

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

defun 🔸26 Jun 2024 19:27 UTC
22 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.reuters.com)

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

Linch26 Jun 2024 13:33 UTC
134 points
11 comments24 min readEA link

My Cur­rent Claims and Cruxes on LLM Fore­cast­ing & Epistemics

Ozzie Gooen26 Jun 2024 0:40 UTC
44 points
7 comments24 min readEA link

In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

Owen Cotton-Barratt25 Jun 2024 23:52 UTC
89 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

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

Wladimir J. Alonso25 Jun 2024 21:48 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(welfarefootprint.org)

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

jeffsebo25 Jun 2024 21:10 UTC
135 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­tanc­ing EA from ra­tio­nal­ity is foolish

Jan_Kulveit25 Jun 2024 21:02 UTC
136 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

Scal­ing your im­pact: A polyno­mial model of ca­reer growth

stuhlmueller25 Jun 2024 20:35 UTC
7 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(blog.elicit.com)