Small sim­ple way to pro­mote effec­tive giv­ing while mak­ing peo­ple feel good

DMMFAug 22, 2024, 8:41 PM
145 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do you deal with the “meat eater” problem

sammyboiz🔸Aug 22, 2024, 8:26 PM
81 points
100 comments1 min readEA link

Some rea­sons to start a pro­ject to stop harm­ful AI

RemmeltAug 22, 2024, 4:23 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Over 4 billion peo­ple don’t have ac­cess to clean drink­ing wa­ter at home, more than 2x pre­vi­ous estimates

PeterAug 22, 2024, 3:41 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

#197 – On whether An­thropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task (Nick Joseph on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursAug 22, 2024, 3:34 PM
9 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Book Sum­mary: Good Strat­egy, Bad Strat­egy by Richard Rumelt

DavidNashAug 22, 2024, 11:13 AM
21 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(www.tosummarise.com)

[Question] What do you view as core EA prin­ci­ples?

leillustrations🔸Aug 22, 2024, 1:56 AM
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #40: Cal­ifor­nia AI Leg­is­la­tion Plus, NVIDIA De­lays Chip Pro­duc­tion, and Do AI Safety Bench­marks Ac­tu­ally Mea­sure Safety?

Center for AI SafetyAug 21, 2024, 6:10 PM
17 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Crowd­sourc­ing The Best Ideas for Struc­tural Demo­cratic Reforms

Izzy GainsburgAug 21, 2024, 5:35 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Life You Can Save sug­gests peo­ple earn­ing 40 to 80 k$/​year donate just 1 %

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 21, 2024, 5:25 PM
42 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

Digest: three pa­pers that have shaped my un­der­stand­ing of the po­ten­tial for con­scious­ness in AI systems

rileyharrisAug 21, 2024, 3:09 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sults of an in­for­mal sur­vey on AI grantmaking

Scott AlexanderAug 21, 2024, 1:19 PM
127 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Im­pli­ca­tions of AI on Hu­man Cog­ni­tive Evolution

Soe LinAug 21, 2024, 9:53 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cern About the In­tel­li­gence Divide Due to AI

Soe LinAug 21, 2024, 9:53 AM
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ap­ply to Aether—In­de­pen­dent LLM Agent Safety Re­search Group

RohanSAug 21, 2024, 9:40 AM
47 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

Car­reras con Im­pacto: Outreach Re­sults Among Latin Amer­i­can Students

SMalagonAug 21, 2024, 5:10 AM
34 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Green ba­sic in­come and health taxes as a way for sys­temic change

Ulf Graf 🔹Aug 20, 2024, 7:11 PM
20 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Ex­plicit Ethics

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 20, 2024, 4:17 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Danger­ous ca­pa­bil­ity tests should be harder

Luca Righetti 🔸Aug 20, 2024, 4:11 PM
23 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

A new in­ter­view se­ries with peo­ple do­ing im­pact­ful work

Probably GoodAug 20, 2024, 3:23 PM
66 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

En­courag­ing a he­do­nium shock­wave as a long term cause area

Felix BauerAug 20, 2024, 1:24 PM
22 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

CEA will con­tinue to take a “prin­ci­ples-first” ap­proach to EA

Zachary Robinson🔸Aug 20, 2024, 11:15 AM
362 points
62 comments14 min readEA link

[Video] Why SB-1047 de­serves a fairer debate

YadavAug 20, 2024, 10:38 AM
15 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

Molly HickmanAug 20, 2024, 9:23 AM
25 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Defin­ing al­ign­ment research

richard_ngoAug 19, 2024, 10:49 PM
48 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Will we ever run out of new jobs?

Kevin KohlerAug 19, 2024, 3:03 PM
11 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(machinocene.substack.com)

Quick look: ap­pli­ca­tions of chaos theory

ElizabethAug 19, 2024, 2:07 PM
16 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Au­gust 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹Aug 19, 2024, 12:04 PM
10 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

(Prob­a­bly Flawed) Solu­tion to ca­sual EAs try­ing to max­i­mize im­pact un­der un­cer­tainty and confusion

InfiniteElephantAug 19, 2024, 11:28 AM
7 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] If AI is in a bub­ble and the bub­ble bursts, what would you do?

RemmeltAug 19, 2024, 10:56 AM
28 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Think­ing About Propen­sity Evaluations

Maxime Riché 🔸Aug 19, 2024, 9:24 AM
12 points
1 comment27 min readEA link

A Tax­on­omy Of AI Sys­tem Evaluations

Maxime Riché 🔸Aug 19, 2024, 9:08 AM
8 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

AMA with AIM’s Direc­tor of Re­cruit­ment (and MHI co-founder), Ben Williamson

Ben WilliamsonAug 19, 2024, 7:03 AM
51 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Some­thing Is Lost When AI Makes Art

utilistrutilAug 18, 2024, 10:53 PM
7 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Scal­ing Laws and Likely Limits to AI

DavidmanheimAug 18, 2024, 5:19 PM
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Are We Leav­ing the In­di­vi­d­ual Be­hind? The Role of An­i­mal Sto­ry­tel­ling in the An­i­mal Rights Movement

Ronen BarAug 18, 2024, 1:03 PM
69 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Prob­lem: Guaran­tee­ing the right to life for ev­ery­one, in the in­finitely long term (part 1)

lamparitaAug 18, 2024, 12:13 PM
2 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

De­cod­ing Repub­li­can AI Policy: In­sights from 10 Key Ar­ti­cles from Mid-2024

anonymous007Aug 18, 2024, 9:48 AM
5 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Does “Ul­ti­mate Neart­er­mism” via Eter­nal In­fla­tion dom­i­nate Longter­mism in ex­pec­ta­tion?

Jordan ArelAug 17, 2024, 10:09 PM
18 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

The Bar for Con­tribut­ing to AI Safety is Lower than You Think

Chris LeongAug 17, 2024, 10:52 AM
14 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is hiring peo­ple to… help hire more peo­ple!

mauraAug 16, 2024, 10:37 PM
46 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal wants YOU: to do an eval­u­a­tion. Pilot­ing “In­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tions” – (up­dated, with kick­starter bounty)

david_reinsteinAug 16, 2024, 8:26 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

The Tech In­dus­try is the Biggest Blocker to Mean­ingful AI Safety Regulations

GarrisonAug 16, 2024, 7:37 PM
140 points
8 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

#196 – The edge cases of sen­tience and why they mat­ter (Jonathan Birch on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursAug 16, 2024, 7:07 PM
46 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing is a Life Hack

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 16, 2024, 4:01 PM
42 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(mindmeandering.substack.com)

AI Safety In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram—Ap­pli­ca­tions Open

Catalyze ImpactAug 16, 2024, 3:37 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

This chart is right. Most in­ter­ven­tions don’t do much. (Cameroon ex­pe­rience)

EffectiveHelp - CameroonAug 16, 2024, 2:29 PM
260 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

Cri­tique our po­si­tion – Sickle cell anaemia in sub-Sa­haran Africa (Cameroon)

EffectiveHelp - CameroonAug 16, 2024, 2:29 PM
41 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Shar­ing the AI Wind­fall: A Strate­gic Ap­proach to In­ter­na­tional Benefit-Sharing

michelAug 16, 2024, 12:54 PM
67 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(wrtaigovernance.substack.com)

How much is 1.8 mil­lion years of work?

rosehadsharAug 16, 2024, 12:35 PM
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link