What are we do­ing about the EA Fo­rum? (Jan 2025)

Sarah Cheng13 Jan 2025 17:32 UTC
148 points
81 comments8 min readEA link

The Planet of You: A Thought Ex­per­i­ment on Wel­lbe­ing Tradeoffs

Nunik13 Jan 2025 13:39 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Finite Field Assem­bly : A CUDA al­ter­na­tive rooted in Num­ber The­ory and Pure Mathematics

Murage Kibicho13 Jan 2025 13:37 UTC
−7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How to pre­pare for the future

BassistInTheCorner13 Jan 2025 13:35 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for the Co­op­er­a­tive AI Sum­mer School 2025!

C Tilli13 Jan 2025 12:31 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Max Chiswick (1985–2025)

technicalities13 Jan 2025 10:37 UTC
263 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The ugly sides of two ap­proaches to charity

Julia_Wise🔸13 Jan 2025 4:34 UTC
160 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How Can We Em­power Afri­can Re­searchers to Over­come Bar­ri­ers in Trans­la­tional Science?

emmannaemeka13 Jan 2025 4:31 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pro­posal: Create a World Cen­ter En­dowed With Millions of Dol­lars for the Sys­tem­atic Study of Suffer­ing and Billions for the Con­trol of Ex­ces­sive Suffering

RobertDaoust13 Jan 2025 0:25 UTC
6 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

‘Now Is the Time of Mon­sters’

Aaron Goldzimer12 Jan 2025 23:31 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Is Ge­netic Code Swap­ping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_O12 Jan 2025 18:38 UTC
23 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Ethics of Whey Protein: Net Nega­tive or Jus­tifi­able for En­vi­ron­men­tal Ve­gans?

nathan hart-hodgson12 Jan 2025 17:22 UTC
13 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Rol­ling Thresh­olds for AGI Scal­ing Regulation

Larks12 Jan 2025 1:30 UTC
60 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing EA Sum­mits, a new CEA-sup­ported lo­cal event series

Arthur Malone🔸11 Jan 2025 4:21 UTC
94 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Your Ad­vice For a High School Stu­dent.

AhmedWez10 Jan 2025 21:26 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Trump’s tar­iffs will prob­a­bly in­crease poverty abroad

Theo Renshaw10 Jan 2025 16:32 UTC
25 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(datatakesnewsletter.substack.com)

How can we get the world to talk about an­i­mals’ in­vi­o­lable rights?

David Michelson10 Jan 2025 13:08 UTC
51 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Is Musk still net-pos­i­tive for hu­man­ity?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)10 Jan 2025 9:33 UTC
0 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

NAO Up­dates, Jan­uary 2025

Jeff Kaufman 🔸10 Jan 2025 3:37 UTC
30 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Q4 Win­ners + Q1 Prac­tice Ques­tions Open

christian10 Jan 2025 3:02 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Is AI Hit­ting a Wall or Mov­ing Faster Than Ever?

Garrison9 Jan 2025 22:18 UTC
35 points
5 comments5 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

[Question] How to in­fluence AGI?

Sam Freedman9 Jan 2025 20:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists Have Kids?

Nicholas Decker9 Jan 2025 18:20 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Ex­perts’ AI timelines are longer than you have been told?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Jan 2025 17:30 UTC
38 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(bayes.net)

In­tro­duc­ing Scal­ing Altru­ism, a course co­or­di­na­tion pro­gram for EA groups

Milan_A9 Jan 2025 17:19 UTC
32 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

PIBBSS Fel­low­ship 2025: Boun­ties and Co­op­er­a­tive AI Track Announcement

Dušan D. Nešić (Dushan)9 Jan 2025 14:23 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­think­ing the Value of Work­ing on AI Safety

JohanEA9 Jan 2025 14:15 UTC
46 points
21 comments10 min readEA link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Am­bi­tion by Rut­ger Bregman

Patrick Gruban 🔸9 Jan 2025 11:50 UTC
181 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

Start an AIS safety field-build­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion at the city or na­tional level—an EOI form

gergo9 Jan 2025 8:42 UTC
38 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Sam­ple donor screen­ing guidelines (by the Creative Com­mons org)

Eevee🔹8 Jan 2025 23:36 UTC
27 points
13 comments6 min readEA link
(creativecommons.org)

Are AI safe­ty­ists cry­ing wolf?

sarahhw8 Jan 2025 20:54 UTC
61 points
21 comments16 min readEA link
(longerramblings.substack.com)

[Question] Find­ing ‘pivotal ques­tions’ from 80k pod­cast tran­scripts, sug­ges­tions, LLM ap­proaches/​ Is there already an “80k chat­bot”?

david_reinstein8 Jan 2025 17:16 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Tar­bell Fel­low­ship 2025 - Ap­pli­ca­tions Open (AI Jour­nal­ism)

Tarbell Center for AI Journalism8 Jan 2025 15:25 UTC
62 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What About Deon­tol­ogy? Ethics of So­cial Belong­ing and Con­for­mity in Effec­tive Altruism

Maksens Djabali8 Jan 2025 14:02 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Cage-free Wins in Africa in 2024

Daniel Abiliba8 Jan 2025 13:56 UTC
68 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

The eco­nomic gap be­tween Africa and the rest of the world is growing

Daniel Abiliba8 Jan 2025 9:27 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

What are poly­se­man­tic neu­rons?

Vishakha Agrawal8 Jan 2025 7:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

The moral ar­gu­ment for giv­ing AIs autonomy

Matthew_Barnett8 Jan 2025 0:59 UTC
35 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble im­por­tance of Effec­tive Altru­ism in the civ­i­liz­ing process

idea218 Jan 2025 0:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Bridge­wa­ter x Me­tac­u­lus Fore­cast­ing Con­test Goes Global — Feb 3, $25k, Opportunities

christian7 Jan 2025 21:40 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Sum­mer In­tern­ships at Open Philan­thropy (due Jan­uary 12)

Hazel Browne7 Jan 2025 18:38 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Your group needs all the help it can get (FBB #1)

gergo7 Jan 2025 16:42 UTC
43 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

AI Safety Col­lab 2025 - Feed­back on Plans & Ex­pres­sion of Interest

Evander H. 🔸7 Jan 2025 16:41 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some im­pli­ca­tions of rad­i­cal empathy

Michael St Jules 🔸7 Jan 2025 16:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Ac­tu­al­ism, asym­me­try and extinction

Michael St Jules 🔸7 Jan 2025 16:02 UTC
26 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

The EA Op­por­tu­nity Board is back

Sarah Cheng7 Jan 2025 15:53 UTC
94 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Why are bond yields anoma­lously ris­ing fol­low­ing the Septem­ber rate cut?

incredibleutility7 Jan 2025 15:49 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing The Field Build­ing Blog (FBB #0)

gergo7 Jan 2025 15:43 UTC
37 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

ALTER Is­rael End-of-2024 Update

Davidmanheim7 Jan 2025 15:07 UTC
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Fic­tion] [Comic] Effec­tive Altru­ism and Ra­tion­al­ity meet at a Sec­u­lar Sols­tice afterparty

tandem7 Jan 2025 13:23 UTC
120 points
2 comments1 min readEA link