As­ter­isk Mag 09: Weird

Clara CollierApr 4, 2025, 8:25 PM
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

On­board­ing Strat­egy for EA Groups

guneyulasturker 🔸Apr 4, 2025, 8:19 PM
56 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

#214 – Con­trol­ling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it any­way (Buck Sh­legeris on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursApr 4, 2025, 7:59 PM
17 points
0 comments32 min readEA link

GiveWell’s re­sponse to the USAID fund­ing cuts

GiveWellApr 4, 2025, 7:20 PM
114 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagree­ments on AGI Timelines

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 4, 2025, 4:01 PM
46 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(epoch.ai)

PauseAI US is look­ing for lo­cal group lead­ers – ap­ply to­day!

Felix De SimoneApr 4, 2025, 3:44 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­ima In­ter­na­tional is hiring: Global Policy Gen­er­al­ist, Cam­paigner, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Gen­er­al­ist, Oper­a­tions Generalist

Anima InternationalApr 4, 2025, 2:42 PM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ad­vice on Ad­vice: A Frame­work For Eval­u­at­ing Advice

Lin BLApr 4, 2025, 8:40 AM
16 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Is­lamic An­i­mal Welfare Sur­vey—stake­holder feed­back group

KaleemApr 4, 2025, 7:38 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Bot­tle­neck in AI Policy Isn’t Ethics—It’s Implementation

Tristan DApr 4, 2025, 6:07 AM
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

How I shared Effec­tive Altru­ism with my friends

Alex W ZhuApr 3, 2025, 11:58 PM
28 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Three Or­ga­niz­ers Walk Into a Liberal Arts College

UnwobblypandaApr 3, 2025, 11:45 PM
75 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­ing Directed Kid­ney Dona­tion Within the EA Community

UnwobblypandaApr 3, 2025, 11:45 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

POTUS Pre­dic­tions Tournament

christianApr 3, 2025, 10:48 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

“Long” timelines to ad­vanced AI have got­ten crazy short

Matrice JacobineApr 3, 2025, 10:46 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(helentoner.substack.com)

The policy-im­pact gap: How effec­tive is policy ad­vo­cacy in low-in­come coun­tries?

Lutebemberwa IsaApr 3, 2025, 3:47 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

From biose­cu­rity to men­tal health: New overviews of mul­ti­ple cause areas

Probably GoodApr 3, 2025, 3:30 PM
52 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EAGx CDMX 2025 – EA UPY Perspective

Janeth ValdiviaApr 3, 2025, 1:48 PM
10 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

“This might be the first large-scale ap­pli­ca­tion of AI tech­nol­ogy to geopoli­tics.. 4o, o3 high, Gem­ini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same an­swer to the ques­tion on how to im­pose tar­iffs eas­ily.”

Matrice JacobineApr 3, 2025, 10:50 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(x.com)

What are the differ­ences be­tween a sin­gu­lar­ity, an in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion, and a hard take­off?

Vishakha AgrawalApr 3, 2025, 10:34 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

Com­par­ing the Im­pact of Donat­ing a Por­tion of In­come from a High-Pay­ing Job vs. Pur­su­ing 80,000 Hours Careers

satelliteprocessApr 3, 2025, 6:31 AM
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The AI Adop­tion Gap: Prepar­ing the US Govern­ment for Ad­vanced AI

LizkaApr 2, 2025, 9:37 PM
40 points
20 comments17 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

The EA Univer­sity Groups’ Pri­soner’s Dilemma! [RESULTS]

Alicia PollardApr 2, 2025, 6:57 PM
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounce­ment: New Ser­vices for Ca­pac­ity Build­ing in Nonprofits

Deena EnglanderApr 2, 2025, 6:08 PM
42 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Big Banks Quietly Pre­pare for Catas­trophic Warming

Matrice JacobineApr 2, 2025, 4:10 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.scientificamerican.com)

Com­pas­sion­ate Sav­agery: The Role for Mas­culinity in Altruism

Matt MajoyApr 2, 2025, 2:23 PM
8 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Com­pas­sion­ate Sav­agery: The Role for Mas­culinity in Altruism

Matt MajoyApr 2, 2025, 2:23 PM
17 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Why We Need a Bea­con of Hope in the Loom­ing Gloom of AGI

Beyond SingularityApr 2, 2025, 2:22 PM
2 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

A.I love you : AGI and Hu­man Traitors

Pilot PillowApr 2, 2025, 2:18 PM
1 point
2 comments7 min readEA link

Scal­ing the NAO’s Stealth Pathogen Early-Warn­ing System

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 2, 2025, 1:28 PM
127 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Large Lan­guage Models Pass the Tur­ing Test

Matrice JacobineApr 2, 2025, 5:41 AM
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

Save PEPFAR picnic

ScienceMon🔸Apr 2, 2025, 2:06 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

New Fron­tiers in AI Safety

Hans GundlachApr 2, 2025, 2:00 AM
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

My “in­fo­haz­ards small work­ing group” Sig­nal Chat may have en­coun­tered minor leaks

LinchApr 2, 2025, 1:03 AM
109 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing WAIT to Save Humanity

carter allen🔸Apr 1, 2025, 9:36 PM
21 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Ethics of Antimatter

Derik KApr 1, 2025, 9:19 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Minecraft As An Effec­tive Ad­vo­cacy Strat­egy And Cause Area

Kenneth_DiaoApr 1, 2025, 7:12 PM
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism Is No Longer “Effec­tive Altru­ism”-Related

Anna WeldonApr 1, 2025, 6:07 PM
501 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2025 Effec­tive Altru­ism Donor Lot­tery: A Mon­u­men­tal Opportunity

Milan GriffesApr 1, 2025, 5:49 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Against Do­ing Things

Benny SmithApr 1, 2025, 5:00 PM
86 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

(Fo­rum) Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Thread

Manuel AllgaierApr 1, 2025, 4:55 PM
22 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Deepgeek

LigeiaApr 1, 2025, 4:50 PM
11 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

He­donic Tread­mill Maxxing

PhibApr 1, 2025, 4:39 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing “sEAd The Fu­ture”: Effec­tive Sperm and Egg Bank

Jordan ArelApr 1, 2025, 4:35 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Red-team­ing Pow­erS­moothie.org by Holden Karnofsky

JamesÖz 🔸Apr 1, 2025, 4:03 PM
101 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Don’t Over­think it: A Man­i­festo for Naive Utilitarianism

Brad West🔸Apr 1, 2025, 2:41 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

New Cause Area: Low-Hang­ing Fruit

Tandena WagnerApr 1, 2025, 2:20 PM
178 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

For­ma­tion of Macros­trat­egy Refine­ment Division

Henry Stanley 🔸Apr 1, 2025, 2:16 PM
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Com­ments on Karma systems

Arturo MaciasApr 1, 2025, 1:27 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

In­sect Suffer­ing Is The Biggest Is­sue And What To Do About It

Bentham's BulldogApr 1, 2025, 12:50 PM
58 points
7 comments9 min readEA link