Posts we recommend from last week (Digest #125)
We’re sharing some posts from the last week (16-22 February), which I shared in the most recent Digest.
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We recommend:
Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? and Seeing more whole (Joe Carlsmith, 33 min, 31 min) (see also: “my dissertation”)
EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages (Ben West, 1 min)
What to think when a language model tells you it’s sentient (rgb, 7 min)
What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century (Holden Karnofksy, 13 min)
Deontic Fictionalism (Richard Y Chappell, 4 min)
What is it like doing AI safety work? (Kat Woods, peterbarnett, 11 min)
AI alignment researchers don’t (seem to) stack (So8res, 3 min)
Research writeups
Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration (Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, 43 min)
Data on how much solutions differ in effectiveness (Benjamin Todd, 4 min)
There are no coherence theorems (EJT, 23 min)
Tell people why they should donate, not that they are morally obligated to (benleo, PhilippSchoenegger, 5 min)
Community & practical:
Bad Actors Are Not the Main Issue in EA Governance (Grayden, 4 min)
Getting organizational value from EA conferences, featuring Charity Entrepreneurship’s experience (Amy Labenz, CE, 5 min)
EA London Hackathon Retrospective (Jonny Spicer, Sam Watts, 4 min)
People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You (Aella, 21 min)
On Loyalty (Nathan Young, 18 min)
Announcements:
Announcing the Launch of the Insect Institute (Dustin Crummett)
Opportunities & applications
AI Safety Info Distillation Fellowship (robertskmiles)
Join a new slack for animal advocacy (SofiaBalderson, Cameron.K)
Effective Thesis is looking for a new Executive Director (Apply by 22 March) (Effective Thesis)
News related to Effective Ventures Foundation
Transitioning to an advisory role (Max Dalton)
A statement and an apology (Owen Cotton-Barratt)
EV UK board statement on Owen’s resignation (EV UK Board)
Forecasting and epistemics
Classic Forum post:
Reality is often underpowered (Gregory Lewis)
Is there a collected list of classic forum posts anywhere? I’d like to check it out.
I like this and like that you also signal boost a classic post. Maybe consider boosting non-new posts with new comments, or those that seem particularly relevant to current priorities?
Great thank you!