Posts we recommend from last week (Digest #125)

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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:

1. Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? and Seeing more whole (Joe Carlsmith, 33 min, 31 min) (see also: “my dissertation”)

2. EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages (Ben West, 1 min)

3. What to think when a language model tells you it’s sentient (rgb, 7 min)

4. What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century (Holden Karnofksy, 13 min)

5. Deontic Fictionalism (Richard Y Chappell, 4 min)

6. What is it like doing AI safety work? (Kat Woods, peterbarnett, 11 min)

7. AI alignment researchers don’t (seem to) stack (So8res, 3 min)

8. Research writeups

   1. Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration (Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, 43 min)

   2. Data on how much solutions differ in effectiveness (Benjamin Todd, 4 min)

   3. There are no coherence theorems (EJT, 23 min)

   4. Tell people why they should donate, not that they are morally obligated to (benleo, PhilippSchoenegger, 5 min)

Community & practical:

1. Bad Actors Are Not the Main Issue in EA Governance (Grayden, 4 min)

2. Getting organizational value from EA conferences, featuring Charity Entrepreneurship’s experience (Amy Labenz, CE, 5 min)

3. EA London Hackathon Retrospective (Jonny Spicer, Sam Watts, 4 min)

4. People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You (Aella, 21 min)

5. On Loyalty (Nathan Young, 18 min)

Announcements:

1. Announcing the Launch of the Insect Institute (Dustin Crummett)

2. Opportunities & applications

   1. AI Safety Info Distillation Fellowship (robertskmiles)

   2. Join a new slack for animal advocacy (SofiaBalderson, Cameron.K)

   3. Effective Thesis is looking for a new Executive Director (Apply by 22 March) (Effective Thesis)

3. News related to Effective Ventures Foundation

   1. Transitioning to an advisory role (Max Dalton)

   2. A statement and an apology (Owen Cotton-Barratt)

   3. EV UK board statement on Owen’s resignation (EV UK Board)

4. Forecasting and epistemics

   1. Manifold Markets Charity program ending March 1st (Pat Myron) [UPDATE: it seems that this is no longer true]

   2. The Estimation Game: a monthly Fermi estimation web app (Sage, Adam Binks)

   3. Metaculus Introduces ‘Conditional Pair’ Forecasts for Making Conditional Predictions (christian)

Classic Forum post:

• Reality is often underpowered (Gregory Lewis)