1) How often (in absolute and relative terms) a given forum topic appears with another given topic
2) Visualizing the popularity of various tags
An updated Forum scrape including the full text and attributes of 10k-ish posts as of Christmas, ’22
See the data without full text in Google Sheets here
Post explaining version 1.0 from a few months back
From the data in no. 2, a few effortposts that never garnered an accordant amount of attention (qualitatively filtered from posts with (1) long read times (2) modest positive karma (3) not a ton of comments.
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Two super basic interactive data viz apps
1) How often (in absolute and relative terms) a given forum topic appears with another given topic
2) Visualizing the popularity of various tags
An updated Forum scrape including the full text and attributes of 10k-ish posts as of Christmas, ’22
See the data without full text in Google Sheets here
Post explaining version 1.0 from a few months back
From the data in no. 2, a few effortposts that never garnered an accordant amount of attention (qualitatively filtered from posts with (1) long read times (2) modest positive karma (3) not a ton of comments.
Columns labels should be (left to right):
Title/link
Author(s)
Date posted
Karma (as of a week ago)
Comments (as of a week ago)
Open Philanthropy: Our Approach to Recruiting a Strong Team
Histories of Value Lock-in and Ideology Critique
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon
Anthropics and the Universal Distribution
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Strategic considerations for effective wild animal suffering work
Red teaming a model for estimating the value of longtermist interventions - A critique of Tarsney's "The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism"
Welfare stories: How history should be written, with an example (early history of Guam)
Summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality
Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety
Maximizing impact during consulting: building career capital, direct work and more.
Independent Office of Animal Protection
Investigating how technology-focused academic fields become self-sustaining
Using artificial intelligence (machine vision) to increase the effectiveness of human-wildlife conflict mitigations could benefit WAW
Crucial questions about optimal timing of work and donations
Will we eventually be able to colonize other stars? Notes from a preliminary review
Philanthropists Probably Shouldn't Mission-Hedge AI Progress