3rd October - ‘Nudge’ - Book Discussion with Cass Sunstein & GiveDirectly
8th October—Axel Gosseries: Discrimination, generations and environmental litigation—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
9th October—Forecasting Nuclear Risk with Rethink Priorities’ Michael Aird
16th October—Salary Negotiation Training Programme (Beta) - Hosted by Training for Good a new organisation incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship
21st October—Effective Giving Open Forum—Hosted by Giving What We Can
22nd October—Charlotte Unruh: Constraining longtermism—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
28th October—Tania Sourdin: Judges, Technology and Artificial Intelligence—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
1st November—EA Virtual Programmes
Introductory EA Program
In-Depth EA Program
Legal Topics in Effective Altruism (Apply by October 10th, starting on October 18th)
The Precipice Reading Group
3-5th December—EAGxPrague—This one is in person in Europe
Linch Zhang with ‘The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism’
80,000 Hours with an updated careers page looking at how your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference
Leaf is a new organisation that runs courses to help sixth formers use their future careers to do good
WANBAM with the successes and challenges from their first two years
Dylan Matthews writing for Vox on why people should focus on neglected causes
Aidan O’Gara with a post suggesting people should put more time into independent planning of their career than just following the advice from 80,000 Hours
Hamish Huggard has created a website to visualise EA related data
EA Market Testing Team is a new group aiming to help the EA community with marketing strategies and implementation
EA Impact Colabs has been launched, connecting volunteers with projects
Giving What We Can has a new podcast, beginning with episodes talking to Joshua Greene, Ollie Base and Lucia Coulter
Jamie Harris with two studies into the impact of EA related career advice interventions
GWWC also have an updated guide on talking to people about effective giving
A post introducing the EA Public Interest Technologists Slack community
Ian David Moss is offering free/low-cost decision support services for the EA community
EA organisation updates for August 2021
Konrad Seifert and Nora Ammann with a post on ‘The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them’
Open Phil have made 6 grants recently with a total value of $50,600,000
$38,920,000 - Center for Security and Emerging Technology
$5,250,000 - Macroeconomic Stabilisation Policy
$3,330,000 - Global Priorities Institute
$3,000,000 - Mercy For Animals
$126,000 - COVID-19 Forecasting
GFI has awarded a $5,000,000 grant to boost research in alternative proteins
GiveWell have recommended a grant of $8,000,000 to Pure Earth to work on reducing lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries
TechCrunch with an article on Wave, an EA inspired fintech startup that had the largest-ever Series A round for Africa with a $1.7 billion valuation
A deeper dive into what Wave is doing
And Ben Kuhn on why he thinks working at Wave could be an effective way to reduce poverty
There has been a trial suggests malaria sickness could be cut by 70%
80,000 Hours podcast with Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
Nikita Patel and Corrina Vali with three lessons they’ve learned at Fortify Health
GiveDirectly are trialling a new donation product that connects donors directly to people in need
There are new WHO global air quality guidelines, aiming to save millions of lives
The Gates Foundation have released their 2021 Goalkeepers report
Hear This Idea podcast with Bryan Caplan on causes of poverty and the case for open borders
GiveDirectly with a post on how working in the U.S. helped them get more money to international recipients
The Roots of Progress on how factories were made safe
The Netherlands is proposing a plan to cut their livestock numbers by a third
An article on the potential limitations of scaling up cultivated meat
James Oz with an analysis of EA funding within animal welfare over the last three years
Neil Dullaghan and Linch Zhang with a comparison of techno-economic analyses in cultured meat
On the 12th-13th of October the Global Challenges Foundation are holding an online forum discussing global catastrophic risks and global governance
Tom Chivers writing about the catastrophic risks from asteroids
The Nuclear Threat Initiative on the struggle to dispose of nuclear waste
Global Challenges Foundation have released their Global Catastrophic Risks 2021 report
NTI on the lessons to be learnt from the denuclearisation of Kazakhstan
Aryan Yadav with the post ‘Lessons for AI governance from the Biological Weapons Convention’
Angus Mercer and Toby Ord writing in Wired on why politicians should pay attention to existential risks
A post announcing the launch of riesgoscatastroficosglobales, a webpage introducing catastrophic risks to a Spanish-speaking audience
The Research on Research Institute with an update on their current projects
A report into experiments with randomisation in research funding
A post asking what would better science look like
A Works in Progress article on ‘Buyers of First Resort’ for research and development
Sarah Perry on how trust undermines science
A post ‘Disentangling Improving Institutional Decision-Making’
Vox on the downsides of planting trees
Future of Life Institute podcast with Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on saving the ozone layer
The United Nations released a report called ‘Our Common Agenda’ including discussion on future generations, longtermism and existential risks
Denise Melchin with the post ‘Why I am probably not a longtermist’
Ben Clifford, Rebecca Kagan and Jade Leung on what they learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship
Benjamin Todd on the Hear This Idea podcast discussing career choice and longtermism
The School of International Futures and the All Parliamentary Party Groups for Future Generations with an article on intergenerational fairness
The UK’s new 10-year ‘National AI Strategy’ has been released
An EA Forum post analysing the EU AI Act
The Future of Life Institute is launching PhD and postdoctoral fellowships to study AI existential safety
Matt Clifford and Azeem Azhar in discussion on navigating the ‘exponential age’
Lennart Heim with a series of posts looking at transformative AI and compute
A post looking at where the arguments and experts stand on AI timelines
A new NTI paper - ‘Assessing and Managing the Benefits and Risks of AI in Nuclear-Weapon Systems’
Stanford University with their 2021 report on AI as part of a 100 year longitudinal study
The Future of Life Podcast with James Manyika on global economic and technological trends
Matt Clifford’s podcast with Jess Whittlestone and Jack Clark on what governments should do about AI
The Canva CEO has committed at least $6 billion ‘to do the most good’
Peter Singer has won the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture and is giving it away
Julia Wise with a snapshot of her career choices ten years ago
Felix Kjellberg has donated $1.5 million to charity including a donation to the Centre for Effective Altruism
Kelsey Piper interviewing Jason Crawford on ‘Progress Studies’
A BMJ article on the ‘Principles of effective altruism and ethical implications for physicians’
A new paper looking at the psychology of population ethics
Holden Karnofsky with a summary of history with an empowerment and wellbeing lens
A paper in Nature Communications attempting to understand the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
MIT Tech Review looking into Altos Lab, a new longevity company
The EA Forum has a creative writing contest with a $10,000 prize for short stories
Toby Shevlane on how to succeed as an early-stage researcher
A post suggesting that ‘the expected value of funding anti-aging research has probably dropped significantly’
An Ask Me Anything with Jeremiah Johnson, director/founder of the Neoliberal Project
David Zhang is looking for EA views on the AUKUS security pact
Canopie, a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated organisation, has secured a partnership with Washington DC to provide access to their mental health app
A record 80 million rural households in India now have piped drinking water, up to 42% of the 189 million total rural households
Leaded gasoline for cars has been phased out worldwide
EA Updates for October 2021
Virtual Events
3rd October - ‘Nudge’ - Book Discussion with Cass Sunstein & GiveDirectly
8th October—Axel Gosseries: Discrimination, generations and environmental litigation—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
9th October—Forecasting Nuclear Risk with Rethink Priorities’ Michael Aird
16th October—Salary Negotiation Training Programme (Beta) - Hosted by Training for Good a new organisation incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship
21st October—Effective Giving Open Forum—Hosted by Giving What We Can
22nd October—Charlotte Unruh: Constraining longtermism—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
28th October—Tania Sourdin: Judges, Technology and Artificial Intelligence—Hosted by the Legal Priorities Project
1st November—EA Virtual Programmes
Introductory EA Program
In-Depth EA Program
Legal Topics in Effective Altruism (Apply by October 10th, starting on October 18th)
The Precipice Reading Group
3-5th December—EAGxPrague—This one is in person in Europe
Latest Research and Updates
Meta
Linch Zhang with ‘The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism’
80,000 Hours with an updated careers page looking at how your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference
Leaf is a new organisation that runs courses to help sixth formers use their future careers to do good
WANBAM with the successes and challenges from their first two years
Dylan Matthews writing for Vox on why people should focus on neglected causes
Aidan O’Gara with a post suggesting people should put more time into independent planning of their career than just following the advice from 80,000 Hours
Hamish Huggard has created a website to visualise EA related data
EA Market Testing Team is a new group aiming to help the EA community with marketing strategies and implementation
EA Impact Colabs has been launched, connecting volunteers with projects
Giving What We Can has a new podcast, beginning with episodes talking to Joshua Greene, Ollie Base and Lucia Coulter
Jamie Harris with two studies into the impact of EA related career advice interventions
GWWC also have an updated guide on talking to people about effective giving
A post introducing the EA Public Interest Technologists Slack community
Ian David Moss is offering free/low-cost decision support services for the EA community
EA organisation updates for August 2021
Konrad Seifert and Nora Ammann with a post on ‘The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them’
Grants
Open Phil have made 6 grants recently with a total value of $50,600,000
$38,920,000 - Center for Security and Emerging Technology
$5,250,000 - Macroeconomic Stabilisation Policy
$3,330,000 - Global Priorities Institute
$3,000,000 - Mercy For Animals
$126,000 - COVID-19 Forecasting
GFI has awarded a $5,000,000 grant to boost research in alternative proteins
GiveWell have recommended a grant of $8,000,000 to Pure Earth to work on reducing lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries
Global Development
TechCrunch with an article on Wave, an EA inspired fintech startup that had the largest-ever Series A round for Africa with a $1.7 billion valuation
A deeper dive into what Wave is doing
And Ben Kuhn on why he thinks working at Wave could be an effective way to reduce poverty
There has been a trial suggests malaria sickness could be cut by 70%
80,000 Hours podcast with Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
Nikita Patel and Corrina Vali with three lessons they’ve learned at Fortify Health
GiveDirectly are trialling a new donation product that connects donors directly to people in need
There are new WHO global air quality guidelines, aiming to save millions of lives
The Gates Foundation have released their 2021 Goalkeepers report
Hear This Idea podcast with Bryan Caplan on causes of poverty and the case for open borders
GiveDirectly with a post on how working in the U.S. helped them get more money to international recipients
The Roots of Progress on how factories were made safe
Animal Welfare
The Netherlands is proposing a plan to cut their livestock numbers by a third
An article on the potential limitations of scaling up cultivated meat
James Oz with an analysis of EA funding within animal welfare over the last three years
Neil Dullaghan and Linch Zhang with a comparison of techno-economic analyses in cultured meat
Existential & Catastrophic Risks
On the 12th-13th of October the Global Challenges Foundation are holding an online forum discussing global catastrophic risks and global governance
Tom Chivers writing about the catastrophic risks from asteroids
The Nuclear Threat Initiative on the struggle to dispose of nuclear waste
Global Challenges Foundation have released their Global Catastrophic Risks 2021 report
NTI on the lessons to be learnt from the denuclearisation of Kazakhstan
Aryan Yadav with the post ‘Lessons for AI governance from the Biological Weapons Convention’
Angus Mercer and Toby Ord writing in Wired on why politicians should pay attention to existential risks
A post announcing the launch of riesgoscatastroficosglobales, a webpage introducing catastrophic risks to a Spanish-speaking audience
Improving Institutions
The Research on Research Institute with an update on their current projects
A report into experiments with randomisation in research funding
A post asking what would better science look like
A Works in Progress article on ‘Buyers of First Resort’ for research and development
Sarah Perry on how trust undermines science
A post ‘Disentangling Improving Institutional Decision-Making’
Environment
Vox on the downsides of planting trees
Future of Life Institute podcast with Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on saving the ozone layer
Longtermism
The United Nations released a report called ‘Our Common Agenda’ including discussion on future generations, longtermism and existential risks
Denise Melchin with the post ‘Why I am probably not a longtermist’
Ben Clifford, Rebecca Kagan and Jade Leung on what they learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship
Benjamin Todd on the Hear This Idea podcast discussing career choice and longtermism
The School of International Futures and the All Parliamentary Party Groups for Future Generations with an article on intergenerational fairness
Emerging Technology
The UK’s new 10-year ‘National AI Strategy’ has been released
An EA Forum post analysing the EU AI Act
The Future of Life Institute is launching PhD and postdoctoral fellowships to study AI existential safety
Matt Clifford and Azeem Azhar in discussion on navigating the ‘exponential age’
Lennart Heim with a series of posts looking at transformative AI and compute
A post looking at where the arguments and experts stand on AI timelines
A new NTI paper - ‘Assessing and Managing the Benefits and Risks of AI in Nuclear-Weapon Systems’
Stanford University with their 2021 report on AI as part of a 100 year longitudinal study
The Future of Life Podcast with James Manyika on global economic and technological trends
Matt Clifford’s podcast with Jess Whittlestone and Jack Clark on what governments should do about AI
Other Links
The Canva CEO has committed at least $6 billion ‘to do the most good’
Peter Singer has won the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture and is giving it away
Julia Wise with a snapshot of her career choices ten years ago
Felix Kjellberg has donated $1.5 million to charity including a donation to the Centre for Effective Altruism
Kelsey Piper interviewing Jason Crawford on ‘Progress Studies’
A BMJ article on the ‘Principles of effective altruism and ethical implications for physicians’
A new paper looking at the psychology of population ethics
Holden Karnofsky with a summary of history with an empowerment and wellbeing lens
A paper in Nature Communications attempting to understand the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
MIT Tech Review looking into Altos Lab, a new longevity company
The EA Forum has a creative writing contest with a $10,000 prize for short stories
Toby Shevlane on how to succeed as an early-stage researcher
A post suggesting that ‘the expected value of funding anti-aging research has probably dropped significantly’
An Ask Me Anything with Jeremiah Johnson, director/founder of the Neoliberal Project
David Zhang is looking for EA views on the AUKUS security pact
Canopie, a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated organisation, has secured a partnership with Washington DC to provide access to their mental health app
Good News
A record 80 million rural households in India now have piped drinking water, up to 42% of the 189 million total rural households
Leaded gasoline for cars has been phased out worldwide