Some Europeans have been asking me a lot about what people in smaller countries can do to make AI go better (or slow down) - especially with regards to China. I think we’ve got a lot of lessons from (especially Cold War) history about third countries using their relations with superpowers to increase existential safety, but I don’t think anyone’s written an EA forum post about it.
I wrote a blog post on what I call “The Great Happiness Stagnation”—looking at the flattening of happiness in many rich countries since they became rich. I’ve been thinking about converting it to a forum post, but it currently seems insufficiently rigorous to be worthy of the forum!
My ideas for posts (I’ll try to write at least one):
I recently learned that malaria causes about as many miscarriages and stillbirths as it causes live infant deaths, but we only count neonatal deaths in most cost-effectiveness estimates. Intermittent preventive treatment with Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) for pregnant women seems to be more cost-effective than bed-nets for preventing malaria-related stillbirths and miscarriage. Unsure whether to write a narrow post on that, or a deeper post on “What are the most effective charities, given worldviews where unborn children have similar value to new-borns?”
Some Europeans have been asking me a lot about what people in smaller countries can do to make AI go better (or slow down) - especially with regards to China. I think we’ve got a lot of lessons from (especially Cold War) history about third countries using their relations with superpowers to increase existential safety, but I don’t think anyone’s written an EA forum post about it.
I wrote a blog post on what I call “The Great Happiness Stagnation”—looking at the flattening of happiness in many rich countries since they became rich. I’ve been thinking about converting it to a forum post, but it currently seems insufficiently rigorous to be worthy of the forum!