History

TagLast edit: Feb 12, 2022, 2:53 PM by Pablo

The history tag is for posts that are strongly focused on historical events or trends (rather than just mentioning these things briefly), or that discuss or make heavy use of historical research methods.

Some history topics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA🔸Jul 8, 2020, 2:40 AM

91 points

34 comments6 min readEA link

Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all

80000_HoursJul 29, 2021, 4:38 PM

20 points

0 comments156 min readEA link

How tractable is changing the course of history?

Jamie_HarrisMay 22, 2019, 3:29 PM

41 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

A (Very) Short History of the Collapse of Civilizations, and Why it Matters

DavidmanheimAug 30, 2020, 7:49 AM

53 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

Rose Hadshar: From the Neolithic Revolution to the far future

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 8:35 AM

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Does Economic History Point Toward a Singularity?

bgarfinkelSep 2, 2020, 12:48 PM

140 points

55 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Influence and Movement Growth: Two Historical Case Studies

Aron_VallinderDec 13, 2018, 7:03 PM

58 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

What Helped the Voiceless? Historical Case Studies

MauOct 11, 2020, 3:38 AM

129 points

16 comments88 min readEA link

Lessons from the history of animal rights

JesseCliftonMay 17, 2016, 7:32 PM

46 points

10 comments9 min readEA link

How moral progress happens: the decline of footbinding as a case study

rosehadsharJul 26, 2022, 9:18 AM

107 points

10 comments13 min readEA link

Discontinuous progress in history: an update

AI ImpactsApr 17, 2020, 4:28 PM

69 points

3 comments24 min readEA link

Call for Cruxes by Rhyme, a Longtermist History Consultancy

Lara_THMar 1, 2023, 10:20 AM

147 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

What factors allow societies to survive a crisis?

FJehnApr 9, 2024, 8:05 AM

23 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

What the EA community can learn from the rise of the neoliberals

Kerry_VaughanDec 6, 2016, 6:21 PM

55 points

10 comments20 min readEA link

Potatoes: A Critical Review

Pablo VillalobosMay 10, 2022, 3:27 PM

120 points

27 comments9 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

How fragile was history?

Gregory Lewis🔸Feb 2, 2018, 6:23 AM

22 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Key Lessons From Social Movement History

Jamie_HarrisJun 30, 2021, 5:05 PM

123 points

24 comments11 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Why Undergrads Should Take History Classes

TW123Nov 7, 2021, 2:25 PM

44 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

The History of AI Rights Research

Jamie_HarrisAug 27, 2022, 8:14 AM

48 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Social Movement Lessons from the US Prisoners’ Rights Movement

Jamie_HarrisJul 22, 2020, 12:10 PM

32 points

3 comments128 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] Are there historical examples of excess panic during pandemics killing a lot of people?

LinchMay 27, 2020, 5:00 PM

28 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Persistence—A critical review [ABRIDGED]

Jaime SevillaNov 10, 2021, 11:30 AM

90 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

Counterfactual catastrophes

FJehnNov 20, 2024, 7:12 PM

14 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

[Short Version] What Helped the Voiceless? Historical Case Studies

MauDec 15, 2020, 3:40 AM

55 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Humanities Research Ideas for Longtermists

LizkaJun 9, 2021, 4:39 AM

151 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] How did our historical moral heroes deal with severe adversity and/or moral compromise?

LinchJan 9, 2023, 6:12 PM

46 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What would an entity with GiveWell’s decision-making process have recommended in the past?

Mati_RoyJun 25, 2021, 6:12 AM

28 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

The end of the Bronze Age as an example of a sudden collapse of civilization

FJehnOct 28, 2020, 12:55 PM

53 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

New History Exploration Club for EAs!

aaronmayerMay 27, 2022, 3:00 PM

25 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Summary of history (empowerment and well-being lens)

Holden KarnofskySep 28, 2021, 5:48 PM

62 points

11 comments11 min readEA link

The Mystery of the Cuban missile crisis

Nathan_BarnardMay 5, 2022, 10:51 PM

10 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] I’m interviewing historian of abolitionism Christopher Brown. What should I ask him?

Robert_WiblinDec 12, 2022, 3:17 PM

30 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfieldMay 19, 2022, 8:42 AM

487 points

44 comments18 min readEA link

Briefly, the life of Tetsu Nakamura (1946-2019)

EmrikOct 3, 2022, 3:44 PM

155 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Most harmful people in history?

SiebeRozendalSep 11, 2022, 3:04 AM

17 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

The Fabian society was weirdly similar to the EA movement

MathiasKB🔸Apr 26, 2022, 8:23 AM

79 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples.

NunoSempereOct 4, 2019, 7:56 PM

102 points

16 comments8 min readEA link

Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan

Jeffrey HeningerMay 13, 2024, 9:23 PM

64 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.

Max RoserAug 22, 2022, 2:33 PM

115 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

eukaryoteJan 7, 2024, 11:59 PM

67 points

3 comments32 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Which properties does the EA movement share with deep-time organisations?

FJehnAug 26, 2020, 10:59 AM

47 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

“A Creepy Feeling”: Nixon’s Decision to Disavow Biological Weapons

TW123Sep 30, 2022, 3:17 PM

48 points

3 comments17 min readEA link

Muddling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey HeningerOct 21, 2023, 9:30 AM

87 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Speech

AkashMay 17, 2023, 4:10 PM

17 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Bibliography of EA writings about fields and movements of interest to EA

PabloFeb 21, 2022, 3:11 PM

98 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk

djbinderMay 12, 2022, 9:28 PM

137 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

The sense of a start

technicalitiesSep 28, 2022, 1:37 PM

53 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(www.gleech.org)

[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration

terraformDec 19, 2019, 4:36 PM

32 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

[Question] Who are some less-known people like Petrov?

LizkaSep 6, 2022, 1:22 PM

54 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How many times would nuclear weapons have been used if every state had them since 1950?

ecaMay 4, 2021, 3:34 PM

16 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

The Pugwash Conferences and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty as a case study of Track II diplomacy

rani_martinSep 16, 2022, 10:42 AM

82 points

5 comments27 min readEA link

H-Day, a case study in coordinated change

EdoAradApr 16, 2022, 7:51 AM

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(en.wikipedia.org)

GovAI Annual Report 2021

GovAIJan 5, 2022, 4:57 PM

52 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

Is Democracy a Fad?

bgarfinkelMar 13, 2021, 12:40 PM

165 points

36 comments18 min readEA link

Will MacAskill: The Beginning of History

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 13, 2022, 10:45 PM

36 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.foreignaffairs.com)

[Podcast] Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

finmMar 22, 2021, 11:07 AM

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(hearthisidea.com)

[Question] Projects for EA historians

quinnJun 7, 2022, 2:48 PM

12 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on ‘Atomic Obsession’ (2009)

lukeprogOct 26, 2019, 12:30 AM

62 points

16 comments8 min readEA link

On the longtermist case for working on farmed animals [Uncertainties & research ideas]

MichaelA🔸Apr 11, 2021, 6:49 AM

78 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

Notes on Henrich’s “The WEIRDest People in the World” (2020)

MichaelA🔸Mar 25, 2021, 5:04 AM

44 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Bruce Kent (1929–2022)

technicalitiesJun 10, 2022, 2:03 PM

47 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution?

lukeprogSep 16, 2017, 7:00 AM

31 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(lukemuehlhauser.com)

Has Life Gotten Better?

Holden KarnofskyOct 5, 2021, 8:31 AM

79 points

23 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Why doesn’t WWOTF mention the Bronze Age Collapse?

Eevee🔹Sep 19, 2022, 6:29 AM

16 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Some promising career ideas beyond 80,000 Hours’ priority paths

Arden KoehlerJun 26, 2020, 10:34 AM

142 points

28 comments15 min readEA link

Case studies of self-governance to reduce technology risk

jiaApr 6, 2021, 8:49 AM

55 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

Some AI Governance Research Ideas

MarkusAnderljungJun 3, 2021, 10:51 AM

102 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History

Mahdi ComplexMar 28, 2022, 5:26 AM

8 points

3 comments14 min readEA link

The Germy Paradox—Filters: Hard and soft skills

eukaryoteOct 3, 2019, 1:28 AM

20 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

EA is too focused on the Manhattan Project

trevor1Sep 5, 2022, 2:00 AM

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Modelling the odds of recovery from civilizational collapse

MichaelA🔸Sep 17, 2020, 11:58 AM

41 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What pieces of ~historical research have been action-guiding for you, or for EA?

rosehadsharMar 29, 2022, 10:31 AM

31 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Welfare stories: How history should be written, with an example (early history of Guam)

kbogJan 2, 2020, 11:32 PM

48 points

3 comments59 min readEA link

Attempt at understanding the role of moral philosophy in moral progress

alexhillOct 28, 2019, 4:32 PM

34 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Examples of pure altruism towards future generations?

richard_ngoJan 26, 2022, 4:42 PM

16 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance

rosehadsharMar 13, 2025, 12:58 PM

40 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.forethought.org)

How the Jains built a culture of respect for nonhuman animals

siwani agrawalJul 11, 2023, 6:51 PM

38 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Book Review: Seeing Like A State

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 5, 2024, 3:25 PM

11 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Celebrating Benjamin Lay (died on this day 265 years ago)

LizkaFeb 8, 2024, 2:33 PM

154 points

11 comments8 min readEA link

First clean water, now clean air

finmApr 30, 2023, 6:01 PM

188 points

14 comments17 min readEA link

(finmoorhouse.com)

Social Movement Lessons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_HarrisApr 2, 2021, 10:51 AM

44 points

0 comments41 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Podcast] Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all

Eevee🔹Jun 25, 2021, 3:39 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Violence Before Agriculture

John G. HalsteadOct 2, 2023, 8:01 AM

143 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Marginal Revolution University’s courses and series

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 1, 2024, 6:25 PM

26 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(mru.org)

The Protester, Priest and Politician: Effective Altruists before their time

NickLaingSep 5, 2024, 11:50 AM

119 points

18 comments7 min readEA link

(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

Case study: Traits of contributors to a significant policy success

Tom_GreenMar 29, 2024, 12:24 AM

37 points

1 comment38 min readEA link

Scientific Charity Movement

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jul 23, 2016, 2:33 PM

40 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

AI Impacts: Historic trends in technological progress

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 12, 2020, 12:08 AM

55 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Before There Was Effective Altruism, There Was Effective Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssuesJun 26, 2022, 6:09 PM

134 points

7 comments12 min readEA link

9/26 is Petrov Day

LizkaSep 25, 2022, 11:14 PM

77 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Holden KarnofskyApr 18, 2019, 8:52 AM

34 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

On John Woolman (Thing of Things)

Aaron Gertler 🔸May 2, 2024, 1:36 AM

46 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon1Jan 27, 2024, 5:17 PM

10 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

(www.secretorum.life)

Dispelling the Anthropic Shadow (Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 16, 2024, 1:25 PM

11 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

How To Increase The Impact Of The EA Community (II): Drawing Inspiration From The Past

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)Jan 1, 2025, 10:08 AM

49 points

6 comments14 min readEA link

Remembering Joseph Rotblat (born on this day in 1908)

LizkaNov 5, 2024, 12:51 AM

90 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

I am working on a project to view sustainability and welfare in a new evolutionary light

Sherry Jan 4, 2023, 10:11 PM

7 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon1Jan 10, 2023, 5:45 PM

7 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

(www.secretorum.life)

What does starvation feel like?

Elijah WhippleDec 5, 2024, 10:09 PM

60 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Anyone has a reference for “It’s estimated that abolition cost Britain 2% of its GDP for 50 years”?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Aug 16, 2022, 7:26 PM

13 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

EA is too New & Important to Schism

Wil PerkinsFeb 23, 2023, 2:56 PM

59 points

68 comments2 min readEA link

The Germy Paradox – The empty sky: A history of state biological weapons programs

eukaryoteSep 24, 2019, 5:26 AM

24 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Leo Tolstoy’s Philosophy: Altruism and Non-Violence

idea21Mar 3, 2025, 12:26 AM

13 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

#168 – Whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion (Ian Morris on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_HoursOct 24, 2023, 3:24 PM

11 points

2 comments18 min readEA link

Scaling and Sustaining Standards: A Case Study on the Basel Accords

C.K.Jul 16, 2023, 6:18 PM

18 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

O mundo é horrível. O mundo está muito melhor. O mundo pode ser muito melhor.

AE Brasil / EA BrazilJul 19, 2023, 7:37 PM

5 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] I’m interviewing historian Ian Morris on the intelligence explosion — what should I ask him this time?

Robert_WiblinJul 21, 2023, 12:33 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

An extremely brief history of the National Woman’s Party

OllieBaseMar 5, 2025, 5:11 PM

43 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

A Narrative History of Environmentalism’s Partisanship

Jeffrey HeningerMay 14, 2024, 4:51 PM

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

[Question] Was central place food sharing the original effective altruism?

Lee CronkAug 27, 2022, 8:27 AM

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

History of the theory of well-being

davidhartsoughJun 22, 2022, 8:17 AM

23 points

8 comments23 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Francis at a Factory Farm – Francis of Assisi and animal welfare

EA for ChristiansOct 13, 2023, 11:44 AM

23 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

The ‘Old AI’: Lessons for AI governance from early electricity regulation

Sam ClarkeDec 19, 2022, 2:46 AM

58 points

1 comment13 min readEA link

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism

Jeffrey HeningerMay 16, 2024, 8:36 PM

48 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

The NPT: Learning from a Longtermist Success [Links!]

DannyBresslerMay 20, 2021, 12:39 AM

66 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

richard_ngoMay 16, 2019, 12:28 PM

34 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Examples of self-governance to reduce technology risk?

jiaSep 25, 2020, 1:26 PM

32 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

My notes on: A Very Rational End of the World | Thomas Moynihan

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 20, 2022, 8:50 AM

13 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

Dialectic of Enlightenment

TW123Jun 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

5 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(monoskop.org)

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

SammyDMartinOct 10, 2021, 11:06 AM

28 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Poverty in Depression-era England: Excerpts from Orwell’s “Wigan Pier”

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 12, 2020, 1:01 AM

16 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation (v2.0)

rogersbacon1Jun 14, 2022, 4:14 AM

3 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

(rogersbacon.substack.com)

Who ordered alignment’s apple?

Eleni_AAug 28, 2022, 2:24 PM

5 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Andrew Carnegie and Public Libraries: A Model of Effective Altruism

Sue LyonsAug 21, 2022, 4:24 AM

18 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Lessons from the past for our global civilization

FJehnAug 10, 2023, 9:54 AM

4 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

[Question] If EAs existed 100 years ago, would they support Prohibition?

WillieGFeb 1, 2025, 6:49 PM

66 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik KarlssonSep 11, 2022, 10:04 PM

9 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

Smallpox eradication

LizkaDec 9, 2022, 3:29 AM

94 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

(ourworldindata.org)

Romae Industriae

Maxwell TabarrokJul 19, 2024, 1:04 PM

4 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Will the US Government Control the First AGI?—Finding Base Rates

LuiseSep 2, 2024, 11:11 AM

22 points

5 comments14 min readEA link

‘Surveillance Capitalism’ & AI Governance: Slippery Business Models, Securitisation, and Self-Regulation

Charlie HarrisonFeb 29, 2024, 3:47 PM

19 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

The Germy Paradox – The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage?

eukaryoteSep 27, 2019, 3:56 AM

22 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Past and Future Trajectory Changes

N NMar 28, 2022, 8:04 PM

32 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(goodoptics.wordpress.com)

Book review: The Doomsday Machine

L Rudolf LAug 18, 2021, 10:15 PM

21 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

(strataoftheworld.blogspot.com)

[Question] Does anyone have a list of historical examples of societies seeking to make things better for their descendants?

freedomandutilityAug 15, 2022, 1:13 PM

6 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some moral catastrophes events in history?

Adriana ArauzoJun 22, 2021, 6:37 AM

29 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Nuclear Espionage and AI Governance

GAAOct 4, 2021, 6:21 PM

32 points

3 comments24 min readEA link

FTX’s collapse mirrors an infamous 18th century British financial scandal

Michael HuangDec 22, 2022, 6:58 AM

34 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(theconversation.com)

Religious Texts and EA: What Can We Learn and What Can We Inform?

Tony.SenaJan 30, 2021, 12:04 PM

29 points

11 comments5 min readEA link

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

AI ImpactsMar 2, 2020, 12:25 PM

27 points

17 comments11 min readEA link

(aiimpacts.org)

Promethean Governance and Memetic Legitimacy: Lessons from the Venetian Doge for AI Era Institutions

LutherSloanMar 19, 2025, 6:09 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Books on social movements?

michelSep 17, 2022, 6:27 AM

9 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

List of past fraudsters similar to SBF

NunoSempereNov 28, 2022, 6:31 PM

114 points

11 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Book recommendations for the history of ML?

Eleni_ADec 28, 2022, 11:45 PM

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Announcing the first issue of Asterisk

Clara CollierNov 21, 2022, 6:51 PM

275 points

47 comments1 min readEA link

How to Become a World Historical Figure (Péladan’s Dream)

rogersbacon1Jul 7, 2022, 10:41 PM

−4 points

2 comments30 min readEA link

There’s always a first

Ariel_ZJMar 21, 2025, 12:25 PM

2 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(preservinghope.substack.com)

[Question] Best time-travel intervention?

abramdemskiOct 27, 2020, 2:24 PM

22 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

How democracy ends: a review and reevaluation

richard_ngoNov 24, 2018, 5:41 PM

27 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The History, Epistemology and Strategy of Technological Restraint, and lessons for AI (short essay)

MMMaasAug 10, 2022, 11:00 AM

90 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

(verfassungsblog.de)

Tainted donations: the Presidents Club dinner – a case study

SanjayNov 15, 2022, 3:45 AM

15 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

AI, Greed, and the Death of Oversight: When Institutions Ignore Their Own Limits

funnyfrancoMar 21, 2025, 1:13 PM

7 points

0 comments26 min readEA link

Wrong by Induction

Ales_FlidrSep 6, 2018, 10:00 PM

20 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 26, 2024, 5:04 PM

2 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(nonzerosum.games)

[Video] How having Fast Fourier Transforms sooner could have helped with Nuclear Disarmament—Veritasium

mako yassNov 3, 2022, 8:52 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Descartes’ 17th century Turing Test

James-Hartree-LawJan 16, 2025, 8:18 PM

3 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What are some historical examples of people and organizations who’ve influenced people to do more good?

MarisaApr 11, 2020, 9:44 PM

8 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

CNAS report: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Arms Control’

MMMaasOct 13, 2022, 8:35 AM

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.cnas.org)

Toby Ord’s new report on lessons from the development of the atomic bomb

Ishan MukherjeeNov 22, 2022, 10:37 AM

65 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.governance.ai)

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