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AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC
66 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

The case for EA En­deav­our Ca­reer Insurance

core_admiral3 Apr 2024 8:35 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Book Re­view (mini): Co-In­tel­li­gence by Ethan Mollick

Darren McKee3 Apr 2024 17:33 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Peter Singer and Global Warming

joshhwang9917 Feb 2024 7:29 UTC
7 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

I went on a (very) long walk, and it was a great ca­reer decision

Emily Grundy7 Nov 2023 3:57 UTC
94 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

A re­port from EAG Boston

Calum7 Nov 2023 1:37 UTC
28 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Why care about hu­man longevity?

RaianyRomanni9 Apr 2024 8:26 UTC
10 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for pro-life/​anti-abor­tion advocacy

Calum Miller13 Nov 2023 9:29 UTC
11 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Bot­tle­necks Fac­ing Po­ten­tial Afri­can EAs

Zakariyau Yusuf22 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC
69 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] What is the point of EA out­reach?

Caitlin Borke23 Nov 2023 9:13 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Aging should be effec­tive al­tru­ism’s 5th cause area

Yarrow B.2 Dec 2023 8:28 UTC
20 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

Conrad K.21 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC
42 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC
193 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

Lab­o­ra­tory Biorisk Man­age­ment Needs More So­cial Scientists

Daniel Greene10 Oct 2023 4:22 UTC
69 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Ed­u­ca­tion: Teach­ing Love (Philia/​Brotherly love) as a Pri­or­ity Cause

Keen Visionary3 Mar 2024 18:35 UTC
7 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

We Should Talk About This More. Epistemic World Col­lapse as Im­mi­nent Safety Risk of Gen­er­a­tive AI.

Jörg Weiß16 Nov 2023 8:34 UTC
4 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Dr Alt­man or: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love the Killer AI

Barak Gila11 Mar 2024 5:01 UTC
−7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Biolog­i­cal su­per­in­tel­li­gence: a solu­tion to AI safety

Yarrow B.4 Dec 2023 13:09 UTC
−1 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

UK AI Bill Anal­y­sis & Opinion

CAISID5 Feb 2024 0:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

The case for a com­mon observatory

Light_of_Illuvatar29 Mar 2024 10:14 UTC
17 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Up­dated Drown­ing Child Prob­lem

Lachlan Earnshaw15 Dec 2023 3:53 UTC
26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective Alturism12 Jan 2024 9:28 UTC
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Some Prob­lems with Com­par­ing Fac­tory Farm­ing to the Holocaust

Devin Kalish22 Jan 2024 17:57 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

AI Safety is Some­times a Model Property

Cullen2 May 2024 15:38 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Flex­i­bil­ity and ded­i­ca­tion: EAG Bos­ton 2023 talk

Arden Koehler3 Jan 2024 14:20 UTC
25 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] If AIs had sub­cor­ti­cal brain simu­la­tion, would that solve the al­ign­ment prob­lem?

Rainbow Affect31 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

Garrison23 Nov 2023 0:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The role of effec­tive giv­ing in effec­tive al­tru­ism (MCF memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers16 Oct 2023 13:31 UTC
85 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Un­pack­ing Martin Sandbu’s re­cent(ish) take on EA

JWS20 Jan 2024 1:16 UTC
68 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Fo­cus on broad (and pas­sive) defense tech­nolo­gies for biosecurity

Max Görlitz11 Mar 2024 8:48 UTC
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

In­cu­bat­ing AI x-risk pro­jects: some per­sonal reflections

Ben Snodin19 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC
84 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Offense-Defense Balance Rarely Changes”

Cullen12 Feb 2024 3:26 UTC
42 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

The para­dox­i­cal com­ple­men­tar­ity of baby steps and an­i­mal rights

Lodewijk Bogaards20 Dec 2023 11:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

An In­com­plete List of Things I Think EAs Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Do

Rockwell8 Sep 2023 16:17 UTC
237 points
110 comments1 min readEA link

Some fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior regrantor

Joel Becker20 Dec 2023 16:40 UTC
63 points
8 comments5 min readEA link
(joel-becker.com)

Five in­ter­ven­tions to strengthen a prin­ci­ples-based EA (MCF memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers16 Oct 2023 13:55 UTC
72 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

For­mal Sciences vs. So­cial Sciences: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion About Differ­ent Knowl­edge Structures

erug15 Jan 2024 9:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

A short com­par­i­son of start­ing an effec­tive giv­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion vs. found­ing a di­rect de­liv­ery charity

Joey11 Jan 2024 18:29 UTC
109 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive pan­demic preparedness

JoshuaBlake21 Dec 2023 17:06 UTC
17 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Paus­ing AI might be good policy, but it’s bad politics

Stephen Clare23 Oct 2023 13:36 UTC
160 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(unfoldingatlas.substack.com)

An Elephant in the Com­mu­nity Build­ing room

Kaleem21 Aug 2023 15:55 UTC
147 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Ele­ments of EA: your (EA) iden­tity can be bespoke

Amber Dawn29 Nov 2023 14:13 UTC
95 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Whole­some Culture

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Mar 2024 12:08 UTC
24 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla23 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Why not in­vest to­wards end­ing neo­colo­nial­ism?

AlanGreenspan22 Aug 2023 15:59 UTC
−15 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

4) A Case Study in Pan­demic Policy Failure: Covid-19 & Hu­man-to-Hu­man Transmission

PandemicRiskMan14 Feb 2024 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 2)

MattThinks22 Aug 2023 22:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

End­ing Poverty: To­day or For­ever? Po­ten­tial Er­ror in GiveDirectly’s Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions Video

Alexander de Vries6 Nov 2023 12:01 UTC
73 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(2ndhandecon.substack.com)

A Kind­ness Equa­tion ~ should I give to char­ity or vol­un­teer?

Non-zero-sum James8 Feb 2024 18:11 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Towards non-meat diets for do­mes­ti­cated dogs

Seth Ariel Green6 Nov 2023 14:21 UTC
55 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

My in­de­pen­dent im­pres­sions on the EA Handbook

VictorW7 Aug 2023 9:09 UTC
15 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Some for-profit AI al­ign­ment org ideas

Eric Ho14 Dec 2023 15:52 UTC
21 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

The 3-P-Approach

Esther2212 Dec 2023 19:09 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?

tobiasleenaert10 Dec 2023 11:26 UTC
93 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Your New EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion with Fis­cal Spon­sor­ship and Oper­a­tions Support

KevinN14 Feb 2024 12:52 UTC
37 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

EA in Poli­tics: Let’s De­bunk a Taboo

Anna Toso12 Dec 2023 16:25 UTC
12 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

callum26 Oct 2023 23:18 UTC
137 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

From Pas­sion to De­pres­sion and Pes­simism: My Jour­ney with Effec­tive Altruism

IReallyWantToBeAnonymous28 Sep 2023 10:28 UTC
63 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

In­sights From The An­nual Re­treat of EA Nigeria

Adebayo Mubarak22 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Bounties

PatrickL24 Aug 2023 14:30 UTC
37 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

alexherwix14 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
−14 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

Taiwan’s mil­i­tary com­pla­cency.

JKitson4 Dec 2023 9:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Redi­rect­ing one’s own taxes as an effec­tive al­tru­ism method

David Gross14 Nov 2023 14:42 UTC
−39 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Reflec­tions On Giv­ing 10% Of My In­come To Effec­tive Charities

Samie Dorgham14 Nov 2023 15:42 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Can Quan­tum Com­pu­ta­tion be used to miti­gate ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Angus LaFemina18 Sep 2023 20:02 UTC
10 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan Nankivell10 Nov 2023 21:00 UTC
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

New Meta-Anal­y­sis: Ex­er­cise is a Highly Effec­tive (But Ne­glected) Treat­ment for Depression

Frans van Hoek12 Dec 2023 19:08 UTC
10 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

A few thoughts on the long term /​ In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Fair­ness Day

Eli Kaufman14 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware of shift­ing baseline syndrome

MilleBrrrm12 Dec 2023 19:09 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Craft­ing Our Mis­sion State­ment: Weighted Fac­tor Models, Shal­low Re­search, and Les­sons Learned for Clar­ity and Impact

Harry Luk13 Oct 2023 16:43 UTC
9 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

My life would be much harder with­out the Com­mu­nity Health Team. I think yours might too.

Daystar Eld19 Sep 2023 14:59 UTC
263 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ist Case for Us­ing Ge­netic En­hance­ment to End Poverty

Ives Parr28 Oct 2023 16:36 UTC
−11 points
21 comments35 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion that sup­port over­seas vol­un­teer financially

Martingale30 Oct 2023 0:00 UTC
−11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Con­sider religion

Daniel Birnbaum30 Sep 2023 6:38 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

A po­ten­tial EA Aligned can­di­date for congress

Amanda Hansen 10 Aug 2023 12:07 UTC
25 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sponse to “Co­or­di­nated paus­ing: An eval­u­a­tion-based co­or­di­na­tion scheme for fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ers”

Matthew Wearden30 Oct 2023 12:49 UTC
7 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Why I’m still go­ing out to bat for the EA move­ment post FTX

Gemma Paterson30 Sep 2023 15:02 UTC
161 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(bashingthearc.substack.com)

On Sto­ries, their im­pact and how to im­prove them

Timon Renzelmann3 Dec 2023 15:58 UTC
35 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Ca­reer In­vest­ments vs Giv­ing in the short-term

Péter Drótos10 Aug 2023 14:14 UTC
5 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Are U.S. Poli­ti­ci­ans In­tel­lec­tu­ally Ri­gor­ous Be­hind the Scenes or Do Public De­bates Ac­cu­rately Reflect Their Un­der­stand­ing?

Aaron Graifman23 Nov 2023 9:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“Cap­i­tal­ism”: talk­ing past each other

Yarrow B.20 Apr 2024 12:07 UTC
14 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

Lauriander29 Nov 2023 9:12 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What are Non-Zero-Sum games? ~ an introduction

Non-zero-sum James9 Feb 2024 18:32 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

If AGI is im­mi­nent, why can’t I hail a rob­o­taxi?

Yarrow B.9 Dec 2023 20:50 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

It’s OK to eat shrimp: EAs Make In­valid In­fer­ences About Fish Qualia and Mo­ral Patienthood

MikhailSamin13 Nov 2023 16:51 UTC
−1 points
28 comments7 min readEA link

The Power of Dom­i­nant Logic: How the EA Com­mu­nity is Main­stream­ing Global Apartheid

Alimi3 Oct 2023 7:49 UTC
8 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Shrimp paste might cause more an­i­mal deaths than any other food product. Who’s work­ing on this?

Angelina Li30 Oct 2023 21:53 UTC
119 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the Limit for Cost-Effec­tive­ness?

alamo 291410 Aug 2023 23:38 UTC
4 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should I Re­port A Co­caine User?

dstudioscode14 Jan 2024 21:16 UTC
−18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Selfishism?

ventureguess29 Nov 2023 10:42 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How Can Com­pu­ta­tion Cause Con­scious­ness?

Matthew Barber21 Nov 2023 23:33 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] What is your recom­men­da­tion for an ex­pert in benefit cor­po­ra­tions and/​or non­prof­its? Re­source recom­men­da­tions about the two le­gal/​fi­nan­cial struc­tures also wel­come.

StephanieAG11 Aug 2023 13:35 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Think­ing-in-limits about TAI from the de­mand per­spec­tive. De­mand sat­u­ra­tion, re­source wars, new debt.

Ivan Madan7 Nov 2023 22:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

“AI Align­ment” is a Danger­ously Over­loaded Term

Roko15 Dec 2023 15:06 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should some peo­ple start work­ing to in­fluence the peo­ple who are most likely to shape the val­ues of the first AGIs, so that they take into ac­count the in­ter­ests of wild and farmed an­i­mals and sen­tient digi­tal minds?

Keyvan Mostafavi31 Aug 2023 12:08 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC
275 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Fac­tory farm­ing in a cos­mic future

Luke Dawes10 Feb 2024 12:14 UTC
24 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

AUKUS Mili­tary AI Trial

CAISID14 Feb 2024 14:52 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Big Pic­ture AI Safety: teaser

EuanMcLean20 Feb 2024 13:09 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

List of Good Begin­ner-friendly AI Law/​Policy/​Reg­u­la­tion Books

CAISID22 Feb 2024 14:51 UTC
28 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Could Trans­parency In­ter­na­tional Be a Model to Im­prove Farm An­i­mal Welfare?

cynthiaschuck23 Feb 2024 11:10 UTC
41 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:55 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

AI-based dis­in­for­ma­tion is prob­a­bly not a ma­jor threat to democracy

Dan Williams24 Feb 2024 20:01 UTC
62 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Pro­posal for Scal­ing Com­mu­nity Building

Sgt.Chuckles26 Feb 2024 1:13 UTC
13 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

How to donate effi­ciently to LMIC Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica27 Feb 2024 11:39 UTC
26 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

5) We Can’t Solve Pan­demics Without Goals

PandemicRiskMan28 Feb 2024 18:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate Gover­nance for Fron­tier AI Labs: A Re­search Agenda

Matthew Wearden28 Feb 2024 11:32 UTC
17 points
3 comments16 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Dis­cov­er­ing al­ign­ment wind­falls re­duces AI risk

goodgravy28 Feb 2024 21:14 UTC
22 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.elicit.com)

Crabs in a Bucket ~ Or Links in a Chain

Non-zero-sum James28 Feb 2024 23:04 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

How to effec­tively help peo­ple in Pales­tine and Is­rael dur­ing the war

bluebird2718 Dec 2023 10:51 UTC
6 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

How EA can be bet­ter at communications

blehrer2 Mar 2024 18:49 UTC
87 points
18 comments2 min readEA link
(www.bryanlehrer.com)

6) Speed is The Most Im­por­tant Vari­able in Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskMan5 Mar 2024 13:51 UTC
3 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Need help with billboard con­tent for AI Safety Bulgaria

Aleksandar N. Angelov7 Mar 2024 14:36 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Per­haps No One En­joys Only Eat­ing Eggs and Bananas 1095 Times a Year

Nicolas Forero7 Mar 2024 16:51 UTC
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

10 Les­sons Learned—One Year at EA Switzerland

Alix Pham27 Apr 2024 9:08 UTC
66 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Ulrik Horn13 Mar 2024 3:18 UTC
18 points
34 comments9 min readEA link

The RCT Agenda—Bryan Caplan

Hugh P13 Mar 2024 5:57 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Claude vs GPT

Maxwell Tabarrok14 Mar 2024 12:44 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

7) How to Build Speed Into Our Pan­demic Re­sponse Plans

PandemicRiskMan15 Mar 2024 16:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

I’ve read the Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book. Here’s what I learned.

Mich17 Mar 2024 12:10 UTC
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The Fermi para­dox, and why suffer­ing re­duc­tion re­duces ex­tinc­tion risk

Alex Schwalb17 Mar 2024 0:26 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

8) The Lines of Defence Ap­proach to Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskMan17 Mar 2024 19:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Per­sonal fit is differ­ent from the thing that you already like

Joris P17 Mar 2024 20:56 UTC
80 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

There and back again: re­flec­tions from leav­ing EA (and re­turn­ing)

LotteG17 Mar 2024 22:59 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive lan­guage-learn­ing for effec­tive altruists

taoburga19 Mar 2024 0:42 UTC
33 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

An ex­am­ple of how to write a good job de­scrip­tion

Forumite20 Mar 2024 14:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

De­cen­tral­ized His­tor­i­cal Data Preser­va­tion and Why EA Should Care

Sasha22 Mar 2024 10:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on The Bud­dhist and the Ethicist

charlieh94321 Mar 2024 17:21 UTC
18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Amer­i­can Ac­cel­er­a­tion vs Development

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Mar 2024 13:04 UTC
19 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

A propo­si­tion for the mod­ifi­ca­tion of our epistemology

JacobBowden202319 Dec 2023 14:16 UTC
1 point
2 comments4 min readEA link

The Best Near-term Tool for Im­prov­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare: Contraception

Tom Delaney25 Mar 2024 12:16 UTC
10 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

The Blind Spot in AI Tu­tors Hold­ing Stu­dents and Poverty Alle­vi­a­tion Back

Nicolas Forero26 Mar 2024 1:06 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

Help me find an­swers for the miss­ing parts in mod­ern ed­u­ca­tion.

Vishal3 Jan 2024 12:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What per­centage of eco­nomic growth can be at­tributed to the “mon­e­ti­za­tion” of differ­ent re­sources?

Ricardo Pimentel2 Jan 2024 5:34 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The priv­ilege of na­tive English speak­ers in reach­ing high-sta­tus, in­fluen­tial po­si­tions in EA

Alix Pham20 Dec 2023 21:07 UTC
138 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

How “Pause AI” ad­vo­cacy could be net harmful

Tamsin Leake26 Dec 2023 16:19 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(carado.moe)

Reflec­tions on the Biolog­i­cal Weapons Convention

OscarD28 Dec 2023 5:53 UTC
30 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Why I Should Work on AI Safety—Part 2: Will AI Ac­tu­ally Sur­pass Hu­man In­tel­li­gence?

Aditya Aswani27 Dec 2023 21:08 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Should 80,000 Hours Con­sider Put­ting Ads on its Newslet­ters?

Nicholas Kruus14 Feb 2024 15:46 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Where would I find the hard­core to­tal­iz­ing seg­ment of EA?

Peter Berggren28 Dec 2023 9:16 UTC
22 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Say how much, not more or less ver­sus some­one else

Gregory Lewis28 Dec 2023 22:24 UTC
99 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

More thoughts on the Hu­man-AGI War

Ahrenbach27 Dec 2023 1:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Ca­reer Ad­vice: How to Make Ex­traor­di­nary Things Happen

Dr Faraz Harsini3 Jan 2024 15:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.alliedscholars.org)

An Ar­gu­ment for Fo­cus­ing on Mak­ing AI go Well

Chris Leong28 Dec 2023 13:25 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

OpenAI’s Pre­pared­ness Frame­work: Praise & Recommendations

Akash2 Jan 2024 16:20 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is waste man­age­ment a ne­glected cause area?

Elina Christian3 Jan 2024 12:20 UTC
17 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience Donat­ing Blood Stem Cells, or: Why You Should Join a Bone Mar­row Registry

Silas Strawn3 Jan 2024 1:07 UTC
78 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

How Effec­tive Altru­ism im­pacts the views on Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

Daniel Pidgornyi2 Feb 2024 15:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

What “Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan” can teach us about EA

Moritz Stumpe12 Jan 2024 15:18 UTC
18 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Towards AI Safety In­fras­truc­ture: Talk & Outline

Paul Bricman7 Jan 2024 9:35 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

My Pro­fes­sional Spo­tify Wrapped

Prajna Naidoo8 Jan 2024 15:54 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] Why can’t we ac­cept the hu­man con­di­tion as it ex­isted in 2010?

Hayven Frienby9 Jan 2024 18:02 UTC
35 points
36 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Whose life mat­ters more—a baby’s or an adult’s?

dstudioscode7 Jan 2024 9:02 UTC
9 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Su­per­al­ign­ment Fast Grants Needs A Ques­tion To Pri­ori­tize “Low Com­pute/​Fast Feed­back”

Jacob Rintamaki9 Jan 2024 11:40 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(jacobrintamakiblog.substack.com)

AI Devel­op­ment Readi­ness Con­di­tion (AI-DRC): A Call to Action

AI-DRC311 Jan 2024 11:00 UTC
−5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity build­ing can be a great early ca­reer move

jwpieters29 Mar 2024 13:09 UTC
29 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Med­i­cal As­sis­tance in Dy­ing for the Men­tally Ill as a Cause Area for Nega­tive Utilitarians

anonymous throwaway1 Apr 2024 8:04 UTC
19 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Illu­mi­natea—A Pro­posal for EA Reform

Leftism virtue cafe1 Apr 2024 10:51 UTC
95 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Ra­tionale-Shaped Hole At The Heart Of Forecasting

dschwarz2 Apr 2024 15:51 UTC
149 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Tiny hu­mans: the most promis­ing new cause can­di­date?

akash2 Apr 2024 8:46 UTC
22 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: why an­i­mal ad­vo­cates should help slaugh­ter­house workers

Valerie_Monckton3 Apr 2024 22:43 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Value Of Life For Hu­mans Com­pared To Other An­i­mals?

dstudioscode8 Apr 2024 0:20 UTC
−7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Some un­der­rated rea­sons why the AI safety com­mu­nity should re­con­sider its em­brace of strict li­a­bil­ity

Cecil Abungu 8 Apr 2024 18:50 UTC
62 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

The Bunker Fallacy

SimonKS10 Apr 2024 8:33 UTC
11 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

The Scout Mind­set and Epistemic Health

Sgt.Chuckles11 Apr 2024 2:27 UTC
9 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing FTX’s crimes

FTXwatcher11 Apr 2024 9:14 UTC
235 points
32 comments19 min readEA link

On Direct An­i­mal Advocacy

Kenneth_Diao10 Apr 2024 14:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

Auc­tion-Based Funding

ABishop12 Apr 2024 10:36 UTC
3 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

In­creas­ing risks of GCRs due to cli­mate change

Leonora_Camner12 Apr 2024 15:57 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Things EA Group Or­ganisers Need To Hear

Kenneth_Diao13 Apr 2024 19:24 UTC
111 points
6 comments11 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

Space set­tle­ment and the time of per­ils: a cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew Rendall14 Apr 2024 15:29 UTC
42 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

A High De­cou­pling Failure

Maxwell Tabarrok14 Apr 2024 19:47 UTC
22 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Is offset­ting Co2 still a thing /​ a thing again?

André Kirschner15 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion risk and longter­mism: a broader cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew Rendall21 Apr 2024 13:55 UTC
24 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

On failing to get EA jobs: My ex­pe­rience and recom­men­da­tions to EA orgs

Ávila Carmesí22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
110 points
53 comments5 min readEA link

A cri­tique of the EA com­mu­nity’s ap­proach to in­fluenc­ing non-EA actors

StephenRo15 Jan 2024 11:50 UTC
17 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for joint blogging

ABishop23 Apr 2024 10:46 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What is ve­g­anism any­way?

Venky102425 Apr 2024 15:14 UTC
14 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

How we can im­prove the U.S. so­cial safety net and save lives

lauradelaplaya30 Apr 2024 20:16 UTC
21 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Please stop pub­lish­ing ideas/​in­sights/​re­search about AI

Tamsin Leake2 May 2024 14:52 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pan­demic apathy

Matthew Rendall4 May 2024 15:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Run­ning Cage-Free Pro­jects in Africa: Case Stud­ies of Three Afri­can An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica1 Mar 2024 6:30 UTC
36 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

When safety is dan­ger­ous: risks of an in­definite pause on AI de­vel­op­ment, and call for re­al­is­tic alternatives

Hayven Frienby18 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

GenAI and a Skep­ti­cal Hy­poth­e­sis World

Ahrenbach25 Jan 2024 16:42 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

AI Open Source De­bate Comes Down to Trust in In­sti­tu­tions, and AI Policy Mak­ers Should Con­sider How We Can Foster It

another-anon-do-gooder20 Jan 2024 13:47 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

1) Pan­demics are a Solv­able Problem

PandemicRiskMan26 Jan 2024 19:48 UTC
−9 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What Is More Im­por­tant—Blood/​Platelet/​Plasma Dona­tion Or Ve­ganism?

dstudioscode21 Jan 2024 22:39 UTC
1 point
9 comments1 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_Mogensen22 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC
64 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Ob­ser­va­tions on the fund­ing land­scape of EA and AI safety

Vilhelm Skoglund2 Oct 2023 9:45 UTC
135 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional tax policy as a po­ten­tial cause area

Tax Geek23 Jan 2024 16:36 UTC
56 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Remit­tance Hell in Paradise

Cengizhan Büyükdağ26 Jan 2024 12:35 UTC
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

My guess for the most cost effec­tive AI Safety projects

Linda Linsefors24 Jan 2024 12:21 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Two brief theses

brunoparga23 Jan 2024 19:33 UTC
−37 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

So­bre pen­sar no pior

Ramiro25 Jan 2024 20:45 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] Round­ing Up Effec­tively at Supermarkets

Danny Lipsitz26 Jan 2024 1:13 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

2) Pan­demics Are Solved With Risk Man­age­ment, Not Science

PandemicRiskMan31 Jan 2024 15:51 UTC
−9 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jan 2024 13:32 UTC
19 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

[Question] Work­shop (hackathon, res­i­dence pro­gram, etc.) about for-profit AI Safety pro­jects?

Roman Leventov26 Jan 2024 9:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

En­vi­sion­ing a Cen­tral Knowl­edge Hub for the An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Movement

Ronen Bar31 Jan 2024 7:25 UTC
11 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewton14 Aug 2023 11:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Musk’s Ques­tion­able Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Rhetoric Amidst Le­gal Challenges

M31 Jan 2024 7:40 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

A Thanks­giv­ing grat­i­tude post to EA

Joy Bittner23 Nov 2023 13:38 UTC
154 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

No, The Op­ti­mal Cor­po­rate In­come Tax Isn’t (Ne­c­es­sar­ily) Zero

ParetoOptimal1 Feb 2024 10:16 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyW1 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

How would you ap­proach an in­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism in 1 hour in a class of sec­ond-year Philos­o­phy stu­dents?

jrcl391 Feb 2024 12:47 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Talk­ing about EA with friend who has an in­tel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity — any ad­vice?

Hayven Frienby28 Dec 2023 17:45 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven Rouk2 Feb 2024 14:20 UTC
42 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

OpenAI, Deep­Mind, An­thropic, etc. should shut down.

Tamsin Leake17 Dec 2023 20:53 UTC
22 points
22 comments1 min readEA link
(carado.moe)

Safe Sta­sis Fallacy

Davidmanheim5 Feb 2024 10:54 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Aim for con­di­tional pauses

AnonResearcherMajorAILab25 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC
100 points
42 comments12 min readEA link

From Plant Pathogens to Hu­man Threats: Un­veiling the Silent Me­nace of Fun­gal Diseases

emmannaemeka24 Sep 2023 22:16 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

My Proven AI Safety Ex­pla­na­tion (as a com­put­ing stu­dent)

Mica White6 Feb 2024 3:58 UTC
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

The Im­pact Case for Tak­ing a Break from Your Non-EA Job

SarahPomeranz4 Oct 2023 7:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Open Agency model can solve the AI reg­u­la­tion dilemma

Roman Leventov9 Nov 2023 15:22 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should Twit­ter have pre­dic­tion mar­kets in Com­mu­nity Notes?

Nathan Young20 Oct 2023 12:27 UTC
17 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral Li­cens­ing ~ the mak­ings of a very nega­tive-sum game?

Non-zero-sum James8 Feb 2024 13:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Against the Open Source /​ Closed Source Di­chotomy: Reg­u­lated Source as a Model for Re­spon­si­ble AI Development

alexherwix4 Sep 2023 20:23 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Fun­da­men­tal Challenges in AI Governance

Tharin23 Oct 2023 1:30 UTC
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Red-team­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI

Zed Tarar30 Nov 2023 14:35 UTC
30 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Dangers of time-ma­chine al­tru­ism: What we can learn from post-EAs of the future

Bjarke Frederiksen23 Oct 2023 14:12 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A New Way to Fight Disease and Boost Agri­cul­ture in Poor Countries

Felps25 Sep 2023 18:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

PEPFAR, one of the most life-sav­ing global health pro­grams, is at risk

salonium10 Dec 2023 20:37 UTC
168 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Im­pact: Eval­u­at­ing Suc­cess in the Pur­suit of Do­ing Good Better

Kuiyaki5 Oct 2023 7:44 UTC
−1 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

De­mand­ing Diver­sity: The is­sue so far and the way forward

Taanya Kapur23 Oct 2023 19:47 UTC
23 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Part 4: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 4: Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?

Andreas P1 Nov 2023 7:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 1)

MattThinks16 Aug 2023 5:40 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: vaccines

Erwan Sallard1 Dec 2023 10:35 UTC
19 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

How to Get More Im­por­tant Things Done with the Eisen­hower [Effort] Matrix

Harry Luk6 Oct 2023 1:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

The State of AI Gover­nance in Africa: Mus­ings from the Global South

Thaiya Jesse Wallace17 Aug 2023 11:34 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

Lawrence Chan6 Sep 2023 5:17 UTC
130 points
4 comments13 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A Scheme for us­ing Wor­ldCoin to provide elec­tric­ity & smart phone ac­cess in ru­ral Malawi, Africa

Robert Van Buskirk31 Jul 2023 19:22 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] In the ab­sence of ad­vanced med­i­cal in­ter­ven­tions, would the im­pact of in­fec­tious dis­eases on hu­man so­ciety in­crease over­time?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)18 Aug 2023 13:19 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov31 Jul 2023 15:55 UTC
16 points
9 comments13 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA more in­clu­sive, rep­re­sen­ta­tive, and im­pact­ful in Africa

Ashura Batungwanayo17 Aug 2023 20:19 UTC
68 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Longtermism

NatKiilu17 Aug 2023 21:22 UTC
73 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity-Driven Solu­tions: Em­pow­er­ing Lo­cal Voices in Afri­can Development

Kuiyaki7 Oct 2023 8:28 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The AI Endgame: A coun­ter­fac­tual to AI al­ign­ment by an AI Safety newcomer

Andreas P1 Dec 2023 5:49 UTC
2 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mism or Ret­ro­spec­tivism: The More Effec­tive Utili­tar­ian Alter­na­tive.

Hooman8 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC
0 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

The Ex­is­ten­tial Risk of Speciesist Bias in AI

Sam Tucker11 Nov 2023 3:27 UTC
28 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKee7 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Essentialism

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye3 Aug 2023 2:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Part 3: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 3: Rad­i­cal Empathy

Andreas P13 Oct 2023 17:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Redesign­ing the In­tro Fel­low­ship: Re­sults, Re­sources, Reflec­tions, & more

Sam Emerman22 Aug 2023 1:59 UTC
34 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 10:35 UTC
65 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

How my view on us­ing games for EA has changed

mmKALLL4 Aug 2023 9:21 UTC
58 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Why microplas­tics should mat­ter to EAs

BiancaCojocaru4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Pro­tect Marine Life in the Don­ganab Re­serve in the Red Sea

Abbass Abdelhalim10 Oct 2023 11:46 UTC
−6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why build­ing ven­tures in AI Safety is par­tic­u­larly challeng­ing

Heramb Podar6 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] Can AI safely ex­ist at all?

Hayven Frienby27 Nov 2023 17:33 UTC
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Mosquito Erad­i­ca­tion as op­posed to net­ting and treat­ments, and why cur­rent pre­ven­tion meth­ods may be counterproductive

cryptopsyfan6942011 Sep 2023 0:58 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link