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[Question] What wheels do EAs and rationalists reinvent?

Arepo17 Oct 2024 4:42 UTC

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Open Thread: October—December 2023

Lizka10 Oct 2023 13:10 UTC

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[Question] Who wants to be hired? (Feb-May 2024)

Toby Tremlett🔹31 Jan 2024 11:01 UTC

62 points

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Open thread: October—December 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹30 Sep 2024 14:43 UTC

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Open thread: January—March 2024

Lizka2 Jan 2024 4:41 UTC

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[Question] What is AI Safety’s line of retreat?

Remmelt28 Jul 2024 5:43 UTC

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[Question] Is there any overview over considerations that impact cause prioritization?

Ulrik Horn23 Aug 2024 8:55 UTC

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[Question] What posts are you thinking about writing?

Toby Tremlett🔹4 Mar 2024 9:09 UTC

38 points

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[Question] Should the main text of the write-ups of Open Philanthropy’s large grants be longer than 1 paragraph?

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Mar 2024 9:04 UTC

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[Question] How much pressure do you feel against externally expressing views which do not conform to those of your manager or organisation?

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Feb 2024 9:05 UTC

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[Question] Who looked into extreme nuclear meltdowns?

Remmelt1 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC

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[Question] Strongest real-world examples supporting AI risk claims?

rosehadshar5 Sep 2023 15:11 UTC

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[Question] Thoughts on Pandora’s Gamble? (Book on GCBR/Covid origins by Alison Young)

SiebeRozendal23 Aug 2023 12:42 UTC

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[Question] Is there any work on cause prioritization that takes into account timelines being worldview-dependent?

Chris Leong31 Oct 2023 2:25 UTC

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[Question] High impact charities in Gaza or Israel?

JoelMcGuire17 Oct 2023 0:37 UTC

65 points

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Discussion Thread: AI Welfare Debate Week

Toby Tremlett🔹2 Jul 2024 10:11 UTC

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[Question] What is the counterfactual value of different AI Safety professionals?

PabloAMC 🔸3 Jul 2024 14:38 UTC

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[Question] What do we know about Mustafa Suleyman’s position on AI Safety?

Chris Leong13 Aug 2023 19:41 UTC

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[Question] What’s the current state of COVID-19 in the developing world?

Eevee🔹20 Dec 2023 5:04 UTC

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[Question] How well are university groups doing post-FTX?

Chris Leong11 Feb 2024 6:39 UTC

21 points

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[Question] How would your project use extra funding? (Marginal Funding Week)

Lizka14 Nov 2023 16:58 UTC

53 points

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[Question] Should Open Philanthropy build detailed quantitative models which estimate global catastrophic risk?

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Apr 2024 17:17 UTC

11 points

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[Question] What posts would you like someone to write?

Toby Tremlett🔹27 Feb 2024 10:30 UTC

60 points

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I. Starting Small

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:44 UTC

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Updated Drowning Child Problem

Lachlan Earnshaw15 Dec 2023 3:53 UTC

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[Question] Can increasing Trust amongst humans be considered our greatest priority?

Firas Najjar24 Aug 2023 8:45 UTC

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[Question] Is suicide a rational decision if it improves animals’ well being.

landedonmainland7 Nov 2023 11:12 UTC

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[Question] Exercise for ‘Our Final Century?’

EA Handbook5 Dec 2023 18:26 UTC

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[Question] Is every moral theory inherently consequentialist?

Chris Popa9 Aug 2023 14:36 UTC

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[Question] ai safety question

David turner3 Dec 2023 12:42 UTC

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[Question] What am I missing re. open-source LLM’s?

another-anon-do-gooder4 Dec 2023 4:48 UTC

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[Question] Why are we not talking about UBI? (Universal Basic Income)

Andreas Chrysopoulos13 Dec 2023 18:13 UTC

8 points

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

alamo 291410 Aug 2023 23:38 UTC

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[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

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[Question] How independent is the research coming out of OpenAI’s preparedness team?

Earthling10 Feb 2024 16:59 UTC

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[Question] Should effective altruists learn a wide range of subjects?

jackchang11016 Feb 2024 2:29 UTC

4 points

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[Question] EA Aligned Coworking Spaces in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Mexico in particular): With or Without Local Members?

Sandra Malagon20 Feb 2024 22:44 UTC

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[Question] Career Options for EA-aligned Careers in Non-Profit or Social Impact—Emmanuel Katto Uganda

EmmanuelKatto21 Jun 2024 5:22 UTC

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Introductions and questions thread: April—June 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹28 Mar 2024 13:51 UTC

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Contration: The next threat from AI may not be like the risks we’ve feared

John Wallbank28 Jul 2024 23:19 UTC

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How to Address EA Dilemmas – What is Missing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaub13 Oct 2024 9:33 UTC

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[Question] Is there an online group that gathers people interested in the intersection of EA and left-wing or progressive thought?

Joseph Quevedo11 Dec 2023 10:24 UTC

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

Nicholas Kruus🔸14 Feb 2024 15:46 UTC

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

Ricardo Pimentel2 Jan 2024 5:34 UTC

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[Question] If EAs Should Invest, What Should We Invest In?

Nicholas Kruus🔸29 Dec 2023 14:51 UTC

18 points

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[Question] What posts does the EA Forum appreciate, and what posts does it need more of?

Nicholas Kruus🔸29 Dec 2023 17:06 UTC

11 points

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

dstudioscode7 Jan 2024 9:02 UTC

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

Hayven Frienby9 Jan 2024 18:02 UTC

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[Question] Do you have a duty to point out another’s cognitive bias?

davidps29 Mar 2024 10:13 UTC

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Open thread: July—September 2024

Toby Tremlett🔹1 Jul 2024 10:12 UTC

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What kind of evidence would change your mind on capitalism*?

Friso2 Apr 2024 19:23 UTC

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[Question] Should EA ‘communities’ be ‘professional associations’?

Michael Noetel 🔸4 Apr 2024 4:50 UTC

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The promises of working on cultural change to move forward animal welfare

YvesBon2 Jul 2024 5:33 UTC

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Why care about human longevity?

RaianyRomanni9 Apr 2024 8:26 UTC

10 points

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[Question] AI consciousness & moral status: What do the experts think?

sableye6 Jul 2024 15:27 UTC

0 points

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[Question] How much (more) data do we need to claim extreme cost-effectiveness?

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 31 Oct 2024 12:36 UTC

24 points

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[Question] What novel, actionable advice does longtermism offer?

Yarrow B.19 Apr 2024 5:34 UTC

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[Question] High Schooler getting involved in EA

GamerChess20 Apr 2024 11:19 UTC

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[Question] Should We Make Taking Actions Together, More Centralized Over Here?

Alisha 7 Jul 2024 13:15 UTC

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[Question] How bad would AI progress need to be for us to think general technological progress is also bad?

Jim Buhler6 Jul 2024 18:44 UTC

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[Question] Is there any way to be confident that humanity won’t keep employing mass torture of animals for millions of years in the future?

Eduardo28 Apr 2024 18:43 UTC

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[Question] Why don’t billionaires fund more towards highly cost-effective charities?

alic11 Jul 2024 6:34 UTC

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[Question] Is a PhD right for me?

Jack Sands7 May 2024 1:29 UTC

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[Question] Need advice on University group committees/post intro-fellowship tracks.

Trym Braathen🔸25 Sep 2024 12:34 UTC

6 points

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[Question] Building a Forum?

Aaron Graifman8 Sep 2024 20:54 UTC

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

Hayven Frienby18 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC

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[Question] Common rebuttal to “pausing” or regulating AI

sammyboiz22 May 2024 4:21 UTC

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[Question] Seeking High-Impact Project Ideas for Consultancy Firm

Arie Pille10 Sep 2024 12:26 UTC

11 points

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[Question] Which charity event should my organisation sponsor this year?

Dim Sum24 May 2024 14:52 UTC

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[Question] What’s the best way to get a sense of the day-to-day activities of different researchers/research directions? (AI Governance)

Luise27 May 2024 12:48 UTC

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[Question] Is Trapped Water A Really Big Issue?

dstudioscode22 Jan 2024 3:32 UTC

−11 points

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[Question] Does boycotting work?

dstudioscode22 Jan 2024 3:39 UTC

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[Question] Rounding Up Effectively at Supermarkets

Danny Lipsitz26 Jan 2024 1:13 UTC

26 points

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[Question] Who’s hiring? (Feb-May 2024)

Toby Tremlett🔹31 Jan 2024 11:01 UTC

50 points

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Envisioning a Central Knowledge Hub for the Animal Advocacy Movement

Ronen Bar31 Jan 2024 7:25 UTC

12 points

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[Question] Developing AI solutions for global health—Emmanuel Katto

EmmanuelKatto18 Jul 2024 6:41 UTC

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[Question] USD interest rates

artilugio28 Sep 2024 2:20 UTC

0 points

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[Question] EA in the UK | Crowdsourcing projects / resources past and future

Gemma 🔸3 Oct 2024 13:18 UTC

10 points

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[Question] Transitioning from Battery Cages: How Can Farmers Access Support for Humane Poultry Systems?

emmannaemeka13 Oct 2024 2:20 UTC

52 points

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[Question] Meta charity focused on earning to give?

defun 🔸24 Oct 2024 13:21 UTC

11 points

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[Question] Does a Seattle area EA-focused charity evaluator exist? In general is this kind of locally-focused organization valuable?

Altar25 Oct 2024 12:21 UTC

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[Question] Would an Anthropic/OpenAI merger be good for AI safety?

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

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[Question] What are the most effective ways to create happiness (rather than avoiding suffering)?

Franziska Fischer1 Nov 2024 22:11 UTC

7 points

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[Question] What are the strategic implications if aliens and Earth civilizations produce similar utilities?

Maxime_Riche6 Aug 2024 21:21 UTC

6 points

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[Question] How impactful is being a suicide hotline volunteer?

OliverHayman5 Feb 2024 5:02 UTC

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[Question] Survey about Copyright and generative AI allowed here ?

Lee O'Brien9 Aug 2024 12:27 UTC

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[Question] Intro to AI risk for AI grad students?

tae 🔸22 Sep 2023 20:34 UTC

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[Question] Resources for helping make life/career decision?

warrenjordan18 Oct 2023 17:24 UTC

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[Question] any anime watchers here drawing parallels between EA and JJK?

bobo26 Nov 2023 8:05 UTC

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[Question] Internships

Jack Sands26 Nov 2023 7:25 UTC

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[Question] Is There a Project Tracking System in EA?

Aaron Graifman26 Nov 2023 17:34 UTC

12 points

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[Question] Cost Estimation for Cultivated Beef?

mphelan16 Aug 2023 12:24 UTC

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[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

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II. Triggering The Race

Maynk0224 Oct 2023 18:45 UTC

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[Question] Will you fund a fungi surveillance study?

emmannaemeka7 Sep 2023 20:42 UTC

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[Question] I’ve just got a senior position at an EA affiliated org. Where can I find a mentor?

Sentient Toucan11 Nov 2023 9:54 UTC

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[Question] Do you know Biosecurity Level 3 (BSL-3) Experts?

Zoé Roy-Stang3 Aug 2023 19:33 UTC

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[Question] AI+bio cannot be half of AI catastrophe risk, right?

Ulrik Horn10 Oct 2023 3:17 UTC

23 points

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[Question] Can AI safely exist at all?

Hayven Frienby27 Nov 2023 17:33 UTC

6 points

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Finding an article about best living standards to earning to give

Zack Zalvaro22 Nov 2023 5:12 UTC

1 point

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[Question] How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?

Matthew Barber21 Nov 2023 23:33 UTC

2 points

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Intro to the book: Animal Weapons by Douglas Emlen.

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:26 UTC

7 points

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[Question] Examples of Corrupt Charities

Jack Sands27 Oct 2023 17:53 UTC

1 point

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