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Armed conflict

TagLast edit: 29 Apr 2022 17:53 UTC by Pablo

The armed conflict tag is for posts about interstate or intrastate violence between armed groups, the drivers of such conflicts, and interventions to reduce the frequency or severity of such conflicts.

Further reading

Garfinkel, Ben & Allan Dafoe (2019) How does the offense-defense balance scale?, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 42, pp. 736–763.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2022) Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen, 80,000 Hours, April 28.

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EA thoughts from Is­rael-Ha­mas war

ezrah6 Dec 2023 8:53 UTC
271 points
64 comments9 min readEA link

Brian Tse: Risks from Great Power Conflicts

EA Global11 Mar 2019 15:02 UTC
23 points
2 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ments that could in­crease risks from nu­clear weapons: A shal­low review

MichaelA9 Feb 2023 15:41 UTC
79 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(bit.ly)

Can a war cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Once again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo25 Jan 2024 7:56 UTC
67 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

How bad would nu­clear win­ter caused by a US-Rus­sia nu­clear ex­change be?

Luisa_Rodriguez20 Jun 2019 1:48 UTC
141 points
18 comments40 min readEA link

In­ter­me­di­ate goals for re­duc­ing risks from nu­clear weapons: A shal­low re­view (part 1/​4)

MichaelA1 May 2023 15:04 UTC
34 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

900+ Fore­cast­ers on Whether Rus­sia Will In­vade Ukraine

Metaculus19 Feb 2022 13:29 UTC
51 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(metaculus.medium.com)

In­tro to the book: An­i­mal Weapons by Dou­glas Em­len.

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are effec­tive ways to help Ukraini­ans right now?

Manuel Allgaier24 Feb 2022 22:20 UTC
130 points
85 comments1 min readEA link

Which nu­clear wars should worry us most?

Luisa_Rodriguez16 Jun 2019 23:31 UTC
103 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

Would US and Rus­sian nu­clear forces sur­vive a first strike?

Luisa_Rodriguez18 Jun 2019 0:28 UTC
85 points
4 comments19 min readEA link

Have we un­der­es­ti­mated the risk of a NATO-Rus­sia nu­clear war? Can we do any­thing about it?

TopherHallquist9 Jul 2015 16:09 UTC
8 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “The Myth of the Nu­clear Revolu­tion” (Lie­ber & Press, 2020)

DM24 May 2022 15:02 UTC
42 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

How likely is a nu­clear ex­change be­tween the US and Rus­sia?

Luisa_Rodriguez20 Jun 2019 1:49 UTC
80 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

Will the Treaty on the Pro­hi­bi­tion of Nu­clear Weapons af­fect nu­clear de­pro­lifer­a­tion through le­gal chan­nels?

Luisa_Rodriguez6 Dec 2019 10:38 UTC
100 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Why those who care about catas­trophic and ex­is­ten­tial risk should care about au­tonomous weapons

aaguirre11 Nov 2020 17:27 UTC
101 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

Sam Clarke8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC
154 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble way of re­duc­ing great power war prob­a­bil­ity?

Denkenberger28 Nov 2019 4:27 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Notes on “Bioter­ror and Biowar­fare” (2006)

MichaelA1 Mar 2021 9:42 UTC
29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy Shal­low In­ves­ti­ga­tion: Civil Con­flict Reduction

Lauren Gilbert12 Apr 2022 18:18 UTC
121 points
12 comments22 min readEA link

How likely is World War III?

Stephen Clare15 Feb 2022 15:09 UTC
116 points
22 comments16 min readEA link

AI Gover­nance: Op­por­tu­nity and The­ory of Impact

Allan Dafoe17 Sep 2020 6:30 UTC
256 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

Does the US nu­clear policy still tar­get cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 17:46 UTC
32 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Some thoughts on risks from nar­row, non-agen­tic AI

richard_ngo19 Jan 2021 0:07 UTC
36 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

The case for not in­vad­ing Crimea

kbog19 Jan 2023 6:37 UTC
12 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

A Sur­vey of the Po­ten­tial Long-term Im­pacts of AI

Sam Clarke18 Jul 2022 9:48 UTC
63 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

Clas­sify­ing sources of AI x-risk

Sam Clarke8 Aug 2022 18:18 UTC
40 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is any­one look­ing into geno­cide in Su­dan?

DPiepgrass24 Sep 2023 18:06 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Taiwan’s mil­i­tary com­pla­cency.

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

[Question] Which aid char­ity should I give to for peo­ple in Gaza?

tamgent4 Nov 2023 10:56 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

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

Nu­clear risk, its po­ten­tial long-term im­pacts, & do­ing re­search on that: An in­tro­duc­tory talk

MichaelA10 Apr 2023 15:26 UTC
50 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Cli­mate, agri­cul­tural, and famine effects of nu­clear conflict

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ments that could in­crease risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:28 UTC
16 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: In­ter­me­di­ate goals for nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA15 Apr 2023 14:25 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Bear Brau­moel­ler has passed away

Stephen Clare5 May 2023 14:06 UTC
153 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Naive ap­pli­ca­tion of the ITN frame­work on a situ­a­tion like the one in Gaza might lead us wrong

C Tilli13 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC
22 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Ques­tions for Reflec­tion on Gaza

gb20 Nov 2023 6:01 UTC
15 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Your Chance to Save Lives. To­day.

LiaH13 Oct 2023 23:48 UTC
−7 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Bryan Ca­plan on pacifism

Vasco Grilo9 Dec 2023 8:58 UTC
10 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(www.econlib.org)

[Question] High im­pact char­i­ties in Gaza or Is­rael?

JoelMcGuire17 Oct 2023 0:37 UTC
66 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

What “Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan” can teach us about EA

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

Overview of Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ work on risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA10 Jun 2021 18:48 UTC
43 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Dani Nedal: Risks from great-power competition

EA Global13 Feb 2020 22:10 UTC
20 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How many peo­ple would be kil­led as a di­rect re­sult of a US-Rus­sia nu­clear ex­change?

Luisa_Rodriguez30 Jun 2019 3:00 UTC
97 points
17 comments43 min readEA link

EA and the Pos­si­ble De­cline of the US: Very Rough Thoughts

Cullen8 Jan 2021 7:30 UTC
56 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

What’s the big deal about hy­per­sonic mis­siles?

jia18 May 2020 7:17 UTC
40 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Ukraine: How a reg­u­lar per­son can effec­tively help their coun­try dur­ing war?

Valmothy26 Feb 2022 10:58 UTC
49 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Prob­lem ar­eas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ cur­rent pri­ori­ties

Arden Koehler22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC
274 points
62 comments16 min readEA link

Why Don’t We Use Chem­i­cal Weapons Any­more?

Dale23 Apr 2020 1:25 UTC
28 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(acoup.blog)

Cru­cial ques­tions for longtermists

MichaelA29 Jul 2020 9:39 UTC
102 points
17 comments14 min readEA link

Re­think­ing longter­mism and global development

BrownHairedEevee2 Sep 2022 5:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Pocket Parks

Open Philanthropy29 Aug 2022 11:01 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:12 UTC
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Early Reflec­tions and Re­sources on the Rus­sian In­va­sion of Ukraine

SethBaum18 Mar 2022 14:54 UTC
57 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Com­pe­ti­tion for “For­tified Es­says” on nu­clear risk

MichaelA17 Nov 2021 20:55 UTC
35 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Up­dated es­ti­mates of the sever­ity of a nu­clear war

Luisa_Rodriguez19 Dec 2019 15:11 UTC
76 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA29 Jan 2021 8:56 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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

eca4 May 2021 15:34 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Fi­nal Re­port of the Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence (NSCAI, 2021)

MichaelA1 Jun 2021 8:19 UTC
51 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(www.nscai.gov)

Notes on “The Bomb: Pres­i­dents, Gen­er­als, and the Se­cret His­tory of Nu­clear War” (2020)

MichaelA6 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
18 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Books /​ book re­views on nu­clear risk, WMDs, great power war?

MichaelA15 Dec 2020 1:40 UTC
15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ism be at war with North Korea?

BenHoffman5 May 2019 1:44 UTC
−14 points
8 comments5 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing Bear Brau­moel­ler about ‘Only The Dead: The Per­sis­tence of War in the Modern Age’. What should I ask?

Robert_Wiblin19 Aug 2022 15:18 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Noah Tay­lor: Devel­op­ing a re­search agenda for bridg­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk and peace and con­flict studies

EA Global21 Jan 2021 16:19 UTC
21 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ukraine War sup­port and tar­geted sanctions

Arturo Macias11 Dec 2023 16:11 UTC
−7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

US House Vote on Sup­port for Ye­men War

Radical Empath Ismam12 Dec 2022 2:13 UTC
−4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(theintercept.com)

Rough at­tempt to pro­file char­i­ties which sup­port Ukrainian war re­lief in terms of their cost-effec­tive­ness.

Michael27 Feb 2022 0:51 UTC
29 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Nu­clear Risk and Philan­thropic Strat­egy [Founders Pledge]

christian.r25 Jul 2023 20:22 UTC
83 points
15 comments76 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

EA on nu­clear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC
152 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Eval­u­at­ing Com­mu­nal Violence from an Effec­tive Altru­ist Perspective

frankfredericks13 Aug 2019 19:38 UTC
16 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

II. Trig­ger­ing The Race

Maynk0224 Oct 2023 18:45 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Should some­one start a grass­roots cam­paign for USA to recog­nise the State of Pales­tine?

freedomandutility11 May 2021 15:29 UTC
−4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

III. Run­ning its course

Maynk024 Nov 2023 19:31 UTC
6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

IV. Par­allels and Review

Maynk0227 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC
7 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

I. Start­ing Small

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:44 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best ways to en­courage de-es­ca­la­tion in re­gards to Ukraine?

oh543219 Oct 2022 11:15 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

A coun­ter­fac­tual QALY for USD 2.60–28.94?

brb2436 Sep 2020 21:45 UTC
37 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Ground­wa­ter crisis: a threat of civ­i­liza­tion collapse

RickJS24 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

The Germy Para­dox: An Introduction

eukaryote24 Sep 2019 5:18 UTC
48 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

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

eukaryote24 Sep 2019 5:26 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Con­flict and poverty (or should we tackle poverty in nu­clear con­texts more?)

Sanjay6 Mar 2020 21:59 UTC
13 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

The Germy Para­dox – Filters: A taboo

eukaryote19 Oct 2019 0:14 UTC
17 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)
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