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Biosecurity

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Biosecurity covers the procedures, practices and other measures used to manage risks from biological agents (e.g. viruses, bacteria) or their products (e.g. toxins).

Terminology

The term “biosecurity” has different meanings in different contexts. As a few examples:

Further reading

Alexanian, Tessa (2021) A biosecurity and biorisk reading+ list, Effective Altruism Forum, March 13 (updated 16 March 2021).

Zabel, Claire (2017) Biosecurity as an EA cause area, Effective Altruism, August 13.

Sanchez, Sebastian (2024) Timeline of biorisk, Timelines Wiki

Related entries

biosurveillance | COVID-19 pandemic | existential risk | global catastrophic biological risk | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | life sciences research | Nucleic Acid Observatory | Nuclear Threat Initiative | terrorism | weapons of mass destruction

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    Open Philanthropy (2014) Biosecurity, Open Philanthropy, January.

Global Catas­trophic Biolog­i­cal Risks: A Guide for Philan­thropists [Founders Pledge]

christian.rOct 31, 2023, 3:42 PM
32 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.founderspledge.com)

Strate­gies for effec­tive pathogen-ag­nos­tic bio­surveillance in the United States

ljustenNov 6, 2024, 2:42 PM
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.lennijusten.com)

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 2, 2023, 9:13 PM
64 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

UK an­nounces early warn­ing sys­tem for pandemics

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Nov 6, 2024, 4:56 PM
54 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)

List of Short-Term (<15 hours) Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects to Test Your Fit

Swan 🔸Apr 17, 2023, 5:10 AM
178 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

De­tec­tion of Asymp­tomat­i­cally Spread­ing Pathogens

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Dec 5, 2024, 7:17 PM
52 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for the Next Cy­cle of Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group

Lin BLApr 14, 2024, 8:03 AM
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jun 27, 2024, 2:01 PM
203 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Sen­tinel min­utes for week #52/​2024

NunoSempereDec 30, 2024, 6:25 PM
61 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)

A mir­ror bio shelter might cost as lit­tle as ~$10,000/​per­son (ma­te­rial cost only)

Benevolent_RainDec 19, 2024, 6:04 PM
18 points
19 comments19 min readEA link

Shar­ing in­sights from my mas­ter’s work on the Global Health Se­cu­rity In­dex: seek­ing feed­back and re­search directions

Vincent Niger🔸Nov 25, 2024, 12:06 PM
47 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group: Fundrais­ing and Plans for Early 2025

Lin BLDec 20, 2024, 8:56 PM
33 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How do you make a 250x bet­ter vac­cine at 1/​10 the cost? Develop it in In­dia.

AbhishaikeFeb 9, 2025, 3:54 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.owlposting.com)

NIST Seeks Com­ments On “Safety Con­sid­er­a­tions for Chem­i­cal and/​or Biolog­i­cal AI Models”

Dylan RichardsonOct 26, 2024, 6:28 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.federalregister.gov)

ALLFED’s 2024 Highlights

JuanGarciaNov 18, 2024, 11:34 AM
44 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

An­timicro­bial sur­faces for pan­demic prevention

kirkeNov 16, 2024, 4:33 PM
17 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(k1rk3.github.io)

AIxBio Newslet­ter #3 - At the Nexus

Andy Morgan 🔸Dec 7, 2024, 9:00 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(atthenexus.substack.com)

Ap­pli­ca­tions Now Open for Johns Hop­kins Cen­ter for Health Se­cu­rity Ed­u­ca­tional Op­por­tu­ni­ties for 2025-2026 Aca­demic Year

BiosecurityMaven23Oct 2, 2024, 12:50 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Main­tain­ing differ­en­tial pres­sure gra­di­ents does not in­crease safety in­side mod­ern BSL-4 laboratories

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 15, 2024, 8:01 AM
13 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(www.frontiersin.org)

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

Conrad K.Apr 21, 2024, 9:05 PM
64 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing The Cam­bridge Pan­demic Preven­tion Sym­po­sium: Regis­tra­tion and Ab­stract Sub­mis­sions are Open

sandySep 9, 2024, 12:21 PM
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Public Weights?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 2, 2023, 2:51 AM
20 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ge­netic Se­quenc­ing of Wastew­a­ter: Prevalence to Rel­a­tive Abundance

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 25, 2023, 7:35 PM
56 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ob­sta­cles to the Im­ple­men­ta­tion of In­door Air Qual­ity Improvements

JesseSmithMay 29, 2023, 7:15 PM
187 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹Dec 20, 2023, 5:04 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Trendlines in AIxBio evals

ljustenOct 31, 2024, 12:09 AM
39 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(www.lennijusten.com)

Crit­i­cal Re­view of Model­ling Strate­gies against Pandemics

Jérémy Andréoletti🔸Oct 7, 2024, 11:18 AM
33 points
3 comments37 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: An­timicro­bial Resistance

AkhilJun 6, 2023, 8:35 AM
199 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

Videos on the world’s most press­ing prob­lems, by 80,000 Hours

BellaMar 21, 2024, 8:18 PM
63 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Scope-Sen­si­tive Biose­cu­rity Policy in France: An Op­por­tu­nity?

Alix PhamJun 25, 2024, 12:08 PM
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Fo­cus on broad (and pas­sive) defense tech­nolo­gies for biosecurity

Max GörlitzMar 11, 2024, 8:48 AM
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Why are we not us­ing up­per-room ul­tra­vi­o­let ger­mi­ci­dal ir­ra­di­a­tion (UVGI) more?

Max GörlitzMar 11, 2024, 8:51 AM
47 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

En­hanc­ing Global Biose­cu­rity with Phage Research

emmannaemekaSep 12, 2024, 4:17 PM
10 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

2024: a year of con­soli­da­tion for ORCG

JorgeTorresCDec 18, 2024, 5:47 PM
33 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.orcg.info)

The need for a cen­tral repos­i­tory of OH biosafety and biose­cu­rity surveillance data in­clud­ing data ag­gre­ga­tion, col­la­tion and visualization

Pamela KajumbaDec 17, 2024, 5:58 PM
9 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Launch­ing Asi­mov Press

xander_balwitDec 17, 2023, 3:48 PM
80 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Fund­ing needed to screen for hu­man H5N1 flu transmission

Grant Higerd-RusliDec 2, 2024, 4:01 PM
32 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

White House pub­lishes frame­work for Nu­cleic Acid Screening

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Apr 30, 2024, 12:44 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.whitehouse.gov)

Ap­ply to the Cavendish Labs Fel­low­ship (by 4/​15)

Derik KApr 3, 2023, 11:06 PM
35 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Tech Gover­nance Pro­ject

Zakariyau YusufOct 29, 2024, 9:20 AM
52 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

Cullen 🔸Apr 7, 2023, 1:06 AM
107 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurosurveillance.org)

An­nounc­ing New Biose­cu­rity In­ter­ven­tions Syllabus

Lin BLJan 15, 2024, 8:53 PM
48 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Se­cur­ing Civ­i­liza­tion Against Catas­trophic Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 3, 2023, 7:33 PM
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

NAO Up­dates, Spring 2024

Jeff Kaufman 🔸May 20, 2024, 4:51 PM
54 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Two fully funded PhD po­si­tions in statis­ti­cal mod­el­ling for in­fec­tious dis­eases at Univer­sity of Lim­er­ick and Trinity Col­lege Dublin, Ireland

rotatingpaguroMar 2, 2023, 11:48 AM
29 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.jiscmail.ac.uk)

Ex­plor­ing Blood-Based Bio­surveillance, Part 2: Sam­pling Strate­gies within the US Blood Supply

ljustenSep 10, 2024, 4:39 PM
14 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Can a pan­demic cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Pos­si­bly, at least on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 15, 2024, 5:07 PM
29 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Lab­o­ra­tory Biorisk Man­age­ment Needs More So­cial Scientists

Daniel GreeneOct 10, 2023, 4:22 AM
69 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

How to pre­vent pan­demics and avert biorisks from syn­thetic biology

xander_balwitAug 25, 2024, 4:26 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

[Question] How can I donate to biorisk pre­ven­tion?

Richard MöhnJun 5, 2024, 12:35 AM
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

High Im­pact Medicine—Im­pact Sur­vey Re­sults and Marginal Funding

High Impact MedicineNov 20, 2023, 8:08 PM
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Blood-Based Bio­surveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sam­ple Type

ljustenJul 18, 2024, 1:10 PM
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

New re­search on in­cen­tives to vaccinate

Seth Ariel Green 🔸Sep 11, 2024, 4:34 PM
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nber.org)

Pre­dict­ing Virus Rel­a­tive Abun­dance in Wastewater

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Aug 10, 2023, 3:46 PM
46 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Em­pow­er­ing Africa’s Biose­cu­rity and Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness: A Call for Action

emmannaemekaAug 27, 2023, 9:46 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul BricmanDec 4, 2023, 7:41 AM
4 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

An­nounc­ing EA Vir­tual Pro­grams Pilot Biose­cu­rity Book Club

JMonty🔸Sep 27, 2023, 1:35 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: vaccines

Erwan SallardDec 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
20 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Should UV sta­bil­ity of plas­tics be a con­cern for far-UVC adop­tion?

Sean LawrenceAug 31, 2023, 11:41 PM
36 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

A write-up on the biose­cu­rity land­scape in China

Chloe LeeApr 8, 2023, 3:47 AM
82 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

emmannaemekaSep 24, 2023, 10:16 PM
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Balanc­ing the Scales: Ad­dress­ing Biolog­i­cal X-Risk Re­search Dis­par­i­ties Beyond the West

emmannaemekaSep 22, 2023, 9:31 PM
10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Pro­ject on map­ping the UK’s biose­cu­rity space:

Jacob_MFeb 22, 2024, 8:19 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Strength­en­ing Na­tional Biose­cu­rity: Draw­ing Par­allels be­tween BWC Im­ple­men­ta­tion and GHSA Ac­tivi­ties at Mak­erere Univer­sity’s In­fec­tious Diseases Institute

Peter Ahabwe BabigumiraSep 22, 2023, 9:38 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ob­sta­cles to the U.S. for Sup­port­ing Ver­ifi­ca­tions in the BWC, and Po­ten­tial Solu­tions.

Garrett EhingerApr 14, 2023, 2:48 AM
27 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Do you think hav­ing a doc­tor ex­pe­rience can build ca­reer cap­i­tal for biol­ogy re­search?

jackchang110Apr 14, 2023, 5:15 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tions to Re­duce Risk for Pathogen Spillover

JMonty🔸Apr 22, 2023, 2:29 PM
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(wwwnc.cdc.gov)

Bio-risk and AI: AI progress might soon lead to much faster re­search and engineering

JanBApr 20, 2023, 7:48 PM
20 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

A re­view of how nu­cleic acid (or DNA) syn­the­sis is cur­rently reg­u­lated across the world, and some ideas about re­form (sum­mary of and link to Law dis­ser­ta­tion)

Isaac HeronFeb 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
53 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(acrobat.adobe.com)

AI & Drug Dis­cov­ery—Se­cu­rity and Risks

GirvingJun 28, 2023, 8:57 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing Typhoid Fever Hotspots with Bac­te­riophage Surveillance

emmannaemekaNov 1, 2023, 10:21 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Air Sam­pling for Early Pathogen Detection

ljustenDec 19, 2023, 10:04 PM
12 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing In­fluenza Abun­dance in Wastew­a­ter Me­tage­nomic Se­quenc­ing Data

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 23, 2024, 5:27 PM
26 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Com­ple­men­tary notes on Alvea [un­offi­cial]

mxschonsNov 2, 2023, 9:21 AM
70 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

First clean wa­ter, now clean air

finmApr 30, 2023, 6:01 PM
188 points
14 comments17 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

Are Far-UVC In­ter­ven­tions Over­hyped? [Founders Pledge]

christian.rJan 9, 2024, 5:38 PM
142 points
8 comments61 min readEA link

How Can Eng­ineers Do Im­pact­ful Work in Biose­cu­rity?

Jessica WenMay 12, 2023, 10:44 AM
29 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Ne­glected Trans­mis­sion-Block­ing In­ter­ven­tions?

christian.rJan 11, 2024, 9:28 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Nearly 2 mil­lion deaths per year by 2050 - New study on global bur­den of An­timicro­bial Re­sis­tance

DavidMcKOct 1, 2024, 12:58 PM
21 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Drug Devel­op­ment Ex­plainer Series

mxschonsNov 2, 2023, 8:22 AM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

In­ter­ested in Biose­cu­rity? Ap­ply for ad­vis­ing with Prob­a­bly Good!

Probably GoodNov 13, 2024, 4:54 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­timicro­bial Sur­faces For Pan­demic Preven­tion?

Conrad K.Apr 7, 2024, 8:45 AM
32 points
4 comments17 min readEA link

Why we should fear any bio­eng­ineered fun­gus and give fungi re­search attention

emmannaemekaAug 18, 2023, 3:35 AM
67 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Economists can help with biose­cu­rity via ROI models

freedomandutilityMay 14, 2023, 8:10 PM
16 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

About My Job: Cor­po­rate R&D for HVAC

WobblyPanda33Sep 13, 2023, 6:57 AM
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Still no strong ev­i­dence that LLMs in­crease bioter­ror­ism risk

freedomandutilityNov 2, 2023, 9:23 PM
58 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Pur­su­ing am­bi­tious pro­jects in biose­cu­rity; an in­ter­view with Sofya Lebedeva

KatieGlassApr 25, 2024, 10:22 AM
27 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(katieglass.substack.com)

Sam­ple Prevalence vs Global Prevalence

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jul 8, 2024, 9:01 PM
34 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity newslet­ters you should sub­scribe to

Swan 🔸Jan 29, 2023, 5:00 PM
104 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Se­cureBio—Notes from SoGive

SoGiveMay 6, 2024, 9:15 PM
4 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

“Pivotal ques­tions”: an Un­jour­nal trial ini­ti­a­tive

david_reinsteinJul 21, 2024, 4:57 PM
48 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Can EA fund PPE stock­piles in some small, low in­come coun­tries now?

freedomandutilityMay 22, 2023, 12:52 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­ply to Spring 2024 policy in­tern­ships (we can help)

ESOct 4, 2023, 2:45 PM
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Tech­ni­cal Re­port on Mir­ror Bac­te­ria: Fea­si­bil­ity and Risks

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 12, 2024, 7:07 PM
244 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(purl.stanford.edu)

Can a ter­ror­ist at­tack cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 2, 2023, 8:20 AM
43 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Pre­sent­ing: 2023 In­cu­bated Char­i­ties (Round 2) - Char­ity Entrepreneurship

CEOct 19, 2023, 12:36 PM
144 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Aug 30, 2023, 5:07 PM
130 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Prospect Magaz­ine—How to save hu­man­ity from extinction

jackvaSep 26, 2023, 7:16 PM
32 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

Biose­cu­rity Re­source Hub from Aron

Aron LajkoJul 21, 2023, 6:07 PM
39 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What are the biggest mis­con­cep­tions about biose­cu­rity and pan­demic risk?

80000_HoursFeb 29, 2024, 2:52 PM
100 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] Is iGEM re­ally con­cerned with biose­cu­rity? Re­main­ing doubts af­ter a shal­low investigation

RamiroSep 20, 2023, 12:10 PM
26 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Will the grow­ing deer prion epi­demic spread to hu­mans? Why not? [Link]

eukaryoteJun 25, 2023, 6:00 AM
21 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Pan­demic Pre­dic­tion Check­list: H5N1 (6/​14)

DirectedEvolutionFeb 5, 2023, 2:56 PM
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

€65mil­lion EU fund­ing for far-UV and PPE start-ups

EU Policy CareersSep 12, 2023, 9:07 AM
41 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA Ar­chi­tect: Disser­ta­tion on Im­prov­ing the So­cial Dy­nam­ics of Con­fined Spaces & Shelters Prece­dents Report

t46Jun 6, 2023, 11:58 AM
42 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

The Let­ten Sem­i­nar: Tack­ling Global Health Threats – From Par­a­sites to Pan­demics (Live stream link)

Håkon SandbakkenAug 22, 2023, 7:19 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The US-China Re­la­tion­ship and Catas­trophic Risk (EAG Bos­ton tran­script)

EA GlobalJul 9, 2024, 1:50 PM
30 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

Epistemics (Part 2: Ex­am­ples) | Reflec­tive Altruism

Eevee🔹May 19, 2023, 9:28 PM
34 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Anony­mous ex­perts on the best ways to fight pandemics

80000_HoursSep 30, 2024, 8:47 AM
19 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[linkpost] H5N1: Two con­firmed in­fected in same fam­ily; four symp­tomatic close con­tacts tested but none of these con­firmed as positive

pseudobisonFeb 25, 2023, 7:27 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

En­hanc­ing biose­cu­rity with lan­guage mod­els: defin­ing re­search directions

micMar 26, 2024, 12:30 PM
11 points
1 comment13 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

A Frame­work for Tech­ni­cal Progress on Biosecurity

kyle_fishNov 3, 2021, 10:57 AM
85 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions open: Sup­port for tal­ent work­ing on in­de­pen­dent learn­ing, re­search or en­trepreneurial pro­jects fo­cused on re­duc­ing global catas­trophic risks

CEEALARFeb 9, 2024, 1:04 PM
63 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[CROSS POST] The Malaria Vac­ci­na­tion Era—How En­demic Coun­tries and Donors Can Make the Most of R21

TomDrakeApr 25, 2023, 2:48 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

Longter­mism Fund: Au­gust 2023 Grants Report

Michael Townsend🔸Aug 20, 2023, 5:34 AM
81 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

We Have Not Been In­vited to the Fu­ture: e/​acc and the Nar­row­ness of the Way Ahead

Devin KalishJul 17, 2024, 10:15 PM
10 points
1 comment20 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Malaria vac­cine R21 is pre-qualified

JoshuaBlakeDec 22, 2023, 8:49 AM
59 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive pan­demic preparedness

JoshuaBlakeDec 21, 2023, 5:06 PM
25 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

The Grant De­ci­sion Boundary: Re­cent Cases from the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

LinchNov 29, 2024, 1:50 AM
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing ac­ci­den­tally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlakeJan 17, 2024, 7:36 PM
48 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Ex­ag­ger­at­ing the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 31, 2023, 8:45 AM
57 points
18 comments13 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Pri­ori­tis­ing be­tween ex­tinc­tion risks: Ev­i­dence Quality

freedomandutilityDec 30, 2023, 12:25 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA Wins 2023

Shakeel HashimDec 31, 2023, 2:07 PM
357 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Pri­or­ity re­view vouch­ers for trop­i­cal dis­eases: Im­pact, dis­tri­bu­tion, effec­tive­ness, and po­ten­tial improvements

Rethink PrioritiesJan 2, 2024, 9:48 PM
30 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Why we didn’t get a malaria vac­cine sooner, and what we can do bet­ter next time

saloniumSep 7, 2023, 2:46 PM
120 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(worksinprogress.co)

So­nia Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley on Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 15, 2024, 5:58 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

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

Benevolent_RainOct 10, 2023, 3:17 AM
23 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

RAND re­port finds no effect of cur­rent LLMs on vi­a­bil­ity of bioter­ror­ism attacks

LizkaJan 26, 2024, 8:10 PM
108 points
17 comments3 min readEA link
(www.rand.org)

In­tro­duc­ing Fu­ture Mat­ters – a strat­egy consultancy

KyleGraceySep 30, 2023, 2:06 AM
59 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Should global health donors fo­cus on R&D?

freedomandutilityMay 19, 2023, 11:24 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­cerpts from “Do­ing EA Bet­ter” on x-risk methodology

Eevee🔹Jan 26, 2023, 1:04 AM
22 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Policy ad­vo­cacy for erad­i­cat­ing screw­worm looks re­mark­ably cost-effective

MathiasKB🔸May 20, 2024, 2:23 PM
212 points
25 comments8 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing flu for biose­cu­rity R&D

freedomandutilityMay 6, 2023, 11:39 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

CE: Ri­gor­ously pri­ori­tiz­ing the top health se­cu­rity (biose­cu­rity) ideas

CEJun 30, 2023, 1:25 PM
69 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (Part 2: Ig­nor­ing back­ground risk) - Reflec­tive altruism

Eevee🔹Jul 3, 2023, 6:34 AM
84 points
7 comments6 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pan­demics by Brian Wang

xander_balwitAug 26, 2024, 3:30 PM
18 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(www.asimov.press)

Cost-effec­tive­ness of epi­demic/​pan­demic preparedness

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 30, 2024, 1:37 PM
32 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2025 Q1 Pivotal Re­search Fellowship

Tobias HäberliNov 2, 2024, 11:33 AM
26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Bio-x-AI policy: call for ideas from the Fed­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can Scientists

Ben StewartAug 15, 2023, 3:21 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Prize for propos­ing cli­mate change/​biose­cu­rity innovations

Karthik TadepalliMay 26, 2023, 6:51 AM
23 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(marketshaping.uchicago.edu)

Var­i­ance of the an­nual con­flict and epi­demic/​pan­demic deaths as a frac­tion of the global population

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 10, 2024, 5:02 PM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Pan­demic apathy

Matthew RendallMay 4, 2024, 3:41 PM
45 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Towards a Global Nose to Sniff (and Snuff) Out Fu­ture Pandemics

Akash KulgodMay 10, 2023, 9:48 AM
39 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Bill Gates’ 400 mil­lion dol­lar bet—First Tu­ber­cu­lo­sis Vac­cine in 100 years?

NickLaingJul 2, 2023, 1:12 PM
126 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Ap­ply to fall policy in­tern­ships (we can help)

ESJul 2, 2023, 9:37 PM
57 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Don’t Let Other Global Catas­trophic Risks Fall Be­hind: Sup­port ORCG in 2024

JorgeTorresCNov 11, 2024, 6:27 PM
48 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Pivotal Re­search Fel­low­ship – Ap­ply Now!

Tobias HäberliApr 3, 2024, 5:30 PM
51 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Con­sider fund­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Ob­ser­va­tory to De­tect Stealth Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 11, 2024, 10:22 PM
46 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

H5N1 - thread for in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, plan­ning, and action

MathiasKB🔸Feb 5, 2023, 11:08 AM
202 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

NYT ar­ti­cle on challenge trials

OscarD🔸Jan 29, 2025, 10:52 AM
44 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Want to work on US emerg­ing tech policy? Con­sider the Hori­zon Fel­low­ship.

ESJul 30, 2024, 11:46 AM
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing the Po­ten­tial of Phage Dis­play: Early In­sights from the Slavcev Lab at the Univer­sity of Waterloo

emmannaemekaDec 4, 2024, 9:30 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Precipice Revisited

Toby_OrdJul 12, 2024, 2:06 PM
282 points
41 comments17 min readEA link

Si­mu­lat­ing Ap­proaches to Me­tage­nomic Pan­demic Identification

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 8, 2024, 7:54 PM
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Oc­to­ber 16, 2023)

Eevee🔹Oct 21, 2023, 9:14 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Case study: The Lübeck vaccine

NunoSempereJul 5, 2024, 2:57 PM
48 points
13 comments4 min readEA link
(sentinel-team.org)

Air Safety to Com­bat Global Catas­trophic Biorisks [REVISED]

Gavriel KleinwaksMay 3, 2023, 6:25 PM
60 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

Call for pa­pers: Biosafety and Biose­cu­rity for Syn­thetic Ge­nomics

jtmJun 20, 2023, 9:15 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(home.liebertpub.com)

What Does a Marginal Grant at LTFF Look Like? Fund­ing Pri­ori­ties and Grant­mak­ing Thresh­olds at the Long-Term Fu­ture Fund

LinchAug 10, 2023, 8:11 PM
175 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Q1 2025 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund grant round

LinchDec 20, 2024, 2:17 AM
51 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Fund­ing Cir­cles: An AIM Guide to im­prov­ing donor coordination

Joey🔸Oct 23, 2024, 3:33 PM
70 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Up­com­ing speaker se­ries on emerg­ing tech, na­tional se­cu­rity & US policy careers

kuhanjJun 21, 2023, 4:49 AM
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

SiebeRozendalAug 23, 2023, 12:42 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Five Tractable Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects You Could Start Tomorrow

MslkmpJan 31, 2025, 9:21 PM
75 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Will re­leas­ing the weights of large lan­guage mod­els grant wide­spread ac­cess to pan­demic agents?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 30, 2023, 5:42 PM
56 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

An­nounc­ing Man­i­fund Regrants

AustinJul 5, 2023, 7:42 PM
217 points
51 comments4 min readEA link
(manifund.org)

Pro­ject Man­ager NYC Im­pact Hub

Tatiana K. Nesic SkuratovaDec 26, 2024, 10:03 AM
20 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

ProMED, plat­form which alerted the world to Covid, might col­lapse—can EA donors fund it?

freedomandutilityAug 4, 2023, 4:42 PM
41 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal Evals: “Ad­vance Mar­ket Com­mit­ments: In­sights from The­ory and Ex­pe­rience”

david_reinsteinMar 21, 2023, 4:59 PM
27 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Test­ing Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing De­tec­tion with Spike-Ins

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 22, 2024, 5:20 PM
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Start an Up­per-Room UV In­stal­la­tion Com­pany?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 19, 2024, 11:43 PM
38 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal Global Health R&D “hits”: Devel­op­ment, main sources of fund­ing, and impact

Rethink PrioritiesJun 12, 2023, 12:46 PM
56 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Dis­cov­er­ing a Pas­sion for Change: Jas­min Kaur on Pan­demic Preven­tion, So­cial Inequal­ity, and Fos­ter­ing In­clu­sivity in EA

Amber DawnJun 23, 2023, 11:20 AM
15 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christianOct 31, 2023, 9:12 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Com­pu­ta­tional Ap­proaches to Pathogen Detection

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 1, 2023, 12:36 AM
49 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Dec 2, 2023, 12:20 PM
70 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Pivotal Re­search is Hiring Re­search Managers

Tobias HäberliSep 25, 2024, 7:11 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

ALTER Is­rael End-of-2024 Update

DavidmanheimJan 7, 2025, 3:07 PM
37 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Eng­ineered plant pan­demics and so­cietal col­lapse risk

freedomandutilityAug 4, 2023, 5:06 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

NAO Up­dates, Jan­uary 2025

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 10, 2025, 3:37 AM
28 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

If far-UV is so great, why isn’t it ev­ery­where?

AustinOct 19, 2024, 6:56 PM
66 points
3 comments9 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

Biorisk is an Un­helpful Anal­ogy for AI Risk

DavidmanheimMay 6, 2024, 6:18 AM
22 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

“Can We Sur­vive Tech­nol­ogy?” by John von Neumann

Eli RoseMar 13, 2023, 2:26 AM
51 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(geosci.uchicago.edu)

Se­quenc­ing Swabs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 1, 2024, 1:54 AM
24 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Vac­cine de­liv­ery: Timelines and drivers of de­lay in low- and mid­dle-in­come countries

Rethink PrioritiesDec 13, 2023, 8:12 PM
17 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Question] How has biose­cu­rity/​pan­demic pre­pared­ness philan­thropy helped with coro­n­avirus, and how might it help with similar fu­ture situ­a­tions?

vipulnaikMar 13, 2020, 6:50 PM
103 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] [Coron­avirus] Is it a good idea to meet peo­ple in­doors if ev­ery­one’s rapid anti­gen test came back nega­tive?

Jonas VMar 24, 2021, 3:45 PM
34 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Sugges­tion that Zvi be awarded a prize for his COVID series

RomeoStevensSep 24, 2020, 7:16 PM
37 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Coron­avirus Tech Handbook

Linda LinseforsMar 11, 2020, 2:44 PM
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Which per­son-per­son in­tro­duc­tions could be highly im­pact­ful, COVID re­lated and oth­er­wise?

nonzerosumApr 26, 2020, 9:18 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

GiveDirectly plans a cash trans­fer re­sponse to COVID-19 in US

warrenjordanMar 19, 2020, 5:44 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

N-95 For All: A Covid-19 Policy Proposal

DannyBresslerOct 28, 2020, 6:43 AM
21 points
8 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sponses to pa­demic pathogens with differ­ing be­havi­ours...and are we in the clear of covid-19 yet?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)Jan 17, 2023, 3:12 PM
0 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

CEA didn’t want Zvi Moshow­itz, Zeynep Tufekci, or He­len Chu in the Covid doc­u­men­tary they com­mis­sioned?

sapphireJan 19, 2023, 1:32 AM
−19 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive policy? Re­quiring li­a­bil­ity in­surance for dual-use research

Owen Cotton-BarrattOct 1, 2014, 6:36 PM
10 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Risks from Asteroids

finmFeb 11, 2022, 9:01 PM
44 points
9 comments8 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Time con­sis­tency for the EA com­mu­nity: Pro­jects that bridge the gap be­tween near-term boot­strap­ping and long-term targets

Arturo MaciasNov 12, 2022, 7:44 AM
7 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Align­ing Recom­mender Sys­tems as Cause Area

IvanVendrovMay 8, 2019, 8:56 AM
150 points
48 comments13 min readEA link

Me­diocre AI safety as ex­is­ten­tial risk

technicalitiesMar 16, 2022, 11:50 AM
52 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Ac­tion: Help ex­pand fund­ing for AI Safety by co­or­di­nat­ing on NSF response

Evan R. MurphyJan 20, 2022, 8:48 PM
20 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Talk­ing With a Biose­cu­rity Pro­fes­sional (Quick Notes)

DirectedEvolutionApr 10, 2021, 4:23 AM
45 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Op­por­tu­nity] Syn­thetic Biol­ogy Fore­cast­ers

ncmouliosJul 4, 2022, 4:15 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Read­ing sug­ges­tions for how reg­u­la­tory bod­ies can do bet­ter on vac­cine ap­proval in a pan­demic?

freedomandutilityNov 12, 2022, 11:38 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

ARIA is look­ing for top­ics for roundtables

Nathan_BarnardAug 26, 2022, 7:14 PM
34 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (5 − 11 Sep 22’)

Zoe WilliamsSep 12, 2022, 11:21 PM
36 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Prevent­ing pan­demics by not hunt­ing and farm­ing animals

Nicolas_FeilApr 30, 2020, 1:31 PM
10 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Can some­one help me re­fine my goals and pro­posal to make the max­i­mum im­pact in my cause area?

emmannaemekaDec 23, 2022, 12:21 PM
31 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Why ex­perts are ter­rified of a hu­man-made pan­demic — and what we can do to stop it

EA HandbookApr 11, 2022, 11:00 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Par­ti­ci­pate in the Next Gen­er­a­tion for Biose­cu­rity Competition

jtmMar 10, 2022, 2:49 PM
61 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

EAGxVir­tual 2020 light­ning talks

EA GlobalJan 25, 2021, 3:32 PM
13 points
1 comment33 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Bioweapons shelter pro­ject launch

Benevolent_RainJun 14, 2022, 3:44 AM
75 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity ca­reers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabelJun 20, 2019, 11:56 PM
187 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Amesh Adalja: Pan­demic pathogens

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:15 AM
11 points
1 comment20 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Should re­duc­ing gov­ern­ment funded an­i­mal ex­per­i­ments be on the agenda for EA?

ChristianKleineidamOct 29, 2022, 1:58 PM
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s 2023 ideas. Ap­ply now.

KarolinaSarek🔸Oct 4, 2022, 4:14 PM
241 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Does se­quence obfus­ca­tion pre­sent a bio-threat? Prob­a­bly not (yet)

Ben StewartSep 3, 2021, 9:33 AM
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Pan­demics Caused by Ac­ci­dent: Biorisk as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Ariel_ZJJan 31, 2020, 4:54 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Peo­ple in bunkers, “sar­dines” and why biorisks may be over­rated as a global priority

Evan R. MurphyOct 23, 2021, 12:19 AM
22 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing the Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject’s $17.5m bet on Sher­lock Bio­sciences’ In­no­va­tions in Viral Di­ag­nos­tics

anonymous_eaJun 11, 2019, 5:23 PM
26 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Bioinfohazards

FinSep 17, 2019, 2:41 AM
89 points
8 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Is there an anal­y­sis that es­ti­mates pos­si­ble timelines for ar­rival of easy-to-cre­ate pathogens?

EdoAradJun 14, 2019, 8:41 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA’s Achieve­ments in 2022

ElliotJDaviesDec 14, 2022, 2:33 PM
98 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Ge­orge Church, Kevin Esvelt, & Nathan Labenz: Open un­til dan­ger­ous — gene drive and the case for re­form­ing research

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How to PhD

ecaMar 28, 2021, 7:56 PM
118 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Biggest Biose­cu­rity Threat? An­tibiotic Resistance

talk2sarahwFeb 18, 2020, 8:33 PM
5 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Jaime Yas­sif: Re­duc­ing global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The case to abol­ish the biol­ogy of suffer­ing as a longter­mist action

Gaetan_SelleMay 21, 2022, 8:51 AM
37 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Next Gen­er­a­tion Biose­cu­rity—Sum­mary of Course by Univer­sity of Bath

Madhav MalhotraApr 19, 2022, 4:14 PM
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Case Rates to Se­quenc­ing Reads

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 21, 2022, 2:00 AM
32 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Germy Para­dox—Filters: Hard and soft skills

eukaryoteOct 3, 2019, 1:28 AM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The Germy Para­dox: An Introduction

eukaryoteSep 24, 2019, 5:18 AM
48 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Me­tac­u­lus Biose­cu­rity Tour­na­ment Round 1 Launch

Juan CambeiroJul 10, 2022, 2:54 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

How can economists best con­tribute to pan­demic pre­ven­tion and pre­pared­ness?

Rémi TAug 22, 2021, 8:49 PM
56 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

[PSA] Threat of fu­ture pan­demics from DEEP VZN

Likith GovindaiahMar 3, 2022, 2:54 PM
40 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Four Month Re­port June—Septem­ber 2020

HaydnBelfieldDec 2, 2020, 6:33 PM
24 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Holism, Lack of Knowl­edge, and Transhumanism

Jung EnthusiastDec 9, 2020, 2:08 AM
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What is the like­li­hood that civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse would di­rectly lead to hu­man ex­tinc­tion (within decades)?

Luisa_RodriguezDec 24, 2020, 10:10 PM
296 points
37 comments50 min readEA link

What should MIT an­a­lyt­ics pro­fes­sors know about biose­cu­rity?

wesgOct 9, 2022, 3:58 PM
34 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity challenges posed by Dual-Use Re­search of Con­cern (DURC)

Byron CohenSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
12 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(raisinghealth.substack.com)

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel BeckerOct 26, 2022, 11:38 AM
46 points
15 comments1 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)

Ap­ply to the new Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fel­low­ship!

lukeprogJul 20, 2021, 6:41 PM
78 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Cat­a­lyst, a 100-per­son biose­cu­rity summit

Tessa A 🔸May 26, 2021, 1:10 PM
67 points
11 comments19 min readEA link

The Web of Prevention

Will BradshawFeb 5, 2020, 4:51 AM
28 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are the most rele­vant sub­do­mains of soft­ware for biose­cu­rity?

David MOct 22, 2022, 9:46 AM
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity Dual Use Screen­ing—Pro­ject Pro­posal (seek­ing vet­ting & pro­ject lead)

Yonatan CaleSep 29, 2022, 7:01 PM
33 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Band­ing To­gether to Ban Oc­to­pus Farming

Tessa @ ALINov 30, 2022, 2:14 PM
119 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Tessa Alex­a­nian: How biol­ogy has changed

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 11:46 PM
11 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Are global pan­demics go­ing to be more likely or less likely over the next 100 years?

freedomandutilityMay 6, 2021, 11:48 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What are cur­rent smaller prob­lems re­lated to top EA cause ar­eas (eg deep­fake poli­cies for AI risk, on­go­ing covid var­i­ants for bio risk) and would it be benefi­cial for these small and not-catas­trophic challenges to get more EA re­sources, as a way of de­vel­op­ing ca­pac­ity to pre­vent the catas­trophic ver­sions?

nonzerosumJun 13, 2022, 5:32 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man — En­vi­sion­ing a world im­mune to global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks

PabloOct 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
70 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Crit­i­cal Re­view of ‘The Precipice’: A Re­assess­ment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

James FodorMay 11, 2020, 11:11 AM
111 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity as an EA Cause Area

EA GlobalAug 13, 2017, 7:00 AM
9 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

A pseudo math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­la­tion of di­rect work choice be­tween two x-risks

Joseph BloomAug 11, 2022, 12:28 AM
7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Good Fu­tures Ini­ti­a­tive: Win­ter Pro­ject In­tern­ship

a_e_rNov 27, 2022, 11:27 PM
67 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How might a herd of in­terns help with AI or biose­cu­rity re­search tasks/​ques­tions?

Marcel DMar 20, 2022, 10:49 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Coun­ter­mea­sures & sub­sti­tu­tion effects in biosecurity

ASBDec 16, 2021, 9:40 PM
87 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks

Gregory Lewis🔸Mar 1, 2020, 8:00 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Case stud­ies of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk

jiaApr 6, 2021, 8:49 AM
55 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

[Linkpost] “In­ten­sity and fre­quency of ex­treme novel epi­demics” by Mar­i­ani et al. (2021)

QubitSwarm99Sep 28, 2022, 3:31 AM
12 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness: Stake­hold­ers who in­fluence poli­ti­ci­ans in the UK

Alexandra MalikovaDec 8, 2022, 10:15 PM
19 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Does Fac­tory Farm­ing Make Nat­u­ral Pan­demics More Likely?

brookOct 31, 2022, 12:50 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How would you ad­vise some­one de­cide be­tween differ­ent biose­cu­rity in­ter­ven­tions?

DCMar 30, 2020, 5:05 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Get ad­vice from a biose­cu­rity professional

CliffordAug 23, 2022, 6:12 PM
37 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Hyper­bolic Science: Or, Play­ing Games with Growth

Adam GreenAug 26, 2022, 2:41 AM
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(markov.bio)

SBF Deal­book Thread

DaedalusNov 30, 2022, 11:02 PM
24 points
34 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

The Germy Para­dox – Filters: A taboo

eukaryoteOct 19, 2019, 12:14 AM
17 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Good policy ideas that won’t hap­pen (yet)

Niel_BowermanSep 11, 2014, 12:29 PM
28 points
8 comments14 min readEA link

The pan­demic threat of DEEP VZN—notes on a pod­cast with Kevin Esvelt

KeiApr 11, 2022, 11:52 AM
43 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

Beyond Sim­ple Ex­is­ten­tial Risk: Sur­vival in a Com­plex In­ter­con­nected World

Gideon FutermanNov 21, 2022, 2:35 PM
84 points
67 comments21 min readEA link

Us­ing Ex­port Con­trols to Re­duce Biorisk

catehallDec 23, 2021, 12:59 AM
43 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­sources for Phys­i­cal Engineers

Sean LawrenceNov 3, 2022, 11:23 PM
18 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “Bioter­ror and Biowar­fare” (2006)

MichaelA🔸Mar 1, 2021, 9:42 AM
29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Stop scold­ing peo­ple for wor­ry­ing about mon­key­pox (Vox ar­ti­cle)

LizkaMay 31, 2022, 8:37 AM
39 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Will splashy philan­thropy cause the biose­cu­rity field to fo­cus on the wrong risks?

Tessa A 🔸Apr 30, 2019, 4:03 PM
45 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(thebulletin.org)

An­tiviral pho­to­dy­namic ther­apy seems underfunded

freedomandutilityJul 31, 2022, 3:55 PM
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing is hiring for our Biose­cu­rity Pro­gram!

jtmNov 9, 2022, 3:02 PM
33 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(effective-giving.homerun.co)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA🔸Apr 15, 2020, 12:43 PM
130 points
37 comments5 min readEA link

Ex­am­ples of Suc­cess­ful Selec­tive Dis­clo­sure in the Life Sciences

Tessa A 🔸Aug 19, 2021, 6:38 PM
51 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

The Let­ten Prize—An op­por­tu­nity for young EA re­searchers?

Håkon SandbakkenNov 4, 2022, 6:47 PM
39 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Anat­o­miz­ing Chem­i­cal and Biolog­i­cal Non-State Adversaries

ncmouliosNov 11, 2022, 9:23 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: The new Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fellowship

lukeprogJul 26, 2021, 3:11 PM
38 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] Vox Ar­ti­cle on Eng­ineered Pathogens/​ Global Catas­trophic Biorisks

DannyBresslerDec 6, 2018, 10:46 PM
23 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Yet an­other biose­cu­rity read­ing list

cwbakerleeFeb 3, 2022, 7:24 PM
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Guard­ing Against Pandemics

Guarding Against PandemicsSep 18, 2021, 11:15 AM
72 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

A cou­ple of ex­pert-recom­mended jobs in biose­cu­rity at the mo­ment (Oct 2022)

CliffordOct 20, 2022, 12:13 PM
57 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Map of Biose­cu­rity Interventions

James LinOct 30, 2022, 6:25 PM
165 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Mis­in­for­ma­tion Gone Viral: Ed­u­ca­tion As Pan­demic Prevention

Open PhilanthropyJul 12, 2022, 7:38 AM
8 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

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)

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuettJan 6, 2021, 9:47 PM
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Fu­ture Bowl Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment

ncmouliosNov 28, 2022, 4:42 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Hear This Idea: Mon­rad and Pannu on Pan­demic Preparedness

jtmOct 31, 2022, 2:33 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies: More to explore

EA HandbookJan 1, 2021, 11:06 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

PSA: Corsi-Rosen­thal Air Filters Are a Cheap and Effec­tive Way to Im­prove In­door Air Quality

Lauren ReidJul 20, 2022, 11:45 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Claire Za­bel: Biose­cu­rity as an EA cause area

EA GlobalAug 11, 2017, 3:31 PM
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion as fire-fight­ing by Richard Willi­am­son (Alvea.bio) for Works in Progress

Nick WhitakerDec 8, 2022, 5:30 PM
33 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

[Question] What would a task­force de­signed to min­imise biorisk look like?

Jordan_WarnerNov 1, 2020, 12:08 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­ter­view sub­jects for im­pact liti­ga­tion pro­ject (biose­cu­rity & pan­demic pre­pared­ness)

Legal Priorities ProjectMar 3, 2022, 2:20 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing spirit hazards

brb243May 27, 2022, 10:16 PM
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

De­lay, De­tect, Defend: Prepar­ing for a Fu­ture in which Thou­sands Can Re­lease New Pan­demics by Kevin Esvelt

JeremyNov 15, 2022, 4:23 PM
177 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

The Next EA Global Should Have Safe Air

joshcmorrisonSep 19, 2022, 5:04 AM
137 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

Call notes with Johns Hop­kins CHS

SanjayMay 20, 2020, 10:25 PM
33 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A be­gin­ner data sci­en­tist tries her hand at biosecurity

ElizabethEOct 23, 2020, 3:20 PM
35 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

U.S. EAs Should Con­sider Ap­ply­ing to Join U.S. Diplomacy

abiolveraMay 17, 2022, 5:14 PM
115 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Risk Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Strate­gies for the Very Worst of Cases

Gregory Lewis🔸Mar 9, 2019, 6:56 AM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.centerforhealthsecurity.org)

Pan­demic Risk: How Large are the Ex­pected Losses? Fan, Jami­son, & Sum­mers (2018)

anonymous_eaNov 21, 2018, 3:58 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(dcp-3.org)

Daniel Gast­friend: Man­u­fac­tur­ing med­i­cal coun­ter­mea­sures against catas­trophic biothreats

EA GlobalFeb 10, 2020, 3:35 PM
24 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What EAG ses­sions would you like to at­tend on biorisk?

Nathan YoungMar 20, 2022, 5:13 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­test: 250€ for trans­la­tion of “longter­mism” to German

constructiveJun 1, 2022, 7:59 PM
18 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Maybe An­tivirals aren’t a Use­ful Pri­or­ity for Pan­demics?

DavidmanheimJun 20, 2021, 10:04 AM
40 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is a biol­ogy bac­calau­re­ate a good start for an un­der­grad­u­ate look­ing to work on ar­tifi­cial pan­demic pre­ven­tion?

EduardoNov 26, 2022, 1:42 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An­tibiotic re­sis­tance and meat: why we should be care­ful in as­sign­ing blame

C TilliJun 17, 2020, 8:00 AM
74 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Im­pact Op­por­tu­nity: In­fluence UK Biolog­i­cal Se­cu­rity Strategy

Jonathan NankivellFeb 17, 2022, 8:36 PM
49 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Doc­toral sem­i­nar] Chem­i­cal and biolog­i­cal weapons: In­ter­na­tional in­ves­tiga­tive mechanisms

ncmouliosNov 17, 2022, 12:26 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.asser.nl)

AMA: Joan Rohlfing, Pres­i­dent and COO of the Nu­clear Threat Initiative

Joan RohlfingDec 6, 2021, 8:58 PM
74 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

UVC air puri­fier de­sign and test­ing strategy

DirectedEvolutionJun 1, 2022, 5:35 AM
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

A Sum­mary of Pro­fes­sion-Based Com­mu­nity Building

Sean LawrenceDec 20, 2022, 10:08 PM
67 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

An­drew Sny­der Beat­tie: Biotech­nol­ogy and ex­is­ten­tial risk

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What is the best un­der­grad­u­ate course for ar­tifi­cial pan­demic pre­ven­tion?

EduardoDec 19, 2022, 11:35 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro to Cy­ber­biose­cu­rity—Kathryn Millet | Biosecure

Madhav MalhotraNov 6, 2022, 1:18 AM
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

New US Se­nate Bill on X-Risk Miti­ga­tion [Linkpost]

Evan R. MurphyJul 4, 2022, 1:28 AM
22 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.hsgac.senate.gov)

Soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing—Ca­reer review

Benjamin HiltonFeb 8, 2022, 6:11 AM
93 points
19 comments8 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Marc Lip­sitch: Prevent­ing catas­trophic risks by miti­gat­ing sub­catas­trophic ones

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

TW123Sep 30, 2022, 3:17 PM
48 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

The threat of syn­thetic bioter­ror de­mands even fur­ther ac­tion and leadership

dEAsignSep 30, 2022, 8:58 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Biotech­nol­ogy and biosecurity

EA HandbookSep 1, 2008, 7:00 AM
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Ap­pli­ca­tions Now Open for Johns Hop­kins Cen­ter for Health Se­cu­rity’s PhD Opportunities

tksellSep 21, 2022, 2:27 PM
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Nu­clear Threat Ini­ti­a­tive is not only nu­clear—notes from a call with NTI

SanjayJun 26, 2020, 5:29 PM
29 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

New EU Author­ity for Pan­demic Preparedness

Yassin AlayaNov 17, 2021, 8:57 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing Next Gen PPE to Re­duce Biorisks

AndyGrahamSep 8, 2022, 9:28 AM
78 points
6 comments4 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)

Eng­ineer­ing the Apoca­lypse: Rob Reid and Sam Har­ris on en­g­ineered pan­demics (tran­script)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 6, 2021, 3:31 AM
33 points
1 comment120 min readEA link

Notes on “Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons” (Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley, 2014)

imp4rtial 🔸Nov 26, 2022, 2:30 PM
47 points
1 comment35 min readEA link

Notes on Apollo re­port on biodefense

LinchJul 23, 2022, 9:38 PM
69 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(biodefensecommission.org)

Air Safety to Com­bat Global Catas­trophic Biorisks [OLD VERSION]

Jam KraprayoonDec 26, 2022, 4:58 PM
78 points
0 comments36 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

In­creased Availa­bil­ity and Willing­ness for De­ploy­ment of Re­sources for Effec­tive Altru­ism and Long-Termism

Evan_GaensbauerDec 29, 2021, 8:20 PM
46 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Health Se­cu­rity PhD Track at the Bloomberg School of Public Health

hottman1Sep 15, 2022, 5:40 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.centerforhealthsecurity.org)

Pan­demic pre­ven­tion in Ger­man par­ties’ fed­eral elec­tion platforms

tilboySep 19, 2021, 7:40 AM
17 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Assess­ing global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks (Crys­tal Wat­son)

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:15 AM
9 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

No More Pan­demics: a grass­roots group?

SanjayOct 2, 2020, 8:40 PM
66 points
22 comments12 min readEA link

Early-warn­ing Fore­cast­ing Cen­ter: What it is, and why it’d be cool

LinchMar 14, 2022, 7:20 PM
62 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Safety Sells: For-profit in­vest­ing into civ­i­liza­tional re­silience (food se­cu­rity, biose­cu­rity)

FGHJan 3, 2023, 12:24 PM
30 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Year in Re­view: 2022

christianJan 6, 2023, 1:23 AM
25 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(metaculus.medium.com)

A Biose­cu­rity and Biorisk Read­ing+ List

Tessa A 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 2:30 AM
135 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

The Economist pub­lished an op-ed by Jaime Yas­sif (NTI)

Rían O.M Jan 9, 2023, 11:22 AM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

EA rele­vant Fore­sight In­sti­tute Work­shops in 2023: WBE & AI safety, Cryp­tog­ra­phy & AI safety, XHope, Space, and Atom­i­cally Pre­cise Manufacturing

elteerkersJan 16, 2023, 2:02 PM
20 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Cavendish Labs

dyushaJan 19, 2023, 8:00 PM
112 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

40,000 rea­sons to worry about AI safety

Michael HuangFeb 2, 2023, 7:48 AM
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.theverge.com)

Si­mu­la­tion mod­els could help pre­pare for the next pandemic

Rory GreigOct 29, 2022, 2:10 PM
35 points
4 comments10 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

Stop Think­ing about FTX. Think About Get­ting Zika In­stead.

jeeebzNov 14, 2022, 7:32 PM
177 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

[Linkpost] New Oxford Malaria Vac­cine Shows ~75% Effi­cacy in Ini­tial Trial with Infants

LinchApr 23, 2021, 11:50 PM
62 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Come get malaria with me?

jeeebzNov 29, 2022, 9:15 PM
73 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

How much does it cost to roll-out a vac­cine?

Peter WildefordFeb 26, 2018, 3:33 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

How long does it take to re­search and de­velop a new vac­cine?

Peter WildefordJun 28, 2017, 11:20 PM
23 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Cause: biopharma R&D productivity

BoxFanAug 24, 2022, 5:59 AM
21 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

How much does it cost to re­search and de­velop a vac­cine?

Peter WildefordFeb 24, 2018, 1:23 AM
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] How likely is it that malaria vac­cines will soon be­come more effec­tive than bed­nets?

Alexander de VriesSep 9, 2022, 10:59 AM
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thelancet.com)

A plat­form for on-de­mand vaccination

George3d6Jul 18, 2022, 2:22 PM
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Eval­u­at­ing a crowd­fund­ing cam­paign to test an oral an­thrax vac­cine for wildlife

CiennaOct 12, 2020, 5:06 AM
33 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Sketch of a Warp 2 Reg­u­la­tory Path­way

joshcmorrisonAug 28, 2022, 3:12 PM
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Vac­cines: Ex­plor­ing Model Uncer­tainty and Takeaways

Peter WildefordMay 8, 2018, 7:42 AM
11 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Why SoGive is not up­dat­ing char­ity rat­ings af­ter malaria vac­cine news

SanjayApr 23, 2021, 8:39 PM
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA Should Spend Its “Fund­ing Over­hang” on Cur­ing In­fec­tious Diseases

joshcmorrisonNov 17, 2021, 8:54 PM
88 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

How benefi­cial have vac­cines been?

Marcus_A_DavisMay 5, 2018, 12:08 AM
10 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

Les­sons for es­ti­mat­ing cost-effec­tive­ness (of vac­cines) more effectively

Marcus_A_DavisJun 6, 2018, 3:18 AM
17 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Ini­tial thoughts on malaria vac­cine approval

GiveWellOct 8, 2021, 11:51 PM
43 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] Could the drop in child vac­ci­na­tion and the lat­est news on po­liomyelitis be a new cause area?

RamiroOct 9, 2022, 1:09 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of re­search­ing vac­cines?

Peter WildefordMay 8, 2018, 7:41 AM
17 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Fun­gal Diseases

Joel Tan🔸Oct 19, 2022, 5:13 AM
17 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] What would be the best de­gree for a med­i­cal stu­dent to in­ter­ca­late in if they wanted to get in­volved in global health/​pan­demic pre­pared­ness?

Rohan SinghNov 28, 2022, 4:33 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Bill Gates book on pan­demic prevention

PabloAMC 🔸May 1, 2022, 10:42 AM
25 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

How many peo­ple die from the flu? (OWID)

LizkaOct 24, 2022, 9:54 PM
45 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

Bu­gout Bags for Disasters

FinMar 8, 2022, 5:03 PM
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Car­rick Flynn Re­sults and Ad­di­tional Ideas for Pass­ing Pan­demic Preven­tion Policy

PeterMay 18, 2022, 7:33 AM
18 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

The best $5,800 I’ve ever donated (to pan­demic pre­ven­tion).

ASBFeb 5, 2022, 9:18 PM
281 points
81 comments4 min readEA link

How should we build meth­ods and tools to pre­pare for fu­ture pan­demics?

Sam AbbottOct 13, 2022, 12:47 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(samabbott.co.uk)

Pod­cast: Bryan Ca­plan on open bor­ders, UBI, to­tal­i­tar­i­anism, AI, pan­demics, util­i­tar­i­anism and la­bor economics

Gus DockerFeb 22, 2022, 3:04 PM
22 points
0 comments45 min readEA link
(www.utilitarianpodcast.com)

[Question] Papers on the cost effec­tive­ness /​ ROI of pan­demic pre­pared­ness in­ter­ven­tions?

freedomandutilityJan 11, 2023, 11:06 PM
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area?

mariushobbhahnJan 31, 2022, 1:42 PM
106 points
18 comments11 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Risks of Ad­vanced Gene Edit­ing Technologies

Courtney ColstonAug 12, 2022, 9:08 AM
5 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

Restrict­ing brain organoid re­search to slow down AGI

freedomandutilityNov 9, 2022, 1:01 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why Ge­netic Rescue

David LangAug 4, 2022, 6:22 AM
16 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Policy Analyst

Andy Morgan 🔸Mar 15, 2022, 9:29 AM
45 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 31, 2022, 9:16 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is the best biomed­i­cal re­search ques­tion for un­der­grad re­search in PDEs?

Isaac BensonDec 31, 2022, 8:01 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Gene Ther­apy for Mood Improvement

Ray AllenJan 11, 2023, 6:19 AM
7 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Break­through Fun­da­men­tal Science

Holden KarnofskyApr 14, 2015, 1:00 PM
3 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Miti­gat­ing x-risk through modularity

Toby NewberryDec 17, 2020, 7:54 PM
103 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

[Link] An­timicro­bial Re­sis­tance—Mas­sive new sur­vey pa­per

JanBJan 31, 2022, 9:35 PM
41 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prize: An­timicro­bial Resistance

tjohnsonAug 11, 2022, 4:07 PM
14 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­is­ten­tial Biorisk vs. GCBR

Will AldredJul 15, 2022, 9:16 PM
37 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ca­reers con­cern­ing Global Catas­trophic Biolog­i­cal Risks (GCBRs) from a Ger­man perspective

IftekharSep 1, 2022, 5:05 AM
20 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing In­sights for Impact

Christian PearsonJan 4, 2023, 7:00 AM
80 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Viral Load Mat­ters: Ev­i­dence of leaky pro­tec­tion fol­low­ing COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion and SARS-CoV-2 in­fec­tion in an in­car­cer­ated population

JMonty🔸Aug 31, 2023, 5:52 PM
34 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Re­port: Pro­pos­als for the pre­ven­tion and de­tec­tion of emerg­ing in­fec­tious dis­eases (EID) in Guatemala

JorgeTorresCSep 22, 2023, 8:27 PM
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Longter­mism and al­ter­na­tive proteins

BruceFJun 26, 2023, 8:52 PM
62 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

Biosafety Reg­u­la­tions (BMBL) and their rele­vance for AI

stepanlosJun 29, 2023, 7:20 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Are there funds for Sab­bat­i­cal?

emmannaemekaJun 30, 2023, 7:39 AM
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Help Needed in Push for a Rapid Malaria Vac­cine Rollout

joshcmorrisonOct 20, 2023, 7:30 PM
92 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for GCBR-fo­cused PhD Pro­gram in Health Se­cu­rity at Johns Hopkins

jcam1Oct 21, 2023, 2:46 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cults that want to kill ev­ery­one, stealth vs wild­fire pan­demics, and how he felt in­vent­ing gene drives (Kevin Esvelt on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursOct 4, 2023, 1:58 PM
38 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

On ex­clud­ing dan­ger­ous in­for­ma­tion from training

ShayBenMosheNov 17, 2023, 8:09 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

saloniumDec 10, 2023, 8:37 PM
170 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Join the Next Gen­er­a­tion for Biose­cu­rity in 2023!

Ryan TJul 7, 2023, 7:50 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Pow­er­ing In­no­va­tion: Sup­port the Cen­tre for Phage Biol­ogy and Ther­a­peu­tics with So­lar Energy

emmannaemekaDec 12, 2024, 4:37 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_CassidyDec 1, 2023, 12:47 AM
61 points
5 comments27 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)Aug 18, 2023, 1:19 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the win­ners of the Res­lab Re­quest for Information

Aron LajkoJul 27, 2023, 5:43 PM
15 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

An overview of stan­dards in biosafety and biosecurity

rosehadsharJul 26, 2023, 12:19 PM
77 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

UVC biolog­i­cal vs. chem­i­cal risk tradeoffs

MatthewDahlhausenJul 17, 2023, 5:19 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

長期主義的AIガバナンスの展望:基礎的な概要

EA JapanAug 17, 2023, 3:16 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on far-UVC af­ter work­ing in the field for 8 months

Max GörlitzJul 31, 2023, 2:36 PM
233 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects (some of which could be big)

ASBJan 11, 2022, 3:46 AM
408 points
71 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Alvea—A COVID Vac­cine Project

kyle_fishFeb 16, 2022, 1:50 PM
372 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Ob­ser­va­tory pro­ject for early de­tec­tion of catas­trophic biothreats

Will BradshawApr 29, 2022, 7:30 PM
213 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

List of Lists of Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­ject Ideas

Tessa A 🔸Jul 16, 2022, 3:57 PM
212 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

The harm cas­cade: why helping oth­ers is so hard

StijnJul 27, 2023, 1:54 PM
43 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

[Question] Where should I donate for an­i­mal welfare?

Jonathan PaulsonJul 24, 2023, 1:44 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Benefits of Im­ple­ment­ing High-Through­put Se­quenc­ing (HTS) Tech­nolo­gies for Pan­demic Pathogen De­tec­tion in Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean

Gabriela ParedesAug 12, 2024, 4:17 PM
12 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

[Question] Will you fund a fungi surveillance study?

emmannaemekaSep 7, 2023, 8:42 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales needs funding

Jaime SevillaAug 1, 2023, 4:26 PM
98 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Car­reras con Im­pacto: Outreach Re­sults Among Latin Amer­i­can Students

SMalagonAug 21, 2024, 5:10 AM
34 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

Zoé Roy-StangAug 3, 2023, 7:33 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

What do XPT re­sults tell us about biorisk?

Forecasting Research InstituteSep 13, 2023, 8:05 PM
23 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Im­mutable Spirits: Not One More Lost; Not One Forgotten

Tim SankaraDec 1, 2023, 10:32 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Epi­demiologic Library

Lilith DíazAug 12, 2024, 4:16 PM
14 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

What were the death tolls from pan­demics in his­tory?

saloniumDec 7, 2023, 10:40 PM
45 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

[Question] What longter­mist pro­jects would you like to see im­ple­mented?

BuhlMar 28, 2023, 6:41 PM
55 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Notes (and Anki) on in­fec­tious dis­ease modelling

Ben StewartAug 4, 2023, 2:28 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Col­lab­o­ra­tors Needed for One-Health Wastew­a­ter Surveillance Pro­ject in Nigeria

emmannaemekaOct 26, 2023, 2:53 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is biol­ogy ma­jor a suit­able choice for EAs?

jackchang110Apr 7, 2023, 5:29 PM
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­limi­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions on if STEM and EA com­mu­ni­ties could benefit from more overlap

elteerkersApr 11, 2023, 4:08 PM
31 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus’s Keep Virginia Safe II Tour­na­ment En­ters 2nd Round

christianApr 4, 2023, 9:51 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

GAP Lead­er­ship Prob­a­bly Par­ti­ci­pated in an Ille­gal Straw Donor Scheme

GapThrowawayApr 4, 2023, 5:04 AM
−10 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

US can­cels DEEP VZN (pro­ject to seek out po­ten­tial pan­demic viruses)

MetacelsusSep 8, 2023, 9:18 PM
36 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.science.org)

A case study of reg­u­la­tion done well? Cana­dian biorisk regulations

rosehadsharSep 8, 2023, 5:10 PM
31 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

U.S. is launch­ing a $5 billion fol­low-up to Oper­a­tion Warp Speed

Juan CambeiroApr 11, 2023, 11:07 AM
89 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

How can we im­prove In­fo­haz­ard Gover­nance in EA Biose­cu­rity?

Nadia MontazeriAug 5, 2023, 12:03 PM
168 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Scal­able And Trans­fer­able Black-Box Jailbreaks For Lan­guage Models Via Per­sona Modulation

soroushjpNov 7, 2023, 6:00 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

Perché gli es­perti sono ter­ror­iz­zati dall’idea di una pan­demia ar­tifi­ciale — e come pos­si­amo fermarla

EA ItalyJan 12, 2023, 3:04 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

[Opz­ionale] Pro­getti di biosicurezza con­creti (al­cuni con grandi poten­zial­ità)

EA ItalyJan 12, 2023, 3:06 AM
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] La biosicurezza ha bi­sogno di tec­nici e scien­ziati dei materiali

EA ItalyJan 12, 2023, 3:09 AM
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

3) Science Fails in a Pandemic

PandemicRiskManFeb 8, 2024, 2:58 PM
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

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

PandemicRiskManFeb 14, 2024, 1:54 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

X-Risk Re­searchers Sur­vey

NitaSanghaApr 24, 2023, 8:06 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Think­ing more on a doc­tor’s value

jackchang110Apr 25, 2023, 4:55 PM
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Biosafety in BSL-3, BSL-3+ and BSL-4 Lab­o­ra­to­ries: Map­ping and Recom­men­da­tions for Latin America

JorgeTorresCAug 22, 2023, 8:52 PM
46 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

A Ris­ing Tide Threat­ens Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons

AxbyMay 14, 2023, 2:49 PM
23 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

“A Jour­ney Through the Virus”: Rais­ing pan­demic aware­ness through an au­dio­vi­sual miniseries.

Gabriela YulietAug 12, 2024, 9:18 AM
8 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on re­cent ac­tivity of Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales

Jaime SevillaMay 1, 2023, 6:35 PM
45 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

A Study of AI Science Models

Eleni_AMay 13, 2023, 7:14 PM
12 points
4 comments24 min readEA link

Do mask man­dates work? — Do RCTs?

gogreatergoodMay 11, 2023, 7:35 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Best prac­tices for risk com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the aca­demic literature

Existential Risk Communication ProjectAug 12, 2024, 6:54 PM
9 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

ASHRAE Stan­dard 241 Con­trol of In­fec­tious Aerosols

MatthewDahlhausenMay 15, 2023, 4:19 PM
29 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(www.ashrae.org)

Far-UVC for clean in­door air (Vi­vian Be­lenky on the Eng­ineered for Im­pact pod­cast)

Sean LawrenceSep 13, 2023, 1:59 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(engineeredforimpact.show)

Map of the biose­cu­rity land­scape (list of GCBR-rele­vant orgs for new­com­ers)

Max GörlitzSep 17, 2023, 8:56 AM
151 points
7 comments12 min readEA link
(bit.ly)

[Question] Is the risk of a bioweapons “warn­ing shot” >>50%?

Benevolent_RainSep 18, 2023, 9:45 AM
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

#171 – How top labs have jeop­ar­dised pub­lic health with re­peated biosafety failures (Ali­son Young on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 14, 2023, 12:37 PM
15 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] How can I best use my ca­reer to pass im­pact­ful AI and Biose­cu­rity policy.

maxgOct 13, 2023, 5:14 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

At Our World in Data we’re hiring our first Com­mu­ni­ca­tions & Outreach Manager

Charlie GiattinoOct 13, 2023, 1:12 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan NankivellNov 10, 2023, 9:00 PM
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Re­sources on risks in clini­cal treat­ment of pa­tients in­fected with spe­cial pathogens?

krohmal5May 18, 2023, 2:14 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

For the Boyz: Zika Challenge in DC/​Baltimore

jeeebzAug 9, 2023, 11:22 AM
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should we push for a rapid malaria vac­cine rol­lout?

Nathan YoungOct 13, 2023, 2:56 PM
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Fund­ing Op­por­tu­nity: AI in LMICs (100k per pro­ject, Dead­line June 5)

Constance LiMay 30, 2023, 1:42 PM
33 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(gcgh.grandchallenges.org)

En­gag­ing UK Cen­tre-Right Types in Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Max_ThiloDec 4, 2023, 9:26 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On-Ramps Into Biose­cu­rity—A Model

Swan 🔸Dec 14, 2023, 3:42 PM
74 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Fund­ing for pro­grams and events on global catas­trophic risk, effec­tive al­tru­ism, and other topics

GCR Capacity Building team (Open Phil)Aug 13, 2024, 1:13 PM
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Data Scien­tist, CDC

QubitSwarm99Sep 16, 2023, 5:21 AM
12 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

20 con­crete pro­jects for re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

BuhlJun 21, 2023, 3:54 PM
132 points
27 comments20 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

An­nounc­ing the Univer­sity of Chicago’s $2M Mar­ket Shap­ing Ac­cel­er­a­tor’s In­no­va­tion Challenge: Biose­cu­rity, Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness, and Cli­mate Change

schethikJun 21, 2023, 5:25 PM
61 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Phage Bank: A Promis­ing Solu­tion to An­timicro­bial Re­sis­tance in Nigeria

emmannaemekaJun 22, 2023, 11:37 AM
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “The Precipice” (2 of 4): We are a dan­ger to ourselves

rileyharrisAug 13, 2023, 11:53 PM
5 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.millionyearview.com)

[Event] Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christianNov 1, 2023, 3:01 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eventbrite.com)

In­tro­duc­ing ARMoR—A CE In­cu­bated Char­ity Tack­ling An­timicro­bial Resistance

DavidMcKOct 17, 2023, 2:26 PM
107 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unoffi­cial]

kyle_fishNov 1, 2023, 12:43 PM
202 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Alvea Wind Down An­nounce­ment [Offi­cial]

kyle_fishNov 1, 2023, 12:39 PM
203 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.alvea.bio)

Ob­ser­va­to­rio de Ries­gos Catas­trófi­cos Globales (ORCG) Re­cap 2023

JorgeTorresCDec 14, 2023, 2:27 PM
75 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Be­ware of the new scal­ing paradigm

Johan de KockSep 19, 2024, 5:03 PM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

At Our World in Data we’re hiring a Se­nior Full-stack Engineer

Charlie GiattinoDec 15, 2023, 3:51 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

Pioneer­ing Phage Re­search for Pan­demic Pre­pared­ness in Africa: My next ca­reer step

emmannaemekaFeb 16, 2024, 2:37 AM
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Re­quest* for Biose­cu­rity pro­ject assistance

No longer EA-affiliatedFeb 21, 2024, 6:20 PM
−4 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Center for AI SafetyFeb 27, 2024, 6:46 PM
7 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.safe.ai)

Com­par­ing sam­pling strate­gies for early de­tec­tion of stealth biothreats

slgFeb 26, 2024, 11:14 PM
19 points
3 comments26 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

(Ap­pli­ca­tions Open!) UChicago XLab Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship 2024

ZacharyRudolphFeb 26, 2024, 6:20 PM
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(xrisk.uchicago.edu)

5) We Can’t Solve Pan­demics Without Goals

PandemicRiskManFeb 28, 2024, 6:30 PM
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Poli­tics of re­pro­tech & biotech: two pub­li­ca­tions for keep­ing track

CWillyFeb 29, 2024, 12:59 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The spread of sur­face pathogens is a ne­glected part of dis­ease pre­ven­tion

xander_balwitFeb 27, 2024, 6:06 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.asimov.press)

#180 – Why gullibil­ity and mis­in­for­ma­tion are over­rated (Hugo Mercier on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursFeb 26, 2024, 7:16 PM
15 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

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

PandemicRiskManMar 5, 2024, 1:51 PM
3 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Case stud­ies on so­cial-welfare-based stan­dards in var­i­ous industries

Holden KarnofskyJun 20, 2024, 1:33 PM
73 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

7) How to Build Speed Into Our Pan­demic Re­sponse Plans

PandemicRiskManMar 15, 2024, 4:53 PM
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

8) The Lines of Defence Ap­proach to Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskManMar 17, 2024, 7:00 PM
4 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Farma: A GMO and Food Tech For­ward Restaurant

xander_balwitOct 13, 2024, 4:46 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

CEEALAR’s The­ory of Change

CEEALARDec 19, 2023, 8:21 PM
51 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on the Biolog­i­cal Weapons Convention

OscarD🔸Dec 28, 2023, 5:53 AM
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Strength­en­ing Health Sys­tems: A ro­bust ap­proach to do­ing good

JacksonHarrisonJan 1, 2024, 10:21 AM
16 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Po­ten­tially use­ful treat­ment for pan­demic-po­ten­tial-pathogens: ex­tra­cor­po­real pho­to­phere­sis (em­pha­sis on the po­ten­tially)

Elina ChristianJan 9, 2024, 2:12 PM
4 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group: Ap­pli­ca­tions Open and 2023 Retrospective

Swan 🔸Jan 6, 2024, 6:20 AM
33 points
0 comments11 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)

Re­port: Latin Amer­ica and Global Catas­trophic Risks, trans­form­ing risk man­age­ment.

JorgeTorresCJan 9, 2024, 2:13 AM
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

‘Scale is All You Need’ — Wri­teup of a Syn­thetic Biol­ogy Work­shop With the Astera In­sti­tute & Metaculus

christianSep 5, 2024, 8:11 PM
6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Are abil­ities in bioin­for­matic re­search rele­vant for a ca­reer in biorisk re­duc­tion?

EduardoMar 31, 2024, 9:35 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

Gover­nance Strate­gies for Dual-Use Re­search of con­cern: Balanc­ing Scien­tific Progress and Global Security

Diane LetourneurJun 28, 2024, 5:01 PM
8 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Avian flu: Birds, cows, and now a human

ShinApr 2, 2024, 8:56 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

Ran­dom ad­ver­sar­ial thresh­old search en­ables au­to­mated DNA screening

MetacelsusApr 2, 2024, 7:49 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.biorxiv.org)

An­nounc­ing the First Work­shop on the Eco­nomics of Pan­demic Preparedness

matteoApr 3, 2024, 11:18 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How Well-Funded is Biose­cu­rity Philan­thropy?

Conrad K.Apr 4, 2024, 6:31 PM
78 points
16 comments20 min readEA link

AISN #33: Re­assess­ing AI and Biorisk Plus, Con­soli­da­tion in the Cor­po­rate AI Land­scape, and Na­tional In­vest­ments in AI

Center for AI SafetyApr 12, 2024, 4:11 PM
19 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Map­ping of An­tibiotic-Re­sis­tant Bac­te­ria Through GIS Data and Med­i­cal Re­ports.

MiguelHGSep 16, 2024, 3:50 PM
8 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Part­ner with Us: Ad­vanc­ing Global Catas­trophic and AI Risk Re­search at Plateau State Univer­sity,Bokkos

emmannaemekaOct 10, 2024, 1:19 AM
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

We’re hiring a Writer to join our team at Our World in Data

Charlie GiattinoApr 18, 2024, 8:50 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

Re­view of ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence plat­forms for early pan­demic de­tec­tion in Latin America

DianaCarolinaSep 17, 2024, 3:17 PM
5 points
0 comments53 min readEA link

To Be Born in a Bag

Niko McCartyOct 7, 2024, 12:39 PM
18 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(www.asimov.press)

Up­com­ing speaker se­ries on emerg­ing tech, na­tional se­cu­rity & US policy careers

ESJul 10, 2024, 7:59 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Health Care Ethics: Call for Papers

Devin M. KellisSep 25, 2024, 12:34 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A be­gin­ner’s in­tro­duc­tion to AI-driven biorisk: Large Lan­guage Models, Biolog­i­cal De­sign Tools, In­for­ma­tion Hazards, and Biosecurity

NatKiiluMay 3, 2024, 3:49 PM
6 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

The Mar­ket Shap­ing Ac­cel­er­a­tor at UChicago is hiring

squeezySep 17, 2024, 1:51 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(marketshaping.uchicago.edu)

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given New Biotech Risks

Matt ClancyJan 17, 2024, 7:42 PM
78 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

$14t BOTEC cost to erad­i­cate all in­fec­tious diseases

marvolopandaMay 13, 2024, 9:55 AM
13 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Can you help re­view my ap­pli­ca­tion for a Ca­reer Cap­i­tal Ac­tivity on Sal­monella Typhi Vac­cine Development

emmannaemekaJan 17, 2024, 9:02 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New NAO preprint: In­door air sam­pling for de­tec­tion of viral nu­cleic acids

ljustenMay 16, 2024, 3:02 PM
46 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Up­dates from our Re­search on Phages

emmannaemekaAug 24, 2024, 12:57 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The State of Metaculus

christianFeb 5, 2025, 7:17 PM
17 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Im­prov­ing In­door Air Qual­ity for Public Health in Malaysia

Chloe LeeMay 25, 2024, 11:19 AM
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The AI Revolu­tion in Biology

Roman LeventovMay 26, 2024, 9:30 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cognitiverevolution.ai)

Reflect­ing on the First Con­fer­ence on Global Catas­trophic Risks for Span­ish Speakers

SMalagonMay 29, 2024, 2:24 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New Zealand pro­poses reg­u­la­tory re­quire­ments for nu­cleic acid syn­the­sis screening

Policy AotearoaFeb 6, 2025, 1:30 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­door Air Qual­ity Im­prove­ment in sub-Sa­haran Africa

NatKiiluJul 22, 2024, 10:29 AM
5 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

#189 – How “mar­ket shap­ing” could help solve cli­mate change, pan­demics, and other global prob­lems (Rachel Glen­ner­ster on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursMay 31, 2024, 12:21 PM
18 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Database of re­search pro­jects for vol­un­teers in food se­cu­rity dur­ing global catas­tro­phes (ALLFED)

JuanGarciaSep 26, 2024, 7:39 PM
47 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Loop-me­di­ated isother­mal am­plifi­ca­tion (LAMP) for pan­demic pathogen di­ag­nos­tics: How it differs from PCR and why it isn’t more widely used

Julia NiggemeyerSep 2, 2024, 12:17 AM
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

1) Pan­demics are a Solv­able Problem

PandemicRiskManJan 26, 2024, 7:48 PM
−9 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

2) Pan­demics Are Solved With Risk Man­age­ment, Not Science

PandemicRiskManJan 31, 2024, 3:51 PM
−9 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Reg­u­la­tion of AI Use for Per­sonal Data Pro­tec­tion: Com­par­i­son of Global Strate­gies and Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Latin Amer­ica

Lisbeth Guzman Oct 14, 2024, 1:22 PM
10 points
1 comment21 min readEA link

Launch­ing the Re­s­pi­ra­tory Out­look 2024/​25 Fore­cast­ing Series

christianJul 17, 2024, 7:51 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

The Offense-Defense Balance of Gene Drives

Maxwell TabarrokSep 27, 2024, 4:45 PM
16 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Eric Sch­midt’s blueprint for US tech­nol­ogy strategy

OscarD🔸Oct 15, 2024, 7:54 PM
29 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Can Black Soldier Fly Lar­vae (BSFL) pro­duc­ers dis­place fish­meal?

Rethink PrioritiesDec 17, 2024, 3:59 PM
52 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­silient foods: How to feed ev­ery­one, even in the worst of times

FJehnDec 19, 2024, 11:12 AM
11 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

AMA op­por­tu­nity with GFI Europe’s Science and Tech­nol­ogy Team

Filip GavranovićOct 17, 2024, 2:53 PM
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: biose­cu­rity.world

Alix PhamOct 21, 2024, 7:43 AM
84 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

Luca Righetti 🔸Nov 21, 2024, 5:26 PM
82 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Crimean-Congo He­m­or­rhagic Fever: A Ne­glected Priority

Cengizhan BüyükdağOct 27, 2024, 7:29 PM
11 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Bri­tish pub­lic per­cep­tion of ex­is­ten­tial risks

Jamie EOct 25, 2024, 2:37 PM
58 points
8 comments10 min readEA link

Moder­ately Skep­ti­cal of “Risks of Mir­ror Biol­ogy”

DavidmanheimDec 20, 2024, 12:57 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Can Knowl­edge Hurt You? The Dangers of In­fo­haz­ards (and Exfo­haz­ards)

A.G.G. LiuFeb 8, 2025, 3:51 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Sen­tinel min­utes #6/​2025: Power of the purse, D1.1 H5N1 flu var­i­ant, Ay­a­tol­lah against ne­go­ti­a­tions with Trump

NunoSempereFeb 10, 2025, 5:23 PM
39 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)

Does the Global Health Se­cu­rity In­dex Drive Policy Change? Help Me Find Out

Vincent Niger🔸Feb 8, 2025, 9:59 AM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

LASST’s Pathogen Re­search Ami­cus Brief Project

Tyler WhitmerDec 23, 2024, 4:20 PM
9 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Ex­ec­u­tive As­sis­tant at Blueprint Biosecurity

Tatiana K. Nesic SkuratovaDec 26, 2024, 12:16 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Blood-Based Bio­surveillance, Part 3: The Blood Virome

ljustenFeb 13, 2025, 5:51 PM
27 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Epi­demiol­ogy 1: The 5 W’s

SofiiaFJan 5, 2025, 12:23 AM
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(sofiiabioblog.blogspot.com)

Prevent­ing Catas­trophic Pan­demics – 80,000 Hours

EA HandbookFeb 18, 2025, 9:33 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Which EA Orgs want Sup­port with MEL and Im­pact Man­age­ment?

Teresa JakovlevFeb 20, 2025, 5:07 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Is Ge­netic Code Swap­ping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_OJan 12, 2025, 6:38 PM
23 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on the Cal­ifor­nia SB 1308 Campaign

Gavriel KleinwaksJan 15, 2025, 10:13 PM
120 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

New ideas for miti­gat­ing biotech­nol­ogy mi­suse

jbsJul 11, 2022, 4:26 PM
78 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Ac­tivism for COVID-19 Lo­cal Pre­pared­ness

tusk2891Mar 1, 2020, 6:11 AM
9 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

We’re (sur­pris­ingly) more pos­i­tive about tack­ling bio risks: out­comes of a survey

SanjayAug 25, 2020, 9:14 AM
58 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

De­com­pos­ing Biolog­i­cal Risks: Harm, Po­ten­tial, and Strategies

simeon_cOct 14, 2021, 7:09 AM
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Re­spond­ing to COVID-19 in India

SuvitaApr 26, 2020, 7:07 PM
57 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro to Cyberbiosecurity

Madhav MalhotraOct 19, 2022, 11:47 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mon­key­pox: Is it worth wor­ry­ing about?

MarcusAbramovitchAug 17, 2022, 5:59 AM
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

What is the best un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree for some­one who wants to do re­search in biorisk /​ ar­tifi­cial pan­demic pre­ven­tion?

EduardoDec 20, 2022, 11:01 PM
17 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Longevity re­search as AI X-risk intervention

DirectedEvolutionNov 6, 2022, 5:58 PM
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Free to at­tend: Cam­bridge Con­fer­ence on Catas­trophic Risk (19-21 April)

HaydnBelfieldMar 21, 2022, 1:23 PM
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How well did EA-funded biorisk or­gani­sa­tions do on Covid?

John G. HalsteadJun 2, 2021, 5:25 PM
101 points
51 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara CollierNov 21, 2022, 6:51 PM
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

Three grants in re­sponse to the COVID-19 pandemic

GiveWellApr 24, 2020, 4:52 AM
37 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Kevin Esvelt: Miti­gat­ing catas­trophic biorisks

EA GlobalSep 3, 2020, 6:11 PM
32 points
0 comments22 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

(Paper Sum­mary) Manag­ing the Tran­si­tion to Wide­spread Me­tage­nomic Mon­i­tor­ing: Policy Con­sid­er­a­tions for Fu­ture Bio­surveillance

chelsea_liangJan 19, 2023, 11:12 AM
49 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.liebertpub.com)

[Link] GCRI’s Seth Baum re­views The Precipice

Aryeh EnglanderJun 6, 2022, 7:33 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to em­bed tools for im­proved in­sti­tu­tional dec­sion mak­ing in an or­ga­ni­za­tions soft­ware plat­form?

mxschonsApr 6, 2021, 4:19 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: SERI Biose­cu­rity In­ter­ven­tions Tech­ni­cal Sem­i­nar (BITS)

James LinJan 12, 2023, 3:02 AM
83 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

Kat WoodsAug 15, 2022, 2:22 PM
80 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Op­por­tu­nity] Euro­pean Jour­nal­ism Cen­ter Global Health Se­cu­rity Fund 2023 Call

ncmouliosNov 10, 2022, 10:28 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Essen­tial facts and figures—COVID-19

Arden KoehlerApr 20, 2020, 6:33 PM
19 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Ex­pert Com­mu­ni­ties and Public Revolt

Evan_GaensbauerMar 28, 2020, 7:00 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Shal­low Re­port on Shigella

Joel Tan🔸Jan 24, 2023, 2:51 AM
7 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

Fund biose­cu­rity officers at universities

freedomandutilityOct 31, 2022, 11:49 AM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast in­ter­view with Car­rick Flynn

DanielFilanJan 15, 2023, 3:00 AM
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Re­think­ing longter­mism and global development

Eevee🔹Sep 2, 2022, 5:28 AM
10 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Claire Za­bel: Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject up­date on biosecurity

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:15 AM
9 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The best places to donate for COVID-19

SanjayMar 20, 2020, 10:47 AM
22 points
22 comments20 min readEA link

The Years 0 and 1 of the Policy En­trepreneur­ship Network

Michal_TrzesimiechSep 17, 2020, 4:51 PM
60 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Some ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort

patio11Dec 9, 2022, 8:13 PM
436 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

[Event] A Me­tac­u­lus Open Panel Dis­cus­sion: How Fore­casts In­form COVID-19 Policy

christianOct 4, 2021, 6:17 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The EA move­ment is ne­glect­ing phys­i­cal goods

ruthgraceJun 18, 2020, 2:39 PM
27 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

We are look­ing for peo­ple to serve in our Gover­nance board.

emmannaemekaNov 11, 2022, 3:56 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mists Should Work on AI—There is No “AI Neu­tral” Sce­nario

simeon_cAug 7, 2022, 4:43 PM
42 points
62 comments6 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahnDec 3, 2021, 10:33 AM
183 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion as a tool to re­duce two ex­is­ten­tial risks.

johl@umich.eduApr 19, 2021, 4:51 PM
28 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

Some global catas­trophic risk estimates

TamayFeb 10, 2021, 7:32 PM
106 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Vac­cines: Ap­pen­dices and Endnotes

Peter WildefordMay 8, 2018, 7:43 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial tech­nol­ogy de­vel­op­ment: preprint on the concept

Hamish_HobbsSep 12, 2022, 1:52 PM
65 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What COVID-19 ques­tions should Open Philan­thropy pay Good Judg­ment to work on?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 18, 2020, 11:31 PM
36 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Scal­ing Wargam­ing for Global Catas­trophic Risks with AI

raiJan 18, 2025, 3:07 PM
73 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)

Look­ing for guests work­ing in EA Bio fields

SofiiaFJan 19, 2025, 12:16 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Google AI Ac­cel­er­a­tor Open Call

Rochelle HarrisJan 22, 2025, 4:50 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

I got dysen­tery so you don’t have to

eukaryoteNov 6, 2024, 6:11 PM
62 points
3 comments17 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

On End­ing TB

xander_balwitNov 3, 2024, 6:12 PM
35 points
1 comment17 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

Sen­tinel Fund­ing Memo — Miti­gat­ing GCRs with Fore­cast­ing & Emer­gency Response

Saul MunnNov 6, 2024, 1:57 AM
47 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Biose­cu­rity Fore­cast­ing Group—Ap­ply Now

Lin BLJan 23, 2025, 4:52 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

When the Lights go out on Science: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion on Months of Lost Phage re­search Due to Power Ou­tage

emmannaemekaNov 7, 2024, 4:05 PM
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

En­sur­ing Stable Power for Life-Sav­ing Re­search in Re­source-Limited Set­ting

emmannaemekaNov 8, 2024, 1:15 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

One year of do­ing ad­vo­cacy on an­timicro­bial resistance

Aanika DalalNov 11, 2024, 6:49 PM
73 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing the AMR Cri­sis: Im­pli­ca­tions for Biose­cu­rity and Pan­demic Preparedness

KaelioraJan 28, 2025, 2:10 PM
15 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

[Question] Quick Q) In­for­ma­tion haz­ards in open source lit reviews

SofiiaFJan 27, 2025, 9:32 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Biorisk is smaller in scale than farmed an­i­mal welfare

OGTutzauer🔸Feb 6, 2025, 10:26 AM
34 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Com­par­ing AI Labs and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Companies

mxschonsNov 13, 2024, 2:51 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

The Case for Quan­tum Technologies

Elias X. HuberNov 14, 2024, 1:35 PM
13 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Is that DNA Danger­ous?

MslkmpJan 30, 2025, 7:27 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(press.asimov.com)

Harry Pot­ter and meth­ods of re­duc­ing mosquito borne dis­ease burdens

SofiiaFJan 30, 2025, 4:56 PM
2 points
0 comments26 min readEA link

From Cri­sis to Con­trol: Estab­lish­ing a Re­silient In­ci­dent Re­sponse Frame­work for De­ployed AI Models

KevinNJan 31, 2025, 1:06 PM
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.techpolicy.press)

Oxford Biose­cu­rity Group 2024 Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion: Ca­pac­ity Build­ing (Sum­mary/​Linkpost)

Lin BLFeb 3, 2025, 7:31 AM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.oxfordbiosecuritygroup.com)

Biose­cu­rity Re­sources I Often Recommend

Lin BLJan 31, 2025, 6:28 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Ethics and prac­ti­cal­ities of Enoses and pas­sive scent based surveillance sys­tems (short pa­per)

SofiiaFFeb 2, 2025, 11:29 AM
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Apoli­ti­cal global health pro­tec­tion and mak­ing an im­pact

SofiiaFFeb 1, 2025, 9:34 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for in­di­vi­d­u­als to help cre­ate an open, free, ac­cessible com­mu­nity to track and share global health and med­i­cal re­sources to bridge info loss and sci­en­tific deletion

SofiiaFFeb 2, 2025, 7:26 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why the cur­rent mass sci­ence data dele­tion should be a key pri­or­ity ac­cord­ing to the INT framework

SofiiaFFeb 2, 2025, 11:02 PM
45 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

The Hu­man Biolog­i­cal Ad­van­tage Over AI

William StewartNov 18, 2024, 11:18 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #44: The Trump Cir­cle on AI Safety Plus, Chi­nese re­searchers used Llama to cre­ate a mil­i­tary tool for the PLA, a Google AI sys­tem dis­cov­ered a zero-day cy­ber­se­cu­rity vuln­er­a­bil­ity, and Com­plex Sys­tems

Center for AI SafetyNov 19, 2024, 4:36 PM
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

A Qual­i­ta­tive Case for LTFF: Filling Crit­i­cal Ecosys­tem Gaps

LinchDec 3, 2024, 9:57 PM
89 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Longter­mism bet­ter from a de­vel­op­ment skep­ti­cal stance?

Benevolent_RainDec 9, 2024, 12:16 PM
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel On Global Catas­trophic Risks (IPGCR)

DannyBresslerFeb 1, 2024, 5:36 PM
46 points
9 comments19 min readEA link

Ab­stracts, pa­pers and the per­ils of research

SofiiaFJan 1, 2025, 11:21 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.blogger.com)

Ap­ply to at­tend a Global Challenges Pro­ject work­shop in 2025!

Liam 🔸Dec 10, 2024, 11:48 AM
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Is That DNA Dangerous

xander_balwitAug 30, 2024, 2:17 PM
40 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.asimov.press)

Cli­mate Change and Emerg­ing Fun­gal In­fec­tions: Im­pacts, Challenges, and Opportunities

emmannaemekaJun 23, 2023, 3:19 PM
7 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(journals.plos.org)

Highly pathogenic avian in­fluenza A(H5N1) virus in­fec­tion in farmed minks, Spain, Oc­to­ber 2022

JMonty🔸Jan 23, 2023, 3:45 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.eurosurveillance.org)

Prometheus Un­leashed: Mak­ing sense of in­for­ma­tion hazards

basil.iciousFeb 15, 2023, 6:44 AM
0 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(basil08.github.io)

[Question] Would it be bet­ter to start a biotech­nol­ogy grad­u­a­tion next year or to start a biolog­i­cal sci­ences one now?

EduardoJan 28, 2023, 9:48 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

What Are The Biggest Threats To Hu­man­ity? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸Jan 31, 2023, 7:50 PM
17 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

Nel­son Man­dela’s or­ga­ni­za­tion, The Elders, back­ing x risk pre­ven­tion and longtermism

krohmal5Feb 1, 2023, 6:40 AM
179 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(theelders.org)

Ques­tions about OP grant to Helena

DizzyMarmotFeb 2, 2023, 6:21 AM
122 points
73 comments3 min readEA link

Does the US pub­lic sup­port ul­tra­vi­o­let ger­mi­ci­dal ir­ra­di­a­tion tech­nol­ogy for re­duc­ing risks from pathogens?

Jam KraprayoonFeb 3, 2023, 2:10 PM
111 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Speedrun: Develop an af­ford­able su­per PPE

BuhlFeb 7, 2023, 6:43 PM
101 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Har­den­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal re­sponse to pan­demics: con­crete pro­ject seeks pro­ject lead

Joel BeckerFeb 9, 2023, 6:04 PM
73 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

CE: An­nounc­ing our 2023 Char­ity Ideas. Ap­ply now!

SteveThompsonFeb 13, 2023, 1:04 PM
236 points
23 comments15 min readEA link

What are our ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing de­tec­tion ca­pa­bil­ities?

jvbFeb 16, 2023, 1:34 AM
20 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Five ways to stop a bird->mink->hu­man H5N1 pandemic

DirectedEvolutionFeb 10, 2023, 4:36 PM
36 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity Happy Hour—EAG Bay Area 2023

Tessa A 🔸Feb 23, 2023, 12:03 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2023 Stan­ford Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Conference

elizabethcooperFeb 24, 2023, 5:49 PM
29 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

EJTMar 19, 2023, 4:50 PM
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Ad­vice on com­mu­ni­cat­ing in and around the biose­cu­rity policy community

ESMar 2, 2023, 9:32 PM
225 points
27 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How to nav­i­gate po­ten­tial infohazards

more better Mar 4, 2023, 9:28 PM
16 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Tara Kirk Sell: Biose­cu­rity ca­reer story

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 6:56 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ex­plor­ing Life Sciences Funding

Holden KarnofskyJan 7, 2014, 1:34 PM
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Re­turns to Life Sciences Funding

Holden KarnofskyJan 15, 2014, 1:37 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Com­pa­nies Us­ing Micro­biol­ogy for Sustainability

Alex BergAug 21, 2022, 10:29 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

The Path to Biomed­i­cal Progress

Holden KarnofskyFeb 27, 2015, 1:52 PM
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Biol­ogy pro­ject in search of first au­thor: imag­ing the brain of pop­u­lar farmed in­sect Black Soldier Fly

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 9, 2021, 6:19 PM
90 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Biomed­i­cal Re­search Models: Mice vs Man?

SnippyroDec 26, 2021, 7:04 PM
3 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Tim Fer­riss, Michael Pol­lan, and Dr. Matthew W. John­son on psychedelics re­search and philanthropy

Aaron Gertler 🔸May 13, 2021, 5:48 PM
149 points
181 comments3 min readEA link

Trans­la­tional Science and the “Valley of Death”

Holden KarnofskyApr 9, 2015, 12:58 PM
3 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Coron­avirus Re­search Ideas for EAs

Peter WildefordMar 27, 2020, 9:01 PM
118 points
20 comments23 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity needs en­g­ineers and ma­te­ri­als scientists

Will BradshawDec 16, 2021, 11:37 AM
161 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­ject Ideas in Biose­cu­rity for EAs

DavidmanheimFeb 16, 2021, 9:01 PM
106 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Any in­ter­est in bac­te­riophages?

Charlie DoughertyMay 4, 2022, 10:44 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Tech­nolog­i­cal Bot­tle­necks for PCR, LAMP, and Me­tage­nomics Sequencing

Ziyue ZengJan 9, 2023, 6:05 AM
39 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Overview of the Pathogen Bio­surveillance Land­scape

Brianna GopaulJan 9, 2023, 6:05 AM
54 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

Con­crete pro­ject lists

Richard_BattyMar 25, 2017, 6:12 PM
46 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

Helping wild an­i­mals through vac­ci­na­tion: could this hap­pen for coro­n­aviruses like SARS-CoV-2?

Animal_EthicsMay 12, 2020, 6:25 PM
31 points
9 comments25 min readEA link

COVID: How did we do? How can we know?

Ghost_of_Li_WenliangJun 30, 2021, 12:29 PM
170 points
47 comments9 min readEA link

4 Years Later: Pres­i­dent Trump and Global Catas­trophic Risk

HaydnBelfieldOct 25, 2020, 4:28 PM
43 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

How about we don’t all get COVID in Lon­don?

Aaron BergmanApr 10, 2022, 11:16 PM
66 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikosMay 17, 2021, 7:28 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA char­ity re­sponses to COVID-19

warrenjordanApr 4, 2020, 10:16 PM
11 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Fiona Con­lon: Su­vita’s first year: vac­cines in the spotlight

EA GlobalNov 21, 2020, 8:12 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The US Meat Sup­ply Crisis

EA Forum ArchivesMay 28, 2020, 7:00 AM
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

[Question] If you had $10-100mm and a skil­led team to im­prove the COVID re­sponse to min­i­mize eco­nomic and hu­man dam­age, what would you do? Or, how would you de­cide what to do?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:22 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive dona­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas SubramaniamApr 30, 2021, 8:30 PM
32 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

13 Re­cent Publi­ca­tions on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (Jan 2021 up­date)

HaydnBelfieldFeb 8, 2021, 12:42 PM
7 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Which peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions are cur­rently mak­ing in­fluen­tial de­ci­sions re­lated to COVID re­sponse, and how could they be helped to have a bet­ter de­ci­sion mak­ing pro­cess?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:36 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Coron­avirus and long term policy [UK fo­cus]

weeatquinceApr 5, 2020, 8:29 AM
52 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

The Elec­toral Con­se­quences of Pan­demic Failure Project

DaleJan 7, 2021, 8:57 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How much should we still worry about catch­ing COVID? [Links and Dis­cus­sion Thread]

MichaelStJulesAug 29, 2021, 6:06 AM
21 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What ques­tions could COVID-19 provide ev­i­dence on that would help guide fu­ture EA de­ci­sions?

MichaelA🔸Mar 27, 2020, 5:51 AM
7 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Pardis Sa­beti on the Sen­tinel sys­tem for de­tect­ing and stop­ping pandemics

80000_HoursJul 29, 2021, 4:36 PM
13 points
0 comments101 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for: post-COVID pan­demic pre­pared­ness initiatives

jmwMay 11, 2021, 6:34 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Up­dates on the Food Sys­tems Hand­book & up­com­ing ses­sions 30/​31 October

AronMOct 23, 2020, 11:26 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

COVID-19 in de­vel­op­ing countries

rootpiApr 22, 2020, 10:13 PM
45 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Sam­ple size and clus­ter­ing ad­vice needed

brb243Jul 29, 2020, 2:21 PM
15 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Covid Philan­thropy Idea—Build­ing Soft­ware Solu­tions for Peo­ple Impacted

nonzerosumApr 17, 2020, 10:25 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA should wargame Coron­avirus

Chris LeongFeb 12, 2020, 4:32 AM
35 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Find­ing equil­ibrium in a difficult time

Julia_Wise🔸Mar 18, 2020, 2:50 AM
150 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Why aren’t EAs talk­ing about the COVID lab leak hy­poth­e­sis more?

SiebeRozendalAug 13, 2022, 8:36 PM
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Emily Grundy: Aus­trali­ans’ per­cep­tions of global catas­trophic risks

EA GlobalNov 21, 2020, 8:12 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Three char­i­ta­ble recom­men­da­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas SubramaniamMay 5, 2021, 8:23 AM
71 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

Try­ing to as­sess the effec­tive­ness of COVID-19 char­i­ties in India

gotechMay 4, 2021, 7:42 AM
34 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Up and Down with the Pan­demic; Why Pan­demic Poli­cies Do Not Last and How to Change That

Timothy_LiptrotMar 29, 2021, 11:04 PM
9 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Re­quest­ing sup­port for the StandA­gain­stCorona pledge

PeterSlatteryMar 17, 2020, 12:47 AM
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Defer­ence for Bayesians

John G. HalsteadFeb 13, 2021, 12:33 PM
101 points
30 comments7 min readEA link

[Linkpost] - Miti­ga­tion ver­sus Su­pres­sion for COVID-19

alex lawsenMar 16, 2020, 9:01 PM
9 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Max Roser on build­ing the world’s first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data

80000_HoursJul 29, 2021, 4:37 PM
19 points
1 comment101 min readEA link

The catas­trophic pri­macy of re­ac­tivity over proac­tivity in gov­ern­men­tal risk as­sess­ment: brief UK case study

JuanGarciaSep 27, 2021, 3:53 PM
56 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Drown­ing Child and the Ex­pand­ing Circle

Peter SingerSep 9, 2014, 3:16 PM
72 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Fundrais­ing for the Cen­ter for Health Se­cu­rity: My per­sonal plan and open questions

MichaelA🔸Mar 26, 2020, 4:53 PM
14 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing COVID-19 in­ter­ven­tions & in­di­vi­d­ual donations

IanDavidMossMay 6, 2020, 9:29 PM
85 points
25 comments27 min readEA link

UK to host hu­man challenge tri­als for Covid-19 vaccines

PabloSep 23, 2020, 2:45 PM
52 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.ft.com)

Coron­avirus and non-hu­mans: How is the pan­demic af­fect­ing an­i­mals used for hu­man con­sump­tion?

Daniela WaldhornApr 7, 2020, 8:40 AM
72 points
7 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] If it’s true that Coron­avirus is “close to patholog­i­cally mis­al­igned with some of our in­for­ma­tion dis­tri­bu­tion and de­ci­sion­mak­ing rit­u­als”, then what things would help the re­sponse?

nonzerosumApr 24, 2020, 9:04 PM
18 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

NPR’s Indi­ca­tor on WHO fund­ing and pan­demic preparedness

Eevee🔹Mar 19, 2022, 1:37 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.npr.org)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Les­sons from Covid

Marcel MüllerAug 24, 2022, 10:51 AM
13 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Eleven re­cent 80,000 Hours ar­ti­cles on how to stop COVID-19 & other pandemics

Robert_WiblinApr 8, 2020, 9:40 PM
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Ham­mer and the Dance

Chris LeongMar 20, 2020, 7:45 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Global vac­cine equity (covid-19) giv­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Alana HFNov 4, 2021, 4:16 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Vi­talik cre­ates $100m org to fund covid sci­ence and re­lief pro­jects worldwide

vincentweisserJan 30, 2022, 11:36 AM
31 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

A vastly faster vac­cine rollout

Katja_GraceJan 16, 2021, 12:23 AM
20 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Is there a Price for a Covid-19 Vac­cine?

gavintaylorMay 22, 2020, 5:20 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(mattsclancy.substack.com)

What is a pan­demic com­pared to our sewer sys­tem? An ex­am­ple of how a so­ciety nor­mal­izes risks

RamiroJul 25, 2020, 2:59 PM
25 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Lat­est con­sen­sus on COVID-19 pub­lic health measures

CeciliaGNov 4, 2022, 12:15 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(go.nature.com)

[Question] What do you be­lieve are the most crit­i­cal open ques­tions/​hy­pothe­ses that could in­form a more effec­tive COVID re­sponse?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:33 PM
5 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Long Covid: mass dis­abil­ity and broad so­cietal con­se­quences [Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes]

SiebeRozendalAug 11, 2022, 1:52 PM
41 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

Hinges and crises

Jan_KulveitMar 17, 2022, 1:43 PM
72 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

What we tried

Jan_KulveitMar 21, 2022, 3:26 PM
71 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Mar­ket-shap­ing ap­proaches to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 re­sponse: a role for op­tion-based guaran­tees?

DerekApr 28, 2020, 10:10 AM
39 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Affinity Maturation

AmaranthaceaeOct 30, 2021, 4:53 AM
2 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

1Day Sooner is Hiring a Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Director

1daysoonerJan 17, 2021, 8:09 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.1daysooner.org)

Lewis Bol­lard: Do­ing the most good for an­i­mals post-COVID-19

EA GlobalNov 12, 2020, 4:46 PM
16 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Our recom­men­da­tions for giv­ing in 2020

GiveWellNov 23, 2020, 3:11 PM
28 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

COVID-19 Risk Assess­ment App Idea for Vet­ting and Discussion

tinaFeb 20, 2020, 5:49 AM
38 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

English sum­maries of Ger­man Covid-19 ex­pert podcast

ChiApr 8, 2020, 9:12 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.notion.so)

More Dakka for Coron­avirus: We need im­me­di­ate hu­man tri­als of many vac­cine-can­di­dates and si­mul­ta­neous man­u­fac­tur­ing of all of them

avturchinMar 13, 2020, 4:48 PM
10 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Why did EA or­ga­ni­za­tions fail at fight­ing to pre­vent the COVID-19 pan­demic?

ChristianKleineidamJun 19, 2021, 3:32 PM
5 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What promis­ing pro­jects aren’t be­ing done against the coro­n­avirus?

Mati_RoyMar 22, 2020, 3:30 AM
5 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_HoursOct 8, 2021, 1:43 PM
41 points
2 comments149 min readEA link

EJOR spe­cial is­sue on role of op­er­a­tional re­search in fu­ture pandemics

wesgAug 17, 2022, 1:34 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Covid-19 Re­sponse Fund

John G. HalsteadMar 31, 2020, 5:22 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should re­cent events make us more or less con­cerned about biorisk?

LinchMar 19, 2020, 12:00 AM
23 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How Many Peo­ple Are In The In­visi­ble Grave­yard?

Maxwell TabarrokApr 19, 2022, 2:03 PM
47 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

*up­dated* CTA: Food Sys­tems Hand­book launch event

AronMMay 29, 2020, 3:07 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

COVID-19 in ru­ral Balochis­tan, Pak­istan: Two in­ter­views from May 2020

NunoSempereDec 16, 2022, 11:33 AM
22 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Policy idea: In­cen­tiviz­ing COVID-19 track­ing app use with lot­tery tickets

pmkApr 22, 2020, 3:15 PM
13 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Will protests lead to thou­sands of coro­n­avirus deaths?

LarksJun 3, 2020, 7:08 PM
85 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

abergalMay 27, 2021, 6:44 AM
110 points
17 comments57 min readEA link

How we failed

Jan_KulveitMar 23, 2022, 10:08 AM
120 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

I’m Linch Zhang, an am­a­teur COVID-19 fore­caster and gen­er­al­ist EA. AMA

LinchJun 30, 2020, 7:35 PM
77 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some tractable ap­proaches for figur­ing out if COVID causes long term dam­age to those who re­cover?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:27 PM
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How has Covid-19 af­fected the way you give?

alana-UoEstudy2021Feb 15, 2021, 3:20 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

COVID-19 Assess­ment Tool by the Hu­man Di­ag­no­sis Project

Ben_HarackApr 2, 2020, 7:27 AM
13 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] Is donat­ing to AMF and malaria in­ter­ven­tions the most cost-effec­tive way to save lives from COVID-19?

warrenjordanMar 27, 2020, 7:06 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ob­sta­cles and Strate­gies for Next-Gen Coron­avirus Vac­cine Devel­op­ment (re: Warp 2)

joshcmorrisonJul 23, 2022, 4:20 PM
13 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

At­tempted sum­mary of the 2019-nCoV situ­a­tion — 80,000 Hours

Robert_WiblinFeb 3, 2020, 10:37 PM
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Sub­mit com­ments on Paxlovid to the FDA (dead­line Nov 29th).

DirectedEvolutionNov 27, 2021, 7:30 PM
31 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

COVID-19 brief for friends and family

ecaFeb 28, 2020, 10:43 PM
150 points
67 comments4 min readEA link

App for COVID-19 con­tact tracing

Nicholas_JosephMar 22, 2020, 6:25 AM
5 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Are there good EA pro­jects for helping with COVID-19?

LinchMar 3, 2020, 11:55 PM
31 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is COVID an op­por­tu­nity for non-EAs to give effec­tively?

warrenjordanMar 22, 2020, 10:44 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to pro­mote wide­spread us­age of high qual­ity, reusable masks

TsunayoshiApr 20, 2020, 9:47 AM
10 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

EA Cameroon—COVID-19 Aware­ness and Preven­tion in the Santa Divi­sion of Cameroon Pro­ject Proposal

brb243Jul 25, 2020, 8:19 PM
62 points
12 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Will the coro­n­avirus pan­demic ad­vance or hin­der the spread of longter­mist-style val­ues/​think­ing?

MichaelA🔸Mar 19, 2020, 6:07 AM
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] (Link) Could an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy pre­vent fu­ture corona-viruses?

pixel_brownie_softwareMar 8, 2020, 6:10 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How does a ba­sic in­come af­fect re­cip­i­ents dur­ing COVID-19?

GiveDirectlySep 3, 2020, 11:01 AM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Next Pan­demic Could Be Worse, What Can We Do? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸Dec 21, 2020, 9:07 PM
37 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

COVID Pro­ject idea: Tran­scrip­tion, trans­la­tion, con­tent re­for­mat­ting, and summarization

nonzerosumApr 26, 2020, 9:23 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Are there any pub­lic health fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties with COVID-19 that are plau­si­bly com­pet­i­tive with Givewell top char­i­ties per dol­lar?

LinchMar 12, 2020, 9:19 PM
25 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Is SARS-CoV-2 a mod­ern Greek Tragedy?

Matt BoydMay 10, 2021, 4:25 AM
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Con­cern­ing the Re­cent 2019-Novel Coron­avirus Outbreak

Matthew_BarnettJan 27, 2020, 5:47 AM
144 points
142 comments3 min readEA link

2018-19 Donor Lot­tery Re­port, pt. 2

Ross Rheingans-Yoo🔸Dec 14, 2020, 2:31 PM
31 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Rachel Wad­dell: GiveDirectly’s emer­gency cash re­sponse to COVID-19

EA GlobalSep 7, 2020, 4:28 PM
4 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Pan­demic pre­pared­ness orgs now on EA Funds

SamDeereApr 9, 2020, 9:15 AM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Cus­tomized COVID-19 risk anal­y­sis as a high value area

AskellJul 23, 2020, 8:28 PM
48 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Which non-EA-funded or­gani­sa­tions did well on Covid?

RyanCareyJun 8, 2021, 2:19 PM
39 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial High-Lev­er­age and In­ex­pen­sive Miti­ga­tions (which are still fea­si­ble) for Pandemics

DavidmanheimMar 4, 2020, 5:06 PM
45 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

162 benefits of coronavirus

bfinnMay 11, 2020, 10:36 PM
11 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Coron­avirus: how much is a life worth?

bfinnMar 23, 2020, 12:28 PM
20 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

David Man­heim: A Per­sonal (In­terim) COVID-19 Postmortem

LinchJul 1, 2020, 6:05 AM
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Quan­tify­ing lives saved by in­di­vi­d­ual ac­tions against COVID-19

scottleibrandMar 6, 2020, 7:42 PM
27 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How did COVID-19 af­fect the me­dian per­son’s qual­ity of life?

Sam EnrightJun 6, 2022, 3:57 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of loss of jobs due to Covid in EA

agent18Aug 28, 2020, 8:20 AM
6 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

When to get a vac­cine in the Bay Area as a young healthy person

billzMar 14, 2021, 4:11 PM
9 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

A Po­ten­tial Cheap and High Im­pact Way to Re­duce Covid in the UK this Winter

Lawrence NewportOct 28, 2022, 11:36 AM
54 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Work­ing to­gether to ex­am­ine why BAME pop­u­la­tions in de­vel­oped coun­tries are severely af­fected by COVID-19

gavintaylorAug 3, 2020, 4:25 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

microCOVID.org: A tool to es­ti­mate COVID risk from com­mon activities

catherioAug 29, 2020, 10:28 PM
86 points
24 comments1 min readEA link
(www.microcovid.org)

[Link] New Lancet study: Im­pact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccinations

AkhilJun 29, 2022, 1:31 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thelancet.com)

How can EA lo­cal groups re­duce like­li­hood of our mem­bers get­ting COVID-19 or other in­fec­tious dis­eases?

LinchFeb 26, 2020, 4:16 PM
23 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Mar­ket de­sign to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 vac­cine supply

VictorSintNicolaasMay 8, 2021, 9:18 AM
6 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

A quick and crude com­par­i­son of epi­demiolog­i­cal ex­pert fore­casts ver­sus Me­tac­u­lus fore­casts for COVID-19

JottoApr 2, 2020, 7:29 PM
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­nity to sup­port a Covid19 re­lated sur­vey collaboration

PeterSlatteryMar 28, 2020, 1:02 AM
6 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

How a ven­tila­tion rev­olu­tion could help miti­gate the im­pacts of air pol­lu­tion and air­borne pathogens

Mike CassidyNov 16, 2021, 11:19 AM
68 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

Utiliz­ing global at­ten­tion dur­ing crises for EA causes

Gidi KadoshMar 18, 2020, 8:49 AM
26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

COVID-19 may cause per­ma­nent “re­duced lung func­tion” to young peo­ple, dam­ag­ing pro­duc­tivity and intelligence

trevor1Mar 20, 2020, 7:02 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.businessinsider.com)

If we ever want to start an “Amounts mat­ter” move­ment, covid re­sponse might be a good flag/​example

AnnaSalamonJul 24, 2022, 2:26 AM
53 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[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

Covid memo­rial: 1ppm

technicalitiesApr 2, 2022, 6:27 PM
123 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Cost-Effec­tive­ness of COVID miti­ga­tion poli­cies per coun­try /​ globally

tbopJul 16, 2020, 3:21 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Will EA Global San Fran­cisco be can­cel­led or resched­uled due to COVID-19?

user123Mar 1, 2020, 4:28 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Covid offsets and car­bon offsets

BenJul 23, 2020, 9:19 PM
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Are coun­tries shar­ing ven­tila­tors to fight the coro­n­avirus?

Mati_RoyMar 17, 2020, 7:11 AM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Donor Lot­tery Debrief

TimothyTelleenLawtonAug 4, 2020, 8:58 PM
129 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Case for emer­gency re­sponse teams

technicalitiesApr 5, 2022, 11:08 AM
249 points
50 comments5 min readEA link

COVID-19 re­sponse as XRisk intervention

tyleraltermanApr 10, 2020, 6:16 AM
51 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

If Bill Gates be­lieves all lives are equal, why is he im­ped­ing vac­cine dis­tri­bu­tion?

GarrisonApr 21, 2021, 1:35 AM
8 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

The marginal differ­ence of start­ing a new coro­n­avirus chain

pmkMar 9, 2020, 3:22 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists Sign Up for Oxford’s COVID Challenge Study?

Julia MurdzaOct 29, 2021, 5:52 PM
14 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Non-phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­ter­ven­tions in pan­demic pre­pared­ness and response

Anon-biosec-accountApr 8, 2021, 2:13 PM
51 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

Key­ne­sian Altruism

Grayden 🔸Sep 13, 2020, 12:18 PM
52 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

Jan_KulveitMar 15, 2022, 10:05 AM
186 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Food Cri­sis—Cas­cad­ing Events from COVID-19 & Locusts

AronMApr 29, 2020, 10:02 PM
100 points
14 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Any up­dates to high-im­pact COVID-19 char­i­ties?

warrenjordanFeb 5, 2021, 9:42 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

COVID-19 and Farm Animals

EA Forum ArchivesApr 7, 2020, 7:00 AM
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How bad is coro­n­avirus re­ally?

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸May 8, 2020, 5:29 PM
17 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

North Korea faces Covid and Drought [Linkpost]

aogaraJul 11, 2022, 2:07 AM
15 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

World Hap­piness Re­port 2022: Overview on Our Tenth Anniversary

Barry GrimesMar 21, 2022, 9:38 AM
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(worldhappiness.report)

[Question] What coro­n­avirus policy failures are you wor­ried about?

Will BradshawJun 19, 2020, 8:32 PM
19 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Kel­sey Piper on “The Life You Can Save”

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 4, 2021, 8:58 PM
60 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Preprint: Open Science Saves Lives: Les­sons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

gavintaylorAug 24, 2020, 2:01 PM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.biorxiv.org)

Ubiquitous Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light Could Con­trol the Spread of Covid-19 and Other Pandemics

avturchinMar 18, 2020, 6:30 PM
50 points
15 comments7 min readEA link
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