Democracy

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 20:46 UTC by Leo

Democracy is a form of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through elected representatives.

Decreasing populism and improving democracy, evidence-based policy, and rationality

Hauke Hillebrandt27 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC

47 points

11 comments26 min readEA link

Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions

Tom Barnes28 Jul 2021 13:23 UTC

96 points

5 comments30 min readEA link

Democratic Resilience

FJehn26 Jul 2024 7:50 UTC

22 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Democracy Promotion as an EA Cause Area

bryanschonfeld1 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC

84 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

The Odyssean Process

Odyssean Institute24 Nov 2023 13:48 UTC

25 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

Marginal value (or lack thereof) of voting

Vasco Grilo🔸11 Mar 2024 9:01 UTC

7 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

Can democracy be improved with random selection?

John Huang27 Oct 2024 9:31 UTC

10 points

7 comments10 min readEA link

Populism in Africa :The need to promote democracy as a cause area

Halwenge 20 Aug 2023 10:35 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

New Book: “Reasoned Politics” + Why I have written a book about politics

Magnus Vinding3 Mar 2022 11:31 UTC

95 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

A Puzzle in Voter Behavior

Maxwell Tabarrok10 Feb 2024 13:18 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Democracy indices weighted by nominal and real gross domestic product

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Jul 2024 9:05 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is working on AI to help democracy a good idea?

WillPearson17 Feb 2024 23:15 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Democratic Favor Channel

Vasco Grilo🔸26 Sep 2024 16:18 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.arxiv.org)

Demonstrate and evaluate risks from AI to society at the AI x Democracy research hackathon

Esben Kran19 Apr 2024 14:46 UTC

24 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(www.apartresearch.com)

Democracy and Development, a Simple Model

Timothy_Liptrot11 Mar 2021 20:39 UTC

19 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Democracy and human rights are only associated with higher welfare holding income constant in some countries

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Oct 2024 16:06 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Democracy doesn’t have to suck (draft)

blainehansen29 Aug 2022 3:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

Defending Philanthropy Against Democracy

Cullen 🔸6 Oct 2019 7:20 UTC

40 points

23 comments5 min readEA link

AMA: Jason Brennan, author of “Against Democracy” and creator of a Georgetown course on EA

Jason Brennan17 Aug 2021 19:19 UTC

76 points

92 comments2 min readEA link

Impact of US Strategic Power on Global Well-Being (quick take)

kbog23 Mar 2019 6:19 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Deliberation May Improve Decision-Making

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 5 Nov 2019 0:34 UTC

66 points

12 comments39 min readEA link

4 Years Later: President Trump and Global Catastrophic Risk

HaydnBelfield25 Oct 2020 16:28 UTC

43 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

Is Democracy a Fad?

bgarfinkel13 Mar 2021 12:40 UTC

165 points

36 comments18 min readEA link

May 5th Event: Democracy, Altruism, & the Ethics of Transnational Aid

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Exploration Prizes] Measuring civic engagement—an important yet undervalued well-being metric?

Open Philanthropy17 Aug 2022 19:31 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

To Build a Better Ballot: an interactive guide to alternative voting systems

Eevee🔹18 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(ncase.me)

A framework for self-determination

kbog21 Jul 2021 11:33 UTC

18 points

0 comments45 min readEA link

High stakes instrumentalism and billionaire philanthropy

John G. Halstead19 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC

61 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

A libertarian socialist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutility30 Dec 2022 13:07 UTC

143 points

32 comments7 min readEA link

OpenAI’s grant program for democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow

Ronen Bar23 Jun 2023 10:46 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Review and notes] How Democracy Ends—David Runciman

Ben13 Feb 2020 22:30 UTC

31 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

[Cause Exploration Prizes] Dynamic democracy to guard against authoritarian lock-in

Open Philanthropy24 Aug 2022 10:53 UTC

12 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

Launching The Collective Intelligence Project: Whitepaper and Pilots

jasmine_wang6 Feb 2023 17:00 UTC

38 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

(cip.org)

Two Nice Experiments on Democracy and Altruism

zdgroff30 Dec 2020 18:56 UTC

37 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

4 ways to think about democratizing AI [GovAI Linkpost]

Akash13 Feb 2023 18:06 UTC

35 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Technocracy vs populism (including thoughts on the democratising risk paper and its responses)

freedomandutility29 Dec 2021 3:08 UTC

68 points

27 comments3 min readEA link

Sortition

Arturo Macias20 Nov 2023 16:10 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readEA link

How democracy ends: a review and reevaluation

richard_ngo24 Nov 2018 17:41 UTC

27 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Casting the Decisive Vote

Toby_Ord27 Mar 2023 14:09 UTC

103 points

15 comments9 min readEA link

(www.tobyord.com)

More Centralisation?

DavidNash6 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC

164 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] OpenAI is awarding ten 100k grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI

pseudonym26 May 2023 12:49 UTC

36 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Stable totalitarianism: an overview

80000_Hours29 Oct 2024 16:07 UTC

35 points

1 comment20 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Summary of “Technology Favours Tyranny” by Yuval Noah Harari

Madhav Malhotra26 Oct 2022 21:37 UTC

36 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

🌏 A hack to solve all of humanity’s major problems

Mathias Sundin11 Aug 2022 9:42 UTC

−6 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.mathiassundin.org)

Fair Collective Effective Altruism

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)28 Nov 2022 13:35 UTC

6 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Persistent Democracy: request for early feedback

blainehansen10 Aug 2022 20:01 UTC

6 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Policy entrepreneurship: the neglected EA policy arm

Alishaandomeda5 Sep 2022 17:25 UTC

23 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] How much does climate change & the decline of liberal democracy indirectly increase the probability of an x-risk?

Earthling1 Sep 2022 18:33 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

The internet town square doesn’t have to suck. The solution to broken social media is obvious: democratic cooperative ownership.

blainehansen29 Oct 2022 1:57 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(blainehansen.me)

Collective intelligence as infrastructure for reducing broad existential risks

vickyCYang2 Aug 2021 6:00 UTC

30 points

6 comments11 min readEA link

Department Voting

Bob Jacobs 🔸2 Aug 2021 9:42 UTC

12 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Online preferendum to select climate policy measures

vincent_sels11 Jan 2022 13:13 UTC

10 points

4 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Decision making under model ambiguity, moral uncertainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)2 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC

16 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

How should we invest in democracy as an EA-adjacent issue? Some early thoughts

Alishaandomeda16 Aug 2022 11:54 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Democratizing the workplace as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC

38 points

19 comments8 min readEA link

Rationality and the Democratic crisis

Trev Prew3 Feb 2023 15:19 UTC

−9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

African Wild Dogs Vote By Sneezing—Can AI Help Us Do Better?

Augmented Assembly6 Feb 2023 22:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Paper summary: Longtermist institutional reform (Tyler M. John and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:07 UTC

42 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Introducing the Effektiv Spenden “Defending Democracy” fund

Sebastian Schienle7 Feb 2024 13:12 UTC

83 points

34 comments2 min readEA link

Crowdsourcing The Best Ideas for Structural Democratic Reforms

Izzy Gainsburg21 Aug 2024 17:35 UTC

44 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

No comments.

Democracy

Further reading

Related entries