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How Life Sciences Ac­tu­ally Work: Find­ings of a Year-Long Investigation

guzey16 Aug 2019 19:43 UTC
63 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

Re­port on So­cial Re­turns to Pro­duc­tivity Growth

Tom_Davidson15 Jul 2022 22:31 UTC
55 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Amy Huang: Clos­ing gaps in al­ter­na­tive pro­tein science

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Progress stud­ies vs. longter­mist EA: some differences

Max_Daniel31 May 2021 21:35 UTC
84 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawford2 Jun 2021 18:47 UTC
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion is Dispro­por­tionately More Effec­tive at Change

Rishiit Sharma17 Jun 2023 9:39 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Me­ta­science of the Ve­su­vius Challenge

Maxwell Tabarrok30 Mar 2024 12:04 UTC
36 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

The $1 Trillion Para­dox: Why Re­form­ing Re­search Pub­lish­ing Should Be a Global Priority

sophie-gulliver28 Mar 2024 8:10 UTC
46 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given New Biotech Risks

Matt Clancy17 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC
78 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

#188 – On whether sci­ence is good (Matt Clancy on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours24 May 2024 15:04 UTC
13 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

#202 – The cut­ting edge of anti-age­ing sci­ence (Venki Ra­makr­ish­nan on on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours19 Sep 2024 22:41 UTC
13 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara Collier21 Nov 2022 18:51 UTC
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the SoS Re­search Col­lec­tive for in­de­pen­dent researchers

rogersbacon118 Jan 2024 0:52 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

Ed Boy­den: Eng­ineer­ing revolutions

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Meta-science

Stuart Buck22 Sep 2022 5:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ge­orge Church: CRISPR and other tech­nolo­gies for global effec­tive altruism

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Claire Za­bel: Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject — gen­eral up­date and sci­ence highlights

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C Tilli14 Jun 2021 8:24 UTC
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Ja­son Ma­theny: Govern­ment-driven sci­ence and technology

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

List of Un­der-In­ves­ti­gated Fields—Matthew McAteer

EdoArad30 Jan 2021 10:26 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(matthewmcateer.me)

Break­ing Up Elite Colleges

sahajsharda7 Jun 2022 5:21 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

[Question] What pre­vi­ous work has been done on fac­tors that af­fect the pace of tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment?

Megan Kinniment27 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Adam Mar­ble­stone: What sets the ex­po­nent of neu­ro­science progress

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Tom Kalil and Rox­anne He­ston: Op­por­tu­ni­ties in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy policy

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Study Group for Progress – 50% off for EAs

jasoncrawford3 Sep 2020 5:04 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Kevin Esvelt and Genya Dana: Beyond malaria

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Science policy as a pos­si­ble EA cause area: prob­lems and solutions

PabloAMC 🔸23 Jan 2022 0:32 UTC
26 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Best EA use of $500,000AUD/​$340,000 USD for ba­sic sci­ence?

AspiringPhilanthropist27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
58 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Help please/​Up­dated] Best EA use of $250,000AUD/​$190,000 USD for meta­science?

AspiringPhilanthropist22 Dec 2020 3:43 UTC
42 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Re­search Communication

Open Philanthropy30 Aug 2022 3:13 UTC
6 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Two con­trast­ing mod­els of “in­tel­li­gence” and fu­ture growth

Magnus Vinding24 Nov 2022 11:54 UTC
74 points
32 comments22 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress—New Things Un­der the Sun

Eevee🔹3 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC
13 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)

Ju­lia Galef, Stu­art Buck, Brian Nosek, Ivan Oran­sky, and Stephanie Wyk­stra: The repli­ca­tion crisis

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The case for de­lay­ing so­lar geo­eng­ineer­ing research

John G. Halstead23 Mar 2019 15:26 UTC
53 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Bi­anca Le: Cel­lu­lar agri­cul­ture: fu­ture­proofing our food sys­tems for hu­mans, an­i­mals and our planet

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Cri­te­ria for sci­en­tific choice I, II

EdoArad29 Jul 2020 10:21 UTC
30 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

A new study looks at how sci­en­tific fields have formed

Animal_Ethics18 Jan 2021 20:31 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

OPIS ini­ti­a­tive on ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for cluster headaches

jonleighton10 Sep 2020 8:22 UTC
61 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is vol­un­teer com­put­ing an eas­ily ac­cessible way of effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Karin27 Aug 2021 13:06 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to es­ti­mate the EV of gen­eral in­tel­lec­tual progress

Ozzie Gooen27 Jan 2020 10:21 UTC
40 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Su­per-ex­po­nen­tial growth im­plies that ac­cel­er­at­ing growth is unim­por­tant in the long run

kbog11 Aug 2020 7:20 UTC
36 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion Re­search Boot­camp for Econ PhD Students

Kevin Kuruc4 Jan 2022 14:58 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom: Astro­nom­i­cal stakes

EA Global28 Aug 2015 8:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

On Progress and Prosperity

Paul_Christiano15 Oct 2014 7:03 UTC
68 points
32 comments9 min readEA link

What would bet­ter sci­ence look like?

C Tilli30 Aug 2021 8:57 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford3 Dec 2020 16:49 UTC
44 points
74 comments1 min readEA link

AI Im­pacts: His­toric trends in tech­nolog­i­cal progress

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Feb 2020 0:08 UTC
55 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

James Tu­ritto: Are we fac­ing a re­pro­ducibil­ity crisis, and what can we do about it?

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Three ways to ad­vance sci­ence (Nick Bostrom)

EA Forum Archives31 Jan 2008 21:04 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] im­proved qual­ity con­trol in science

Sophie Schauman31 Aug 2022 19:12 UTC
26 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

A re­view of the safety & effi­cacy of ge­net­i­cally en­g­ineered mosquitoes

Anj15 Feb 2016 23:26 UTC
26 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan_Griffes12 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
73 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

A Sur­vey of the Po­ten­tial Long-term Im­pacts of AI

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

[Question] Will the vast ma­jor­ity of tech­nolog­i­cal progress hap­pen in the longterm fu­ture?

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Jul 2023 8:40 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Start­ing the sec­ond Green Revolution

freedomandutility29 Jun 2023 12:23 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

From Lab­o­ra­to­ries to Lan­guage Models: Can AI Sup­port Ri­gor in the Jun­gle of Policy Anal­y­sis? (Linkpost)

Marcel D6 Feb 2024 18:51 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org)

Lab-grown meat (prob­a­bly) won’t save us | MinuteFood on the ob­sta­cles to com­mer­cial­iz­ing cul­ti­vated meat

Eevee🔹5 Aug 2023 5:31 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Could in­ter­ac­tive meta-stud­ies of sci­en­tific re­search im­prove de­ci­sion mak­ing?

JohannaE17 Apr 2023 17:49 UTC
15 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok18 Jul 2022 11:54 UTC
66 points
18 comments31 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christian31 Oct 2023 21:12 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial sci­ence re­search we’d like to see on global health and wellbe­ing [Open Philan­thropy]

Aaron Gertler 🔸15 Feb 2024 0:28 UTC
167 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Em­piri­cal vs. Math­e­mat­i­cal Joints of Nature

Elizabeth2 Jul 2024 22:43 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion Sys­tem needs fixing

Danila Medvedev3 May 2022 19:56 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial tech­nol­ogy de­vel­op­ment: preprint on the concept

Hamish_Hobbs12 Sep 2022 13:52 UTC
65 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

En­light­ened Con­cerns of Tomorrow

cassidynelson15 Mar 2018 5:29 UTC
15 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] A bill to mas­sively ex­pand NSF to tech do­mains. What’s the rele­vance for x-risk?

EdoArad12 Jul 2020 15:20 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

LW4EA: Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

Jeremy6 Sep 2022 3:06 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Me­ta­science Since 2012: A Per­sonal History

Stuart Buck14 Aug 2023 1:12 UTC
109 points
5 comments75 min readEA link
(goodscience.substack.com)

The Path to Biomed­i­cal Progress

Holden Karnofsky27 Feb 2015 13:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

nonzerosum3 May 2019 18:30 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸21 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC
353 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon110 Jan 2023 17:45 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Progress and re­search dis­rup­tive­ness

Eleni_A12 Jan 2023 3:45 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Na­ture: The im­por­tance of philan­thropy in sci­en­tific research

Michael Huang17 Jan 2023 3:43 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_A18 Jan 2023 5:59 UTC
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: grant-mak­ers should con­sider grant app peer re­view along the pub­lic-sec­tor model

ben.smith24 Jan 2023 15:01 UTC
50 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Our World in Data: The Next 100 Years

AlexLeader1 Feb 2023 22:13 UTC
97 points
8 comments66 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Hope: How Far Hu­man­ity Has Come

Jess_Whittlestone25 Feb 2015 15:06 UTC
11 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

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

Will Tech­nol­ogy Keep Pro­gress­ing? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸9 Mar 2023 17:38 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

New GPT3 Im­pres­sive Ca­pa­bil­ities—In­struc­tGPT3 [1/​2]

simeon_c13 Mar 2022 10:45 UTC
49 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

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

Trans­la­tional Science and the “Valley of Death”

Holden Karnofsky9 Apr 2015 12:58 UTC
3 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Good news that matters

Michelle_Hutchinson27 Aug 2018 5:38 UTC
23 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Biomed­i­cal Re­search Models: Mice vs Man?

Snippyro26 Dec 2021 19:04 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Who or­dered al­ign­ment’s ap­ple?

Eleni_A28 Aug 2022 14:24 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Post­pon­ing re­search can some­times be the op­ti­mal decision

Michele Campolo9 Jul 2020 15:18 UTC
29 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

What if hu­man his­tory oc­curred dur­ing your life? How was last night? Last week?

Nicholas Kruus🔸8 Apr 2024 14:24 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Tax Cuts and Innovation

Maxwell Tabarrok31 May 2024 12:59 UTC
18 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Repli­cato: Build­ing a Web­site to Find Re­search Repli­ca­tions & Re­trac­tions

alamo 29141 Aug 2023 20:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An­i­mal Test­ing Is Ex­ploita­tive and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald 🔸13 Jun 2021 10:46 UTC
27 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Devel­op­ing a Psy­cholog­i­cal Scale to Mea­sure Scout Mindset

Kalina Poydovska10 Oct 2023 11:47 UTC
46 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Is Tech­nol­ogy Ac­tu­ally Mak­ing Things Bet­ter? – Pairagraph

Eevee🔹1 Oct 2020 16:06 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.pairagraph.com)

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

richard_ngo16 May 2019 12:28 UTC
34 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Exegesis

rogersbacon131 Dec 2021 17:51 UTC
2 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

Pro­posal: al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tional aca­demic jour­nals for EA-rele­vant re­search (multi-link post)

david_reinstein3 Nov 2021 20:16 UTC
28 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

AI as a sci­ence, and three ob­sta­cles to al­ign­ment strategies

So8res25 Oct 2023 21:02 UTC
41 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cause Area: Differ­en­tial Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Development

mwcvitkovic10 Aug 2022 2:39 UTC
95 points
7 comments36 min readEA link

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

Jim Buhler6 Jul 2024 18:44 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

if you’re read­ing this it’s too late (a new the­ory on what is caus­ing the Great Stag­na­tion)

rogersbacon18 Jun 2023 11:54 UTC
−2 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Thoughts on The Weapon of Openness

Will Bradshaw13 Feb 2020 0:10 UTC
32 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Is sci­en­tific progress slow­ing? with James Evans

Miranda_Zhang31 Mar 2022 13:19 UTC
9 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Hyper­bolic Science: Or, Play­ing Games with Growth

Adam Green26 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(markov.bio)

Pa­trick Col­li­son on Effec­tive Altruism

SamuelKnoche23 Jun 2020 9:04 UTC
98 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_A17 Sep 2022 13:24 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
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