alex lawsen

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I work on AI Grantmaking at Open Philanthropy. Comments here are posted in a personal capacity.

Whether you should do a PhD doesn’t depend much on timelines.

alex lawsen22 Mar 2023 12:25 UTC

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Know what you’re optimising for

alex lawsen29 Jun 2022 14:51 UTC

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An easy win for hard decisions.

alex lawsen4 May 2022 18:13 UTC

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[Question] What examples are there of (science) fiction predicting something strange/bad, which then happened?

alex lawsen27 Apr 2022 18:46 UTC

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New addition to the 80,000 hours 1-on-1 team.

alex lawsen1 Apr 2022 10:13 UTC

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Why I’m concerned about Giving Green

alex lawsen20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

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Forecasts about EA organisations which are currently on Metaculus.

alex lawsen29 Dec 2020 17:42 UTC

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Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.

alex lawsen10 Nov 2020 21:40 UTC

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[Question] What questions would you like to see forecasts on from the Metaculus community?

alex lawsen26 Jul 2020 14:40 UTC

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Climate change donation recommendations

Sanjay16 Jul 2020 21:17 UTC

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[Linkpost] - Mitigation versus Supression for COVID-19

alex lawsen16 Mar 2020 21:01 UTC

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If you (mostly) believe in worms, what should you think about WASH?

alex lawsen18 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC

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alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)’s Quick takes

alex lawsen2 Nov 2019 22:43 UTC

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[Question] What book(s) would you want a gifted teenager to come across?

alex lawsen5 Aug 2019 13:39 UTC

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Can the EA community copy Teach for America? (Looking for Task Y)

alex lawsen21 Feb 2019 13:38 UTC

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Amazon Smile

alex lawsen18 Nov 2018 20:16 UTC

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