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I was extremely excited to learn how advanced GPT-3 is. The feeling I have is of infinite potential, like I could interact with it for days if not months, and learn more and more.
I was really impressed with how quickly GPT-3 could produce results. I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of what it is capable of.
Normally, I read articles on AI and think ” it’s in the future and doesn’t really matter to me now”. GPT-3 showed me that the future is already here and more advanced than expected!
Normally, it takes me roughly a week to publish a blog article. With GPT-3, I was able to publish 7 articles in 3 days. I was more excited and most of the GPT-3 articles were short, so these figures are not comparable. But you get the point.
[One of these paragraphs was written by GPT-3] ;)
Ha! Maybe this AI just merged math and time, and found the 4th dimension of reality?It was a bit confusing at first, but I find it very creative that the answer to 2+2 depends on the time of day.
I like your suggestion of having the AI write alternative versions of history! This is what I just asked it, to experiment:
Me: How would the world look like without racism?
AI: There would be less hate in the world and people would be able to live in peace.
Me: How would the world look like without war?
AI: The world without war would look very different. There would be no need for weapons or soldiers. Countries would be able to work together to solve problems and improve the quality of life for all people.
Me: How would the world look like without nuclear bombs?
AI: If there were no nuclear bombs, the world would look a lot different. For one, the Cold War would have been very different, and might not have happened at all. There would also be no fear of nuclear warfare, meaning that different countries could form relationships and treaties with each other that they otherwise would not.
Small suggestion: I recommend putting a comma in the thousands (20,000) as reading 20000 has too many zeroes and can be misinterpreted as 200,000
Best Countries during Nuclear War
What is your opinion of Medium for starting a blog, compared to Substack?
There is no mention of “Medium” in that page, that’s why I asked on the Forum.
Thank you so much for the amazing reply! I increased the weight of energy security.
I don’t like the Global Food Security Index, because it’s about the quality of food, not whether the country is producing/exporting food. Which other indicator would you use, and where do I get the data?
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Hi Chris, glad it was useful and welcome to the EA Forum, hope to read your posts soon :)
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
-NietzscheThank you for showing us your why. You inspire others to live meaningful lives.
I’m curious how EA as a central purpose influenced your life. Which big decision did you make differently?
Thank you for the insightful post!
Declining Marginal Impact of Donations
“For anyone deploying capital, nothing recedes like success.
Back in 1951, when I was attending Ben Graham’s class at Columbia, an idea giving me a $10,000 gain improved my investment performance for the year by 100%. Today, an idea producing $500 million adds 1% to our performance.
It’s no wonder that my annual results in the 1950s were better by nearly 30% than my annual gains in any subsequent decade.”
—Warren Buffett, 1997 Letter to ShareholdersI think you would agree with Buffett on small-scale being more neglected and higher return :)
My updates from your post:
Global poverty has a nasty death valley for small nonprofits
Mental health is even more underfunded than my prior belief
EA needs more small and medium-scale grantmaking orgs, so CE’s new training program for grantmakers can have a tremendous impact.
Feedback
Why do you consider 1-3 funders as “limited” funding in mental health but “very strong” in long-termist EA community building? It might be worth clarifying.
Does biorisk include nuclear risk? If so, I would mention it. If not, I would add nuclear as a cause area.
Updates for the table’s” data:
-the largest funder is quitting nuclear safety
-FTX Future Fund is a new megadonor in AI, biorisk, nuclear, policy, and EA community building.I love “Doing good is messy”—I will add it to my Anki quotes.
All charity founders should read How to Launch A High-Impact Nonprofit.
I added it to my recommended books webpage.
What I learned from the book:
Use CE’s templates for scoring interviews and hiring employees
Write with proper fonts, use Canva for your logo and visualizations
For online meetings, opt for discussions instead of updates
Interactions add $1 or subtract $5 in our social piggy banks
Build better Weighted Factor Models
The six endgames for nonprofits framework
Write a founder’s agreement and explore these questions with your cofounder
Potential Improvements
The post’s title, “New EA book: “How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit” by Charity Entrepreneurship is now available worldwide in paper and eBook format”, is too long.
I would cut it to “New Book: How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit” or “Announcing How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit .”Also, some paragraphs of the book were too long. You could improve readability with ∼10% fewer pages (from 420 to 380) and convey the same—if not stronger—message.
EA has too few grantmaking organizations, and there’s a big gap in small-scale funding. The program’s impact can be tremendous.
I’m excited to see the pilot results and learn the grantmaking tools, frameworks, and examples that you will share.
P.S. The five available positions you list at the end of the post are expired. I would remove them.
Thanks for the post! Absorbency could be a 4th factor in the ITN framework for comparing career options. I’m curious about how 80,000 Hours considers absorbency in their list of top-recommended career paths.
Congrats on the great idea! And wow, you have a lot of views.
I found Sam Bankman’s TikTok funny :)
“A life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
—Charlie MungerThis post deserves 10X the amount of karma, congrats!
My takeaways:
-check the Nonlinear Library podcasts
-Intuition Flooding: read a bunch of examples to grasp a concept
-Spot the Core: summarise to learn, as in this comment :)
-Active recall doubles retention rateI’m a big fan of learning. I have 7,000 Anki flashcards, read 150 books in 2019, and write on my website to learn what I write. Yet I learnt something from this post, thanks!
I used Notion, but I prefer Obsidian. It stores notes as plain-text files so they last forever. I recommend it.
Small slip: “Image from the Farnham Street blog” (it’s Farnam) in both images.
Warren Buffett called his private jet ‘The Indefensible’ — then renamed it ‘The Indispensable’ after realizing it was worth the money.
Source
“To define is to limit.”
—Oscar WildeLet’s be agnostic on near/long-termist definitions and try to do good.
Thanks for the post. I learnt about the size of the plastic pollution problem for animals.
I can’t entirely agree with the framing of the article. 1M seabirds dying per year from plastic is not “small”. It makes me think that this is not a big problem, and I shouldn’t worry at all about it.
I would frame it as “1M seabirds die every year from plastic pollution, so it’s a big problem (malaria kills 0.5M people per year), but it’s still 1 million times less than 1T fish slaughtered per year.”
Yes, I highly recommend Greenberg’s podcast interviewing GPT-3.
I forgot to mention this in the intro, thanks for pointing it out, I now added it