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I recently published six new wikiHow articles to promote EA principles: How to Make a Difference in Your Career, How to Help Farmed Animals, How to Launch a High Impact Nonprofit, How to Reduce Animal Cruelty in Your Diet, How to Help Save a Child’s Life with a Malaria Bed Net Donation, and How to Donate Cryptocurrency to Effective Charities.
Some titles might change soon in case you can’t find them anymore (e.g., How to Reduce Animal Cruelty in Your Diet --> How to Have a More Ethical Diet Towards Animals, and How to Help Save a Child’s Life with a Malaria Bed Net Donation --> How to Help Save a Child’s Life from Malaria).
Three more are in the approval process (you have to wait a few days before seeing them): How to Fight Climate Climate Change by Donating to the Best Charities, How to Donate to the Most Effective Animal Welfare Charities, and How to Help the World’s Poorest People by Sending Money. I will publish some more articles in the following weeks.
Let me know if you have feedback on the articles, and I’ll be glad to improve them :)
Also, thank you for writing this shortform, as it inspired my mentor Cillian Crosson to ask me about writing these wikiHows :)
Best,
André
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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.
Article Summary: Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor
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I didn’t know fish had 10M neurons. Thanks!
I appreciate your quantitative thinking. But I believe it’s unfair to say that a fish is 10,000X worth less than a human because a fish has fewer neurons. What if suffering has a minimum threshold of neurons and then declining marginal suffering after that? We don’t know (as you point out in your last paragraph).
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”
—Einstein
“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.
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] ;)
Thanks for the analysis! After listening to many students: what would you do as Superman in 24h?
“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?
TL;DR Write shorter posts.