Arjun Yadav 🔸

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 18 Feb 2026 16:51 UTC

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  on: Effec­tive Giv­ing Or­ganiser Re­treat—Reflections

  Thanks for hosting this Kes! I really enjoyed helping out with the mental well-being sharing circle, and I hope that there are more EG retreats in the future :)

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 18 Feb 2026 16:51 UTC

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  on: An­nounc­ing the new Direc­tor of EA UK

  Really excited for EA UK’s work in the future with @gergo as director now! Congratulations :)

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 5 Jan 2026 17:47 UTC

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  on: Where do AI Safety Fel­lows go? An­a­lyz­ing a dataset of 600+ alumni

  So glad to have seen this published, great stuff Chris!

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 28 Dec 2025 22:16 UTC

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  on: Some re­flec­tions on cre­at­ing an Effec­tive Cowork­ing Dis­cord Server

  As a tl;dr from my initial thoughts on the original post: I think this has individually been really beneficial for my work, and I’m excited to potentially see it grow :)

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 14 Sep 2025 13:15 UTC

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  on: Cal­ling for Ex­pe­rienced Univer­sity Or­ganisers—Ad­vice on Balanc­ing Commitments

  While I am by no means an “experienced” organiser nor the main organiser for EA Manchester as a whole, I’ve decided to fill out the form anyway as I think my insights may be useful after a year of starting a separate branch (AI Safety Manchester) at our EA society :)

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 2 Apr 2025 19:05 UTC

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  on: The EA Univer­sity Groups’ Pri­soner’s Dilemma! [RESULTS]

  Thank you for organising this!

Vir­tual AI Safety Un­con­fer­ence 2024

[Linkpost] My at­tempt at try­ing to sum­ma­rize ‘In­tro to ML Safety’

If­tar/​Din­ner at Neat Burger, The Dubai Mall

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 23 Aug 2022 17:20 UTC

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  on: EA Recom­mended Note Tak­ing Sys­tems?

  I use Notability on iPad for the majority of my notes. It’s free now, organising features are extensive enough for my use case and it auto-backups to Google Drive as PDF. GoodNotes is an alternative.

  Other than that, I use Notes on iOS sort of as a “slip box” and Notion for more tabular/​structured data (though beware of privacy concerns with Notion).

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 21 Aug 2022 6:34 UTC

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  on: Paper is pub­lished! 100,000 lu­mens to treat sea­sonal af­fec­tive di­s­or­der

  Congratulations!

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 15 Aug 2022 6:36 UTC

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  on: Ar­jun Ya­dav’s Shortform

  Today is India’s 76th Independence Day! I thought it would be nice to look at some of India’s progress over the last three-fourths of a century:

  Infant mortality has gone down by 13.48% since 1960.

  The death rate from malaria has gone down from 15.78 deaths per 100,000 people in 1990 to 2.61 deaths per 100,000 in 2019.

  The number of children whose development has been stunted (as a consequence of poor nutrition or repeated infections) has gone down from 66.04 million in 1990 to 49.26 million, a ~25% reduction.

  The share of Indians living in extreme poverty has drastically reduced from 58.96% in 1981 to 10.55% in 2017.

  We still have a long, long way to go in many domains (as one EA-aligned example, lead in paint and lead concentration in children is still a huge issue in India).

  Source: Our World in Data

Ar­jun Ya­dav’s Quick takes

Distil­la­tion of The Offense-Defense Balance of Scien­tific Knowledge

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 12 May 2022 4:34 UTC

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  in reply to: ryancbriggs’s comment on: Could eco­nomic growth sub­stan­tially slow down in the next decade?

  This LessWrong post about Thomas’ paper is also interesting.

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 10 May 2022 13:26 UTC

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  in reply to: Lukas Finnveden’s comment on: Dis­cus­sion on Thomas Philip­pon’s pa­per on TFP growth be­ing linear

  Great post! I was mainly concerned with the $p$-values heading haha. I wonder if Thomas Philippon will follow up on all of the attention his paper received.

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 1 May 2022 11:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Michael St Jules 🔸’s comment on: Dis­cus­sion on Thomas Philip­pon’s pa­per on TFP growth be­ing linear

  Good point! Though I think it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out a lower upper bound, maybe an economist is working on that right now, depending on how actively researched this domain is.

Dis­cus­sion on Thomas Philip­pon’s pa­per on TFP growth be­ing linear

• Arjun Yadav 🔸 26 Apr 2022 6:39 UTC

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  on: What fac­tors make EA out­reach at a school valuable?

  I think focusing on outreach to top schools is less about elitism and more about the potential to have a greater impact (which is sort of talked about here). I guess we suspect that spreading our community building resources to thousands of schools in America won’t be as effective as focusing on the couple hundred universities that have a track record of producing high-impact students, labs, projects, etc. (such as the Ivies or the UC’s)

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