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ben.smith

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Pro-na­tal­ist suc­cess would cause so much an­i­mal suffer­ing it is not even a net-pos­i­tive cause area

ben.smithDec 8, 2024, 6:17 PM
31 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

For US op­por­tu­ni­ties, con­sider en­ter­ing the US di­ver­sity visa lot­tery be­fore Novem­ber 5, 2024--its free and easy!

ben.smithOct 12, 2024, 5:09 PM
38 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Re­duc­ing global AI com­pe­ti­tion through the Com­merce Con­trol List and Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a dual-pronged approach

ben.smithSep 3, 2024, 5:28 AM
15 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Bi­den-Har­ris Ad­minis­tra­tion An­nounces First-Ever Con­sor­tium Ded­i­cated to AI Safety

ben.smithFeb 9, 2024, 6:40 AM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nist.gov)

Only mam­mals and birds are sen­tient, ac­cord­ing to neu­ro­scien­tist Nick Humphrey’s the­ory of con­scious­ness, re­cently ex­plained in “Sen­tience: The in­ven­tion of con­scious­ness”

ben.smithDec 27, 2023, 6:18 AM
61 points
37 comments9 min readEA link

Shee­lah Kolhatkar at The New Yorker writes “In­side Sam Bankman-Fried’s Fam­ily Bub­ble”

ben.smithOct 2, 2023, 5:32 AM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.newyorker.com)

Is there a case for Prona­tal­ism as an effec­tive cause area?

ben.smithJun 7, 2023, 12:42 AM
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Who Aligns the Align­ment Re­searchers?

ben.smithMar 5, 2023, 11:22 PM
23 points
4 commentsEA link

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

ben.smithJan 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
50 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How can I ac­cess in­for­ma­tion about FTX Fund grants that were made be­fore the fund was wound up?

ben.smithDec 21, 2022, 11:44 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

As­sis­tant-pro­fes­sor-ranked AI ethics philoso­pher job op­por­tu­nity at Can­ter­bury Univer­sity, New Zealand

ben.smithOct 16, 2022, 5:56 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

AMC’s an­i­mated se­ries “Pan­theon” is rele­vant to our interests

ben.smithOct 10, 2022, 5:59 AM
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

ben.smithJun 8, 2022, 7:12 AM
25 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Star Trek Strange New Wor­lds S1 Epi­sode 1

ben.smithJun 2, 2022, 4:22 AM
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] Is it pos­si­ble to sub­mit to the 80,000 Hours Jobs Board?

ben.smithMar 16, 2021, 10:24 PM
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing the moral clue­less­ness prob­lem with Bayesian joint prob­a­bil­ity distributions

ben.smithFeb 28, 2021, 9:17 AM
11 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Alice Crary’s philo­soph­i­cal-in­sti­tu­tional cri­tique of EA: “Why one should not be an effec­tive al­tru­ist”

ben.smithFeb 25, 2021, 8:06 PM
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Have you ever used a Fermi calcu­la­tion to make a per­sonal ca­reer de­ci­sion?

ben.smithNov 9, 2020, 9:34 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Against anti-na­tal­ism; or: why cli­mate change should not be a sig­nifi­cant fac­tor in your de­ci­sion to have children

ben.smithFeb 26, 2020, 10:04 AM
14 points
22 comments3 min readEA link