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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.smith8 Dec 2024 18:17 UTC
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.smith12 Oct 2024 17:09 UTC
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.smith3 Sep 2024 5:28 UTC
15 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

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

ben.smith9 Feb 2024 6:40 UTC
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.smith27 Dec 2023 6:18 UTC
61 points
37 comments9 min readEA link

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

ben.smith2 Oct 2023 5:32 UTC
−3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.newyorker.com)

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

ben.smith7 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Who Aligns the Align­ment Re­searchers?

ben.smith5 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
23 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

ben.smith24 Jan 2023 15:01 UTC
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.smith21 Dec 2022 23:44 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

ben.smith16 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

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

ben.smith10 Oct 2022 5:59 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

ben.smith8 Jun 2022 7:12 UTC
25 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Star Trek Strange New Wor­lds S1 Epi­sode 1

ben.smith2 Jun 2022 4:22 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

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

ben.smith16 Mar 2021 22:24 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing the moral clue­less­ness prob­lem with Bayesian joint prob­a­bil­ity distributions

ben.smith28 Feb 2021 9:17 UTC
11 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

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

ben.smith25 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

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

ben.smith9 Nov 2020 9:34 UTC
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.smith26 Feb 2020 10:04 UTC
14 points
22 comments3 min readEA link