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ben.smith

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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
60 points
35 comments9 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

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)

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

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

Who Aligns the Align­ment Re­searchers?

ben.smith5 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
23 points
4 comments1 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] 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

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

ben.smith7 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 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)