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Bob Jacobs 🔸

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I co-started Effectief Geven (Belgian effective giving org), am a volunteer researcher at SatisfIA (AI-safety org) and a volunteer writer at GAIA (Animal welfare org).

If you’re interested in philosophy and mechanism design, consider checking out my blog.

I’m a student of moral science at the university of Ghent. I also started and ran EA Ghent from 2020 to 2024, at which point I quit in protest because of the Manifest scandal (and the reactionary trend it highlighted). I now no longer consider myself an EA (but I’m still part of GWWC and EAA, and if the rationalists split off, I’ll definitely join again).

Possible conflict of interests: I have never received money from EA, but could plausibly be biased in favor of the organizations I volunteer for.

Aspira­tion-based, non-max­i­miz­ing AI agent designs

Bob Jacobs 🔸7 May 2024 16:13 UTC
12 points
1 comment38 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare is now en­shrined in the Bel­gian Constitution

Bob Jacobs 🔸3 May 2024 22:26 UTC
95 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Should I donate my kid­ney or part of my liver?

Bob Jacobs 🔸10 Apr 2024 15:05 UTC
66 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounce­ment: We’re launch­ing Effec­tief Geven

Bob Jacobs 🔸5 Mar 2024 10:40 UTC
90 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Solu­tions to prob­lems with Bayesianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸4 Nov 2023 12:15 UTC
27 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Re­solv­ing moral un­cer­tainty with randomization

Bob Jacobs 🔸29 Mar 2023 10:10 UTC
29 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

ESPR should re­turn the FTX-funded chateau

Bob Jacobs 🔸10 Dec 2022 15:54 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

De­moc­ra­tiz­ing the work­place as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC
38 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

EA Images

Bob Jacobs 🔸11 Nov 2022 15:56 UTC
59 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Vic­tim Co­or­di­na­tion Website

Bob Jacobs 🔸6 Mar 2022 17:21 UTC
11 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Depart­ment Voting

Bob Jacobs 🔸2 Aug 2021 9:42 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Bob Ja­cobs’s Quick takes

Bob Jacobs 🔸13 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC
3 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

Re­work­ing the Tag­ging System

Bob Jacobs 🔸24 Jan 2021 18:03 UTC
24 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Mak­ing More Sequences

Bob Jacobs 🔸20 Oct 2020 12:36 UTC
56 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Timeline Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸9 Oct 2020 20:12 UTC
15 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Sor­ti­tion Model of Mo­ral Uncertainty

Bob Jacobs 🔸4 Oct 2020 20:58 UTC
33 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

A Toy Model of Hingeyness

Bob Jacobs 🔸7 Sep 2020 17:34 UTC
11 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Mak­ing a Crow­dac­tion website

Bob Jacobs 🔸19 Aug 2020 15:18 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Bob Jacobs 🔸5 Feb 2020 19:14 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link