Eevee🔹

• Eevee🔹 27 Dec 2024 17:33 UTC

  4 points

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  on: OpenAI’s new structure

  Our impact is not just what we create ourselves, but how we influence others. In part due to our progress⁠, there’s vibrant⁠ competition⁠ in the space, from commercial products similar to ChatGPT to open source LLMs, and vigorous innovation⁠ on⁠ safety⁠.

  Color me cynical. OpenAI cites its own, Anthropic’s, and DeepMind’s approaches to AI safety. However, Meta has also expressed an ambition to build AGI but doesn’t seem to prioritize safety in the same way.

• Eevee🔹 27 Dec 2024 17:11 UTC

  2 points

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  on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  EA Forum Wrapped 2024 👀

• Eevee🔹 20 Dec 2024 22:22 UTC

  2 points

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  on: EA Fo­rum au­dio: help us choose the new voice

  Thanks for all your hard work on the audio narrations and making EA Forum content accessible!

  Question: Do you intend to license the audio under a Creative Commons license? Since EA Forum text since 2022 is licensed under CC-BY 4.0, all that’s legally required is any attribution info provided by the source material and a link to the license; derived works don’t have to be also licensed under CC-BY. However, to the extent that AI-generated narrations can be protected by copyright at all, it seems appropriate to use CC-BY, or maybe CC-BY-SA to enforce modifications being under the same terms.

• Eevee🔹 19 Dec 2024 0:06 UTC

  2 points

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  on: Prize Money ($100) for Valid Tech­ni­cal Ob­jec­tions to Icesteading

  PayPal as in PYUSD or fiat money sent thru PayPal?

• Eevee🔹 5 Dec 2024 2:40 UTC

  6 points

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  in reply to: Xing Shi Cai’s comment on: Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

  EA Forum posts since 2022 are licensed under CC-BY, so they are free to use. If you want to translate any portions of the 80k page that aren’t part of this forum post, you should ask them.

[Question] How com­mit­ted to AGI safety are the cur­rent OpenAI non­profit board mem­bers?

• Eevee🔹 28 Nov 2024 7:14 UTC

  4 points

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  in reply to: Julia_Wise🔸’s comment on: Ju­lia_Wise’s Shortform

  As the Flag begins to burn, salute the flag, say the Pledge of Allegiance, and pause for a moment of silence.

  I did not know this. That’s wild.

• Eevee🔹 28 Nov 2024 5:13 UTC

  3 points

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  in reply to: Austin’s comment on: Has your or­gani­sa­tion lost fund­ing due to the Good Ven­tures fund­ing shift? Have you man­aged to re­place it?

  OP/​GV/​Dustin do not like the rationalism brand because it attracts right-coded folks

  Open Phil does not want to fund anything that is even slightly right of center in any policy work

  I think this is specifically about the rat community attracting people with racist views like “human biodiversity” (which you alluded to re: “our speaker choices at Manifest”) and not about being right-wing or right-leaning generally. As a counterexample, OP made three grants to the Niskanen Center to fund their immigration policy work. I would characterize Niskanen as centrist with a libertarian bent and not definitively right-leaning, but they were originally an offshoot of the right-libertarian movement. Niskanen was founded by people from the Cato Institute and has been funded by “donors who seek to counter libertarian-conservative hostility to measures against global warming.”^[1]

  OP also supported the Nolan Center for Justice at the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC, in 2021 as part of their criminal justice reform program. At a quick glance, most of the groups they supported through their CJR program appear to be left-leaning, but it is untrue that OP has not funded anything right-leaning. Perhaps OP should be more willing to do the kind of cross-partisan grantmaking that their CJR program embodied.

  1. ^

     Niskanen Center on Wikipedia

• Eevee🔹 24 Nov 2024 18:19 UTC

  7 points

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  on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  Epistemic status: preliminary take, likely not considering many factors.

  I’m starting to think that economic development and animal welfare go hand in hand. Since the end of the COVID pandemic, the plant-based meat industry has declined in large part because consumers’ disposable incomes declined (at least in developed countries). It’s good that GFI and others are trying to achieve price parity with conventional meat. However, finding ways to increase disposable incomes (or equivalently, reduce the cost of living) will likely accelerate the adoption of meat substitutes, even if price parity isn’t reached.

[Question] What are some crit­i­cisms of PauseAI?

• Eevee🔹 22 Nov 2024 23:06 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: Eevee🔹’s comment on: EAGxVir­tual 2024: Livestream and Dis­cus­sion Thread

  Update: The 2024 Donation Election is using straight-up ranked-choice voting; details here.

• Eevee🔹 18 Nov 2024 1:36 UTC

  4 points

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  in reply to: Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸’s comment on: EAGxVir­tual 2024: Livestream and Dis­cus­sion Thread

  In addition, I used to lead the EA Public Interest Tech Slack community, which was subsequently merged into the EA Software Engineers community (the Discord for which still exists btw). All of these communities eventually got merged into the #role-software-engineers channel of the EA Anywhere Slack.

  I think there was too much fragmentation among slightly different EA affinity groups aimed at tech professionals—there was also EA Tech Network for folks working at tech companies, which I believe was merged into High Impact Professionals.

  I’m not sure why the EA SWE community dissipated after all the consolidation that occurred. I think the lack of community leadership may have played a role. Also, it seems like EA SWEs are already well served by other communities, including AI safety (for which a lot of SWEs have the right skills) and effective giving communities like Giving What We Can (since many SWE roles are well-paid).

• Eevee🔹 17 Nov 2024 7:15 UTC

  10 points

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  on: EAGxVir­tual 2024: Livestream and Dis­cus­sion Thread

  Lingering thoughts on the talk “How to Handle Worldview Uncertainty” by Hayley Clatterbuck (Rethink Priorities):

  The talk proposed several ways that altruists with conflicting values can bargain in mutually beneficial ways, like loans, wagers, and trades, and suggested that the EA community should try to implement these more in practice and design institutions and mechanisms that incentivize them.

  I think the EA Donation Election is an example of a community-wide mechanism for brokering trades between multiple anonymous donors. To illustrate this, consider a simple example of a trade, where Alice and Bob are donors with conflicting altruistic priorities. Alice’s top charity is Direct Transfers Everywhere and her second favorite is Pandemics No More. Bob’s top charity is Lawyers for Chickens, and his second favorite is Pandemics No More. Bob is concerned that Alice’s donating to Direct Transfers Everywhere would cancel out the animal welfare benefits of his donating to Lawyers for Chickens, so he proposes that they both donate to their second choice, Pandemics No More.

  The Donation Election does this in an automated, anonymous, community-wide way by using a mechanism like ranked-choice voting (RCV) to select winning charities. (The 2024 election uses RCV; the 2023 election used a points-based system similar to RCV.) Suppose that Alice and Bob are voting in the Donation Election—and for simplicity, we’ll pretend that the election uses RCV. If their first-choice charities (Direct Transfers Everywhere and Lawyers for Chickens) are not that popular among the electorate, those candidates will be eliminated, and Alice and Bob’s votes reallocated to Pandemics No More. This achieves the same outcome as the trade in the previous example automatically, even though Alice and Bob may not have ever personally met and agreed to that trade.

• Eevee🔹 8 Nov 2024 3:43 UTC

  3 points

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  on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  Not sure who to alert to this, but: when filling out the EA Organization Survey, I noticed that one of the fields asks for a date in DD/​MM/​YYYY format. As an American this tripped me up and I accidentally tried to enter a date in MM/​DD/​YYYY format because I am more used to seeing it.

  

  I suggest using the ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) format on forms that are used internationally to prevent confusion, or spelling out the month (e.g. “1 December 2023” or “December 1, 2023″).

• Eevee🔹 4 Nov 2024 16:46 UTC

  14 points

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  on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  I’ve heard from women I know in this community that they are often shunted into low-level or community-building roles rather than object-level leadership roles. Does anyone else have knowledge about and/​or experience with this?

• Eevee🔹 31 Oct 2024 19:10 UTC

  2 points

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  I think it would make sense to exclude emoji from the audio narrations, especially now that a lot of users are adding diamond emoji to their usernames. The audio software currently reads aloud the emoji even if it is in a username, e.g. “Eevee orange diamond emoji”.

• Eevee🔹 30 Oct 2024 21:56 UTC

  3 points

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  on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  Asking for a friend—there’s no dress code for EAG, right?

• Eevee🔹 27 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC

  3 points

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  in reply to: Joseph Lemien’s comment on: Gemma Pater­son’s Quick takes

  EAGx conferences are technically not organized by EAG but they are supported by it, so I’m not sure if they count as “competitors”

• Eevee🔹 16 Oct 2024 16:19 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: Jeff Kaufman 🔸’s comment on: eve­lyn­ciara’s Shortform

  Fwiw, there are ways to get more than 2% cash back:

  • Citi Double Cash and Citi Rewards+: you get 10% points back when redeeming points with the Rewards+ card, so if you “pool” the reward accounts together you can get effectively $2.\overline{2}\%$ back on donations made with the Double Cash.

  • A number of credit cards give unlimited 3-4% cash back on all purchases, but there’s usually a catch.

• Eevee🔹 15 Oct 2024 16:57 UTC

  2 points

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  on: Crit­i­cism of the effec­tive al­tru­ism community

  Renamed back from “Criticism of effective altruism culture” to “Criticism of the effective altruism community” as the former was confusing and did not effectively communicate what the tag is about. I think this may have led to low use of the tag.