Jacob 🔸

• Jacob 🔸 2 May 2026 3:17 UTC

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  in reply to: SiobhanBall’s comment on: The Case for a Grant­mak­ing Fellowship

  Sounds reasonable, so for active grantmaking (e.g. requests for proposals, making sure new , get builtorganizations), I believe domain expertise (e.g. AI safety experience) is more important

The Case for a Grant­mak­ing Fellowship

How Chad Jones’ “weak links” ex­plain the ca­pa­bil­ity-diffu­sion gap and why safe­ty­ists and ac­cel­er­a­tionists talk past each other

• Jacob 🔸 2 Feb 2026 18:11 UTC

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  on: More EAs should con­sider work­ing for the EU

  Thanks for this post! It closely matches my own experience, and I want to share a data point that others considering EU careers might find useful.Outside of clearly defined job postings such as AI Office Contract Agents, most people might have reasonable other options. BlueBook is good for early-career exploration, but the unit choice, inflexibility, and the probability of retention (10%) make it unattractive after some experience. Outside of clearly defined job postings, such as AI Office Contract Agents, most people might have other reasonable options. I consider applying to the Concourse, but don’t you need to prepare longer for this?

Ja­cob ’s Quick takes

• Jacob 🔸 26 Jan 2026 13:16 UTC

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  on: Ja­cob ’s Quick takes

  We would welcome guest posts for Windfall’s Trust AI Economics Brief here! If you’re interested in summarizing your latest research for a broader audience of decision-makers or want to share a thoughtful take, this is an opportunity to do so!

New AI Eco­nomics Brief—Is­sue #1

AI and the Fu­ture of Work

• Jacob 🔸 22 Jul 2025 7:21 UTC

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  on: From rave web­sites to AI risk: 30 years of ca­reer lessons

  Thanks for sharing, Patrick!

• Jacob 🔸 1 Feb 2025 23:50 UTC

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  on: Should EAs help em­ploy­ees in the de­vel­op­ing world move to the West?

  I think there’s also a brain gain effect that includes the spillivers on the ambition of siblings and friends of migrants besides remittances. I think we cant exclude the possible that for the top there exists brain drain in net, due to lacking data. I have heard of forthcoming research regarding brain gain, but here is one study:

  Batista, Catia, Aitor Lacuesta, and Pedro C. Vicente. 2012. “Testing the ‘Brain Gain’ Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde.” Journal of Development Economics 97 (1): 32–45.

• Jacob 🔸 30 May 2024 10:07 UTC

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  on: An­nounc­ing the Launch of the Na­tional Ob­ser­va­tory on In­sect Farm­ing in France—ONEI

  Congratulations, Corentin! It is great to see this starting officially after so much preparatory work!

Dis­cus­sion about Longter­mism in Ger­man with Prof. Henning

Dis­cus­sion of What We Owe The Future

• Jacob 🔸 20 Dec 2023 17:50 UTC

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  on: Christ­mas Mar­ket with Ra­tion­al­ist Group

  We will meet at the Glühweinstand

• Jacob 🔸 19 Dec 2023 6:58 UTC

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  in reply to: akash 🔸’s comment on: akash’s Quick takes

  I didnt know that they deleted it on the the EA Forum, but the new website is run by the Horizon Institute. In their newsletter I heard about the website.

• Jacob 🔸 18 Dec 2023 6:49 UTC

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  in reply to: akash 🔸’s comment on: akash’s Quick takes

  I think most of their articles have been repackaged and can be found here: https://​​emergingtechpolicy.org/​​

Christ­mas Mar­ket with Ra­tion­al­ist Group

Christ­mas Social

So­cial at Soy Vegan

So­cial with Philosophia Mu­nich