Jacob | MSc Economics student
Primarily interested in AI Governance at the moment.
Jacob 🔸
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Thanks for sharing, Patrick!
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.
Congratulations, Corentin! It is great to see this starting officially after so much preparatory work!
We will meet at the Glühweinstand
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.
I think most of their articles have been repackaged and can be found here: https://emergingtechpolicy.org/
Here in Munich, we are dealing with many similar issues since we started as a group focused on professionals and are now registered at the two big unis (TUM and LMU), which are the best in Germany. We have some irregular events catering to professionals, but the Intro Program and most of our event are frequented by both universities
We are in front of track 33 with a blue and a yellow jacket
Thanks for the list! I will look at some more opportunities then.
Thanks for putting this together! Learned some new things about my local group!
Maybe https://foodimpacts.org/ ?
Me as well! Thanks a lot!
https://founderspledge.com/funds/patient-philanthropy-fund Founders Pledge tries the opposite and Phil Trammell’s research also argues that more patient philanthropists (who value the long term future) should save most of their money. But if u have very short timelines this might change as discussed here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8c7LycgtkypkgYjZx/agi-and-the-emh-markets-are-not-expecting-aligned-or
Philip Trammell has researched this topic of the timing of philanthropy. You can find it here: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Trammell-Dynamic-Public-Good-Provision-under-Time-Preference-Heterogeneity.pdf or more informal here:
Thanks for the warm words, Kevin! I am looking forward to getting to know you on Tuesday!
Thanks for writing this! Great to see this written out finally.
We agree that the Torres piece is annoying and, to some extent irresponsible and unfair. And it’s certainly true that there are more sober, thoughtful, penetrating criticisms of specific aspects of longtermism.
Our reasons for including the piece anyway are: (1) It’s probably the single most well-known attack on longtermism, and it’s helpful to know what kinds of objections have made it out into the world and gotten traction outside the EA bubble. (2) It bundles together many criticisms in one place, so we don’t have to read four or five different essays. (3) We think it’s healthy to hear outside-view criticisms that don’t shy away from denouncing the whole longtermist program. (4) Although Torres focuses too much on (particular interpretations of) Bostrom as a stand-in for longtermism generally, some of his worries about Bostromism do a good job raising tricky and essential questions.
We wish there were a piece that did a similar amount of useful things without so many flaws, but we don’t know of any!
That said, we think Scott Alexander’s recent piece on longtermism is pretty good, and maybe we should read that too.
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?