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Jeff Kaufman 🔸

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GWWC board member, software engineer in Boston, parent, musician. Switched from earning to give to direct work in pandemic mitigation. Married to Julia Wise. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise. Full list of EA posts: jefftk.com/​news/​ea

NAO Up­dates, Spring 2024

Jeff Kaufman 🔸May 20, 2024, 4:51 PM
54 points
2 commentsEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Si­mu­lat­ing Ap­proaches to Me­tage­nomic Pan­demic Identification

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 8, 2024, 7:54 PM
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Try­ing to Do More Good

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 4, 2024, 2:22 PM
88 points
4 commentsEA link

Le­gal­ity as a Ca­reer Harm Assess­ment Heuristic

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Mar 26, 2024, 11:56 AM
18 points
3 commentsEA link

A Strange ACH Corner Case

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 10, 2024, 3:10 AM
17 points
2 commentsEA link

Se­quenc­ing Swabs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 1, 2024, 1:54 AM
24 points
8 commentsEA link

When Does Altru­ism Strengthen Altru­ism?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 21, 2024, 7:10 PM
107 points
2 commentsEA link

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Dec 2, 2023, 12:20 PM
70 points
5 commentsEA link

Ac­count­ing for Fore­gone Pay

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 26, 2023, 3:35 AM
23 points
0 commentsEA link

Post-EAG Mu­sic Party

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 18, 2023, 3:02 AM
36 points
0 commentsEA link

AMA: Earn­ing to Give

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 7, 2023, 4:20 PM
97 points
38 commentsEA link

Se­cur­ing Civ­i­liza­tion Against Catas­trophic Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 3, 2023, 7:33 PM
30 points
1 commentEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

Public Weights?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 2, 2023, 2:51 AM
20 points
7 commentsEA link

Com­pu­ta­tional Ap­proaches to Pathogen Detection

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Nov 1, 2023, 12:36 AM
49 points
4 commentsEA link

Will re­leas­ing the weights of large lan­guage mod­els grant wide­spread ac­cess to pan­demic agents?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 30, 2023, 5:42 PM
56 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

Re­vis­it­ing Guide Dogs and Blind­ness Prevention

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 13, 2023, 2:30 AM
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 2, 2023, 9:13 PM
64 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Weigh­ing An­i­mal Worth

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 28, 2023, 1:49 PM
54 points
53 comments2 min readEA link

Com­mon­sense Good, Creative Good

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 27, 2023, 7:57 PM
108 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Aug 30, 2023, 5:07 PM
130 points
10 comments2 min readEA link