Jeff Kaufman

Karma: 14,037

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

Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification

Jeff Kaufman8 Apr 2024 19:54 UTC

25 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(naobservatory.org)

Trying to Do More Good

Jeff Kaufman4 Apr 2024 14:22 UTC

88 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Legality as a Career Harm Assessment Heuristic

Jeff Kaufman26 Mar 2024 11:56 UTC

18 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

A Strange ACH Corner Case

Jeff Kaufman10 Feb 2024 3:10 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Sequencing Swabs

Jeff Kaufman1 Feb 2024 1:54 UTC

24 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

When Does Altruism Strengthen Altruism?

Jeff Kaufman21 Jan 2024 19:10 UTC

105 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Out-of-distribution Bioattacks

Jeff Kaufman2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC

70 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Accounting for Foregone Pay

Jeff Kaufman26 Nov 2023 3:35 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Post-EAG Music Party

Jeff Kaufman18 Nov 2023 3:02 UTC

36 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Earning to Give

Jeff Kaufman7 Nov 2023 16:20 UTC

92 points

38 comments1 min readEA link

Securing Civilization Against Catastrophic Pandemics

Jeff Kaufman3 Nov 2023 19:33 UTC

28 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(dam.gcsp.ch)

Public Weights?

Jeff Kaufman2 Nov 2023 2:51 UTC

20 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Computational Approaches to Pathogen Detection

Jeff Kaufman1 Nov 2023 0:36 UTC

49 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jeff Kaufman30 Oct 2023 17:42 UTC

56 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

Revisiting Guide Dogs and Blindness Prevention

Jeff Kaufman13 Oct 2023 2:30 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

My Mid-Career Transition into Biosecurity

Jeff Kaufman2 Oct 2023 21:13 UTC

63 points

22 comments2 min readEA link

Weighing Animal Worth

Jeff Kaufman28 Sep 2023 13:49 UTC

45 points

53 comments2 min readEA link

Commonsense Good, Creative Good

Jeff Kaufman27 Sep 2023 19:57 UTC

107 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Biosecurity Culture, Computer Security Culture

Jeff Kaufman30 Aug 2023 17:07 UTC

129 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater

Jeff Kaufman10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

46 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(naobservatory.org)