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Joel Becker

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Building bespoke quantitative models to support decisionmakers in AI and bio. Right now that means: forecasting capabilities gains due to post-training enhancements on top of frontier foundation models, and estimating the annual burden of airborne disease in the US.

Some fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior regrantor

Joel BeckerDec 20, 2023, 4:40 PM
63 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(joel-becker.com)

[Link post] Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence”

Joel BeckerSep 19, 2023, 1:31 PM
38 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

An­nounc­ing the win­ners of the Res­lab Re­quest for Information

Aron LajkoJul 27, 2023, 5:43 PM
15 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Har­den­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal re­sponse to pan­demics: con­crete pro­ject seeks pro­ject lead

Joel BeckerFeb 9, 2023, 6:04 PM
73 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Some in­tu­itions about fel­low­ship programs

Joel BeckerJan 16, 2023, 8:26 PM
134 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the im­pact of grant­mak­ing ca­reer paths

Joel BeckerOct 30, 2022, 9:00 PM
32 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel BeckerOct 26, 2022, 11:38 AM
46 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­ply to join SHELTER Week­end this August

Joel BeckerJun 15, 2022, 2:21 PM
108 points
19 comments2 min readEA link