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Linch

Karma: 27,014

[Question] How many EA 2021 $s would you trade off against a 0.01% chance of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe?

LinchNov 27, 2021, 11:46 PM
55 points
87 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Don’t Look Up—a Net­flix com­edy about as­ter­oid risk and re­al­is­tic so­cietal re­ac­tions (Dec. 24th)

LinchNov 18, 2021, 9:40 PM
63 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Job ad] Re­search im­por­tant longter­mist top­ics at Re­think Pri­ori­ties!

LinchOct 6, 2021, 7:09 PM
65 points
46 comments1 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat: A com­par­i­son of techno-eco­nomic analyses

LinchSep 24, 2021, 10:20 PM
165 points
39 comments22 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

LinchSep 14, 2021, 8:43 PM
286 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] How valuable is lad­der-climb­ing out­side of EA for peo­ple who aren’t un­usu­ally good at lad­der-climb­ing or un­usu­ally en­trepreneurial?

LinchSep 1, 2021, 12:47 AM
39 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of tech­nolo­gies which would be a big deal if they scaled but never ended up scal­ing?

LinchAug 27, 2021, 8:47 AM
36 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some key num­bers that (al­most) ev­ery EA should know?

LinchJun 18, 2021, 12:37 AM
105 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example

LinchMay 11, 2021, 9:05 AM
19 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

[Linkpost] New Oxford Malaria Vac­cine Shows ~75% Effi­cacy in Ini­tial Trial with Infants

LinchApr 23, 2021, 11:50 PM
62 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Some EA Fo­rum Posts I’d like to write

LinchFeb 23, 2021, 5:27 AM
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

RP Work Trial Out­put: How to Pri­ori­tize Anti-Aging Pri­ori­ti­za­tion—A Light Investigation

LinchJan 12, 2021, 10:51 PM
46 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Some learn­ings I had from fore­cast­ing in 2020

LinchOct 3, 2020, 7:21 PM
90 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How can good gen­er­al­ist judg­ment be differ­en­ti­ated from skill at fore­cast­ing?

LinchAug 21, 2020, 11:13 PM
25 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some low-in­for­ma­tion pri­ors that you find prac­ti­cally use­ful for think­ing about the world?

LinchAug 7, 2020, 4:38 AM
63 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

David Man­heim: A Per­sonal (In­terim) COVID-19 Postmortem

LinchJul 1, 2020, 6:05 AM
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

I’m Linch Zhang, an am­a­teur COVID-19 fore­caster and gen­er­al­ist EA. AMA

LinchJun 30, 2020, 7:35 PM
77 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are there his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of ex­cess panic dur­ing pan­demics kil­ling a lot of peo­ple?

LinchMay 27, 2020, 5:00 PM
28 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

[Open Thread] What vir­tual events are you host­ing that you’d like to open to the EA Fo­rum-read­ing pub­lic?

LinchApr 7, 2020, 1:49 AM
16 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should re­cent events make us more or less con­cerned about biorisk?

LinchMar 19, 2020, 12:00 AM
23 points
7 comments1 min readEA link