Ginsbergās poem famously begins āI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madnessā. I am luckier than Ginsberg. I got to see the best minds of my generation identify a problem and get to work.
- Scott Alexander
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Usually classes (especially entry-level) are in German, which is a big hurdle. Universities can decide themselves to offer courses in English and set requirements for English and German levels (at the beginning or some point of the degree). Malengo researches the details (which might change year to year) for their own strategy and to support the students in finding a fitting degree.
University is relatively cheap (state-run universities are subsidized heavily), but foreign students donāt get any other support (Germans do) and have to prove a source of income/āsufficient wealth for their visum.
I donāt know the mechanics for working visas and permanent residency, but Iād expect it to be relatively easy for someone who did their degree here.
Source: German and mentor for Malengo.
Thatās not what I asked: In percentage points, how likely do you think you are right (and people who value e.g. GHWB over Animal Welfare are wrong)?
IIRC studies show itās easier to motivate people to give more than to shift existing donations.
How sure are you are right and the other EA (who has also likely thought carefully about their donations) is wrong, though?
Iām much more confident that I will increase the impact of someoneās donation /ā spending if they are not in EA, rather than being too convinced of my own opinion and causing harm (by negative side effects, opportunity costs or lowering the value of their donation).
Disclaimer: Just skimmed the paper.
Their definition of āself-replicationā seems to be just to copy the model weights to another place and start it on an open portāno unexpected capability.
To see the performance of AI agents on more complex AI R&D tasks, I recommend METRās recent publication: https://āāmetr.org/āāAI_R_D_Evaluation_Report.pdf
Having a human-centric core in EA seems robustly good to me, so weāre sure to make the world a better place even if our other ideas donāt pan out.
$1 increase in womenās income
What kind of income is this? Monthly, yearly, lifetime?
Very interesting, thanks for the analysis!
To me especially Figure 3 is important, itās insane how much food goes unharvested and how bad animals are at producing food.
Is there also a version that uses kcal instead of tons and that breaks down animal products into meat and vegetarian?
Minor correction, itās Alternative fĆ¼r Deutschland.
I donāt know much about painkillers in LMICs, but in my understanding the US prescribes many more opioids than other western countries (like Germany, where Iām from). So this idea/āproblem might be specific to the US.
@mincho: How does Suzetrigine compare to existing non-opioid painkillers?
For anyone interested in how to go from research to large-scale production, there recently was an article about that in Works in Progress: https://āāworksinprogress.co/āāissue/āāgetting-materials-out-of-the-lab/āā
Update: Weāll be joining forces with the Qualia Research Institute, who are in Berlin this week: https://āāqualiacomputing.com/āā2024/āā05/āā17/āāqri-in-germany/āā
I think weāll get along great and thereās a big overlap. Scott:
The Qualia Research Institute is doing absolutely picture-perfect mad science.
Just an info, nothing actually changes!
I think it would still make sense to add it because I assume many people (like me) will add it manually anyway, giving you more free-text to analyze. :)
Why is there no āScienceā as default option under āDo you watch YouTube videos on any of these broad topics?ā?
Good catch! This series used to have a registration form, but this event is open. āEnable RSVPsā is not checked, thatās why you canāt ājoinā here on the forum.
Do the rules of P4A allow GiveWell? I remember it being unclear last year whether funds /ā regrantors were eligible.
Thanks for sharing!
Are the numbers comparable to GiveWell, or is one of them more conservative? One data point could be Malaria. Is the Benefit-to-cost ratio GiveWell calculates for e.g. AMF around 48 as well?
Malaria
Paper: Benefits and Costs of Scaling up Coverage and Use of Insecticide Treated Nets.
Benefit-to-cost ratio: 48.
Investment:
>Scale up coverage of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets coverage to 10 percentage points above the 2019 level. Use of chlorfenapir to offset insecticide resistance and social and behavioral change communication to increase the usage including hang-up campaigns.
I assume and (ChatGPT agrees) that itās the tedious, unglamorous, and labor-intensive work. It probably comes from the Germany āschleppenā which is āheavy liftingā.
Iād also like to point out that the Effektiv Spenden co-working office (TEAMWORK) is a place where many EAs work and is available for EA meetups and events outside of office hours. The impact of this is difficult to quantify, but potentially significant and not accounted for when looking at donations alone.
Start and end time are not readable for me when creating and editing events in dark mode.
Is that just me?
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