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Posit: Most AI safety peo­ple should work on al­ign­ment/​safety challenges for AI tools that already have users (Stable Diffu­sion, GPT)

[Question] Is there a good web app for do­ing the “equiv­a­lent bet test” from “How To Mea­sure Any­thing”?

[Question] What are some cur­rent, already pre­sent challenges from AI?

What are cur­rent smaller prob­lems re­lated to top EA cause ar­eas (eg deep­fake poli­cies for AI risk, on­go­ing covid var­i­ants for bio risk) and would it be benefi­cial for these small and not-catas­trophic challenges to get more EA re­sources, as a way of de­vel­op­ing ca­pac­ity to pre­vent the catas­trophic ver­sions?

[Question] Thought ex­per­i­ment: If you had 3 months to turn a stressed and un­happy per­son into a calm and happy one, what meta ap­proach would you take?

COVID Pro­ject idea: Tran­scrip­tion, trans­la­tion, con­tent re­for­mat­ting, and summarization

[Question] Which per­son-per­son in­tro­duc­tions could be highly im­pact­ful, COVID re­lated and oth­er­wise?

[Question] What are you work­ing on, and how could peo­ple help?

[Question] Which peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions are cur­rently mak­ing in­fluen­tial de­ci­sions re­lated to COVID re­sponse, and how could they be helped to have a bet­ter de­ci­sion mak­ing pro­cess?

[Question] What do you be­lieve are the most crit­i­cal open ques­tions/​hy­pothe­ses that could in­form a more effec­tive COVID re­sponse?

[Question] What are some tractable ap­proaches for figur­ing out if COVID causes long term dam­age to those who re­cover?

[Question] If you had $10-100mm and a skil­led team to im­prove the COVID re­sponse to min­i­mize eco­nomic and hu­man dam­age, what would you do? Or, how would you de­cide what to do?

[Question] If it’s true that Coron­avirus is “close to patholog­i­cally mis­al­igned with some of our in­for­ma­tion dis­tri­bu­tion and de­ci­sion­mak­ing rit­u­als”, then what things would help the re­sponse?

Covid Philan­thropy Idea—Build­ing Soft­ware Solu­tions for Peo­ple Impacted

[Question] What met­rics may be use­ful to mea­sure the health of the EA com­mu­nity?

[Link] A Fu­ture for Neuroscience

[Question] Who would you like to see do an AMA on this fo­rum?

[Question] How ur­gent are ex­treme cli­mate change risks?

[Question] If a psychedelic jour­ney has in­fluenced your life pri­ori­ties, how so?

[Question] In what ways and in what ar­eas might it make sense for EA to adopt more a more bot­toms-up ap­proach?