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In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism — Scott Alexander

Pablo29 Nov 2023 10:37 UTC

158 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

(www.astralcodexten.com)

‘Why not effective altruism?’ — Richard Y. Chappell

Pablo22 Nov 2023 15:04 UTC

67 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(philpapers.org)

David Edmonds’s biography of Parfit is out

Pablo23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC

115 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Future Matters #8: Bing Chat, AI labs on safety, and pausing Future Matters

Pablo21 Mar 2023 14:50 UTC

81 points

5 comments24 min readEA link

Future Matters #7: AI timelines, AI skepticism, and lock-in

Pablo3 Feb 2023 11:47 UTC

54 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

Future Matters #6: FTX collapse, value lock-in, and counterarguments to AI x-risk

Pablo30 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC

58 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

Future Matters #5: supervolcanoes, AI takeover, and What We Owe the Future

Pablo14 Sep 2022 13:02 UTC

31 points

5 comments18 min readEA link

Future Matters #4: AI timelines, AGI risk, and existential risk from climate change

Pablo8 Aug 2022 11:00 UTC

59 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

Future Matters #3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records

Pablo4 Jul 2022 17:44 UTC

70 points

2 comments19 min readEA link

Michael Nielsen’s “Notes on effective altruism”

Pablo3 Jun 2022 8:20 UTC

219 points

49 comments5 min readEA link

(michaelnotebook.com)

Future Matters #2: Clueless skepticism, ‘longtermist’ as an identity, and nanotechnology strategy research

Pablo28 May 2022 6:25 UTC

51 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

‘Beneficentrism’, by Richard Yetter Chappell

Pablo9 May 2022 12:43 UTC

75 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

Future Matters #1: AI takeoff, longtermism vs. existential risk, and probability discounting

Pablo23 Apr 2022 23:32 UTC

57 points

2 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] What readings should we include in a “sequence” on global health and development

Pablo1 Apr 2022 14:38 UTC

13 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Future Matters #0: Space governance, future-proof ethics, and the launch of the Future Fund

Pablo22 Mar 2022 21:15 UTC

109 points

20 comments15 min readEA link

Bibliography of EA writings about fields and movements of interest to EA

Pablo21 Feb 2022 15:11 UTC

98 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How many lives has the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) saved?

Pablo18 Jan 2022 12:57 UTC

17 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Mogensen & MacAskill, ‘The paralysis argument’

Pablo19 Jul 2021 14:04 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(quod.lib.umich.edu)

[Future Perfect] How to be a good ancestor

Pablo2 Jul 2021 13:17 UTC

41 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Anki deck for “Some key numbers that (almost) every EA should know”

Pablo29 Jun 2021 22:13 UTC

114 points

33 comments1 min readEA link