Now: TYPE III AUDIO.
Previously: 80,000 Hours (2014-15; 2017-2021) Worked on web development, product management, strategy, internal systems, IT security, etc.
Before that: My CV.
Side-projects: Inbox When Ready; Radio Bostrom; The Valmy; Comment Helper for Google Docs.
I hesitate to post things like this, because “short, practical advice” posts aren’t something I often see on the Forum.
I’m not sure if this is the kind of thing that’s worth encouraging as a top-level post.
In general I would like to read more posts like this from EA Forum users, but perhaps not as part of the front page.
Thanks for this. I’d be keen to see a longer list of the interesting for-profits in this space.
Biobot Analytics (wastewater monitoring) are the only for-profit on the 80,000 Hours job board list.
As an employer, it’s particularly helpful to look at small solo projects. With a solo project it’s easy to tell how you contributed—you did everything.
Hi Lia. I think the RSS links above are correct.
To confirm, the RSS links are as follows:
Does this help?
Back in March I asked GPT-4:
I recently graduated from medical school but I’m worried that being a doctor in the rich world is not very impactful, because there are already lots of doctors and I can’t help that many people every year by providing primary care. Would 80,000 Hours say that this is a legitimate concern? What might they suggest for someone in my position?
The answer (one shot):
Yes, 80,000 Hours might consider your concern as legitimate. While being a doctor is a valuable and impactful profession, it’s true that in the rich world, there are already many doctors providing primary care. However, there are several ways you can increase your impact as a medical professional, and 80,000 Hours might suggest the following options:
Specialize in a high-impact area: Some medical specialties have a higher potential for impact than others. For example, you could specialize in infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness, or global health, areas where your expertise can make a considerable difference.
Global Health: Consider working in low-income or underserved regions where there is a more significant shortage of medical professionals. Your skills and expertise can have a more considerable impact in these areas.
Medical research: You could focus on research that addresses pressing global health issues, such as finding new treatments or improving existing ones for various diseases. Medical research can have a significant long-term impact on many lives.
Public health and policy: Engage in public health work, such as designing and implementing health programs or advocating for evidence-based policies. This can have a broader systemic impact on healthcare and health outcomes.
Effective altruism: Use your medical career to earn a good income, and then donate a significant portion of it to effective charities or causes. This approach is sometimes referred to as “earning to give.” By supporting high-impact organizations, you can indirectly contribute to addressing global problems.
Health-related advocacy: Use your medical expertise to raise awareness of important global health issues, advocate for policy changes, or support interventions that can have a large-scale impact.
It’s essential to consider your interests, strengths, and values when choosing a path. Remember that you can always change directions or pivot throughout your career. For more tailored advice, you can consult 80,000 Hours’ resources or engage with their community.
I didn’t give it any other text as context, just the prompt above.
Congratulations on making it to 5 years, and thank you for the work you’ve done so far.
Could you give us a sense of the inputs that lead to these outputs? In particular, I’d be interested to know:
Total expenditure.
Total years of staff labor (full-time equivalent).
The application form is short and includes the following questions:
What are the most important technical projects the UK government needs to do within the next few months to advance AI safety?
What do you want to be doing to drive those projects forward?
Ideally this link post would point to the episode page on Dwarkesh’s website, which includes a transcript.
Thanks! Now fixed.
Thanks Michael! This was a strange oversight on our part—now fixed.
Great question. If authors include image captions we read them, but I think we’re skipping the image alt texts at the moment. We actually wrote the code to read alt texts but I think we forgot to ship it in this first release. This was a mistake on our part—we’ll fix it this week or next.
Thanks. It’s a nice idea. At some point we might enable authors (or listeners!) to select their favourite voices. This would increase our costs quite a lot (see my reply to Nathan) so I doubt we’ll do this before end 2023, unless we find evidence of strong demand.
Thanks! We looked into randomising between a couple voices a while ago. To my surprise, we found that all the voice models on our text-to-speech service (Microsoft Azure) perform somewhat differently. This means our quality assurance costs would go up quite a lot if we start using several voices.
I’d also guess that once listeners become familiar with a particular voice, their comprehension improves and they’re able to listen faster. I have some anecdotal evidence of this, but I’m pretty unsure how big of a deal it is.
Some examples of the kinds of thing I might share, were there an obvious place to do so:
How to start a blog in 5 seconds for $0
Unfortunately, PDF copies of many academic books & scientific papers can be easily found on the Anna’s Archive website
Use Airalo to get mobile data in any country in less than 5 minutes