Good point
Renan Araujo
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I think a useful/easy fix could be to change the title to “Neartermism—Longtermism”
fwiw the problem they’re trying to solve, as articulated by them, is: “Artificial Intelligence and automated decision making are transforming the world. But too often these technologies are developed without consideration for the individuals and communities they affect. This means AI can exacerbate existing social justice challenges.”
Hey! I noticed this is your first comment and wanted to try to explain why you got some negative karma there: I think this might not be the best place for you to ask those questions, since they’re the online team rather than introductory-type community builders.
Here are a couple of links that might help you with your question: the “Learn” section on effectivealtruism.org and the EA virtual intro program.
Cool to see that AMA, big fan of that team!
Apart from LW, what are some other forums you take inspiration from? Curious about features you implemented inspired by those forums (or you still want to implement), culture, etc
Good point, just added that. Thanks!
I believe we should be less concerned in comparison to other phases, but I also believe we shouldn’t be overly unconcerned. We can still screw up in several ways and e.g., direct people to ineffective avenues, poison the well, etc. I think we’re in a pivotal moment that requires attention and carefulness to mitigate the chances of a suboptimal lock-in.
Thoughts about AI safety field-building in LMIC
Thanks, Luke.
I quite like the pins and agree celebrations have the potential to boost adhere (or at least make adherence more public/legible) – cool that you’re working on this!
How worth you think it is community builders emphasizing GWWC as a milestone/next step? I’m also curious about how your view on this evolved over time (my sense is that it was a more emphasized milestone in the past)
I wanted something like that—I feel like I’m subconsciously more willing to read posts in that front end. Thanks for sharing it.
That’s incredibly important data to collect, thanks for gathering and sharing it.
I think the issue is more that such an income would depend on the org’s performance or existence even in that arrangement, and that directors should be ready to make hard decisions that could e.g., shut down the organization. Depending on the org in any way would limit their decision power to make such calls.
Fantastic video – I’m really impressed with how you managed to match the high quality of the text. Thanks a lot for such great work!
Minor feedback about this post: I think the photo of the Yoruba folks might be a bit misleading in the context of this post, and I wouldn’t include it. My sense is that the religion is followed by millions, that the radical smallpox-inoculation cult was quite fringe, and that the body painting of white dots doesn’t have anything to do with smallpox. It doesn’t seem fair to me to associate the whole religion and the folks in that photo with such a radical, harmful cult.
Here’s another compilation we put together for our team’s work on helping people found longtermist projects: [public] A rough list of ideas for scalable longtermist projects.
Got it, that makes sense. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the suggestions, Yonatan! The info you raised (location and employment time) is currently displayed in the summary board at the right of the screen with the goal of making it prominent to the reader (follows screenshot).
Does this appear for you? Or did you jump straight into the text and didn’t notice? If the latter, then that’s quite useful information from the user end for us to take into account and update.
As per Michael’s comment, Rethink Priorities’ General Longtermism team (in which I work) also has room for more funding. You can read about our work in 2022 in this post.
More recent public outputs include Does the US public support ultraviolet germicidal irradiation technology for reducing risks from pathogens? and Scalable longtermist projects: Speedrun series.
We at Condor Camp (a project for longtermist movement building in Brazil) are providing some advice for Brazilian students, feel free to reach out: info@condor.camp. I studied Law in a Brazilian university, so I have some first-hand knowledge about the Brazilian higher ed system but not about Biology exactly. My guess is that Biology degrees in Brazil can often be quite narrow, and that there might be more interesting alternatives depending on where you’re located and how competitive your ENEM grades were. I recommend you reach out for a chat with one of our team members :)
What a wholesome post—you’re the best, Joy!