I wrote a post on “Charity” as a conflationary alliance term. You can read it on LessWrong, but I'm also happy to discuss it here. If wondering why not post it here: Originally posted it here with a LW cross-post. It was immediately slapped with the "Community" tag, despite not being about community, but about different ways people try to do good, talk about charity & ensuing confusions. It is about the space of ideas, not about the actual people or orgs. With posts like OP announcements about details of EA group funding or EAG admissions bar not being marked as community, I find it increasingly hard to believe the "Community" tag is driven by the stated principe marking "Posts about the EA community and projects that focus on the EA community" and not by other motives, like e.g. forum mods expressing the view "we want people to think less about this / this may be controversial / we prefer someone new to not read this".   My impression this moves substantial debates about ideas to the side, which is a state I don't want to cooperate on by just leaving it as it is -> moved the post on LessWrong and replaced by this comment. 

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Hi, Pepijn here, co-founder of the Tien Procent Club (Dutch org that promotes effective giving) and a highly irregular reader of this forum. Here's my quick take:  I think there's an opportunity to make much better EA videos simply by interviewing founders of the most effective non-profits. The medium is the message, and video lends itself perfectly for conveying emotions. It feels like there's a lot of room left to produce entertaining, exciting and high information density videos on effective non-profits. Explanation: I know there are some explainers about EA concepts out there but their main problem is that they're cerebral and often quite abstract.  Compare this to how moving, concrete and personal s3 movies are. Check this EA-adjacent episode about Make Sunsets, who are trialling ultra cheap atmospheric sulphur dioxide insertion and you'll see what I mean. All s3 videos are about deeptech startups and their passionate, quirky, high energy founders. These movies are made (at least the first episodes) by a single person, Jason Carman.  They excel in: 1) bringing across the infectious energy of startup founders 2) showcasing ideas and pathways that make the future something to be excited about 3) being entertaining because of high information and novel concepts density -- check this one with Casey Handmer. No need to reinvent the wheel here. A single talented individual could start doing this, simply copying and slightly modifying the s3 style.

I just sent out the Forum digest and I thought there was a higher number of underrated (and slightly unusual) posts this week, so I'm re-sharing some of them here: * What does starvation feel like? by @Elijah Whipple * Detection of Asymptomatically Spreading Pathogens by @Jeff Kaufman (I think the slide-show format works really well) * The anti-clickbait titled Next-gen LLINs with chlorfenapyr by @Scott Smith, which analyses the effect of using chlorfenapyr rather than pyrethroid as an insecticide in bednets. This reduces the effect of insecticide-resistance

What is your AI Capabilities Red Line Personal Statement? It should read something like "when AI can do X in Y way, then I think we should be extremely worried / advocate for a Pause*".  I think it would be valuable if people started doing this; we can't feel when we're on an exponential, so its likely we will have powerful AI creep up on us. @Greg_Colbourn just posted this and I have an intuition that people are going to read it and say "while it can do Y it still can't do X" *in the case you think a Pause is ever optimal.