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AI safety 13
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How can we make Our World in Data more useful to the EA community?
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EdMathieu
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What EA projects could grow to become megaprojects, eventually spending $100m per year?
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Nathan Young
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Gifted $1 million. What to do? (Not hypothetical)
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BenWilder
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What are some key numbers that (almost) every EA should know?
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Linch
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How well did EA-funded biorisk organisations do on Covid?
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[anonymous]
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What are your main reservations about identifying as an effective altruist?
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richard_ngo
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Why aren't you freaking out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?
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AppliedDivinityStudies
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Exposure to 3m Pointless viewers- what to promote?
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PatrickL
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Why "cause area" as the unit of analysis?
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riceissa
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Annual donation rituals?
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Alexander_Berger
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What is the role of public discussion for hits-based Open Philanthropy causes?
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AppliedDivinityStudies
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Why do you find the Repugnant Conclusion repugnant?
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Will Bradshaw
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What Small Weird Thing Do You Fund?
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Yonatan Cale
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What are the EA movement's most notable accomplishments?
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Aaron Gertler
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What should the norms around privacy and evaluation in the EA community be?
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NunoSempere
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How many EA 2021 $s would you trade off against a 0.01% chance of existential catastrophe?
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Linch
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What are some success stories of grantmakers beating the wider EA community?
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richard_ngo
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Has anything in the EA global health sphere changed since the critiques of "randomista development" 1-2 years ago?
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Max Görlitz
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What's the Theory of Change/Theory of Victory for Farmed Animal Welfare?
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Linch
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Who are your role models?
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Will Bradshaw
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Is there evidence that recommender systems are changing users' preferences?
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zdgroff
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How many people should get self-study grants and how can we find them?
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toonalfrink
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What should we call the other problem of cluelessness?
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Owen Cotton-Barratt
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How much do you (actually) work?
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SiebeRozendal
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Why does (any particular) AI safety work reduce s-risks more than it increases them?
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MichaelStJules
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What is life like at the median global income?
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JP Addison
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Has anyone checked out Noora Health?
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dspeyer
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What's the role of donations now that the EA movement is richer than ever?
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RichardAnnilo
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What high-level change would you make to EA strategy?
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Nathan Young
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Is it no longer hard to get a direct work job?
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mic
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What “defense layers” should governments, AI labs, and businesses use to prevent catastrophic AI failures?
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alexlintz
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Have any EA nonprofits tried offering staff funding-based compensation? If not, why not? If so, how did it go?
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Arepo
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New Top EA Causes for 2021?
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MichaelA
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Is the current definition of EA not representative of hits-based giving?
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Venkatesh
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(Answered) Tax question: Help us donate millions, get a $500 bounty!
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Aaron Gertler
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The positive case for a focus on achieving safe AI?
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vipulnaik
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How valuable is ladder-climbing outside of EA for people who aren't unusually good at ladder-climbing or unusually entrepreneurial?
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Linch
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Is there anyone working full-time on helping EAs address mental health problems?
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richard_ngo
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Should pretty much all content that's EA-relevant and/or created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum?
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MichaelA
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What advice would you give to the world's most famous philanthropist: Father Christmas?
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Barry Grimes
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What are examples of technologies which would be a big deal if they scaled but never ended up scaling?
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Linch
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Which non-EA-funded organisations did well on Covid?
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RyanCarey
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What’s the low resolution version of effective altruism?
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james
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What important questions are missing from Metaculus?
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Charles Dillon
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What Are Your Software Needs?
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Yonatan Cale
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Is the Impact page on effectivealtruism.org double counting?
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finback
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Mundane trouble with EV / utility
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Ben Esche
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Should Grants Fund EA Projects Retrospectively?
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FCCC
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What is an example of recent, tangible progress in AI safety research?
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Aaron Gertler
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What are the highest impact questions in the behavioral sciences?
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Abby Hoskin
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Where should I donate?
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BrownHairedEevee
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What would you do if you had a lot of money/power/influence and you thought that AI timelines were very short?
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Greg_Colbourn
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What's the GiveDirectly of longtermism & existential risk?
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Nathan Young
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Is it crunch time yet? If so, who can help?
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NicholasKross
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Should the EA community have a DL engineering fellowship?
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PabloAMC
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What are some examples of successful social change?
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Aaron Gertler
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How to Train Better EAs?
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Davis_Kingsley
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What are some high-impact paths for a young person in the developing world?
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Aaron Gertler
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Resources around shame and striving and EA
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Nathan Young
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Effective donations for COVID-19 in India
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Tejas Subramaniam
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EA views on the AUKUS security pact?
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DavidZhang
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Issues with Using Willingness-to-Pay as a Primary Tool for Welfare Analysis
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charrin
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What does failure look like?
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BrownHairedEevee
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What are some moral catastrophes events in history?
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Adriana Arauzo
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What is most confusing to you about AI stuff?
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Sam Clarke
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Should I go straight into EA community-building after graduation or do software engineering first?
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SentientBunny11
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Where are you donating in 2021, and why?
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Aaron Gertler
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What has helped you write better?
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Nathan Young
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Why do EAs have children?
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Luke Freeman
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What would an entity with GiveWell's decision-making process have recommended in the past?
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Mati_Roy
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What's something that every EA community builder should have thought about?
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akrivka
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What are the top priorities in a slow-takeoff, multipolar world?
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JP Addison
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The last
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Visa Om
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How do you compare human and animal suffering?
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Harry Taussig
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[Meta] Is it legitimate to ask people to upvote posts on this forum?
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Ofer
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How to get more academics enthusiastic about doing AI Safety research?
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PabloAMC
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What is the closest thing you know to EA that isn't EA?
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Nathan Young
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What material should we cross-post for the Forum's archives?
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Aaron Gertler
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Starting a Small Charity to Give Grants
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sapphire
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Name for the larger EA+adjacent ecosystem?
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RyanCarey
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How do you decide how much to donate in “user fees” for free services?
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Cameron_Meyer_Shorb
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What are the 'PlayPumps' of cause prioritisation?
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DavidZhang
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What are your favorite examples of moral heroism/altruism in movies and books?
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Caro
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What would you ask a policymaker about existential risks?
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James Nicholas Bryant
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Would an EA have directed their career on fixing the subprime mortgage crisis of '07-'08 before it happened?
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Venkatesh
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Are there any current students at University of Washington?
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Alex Mallen
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What should CEEALAR be called?
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CEEALAR
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Which EA orgs, programs, companies, etc. started as side projects?
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kyle_fish
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Celebrating 2021: What are your favourite wins & good news for EA, the world and yourself?
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Luke Freeman
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What community norm would you most like to see added, removed or acknolwedged within EA?
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Nathan Young
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Exporting EA discussion norms
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BrownHairedEevee
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How can I best use product management skills for digital services for good?
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Jara
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Consciousness research as a cause? [asking for advice]
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Luise
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What are some effective/impactful charities in the domain of human rights and anti-authoritarianism?
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mbb29828382
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When and how should an online community space (e.g., Slack workspace) for a particular type/group of people be created?
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MichaelA
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Books and lecture series relevant to AI governance?
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MichaelA
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How to work with self-consciousness?
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Dawn Drescher
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How much will pre-transformative AI speed up R&D?
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Ben Snodin
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Impact of Charity Evaluations on Evaluated Charities' Effectiveness
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EdoArad
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What are your favourite ways to buy time?
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Will Bradshaw
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