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May 2022

Building effective altruism 17
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Career choice 6
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Who wants to be hired? (May-September 2022)
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Lorenzo Buonanno
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Who's hiring? (May-September 2022) [closed]
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Lorenzo Buonanno
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What are the coolest topics in AI safety, to a hopelessly pure mathematician?
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Jenny K E
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Should we call them something other than retreats?
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Rockwell
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Has anyone actually talked to conservatives* about EA?
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david_reinstein
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What are some high-EV but failed EA projects?
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MichaelDickens
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A retroactive grant for creating the HPMoR audiobook (Eneasz Brodski)?
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Lakin
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EA analyst/intern wanted
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alsilverback
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What are examples where extreme risk policies have been successfully implemented?
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Joris P
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What's the value of creating my own fellowship program when I can direct people to the virtual programs?
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Ariel Pontes
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When did the EA Forum get so good?!
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aaronmayer
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Are there good introductory materials that explain how charity evaluation works?
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BrownHairedEevee
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What are the best journals to publish AI governance papers in?
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Caro
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Have you ever made a valuable connection with someone via the Forum?
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Clifford
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If you had an hour with a political leader, what would you focus on?
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Yitz
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I'm interviewing Max Tegmark about AI safety and more. What shouId I ask him?
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Robert_Wiblin
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I doubt "Neartermist" is a monicker people want. What would you like to be called?
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Nathan Young
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Animal Welfare: Reviving Extinct (human) intermediate species?
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Franziska Fischer
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Would Structured Discussion Platforms for EA Community Building Ideas be Valuable? (With Prototype Example)
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Harrison Durland
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Cool Offices ?
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Kaleem
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What are your recommendations for technical AI alignment podcasts?
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Evan_Gaensbauer
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Do you offset your carbon emissions?
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Olivia Addy
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Which possible AI impacts should receive the most additional attention?
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David Johnston
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Is there a "Humans of EA" project? Meaning a project portraying different members within EA.
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elteerkers
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EA Speaker Repository?
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Lauren Zitney
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What does the Project Management role look like in AI safety?
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gvst
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Could economic growth substantially slow down in the next decade?
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[anonymous]
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Where are the cool places to live where there is still *no* EA community? Bonus points if there is unlikely to be one in the future
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nananana.nananana.heyhey.anon
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What is meant by 'infrastructure' in EA?
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David M
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How would you draw the Venn diagram of longtermism and neartermism?
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Michael_Wiebe
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Should U.S. donors give to an EA-focused PAC like Guarding Against Pandemics instead of individual campaigns?
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BrownHairedEevee
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Any interest in bacteriophages?
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Charlie Dougherty
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Has this EA critique article been discussed/responded to?
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Noah Starbuck
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Does anyone know about an EA group leader retreat this summer?
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Evan_Gaensbauer
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Blueprint for billionaires?
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alsilverback
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Should we be hiring more “unqualified” people?
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Yitz
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Did Peter Thiel give "the keynote address at an EA conference"?
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DPiepgrass
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Will more AI systems be trained to make use of preexisting computational tools?
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deep
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What should we actually do in response to moral uncertainty?
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John Bridge
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I read Johannes Ackva's post on climate change which mentions three areas that can create global leverage. Is there a (possibly career-oriented) site that provides a higher level of detail and comparison between issues within climate, in a similar way that 80,000 Hours does for global existential problems?
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haywyer
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Is it possible to have a high level of human heterogeneity and low chance of existential risks?
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[anonymous]
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How Do You Get People to Really Show Up to Local Group Meetups?
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Evan_Gaensbauer
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Recommendation for a charity focusing efforts on Germany?
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juliush
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How would you formally define the term "key uncertainty" in the context of career planning?
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RichardAnnilo
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How do you promote EA during non-EA events?
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Michael
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Volunteering abroad
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Lis_B
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Best person to contact for quick media opportunity?
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Yitz
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What should one do when someone insists on actively making life worse for many other people?
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Joseph Lemien
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Donation Advisor
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Andreas R.
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Russia
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Irvin G. McFarlin II
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Personal Blogposts

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Thought experiment: If you had 3 months to turn a stressed and unhappy person into a calm and happy one, what meta approach would you take?
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nonzerosum
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Exercise for 'What could the future hold? And why care?'
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EA Handbook
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[Resolved] When will "EA Forum Docs" be taken out of the beta stage and replace Markdown as the default formatting option?
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Evan_Gaensbauer
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California 2022 Primary Election Recommendations?
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joeysulpizio
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I just found out that I missed the deadline to sign up for the online course by 1 day, is there anyone I can contact, or any chance someone can receive a late application if there is still space left?
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Pride Jia
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