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Why hasn't there been any significant AI protest
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sammyboiz
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Impactful career as a lawyer specialized in Green Building Standards?
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Vaipan
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What's the latest estimate of charitable giving that targets poverty?
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Garrison
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Is there any way to be confident that humanity won't keep employing mass torture of animals for millions of years in the future?
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Eduardo
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Mediocre EAs: career paths and how do they engage with EA?
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mikbp
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Should I donate my kidney or part of my liver?
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Bob Jacobs
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Seeking suggestions for getting into the non profit field with no experience
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ampersandman
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What is a community that has changed their behaviour without strife?
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Nathan Young
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How do you make EA friends?
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defun
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Should EA 'communities' be 'professional associations'?
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Michael Noetel
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Should the main text of the write-ups of Open Philanthropy’s large grants be longer than 1 paragraph?
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Vasco Grilo
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Should SoGive publish more notes from calls with charities?
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Sanjay
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High Schooler getting involved in EA
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GamerChess
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What should you do when you want to escape negative people of the community/subgroup you’re in (but don’t want to hamper your career)?
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Polkashell
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What is the easiest/funnest way to build up a comprehensive understanding of AI and AI Safety?
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Jordan Arel
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What is the current most representative EA AI x-risk argument?
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Matthew_Barnett
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What exactly did FTX do wrong?
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Transient Altruist
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Is a PhD right for me?
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Jack Sands
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What posts would you like someone to write? 
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tobytrem
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Why are you reluctant to write on the EA Forum?
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Stan Pinsent
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Why so many small charities?
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defun
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How much pressure do you feel against externally expressing views which do not conform to those of your manager or organisation?
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Vasco Grilo
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Should 80,000 Hours be more transparent about how they rank problems and careers?
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Vasco Grilo
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Should the forum be structured such that the drama of the day doesn't occur on the front page?
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Chris Leong
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Who wants to be hired? (Feb-May 2024)
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tobytrem
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Should I patent my cultivated meat method?
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Michelle Hauser
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High-Impact Research Directions in Animal (Cow) Psychology?
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Prospective Bovine Researcher
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What are your Qs for Leif Wenar?
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Arden Wiese
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What posts are you thinking about writing?
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tobytrem
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Two questions about transgender inclusion at EAG London
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BrownHairedEevee
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How do you address temporary slump in work motivation?
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Vaipan
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Who's hiring? (Feb-May 2024)
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tobytrem
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What should the EA/AI safety community change, in response to Sam Altman's revealed priorities?
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SiebeRozendal
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How have you become more hard-working?
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Chi
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What's the evidence for and against modern psychiatry?
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Marisa
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What happened to the 'only 400 people work in AI safety/governance' number dated from 2020?
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Vaipan
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Citizens Group for Steering AI
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Odette B
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Nothing new under the sun?
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Aaron Graifman
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Estimates on expected effects of movement/pressure group/field building?
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jackva
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What novel, actionable advice does longtermism offer?
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Yarrow B.
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Is cornucopia.org a solid resource for guiding the consumption of animal products?
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Rebecca Herbst
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Impressive number to illustrate that people prefer donating to help locally rather than internationally?
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dominicroser
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What roles do GWWC and Founders Pledge play in growing the EA donor pool?
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BrownHairedEevee
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Why isn't there a charity evaluator for longtermist projects?
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BrownHairedEevee
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Should Open Philanthropy build detailed quantitative models which estimate global catastrophic risk?
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Vasco Grilo
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Do people who ask for anonymous feedback via admonymous.co actually get good feedback?
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yanni kyriacos
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Who should we interview for The 80,000 Hours Podcast?
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Luisa_Rodriguez
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Looking for: songs or art that inspire EA values
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Caitlin Borke
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Orgs doing EA-aligned work but not on EA community's radar?
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Rockwell
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Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?
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Jeroen Willems
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