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2024

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Are AI risks tractable?
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defun
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Common rebuttal to "pausing" or regulating AI
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sammyboiz
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Seeking suggested readings & videos for a new course on 'AI and Psychology'
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Geoffrey Miller
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Can 'donations' to EAG be tax deductible?
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Lovkush
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Why hasn't there been any significant AI protest
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sammyboiz
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Mediocre EAs: career paths and how do they engage with EA?
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mikbp
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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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What's the latest estimate of charitable giving that targets poverty?
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Garrison
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Should I donate my kidney or part of my liver?
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Bob Jacobs
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Impactful career as a lawyer specialized in Green Building Standards?
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Vaipan
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Should EA 'communities' be 'professional associations'?
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Michael Noetel
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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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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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What is a community that has changed their behaviour without strife?
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Nathan Young
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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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How do you make EA friends?
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defun
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2023

Frontpage Posts

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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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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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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 I patent my cultivated meat method?
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Michelle Hauser
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How have you become more hard-working?
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Chi
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Why isn't there a charity evaluator for longtermist projects?
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BrownHairedEevee
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Who should we interview for The 80,000 Hours Podcast?
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Luisa_Rodriguez
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I'm interviewing Carl Shulman — what should I ask him?
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Robert_Wiblin
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I'm interviewing the co-Founder of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project, Lucia Coulter. What should I ask her?
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Robert_Wiblin
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What would it look like for AIS to no longer be neglected?
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Rockwell
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High impact charities in Gaza or Israel?
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JoelMcGuire
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How does AI progress affect other EA cause areas?
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Luis Mota Freitas
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How would your project use extra funding? (Marginal Funding Week)
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Lizka
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What are the best examples of object-level work that was done by (or at least inspired by) the longtermist EA community that concretely and legibly reduced existential risk?
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Ben Snodin
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Predictive Performance on Metaculus vs. Manifold Markets
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nikos
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Do you think decreasing the consumption of animals is good/bad? Think again?
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Vasco Grilo
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2022

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Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?
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Jeroen Willems
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Where are you donating this year, and why? (Open thread)
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Lizka
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Grantees: how do you structure your finances & career?
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Jackson Wagner
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The EA Infrastructure Fund seems to have paused its grantmaking and approved grant payments. Why?
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson
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How could we have avoided this?
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Nathan Young
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Did OpenPhil ever publish their in-depth review of their three-year OpenAI grant?
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Markus Amalthea Magnuson
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Ask (Everyone) Anything — “EA 101”
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Lizka
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EA's Achievements in 2022
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ElliotJDavies
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CEA “serious incident report”?
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ClimateDoc
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How would a language model become goal-directed?
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David M
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Are too many young, highly-engaged longtermist EAs doing movement-building?
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Anonymous_EA
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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 effective ways to help Ukrainians right now?
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Manuel Allgaier
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What domains do you wish some EA was an expert in?
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Jack R
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The US Attorney for the SDNY asked that FTX money be returned to victims. What are the moral and legal consequences to EA?
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Fermi–Dirac Distribution
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2021

Frontpage Posts

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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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Why aren't you freaking out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?
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AppliedDivinityStudies
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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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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 are the EA movement's most notable accomplishments?
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Aaron Gertler
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What Small Weird Thing Do You Fund?
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Yonatan Cale
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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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Personal Blogposts

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What are your favourite ways to buy time?
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Will Bradshaw
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