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500 Million, But Not A Single One More
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
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Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare
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Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now
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Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
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My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
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Growth and the case against randomista development
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Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures
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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
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Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
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Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities
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No injuries were reported
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Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down
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The Welfare Range Table
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The Unweaving of a Beautiful Thing
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Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland
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Learning from our mistakes: how HLI plans to improve
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My take on What We Owe the Future
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EA Wins 2023
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A Letter to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
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Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Redwood Research
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Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates
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Let’s think about slowing down AI
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StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
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No Silver Bullet Solutions for the Werewolf Crisis
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AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years
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Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors
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Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary)
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US Supreme Court Upholds Prop 12!
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A Critical Review of Open Philanthropy’s Bet On Criminal Justice Reform
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