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2024
Frontpage Posts
150
Policy advocacy for eradicating screwworm looks remarkably cost-effective
MathiasKB
MathiasKB
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7d
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AI stocks could crash. And that could have implications for AI safety
Benjamin_Todd
Benjamin_Todd
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19d
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126
GDP per capita in 2050
Hauke Hillebrandt
Hauke Hillebrandt
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11
11
246
Priors and Prejudice
MathiasKB
MathiasKB
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Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs
JP Addison
JP Addison
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Killing the moths
Bella
Bella
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AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI (Chi version)
Chi
Chi
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3mo
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98
What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
80000_Hours
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3mo
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Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
NickLaing
NickLaing
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3mo
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Social science research we'd like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]
Aaron Gertler
Aaron Gertler
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Open Philanthropy
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3mo
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191
Things to check about a job or internship
Julia_Wise
Julia_Wise
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4mo
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185
Tragic Beliefs
Toby Tremlett
Toby Tremlett
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5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers
CE
CE
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Joey
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4mo
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On the abolition of man
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Joe_Carlsmith
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4mo
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Report on the Desirability of Science Given New Biotech Risks
Matt Clancy
Matt Clancy
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4mo
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136
Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
DavidNash
DavidNash
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5mo
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2023
Frontpage Posts
347
EA Wins 2023
Shakeel Hashim
Shakeel Hashim
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5mo
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171
A year of wins for farmed animals
Vasco Grilo
Vasco Grilo
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5mo
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5
189
Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn't Distracted from Current Harms from AI
Erich_Grunewald
Erich_Grunewald
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5mo
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13
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116
Bringing about animal-inclusive AI
Max Taylor
Max Taylor
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5mo
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What is the current most representative EA AI x-risk argument?
Q
Matthew_Barnett
Matthew_Barnett
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5mo
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122
PhD on Moral Progress - Bibliography Review
Rafael Ruiz
Rafael Ruiz
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6mo
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158
What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)
Karthik Tadepalli
Karthik Tadepalli
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6mo
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222
GWWC's evaluations of evaluators
Sjir Hoeijmakers
Sjir Hoeijmakers
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Giving What We Can
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Michael Townsend
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Alana HF
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6mo
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· 7m read
42
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71
New report: "Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?"
Joe_Carlsmith
Joe_Carlsmith
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6mo
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636
10 years of Earning to Give
AGB
AGB
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7mo
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251
Clean Water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer we can’t explain
NickLaing
NickLaing
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7mo
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214
Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview
Derek Shiller
Derek Shiller
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Bernardo Baron
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Chase Carter
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Agustín Covarrubias
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Marcus_A_Davis
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MichaelDickens
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Laura Duffy
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Peter Wildeford
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272
How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
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zdgroff
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202
Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unofficial]
kyle_fish
kyle_fish
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177
Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation
Paul_Christiano
Paul_Christiano
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7mo
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129
The Risks and Rewards of Prioritizing Animals of Uncertain Sentience
Bob Fischer
Bob Fischer
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Hayley Clatterbuck
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Frontpage Posts
355
Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland
Jakub Stencel
Jakub Stencel
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Weronika Zurek
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Anima International
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1y
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280
Good things that happened in EA this year
Shakeel Hashim
Shakeel Hashim
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1y
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334
StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
Simon_M
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1y
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Let’s think about slowing down AI
Katja_Grace
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1y
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118
High-level hopes for AI alignment
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky
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1y
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433
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
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1y
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288
Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
Adam Shriver
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1y
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45
359
The Welfare Range Table
Bob Fischer
Bob Fischer
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2y
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130
How bad could a war get?
Stephen Clare
Stephen Clare
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rani_martin
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2y
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238
What matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture
Lucas Lewit-Mendes
Lucas Lewit-Mendes
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Aaron Boddy
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2y
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137
AGI and Lock-In
Lukas Finnveden
Lukas Finnveden
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Jess_Riedel
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CarlShulman
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2y
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20
20
280
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
Katja_Grace
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2y
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231
Measuring Good Better
MichaelPlant
MichaelPlant
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GiveWell
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Jason Schukraft
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Matt_Lerner
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Innovations for Poverty Action
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2y
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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
Vadim Albinsky
Vadim Albinsky
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2y
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45
116
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
Richard Y Chappell
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2y
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38
38
353
My take on What We Owe the Future
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elifland
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2y
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