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2024
Frontpage Posts
391
Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
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Priors and Prejudice
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MathiasKB
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Killing the moths
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Bella
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2mo
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Things to check about a job or internship
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Julia_Wise
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Tragic Beliefs
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Toby Tremlett
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Social science research we'd like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]
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Open Philanthropy
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AI stocks could crash. And that could have implications for AI safety
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Policy advocacy for eradicating screwworm looks remarkably cost-effective
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Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
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GDP per capita in 2050
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22d
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AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI (Chi version)
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Chi
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What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
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5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers
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Report on the Desirability of Science Given New Biotech Risks
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On the abolition of man
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Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs
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2023
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636
10 years of Earning to Give
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On Living Without Idols
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Rockwell
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1y
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EA Wins 2023
Shakeel Hashim
Shakeel Hashim
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336
Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates
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Bob Fischer
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AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years
basil.halperin
basil.halperin
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J. Zachary Mazlish
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tmychow
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1y
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What you can do to help stop violence against women and girls
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Akhil
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1y
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Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment
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leopold
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1y
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Why I don’t agree with HLI’s estimate of household spillovers from therapy
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JamesSnowden
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1y
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312
Why I No Longer Prioritize Wild Animal Welfare
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saulius
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272
How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
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zdgroff
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7mo
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261
How economists got Africa’s AIDS epidemic wrong
Justin Sandefur
Justin Sandefur
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1y
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How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism’s limited role
EJT
EJT
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CarlShulman
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1y
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Clean Water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer we can’t explain
NickLaing
NickLaing
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245
The Capability Approach to Human Welfare
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Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat
Jacob_Peacock
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CE: Announcing our 2023 Charity Ideas. Apply now!
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CE
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433
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
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1y
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359
The Welfare Range Table
Bob Fischer
Bob Fischer
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357
What happens on the average day?
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rosehadshar
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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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My take on What We Owe the Future
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elifland
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StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
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Let’s think about slowing down AI
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Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
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Adam Shriver
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280
Good things that happened in EA this year
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1y
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280
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
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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
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2y
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247
Case for emergency response teams
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Gavin
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Jan_Kulveit
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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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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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How might we align transformative AI if it’s developed very soon?
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2y
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AGI and Lock-In
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Lukas Finnveden
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Jess_Riedel
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CarlShulman
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